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Fur Affinity is not an art site.
5 years ago
Instead it's becoming more and more of a dumping ground for random content.
Perhaps predictably, there's a lot of kids out of school and bored out of their minds, which means there's an uptick in people uploading memes, stolen art and other random images these people have found on-line and would be better suited to a site such as imgur.com
I've reported them as it's contrary to the AUP, to which I was told "Fur Affinity does not accept third-party reports concerning this type of issue", even though the gallery was an amalgam of random images and the uploaders admitted it wasn't their work, nor was it done for them. Which is the criteria uploads were supposed to meet.
It strikes me as odd that FA would ask users to pay for a premium account when they don't do the minimum of enforcing their own rules. I guess they favor a quantity of traffic over a quality of content (as in, art made by and/or for the users, not going into the subject of skill level, subject matter etc.)
It's a shame and frustrating for artists and commissioners when their uploads get pushed off the new uploads pages by junk.
(Also the guy who keeps uploading nude photos is really fucking tedious.)
Perhaps predictably, there's a lot of kids out of school and bored out of their minds, which means there's an uptick in people uploading memes, stolen art and other random images these people have found on-line and would be better suited to a site such as imgur.com
I've reported them as it's contrary to the AUP, to which I was told "Fur Affinity does not accept third-party reports concerning this type of issue", even though the gallery was an amalgam of random images and the uploaders admitted it wasn't their work, nor was it done for them. Which is the criteria uploads were supposed to meet.
It strikes me as odd that FA would ask users to pay for a premium account when they don't do the minimum of enforcing their own rules. I guess they favor a quantity of traffic over a quality of content (as in, art made by and/or for the users, not going into the subject of skill level, subject matter etc.)
It's a shame and frustrating for artists and commissioners when their uploads get pushed off the new uploads pages by junk.
(Also the guy who keeps uploading nude photos is really fucking tedious.)
Though sadly I've had the same experience.
https://artistsbeware.info/
So yeah. Things are kinda fuckered.
Sadly, inertia is a major factor.
And you can always sprinkle glitter on a turd.
Hopefully there would be no actual or practical non-disclosure agreement about discussing moderation procedures (though obviously there should be confidentiality over particular situations): the threat of being kicked off the site for commenting publicly.