Alright, the big question now is: Why do something that inherently violates artist's rights as laid down by the spirit of the law?

Personally i must say that i agree actually, could save a lot of time and hassle for me and some others by shutting it down, especially as there are replacements around. However these replacements are the big problem.

Fchan is the one big player in the block and the others are largely insignificant compared with the usage fchan gets. If fchan shuts down though, people would invariably migrate to these. The big difference between fchan and those candidates is now, that fchan tries and gives artists as much control as realistically possible, while they completely disregard artists and seem to be successful with it, or even worse, pretend to give artists control, while not giving them ANY control at all.

If and when such a migration happens, furry artists would lose any control and be forced to actually sue (with real money) sites that are ready to fight back and have done so in the past rather successfully. Thus a closing of fchan, or even admin/moderator actions that trigger such migrations, are a bigger threat to the community of furry artists than the continued existence of it. If i were to do any of these things, i would hurt ALL furry artists, instead of only a select few who have been careless.

And in case some think this is merely my way of excusing myself. It is very much not so. It is the basis on which i am allowed to continue doing what i do. Which is working for the artists (keeping the DNP list upright and respected, crit board, artist board, artist banners). There is a rather powerful force (both financially and influentially) that is keeping watch and standing at the ready to destroy fchan as well as me if i were ever to stray from that course.

It took me a long talk with said power to bring this into a form that can be publicised, since i need to protect their identity and more importantly: Publicising this in a wrong manner would in itself be a danger as well.

I simply hope that this can bring a bit more understanding for the situation that i and fchan are in and for the way things are done.