So, once I'd got my page setup here, I thought I'd go looking for people to chat with and so I wandered over to the forum and posted a "hello" on the introduction board. I figured a few people might be hesitant to talk to me, I acknowledge the stuff that I'm into is pretty extreme.

http://forums.furaffinity.net/threa.....-from-Jockwolf

I wasn't really prepared for the volume of insults the ensued. An OP [edit: I mean admin] closed the thread noting that it wasn't going anywhere (which is certainly a nice way of describing that I was getting flooded with insults in an Introductions board) and that my post "gives no indication that you wish to actually participate in the FAF community".

Well... that would have been a nice thing to have asked. Having experienced an FAF "welcome", I'll do as the admin asks and "take it to another place". Furry pride, eh?

Here's an idea: don't judge other people's kinks. If you don't like it, don't read. If you worry for people's safety, ask some probing questions with a bit of respect.

FWIW I've converted my adult-oriented journals to submissions so they can get filtered (on Master's advice), to make it easy to avoid what I'm writing if it freaks you out.

Thanks to Thalassa for the one nice message in the whole thread.