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Leaving Fur Affinity
8 years ago
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I am not happy.
For those of you who don’t know; I was suspended from my FurAffinity.net account for 24 after receiving 2 strikes.
The first strike was for uploading 2 Sonic Forces Screenshots on the 13th of November featuring my Sonic Forces "Avatar" custom character on his own. I get notified that this breaches the AUP (Acceptable Upload Policy) and that I now have a strike on my account and that the two images have been removed. I thought this was a mistake and so I posted a journal about it here to question this action and why I thought it to be wrong. Now yesterday, 20th of November, at around 3pm GMT/UTC I was suspended from Fur Affinity, because I still had a Sonic Forces piece of Content on my account from November 9th. It was a peice of content from 4 days before the other 2 were posted, and for some reason was ignored by the mods when the other two were removed!
Now looking back on the orignal note I got it does state that "Content uploaded before administrative action was taken is not exempt from further administrative action." However I was waiting on a ticket to clarify that this content was unacceptable before I go deleting other images in my gallery that they deem unacceptable. However I never got a reply so I didn't do anything about it; because I do not see how this breaches their AUP.
So how come that none of my Grand Theft Auto Online screenshots were never called upon when I uploaded them? Why can I still see that people have uploaded GTAO screenshots onto FA?
Why can I use copyrighted character models in Garry's Mod and for it to be allowed? Why can I take a screenshot of Minecraft and not be told off? Why are these acceptations? Why can people post pictures of Sonic and other copyrighted characters doing lewd things and frankly disgusting things? If I owned a character and I intended for it to be clean and family friendly, I would hate for a huge group of people to go ruining the character's moral image, however I would be fine for people posting screenshots or pictures of my character in a setting that I created them in. So why am I allowed to post something SEGA hates and not allowed to post something SEGA prefers?!
I have one reason:
Bias.
The mods of FA just bias. They don't want to see Sonic Forces content on FA because it is too popular. FA wants to stop things from getting popular and flooding the place.
So what happens if, suddenly, out of no where, everyone started posting Minecraft or Garry's Mod screenshots because of some new amazing feature which appealed to a large portion of FA users?
I bet FA will remove them.
To the moderators of FurAffinity (seeing as you didn't read my support ticket):
When you have rules you stick to them.
When your rules are not clear you make them clear.
When people do things because your rules are not clear you then review and change those rules to make them clearer and answer questions raised by those who don't know if they are breaking the rules.
And when you notify someone that they have broken the rules and removed their content; to which you tell them that they can create a support ticket if you believe for it to be a mistake.
You do not penalise them again if they do believe for it to be a mistake and have created said support ticket which you have not yet replied to!
I work am the helpdesk manager and administrator for my organisation. It is my job to do exactly what your moderators are doing and I do it far f***ing better.
Your processes are disgusting and your customer service is disgraceful.
If this was a paid service or I had been donating then I would want my money back. But this website is free, so I should expect a shoddy service, shouldn't I?
You have one more chance, FA.
Muck it up again? I now have other sites I can turn to. DeviantArt, Inkbunny; I've even already got a SoFurry account set up because of the blackouts you had a while back so I WILL be going over there if something does go wrong again.
So don't screw around again because I will only have one choice:
I will be Leaving Fur Affinity.
For those of you who don’t know; I was suspended from my FurAffinity.net account for 24 after receiving 2 strikes.
The first strike was for uploading 2 Sonic Forces Screenshots on the 13th of November featuring my Sonic Forces "Avatar" custom character on his own. I get notified that this breaches the AUP (Acceptable Upload Policy) and that I now have a strike on my account and that the two images have been removed. I thought this was a mistake and so I posted a journal about it here to question this action and why I thought it to be wrong. Now yesterday, 20th of November, at around 3pm GMT/UTC I was suspended from Fur Affinity, because I still had a Sonic Forces piece of Content on my account from November 9th. It was a peice of content from 4 days before the other 2 were posted, and for some reason was ignored by the mods when the other two were removed!
Now looking back on the orignal note I got it does state that "Content uploaded before administrative action was taken is not exempt from further administrative action." However I was waiting on a ticket to clarify that this content was unacceptable before I go deleting other images in my gallery that they deem unacceptable. However I never got a reply so I didn't do anything about it; because I do not see how this breaches their AUP.
4.1 Screenshots
Screenshots of applications, copyrighted content (movies, tv shows, etc), or websites are prohibited, unless showcasing new, original, user-created content (models, textures, etc). This rule does not apply to games with user created content (Garry's Mod, Second Life, Minecraft, IMVU, etc).
4.2 Content Creators
Content created via character or image generators is prohibited (such as Doll Divine).So how come that none of my Grand Theft Auto Online screenshots were never called upon when I uploaded them? Why can I still see that people have uploaded GTAO screenshots onto FA?
Why can I use copyrighted character models in Garry's Mod and for it to be allowed? Why can I take a screenshot of Minecraft and not be told off? Why are these acceptations? Why can people post pictures of Sonic and other copyrighted characters doing lewd things and frankly disgusting things? If I owned a character and I intended for it to be clean and family friendly, I would hate for a huge group of people to go ruining the character's moral image, however I would be fine for people posting screenshots or pictures of my character in a setting that I created them in. So why am I allowed to post something SEGA hates and not allowed to post something SEGA prefers?!
I have one reason:
Bias.
The mods of FA just bias. They don't want to see Sonic Forces content on FA because it is too popular. FA wants to stop things from getting popular and flooding the place.
So what happens if, suddenly, out of no where, everyone started posting Minecraft or Garry's Mod screenshots because of some new amazing feature which appealed to a large portion of FA users?
I bet FA will remove them.
To the moderators of FurAffinity (seeing as you didn't read my support ticket):
When you have rules you stick to them.
When your rules are not clear you make them clear.
When people do things because your rules are not clear you then review and change those rules to make them clearer and answer questions raised by those who don't know if they are breaking the rules.
And when you notify someone that they have broken the rules and removed their content; to which you tell them that they can create a support ticket if you believe for it to be a mistake.
You do not penalise them again if they do believe for it to be a mistake and have created said support ticket which you have not yet replied to!
I work am the helpdesk manager and administrator for my organisation. It is my job to do exactly what your moderators are doing and I do it far f***ing better.
Your processes are disgusting and your customer service is disgraceful.
If this was a paid service or I had been donating then I would want my money back. But this website is free, so I should expect a shoddy service, shouldn't I?
You have one more chance, FA.
Muck it up again? I now have other sites I can turn to. DeviantArt, Inkbunny; I've even already got a SoFurry account set up because of the blackouts you had a while back so I WILL be going over there if something does go wrong again.
So don't screw around again because I will only have one choice:
I will be Leaving Fur Affinity.
But to be real, they moderate content that is reported, someone reported you. If other images aren't taken down is because they were not reported.
This is a huge website with unpaid volunteer mods, they're not perfect I know.
But you did upload content breaching stuff, someone noticed and reported.. So leaving because of that dunno, sounds petty?
There was easily 100 screenshots uploaded to FA in the first week of the games' release and now they are all gone but this one: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/25388586/ which I'm very surprised is still there and then you find a few other more recent ones but I can only imagine that they are just like me and have already had part of their content removed and now they are in a grace period to take the rest down but they wont and will be suspended just like me.
https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/8507116/
My case is probably completely irrelevant; because if it was my gallery being inspected; they would of told me off for all three Sonic Forces screenshots rather then 2 and then the remaining one. (They probably checked them in chucks of days because the first two they removed were uploaded on the same day on the 13th whilst they ignored the one uploaded before on the 9th. If they were checking my gallery rather then everyone's content as a whole they wouldn't of missed it.)