Home to one of the most prolific communites on the planet, is now officially heading down the slope in my opinion. Back in August when the whole FATransparency deal was trending among the members outraged over the lackluster staff management and one of my favorite artists at the time banned for speaking her mind, I didn't pay it too much attention and hoped it'd be over in a week or so, hoping the staff would rightly catch up to the community's wishes and not be sanctimonious, mendacious dicks about it. Granted, not every one of FA's staff is guilty of being stuck in this complex. I've seen a staff member do a good job of addressing the issue in a civil manner instead of outright refusing to engage in parole about the situation. But...

Nothing seems to have changed yet, and it also seems to be getting worse by the second. Members of this site simply criticizing the site's management are still getting suspended under the guise of "divulging confidential information", even though they didn't include any private information at all in their critique. Which in turn causes more and more members to leave the site, either through boycotting it, getting banned for the aforementioned reason, or leaving because the site is becoming less lively because of the fact that people are leaving. And so it becomes a vicious cycle.

I, too, think the site is losing its soul because of this. However, I won't boycott is by moving my shit to a different furry site, or get all rebellious about this. Something NEEDS to be done, yes, I think we can all agree on that. But that's not going to be easy, believe me. This site will continue to plunge as long as the management continues to make stupid decisions instead of those that actually benefit the community and try to cover it up.

Now, I made this journal for a reason. Not to tell you what you already know, but how this lingering irresponsibility on the staff's part affects me. I am - to be blunt - growing out of this website. Manily due to the fact that - like I said before - the lights are going out. I still have a story to finish and will probably finish it at the end of this week, and then I will take a hiatus from writing for a while. I want to know if my stuff actually has a reason to exist on this site, and to be honest, writing stories slowly starts to feel like a chore instead of something I can relish performing. I'll still be interacting with peeps, looking at art, favoriting stuff et cetera, so no need to worry that I'll just vanish amid the crowd.

Just had to get that out there.