Let's see, now...

1) Rape is not just 'some drama'.

2) As for him being adult enough to handle it... if his behaviour is any indication, no he isn't.

3) People have been getting suspended for speaking out about this. :I

You're right rape isn't just 'some drama' but that's not the point I'm trying to make here. The point I was trying to make is, that it's not our business :P and all the journals saying people are leaving or asking someone whose been newly appointed to fix a website thats been needing it for a long time coming to step down, cause of these things that happened years ago is a bit pointless :) I was here when the first part of the notes got sent out and saw the shit storm that happened over this exact same subject before, so when I say 'some drama' it's past tense, its happened already.

As for the adult comment I posted in my journal, there is law outside of just this website. Logs and what not could easily be sent to investigators :) But again none of my business and neither is it anyone else's on this website, people can be asses I will say that, people have ego's, etc. I'm taking it from this perspective: We have multiple people saying they wanna update this website, I dunno if he's got the actual knowledge to do said things, but if he's given ideas good :) this website needs to be updated; however people are shooting down the people who have suggested ideas on upgrading the website on grounds of stuff that happened years ago. You see people constantly in journals complain daily about this website.

As for being suspended don't really know what's going on there, shall have to do more research on that part.

simply put, the latest journals about "leaving fa" are just getting annoying to me. not saying anyone's right or wrong on it, it's just silly to leave a website cause of this, specially when its for another website where the exact same stuff can happen. The internet is still the internet no matter where you go. You're going to hear the same stuff no matter where you go in the internet, and it's a past issue that should just be dropped.

Akahi, I normally would think you'd be level to think more about this. This isn't just a knee-jerk reaction. The accusations against a new admin are bad, sure. I'm not going to talk about those so much, however.

The problem is a pattern of behavior, of promises and being dropped, and of people being banned or suspended simply for not liking someone. It's totalitarian at best, and doesn't make a lot of sense. Sure, there's a large amount of noise going on, and a lot of it really stupid. But there's also people voicing valid concerns. And this is also about the 4th promised revision of FA that has been made with coders being brought in. Call me crazy, but after 3 times like this, I have my doubts about the 4th.

Additionally, did you know a coder who has long-standing experience with very, very large content delivery networks and other sites was dropped in favor of a new coder whom no one had previously heard of -as- a coder? Just heard of as an artist, not a coder. So it becomes a head-scratcher as to why this all really happened, and why someone with that stigma was chosen. Then, further, with the responses given by all involved to concerns about these allegations, responses that come off more as making someone guilty than clearing their conscience. It's just kinda messy all-around, and the situation was handled extremely poorly by staff here, which is unfortunate.

And last, your comment about the internet being the internet, "where the exact same stuff can happen." Akahi, shit can happen -anywhere-. That's not the point. The point is where has it happened, and who was involved? Why even bother voting for people to go to government that have your ideals when they "could" just ignore the platform. The idea is that people will stick to what they promise. You can vote for either the lesser evil, the greater good, and sometimes both at the same time when you're really lucky. People are hoping that perhaps Weasyl or other sites will be that 'both', with less bad and more good. So far they've had an awesome development record, are using far newer and faster web technologies (python application instead of PHP FastCGI) and have a lot nicer of a site. And people are hoping it will only get better.

Please don't simply get annoyed over the quantity of these journals. If anything, when you see so much of it from people you know, like, and trust... maybe you should look over more than what's on the surface, I dunno. I'm not really leaving FA myself, I wouldn't delete all my stuff as some people have. However, I really like a lot of the features of Weasyl more, and will be focusing on it a bit more, not because of the drama, but because... honestly I like it more. There's really no other reason for me.

All very valid points :)

(understand what I'm saying might offend but its hard to describe it any other way, so I apologize in advance... not trying to be a bad guy or anything)

And half of it is, I made this journal when I wasn't in the happiest of moods. I also hope my journal didn't come off as condescending or anything, just more out of annoyance. As for this website and the code, I've talked to one of the guys that was looking into possibly fixing the site and as he stated "the amount of work that would need to go into the website, would kill it, the website would be down for not just weeks but possibly months" you've also got the whole issue of how many people actually use this website. Several Hundreds of thousands, not to mention the amount of data this website is hosting.

The fur that I'm talking about backed out just due to the amount of coding it would take to fix it. As another fur put in their journal "FurAffinity is like an old rusted gullapi that drops about 1 quart of oil everytime it moves" As for the situation with Zaush, my biggest pieve about this thing is why the hell is everyone throwing their two cents in, ya it's a shitty situation and it was brought to light due to this website being hacked 3 years ago, but it's no one else's business but the people involved in that situation, yes it happened with someone who's pretty popular in this fandom, but every fur doesn't have to stoop down to the level of saying "here's my 2 pennies I'm throwing my opinion out here" And ya I guess I am throwing my own 2 pennies in too so =/

It's silly to cause drama period, past, present and future; and for people like me who are here for the artwork (yes I probably could just easily nuke all my journals, and I might start doing that too) but the issues start rubbing everyone after a while, specially when we have to keep signing up for one website after another just cause someone finds another reason to leave. Stick to one website :P fix up said website and help donate if they accept them, don't go moving to a new website cause its the new shiny :) I've seen weasyl for a while now and I'll say I love the design the coding is awesome there.

In Review: my thoughts are basically =/ I don't wanna have to go to some other website to watch my favorite artists due to some issue that really doesn't involve them, (cause it looks like that to me (and what I mean by that is that the website yes it does have issues, it does need to be updated; it's going to be a very very very big project to handle and will take more then just "oh ya you can do it" to get it fixed, it takes sitting down and planning being a major decision maker on who has the credentials to take up this huge undertaking. It would also take letting your audience know what to expect, and honestly the best way to code it is from scratch, but you're going to have issues, you're going to need to beta the website and ask your audience what they like and hate about it, and fix those issues based on that until someone says "OMG that's awesome I have no issues") The other thing's ya I'm sure I can't really say can be fixed as easy. Issues and fights happen, but not everyone on this website needs to jump in and give their ideas on the situation of said issue/fight.

(ya maybe I like the idea that everyone could try and get along, cause look at us. We're people that have come together for one purpose, because we all love anthropomorphic creatures, we're fans of ourselves. Lets be better then some squabbles and get along if we can, if we can't then don't talk to the other person you're having issues with, let's be grown up instead of being children)

The staff, even though a lot of people don't like the things they've done lately have kept this website going for a long time, and it's still up right now as I'm typing this, so they do deserve some credit; but its also time to fix it a lot of the users here are wanting some well made changes and want to see it happen and not be pushed a side cause it's too much work. Assuming a few things (I don't wanna make an ass out of myself but) I dunno what the bans were for, I could see someone banning a few people to try and quell the issue some. Simply put there need's to be a lot more updates to everything, Rules and Abilities the Admin have, designate some kind of warning system or something.