lol, epic x3

lmao

chastity lock.

Funny deal

whats a lock?

When forum threads are closed on FA Forums, so that no one can post in them anymore, everyone says they're locked. People sometimes post "inb4lock" (which, alone, is an infractable offense on the forum under the no-spamming rule) when they anticipate that a thread is so bad that a mod like me is going to close it and let it sink out of sight.

This came from one thread in the Den which got progressively more and more suggestive, and someone posted "inb4lock ... or yiff?"

I see.
So threads can be locked to save them from further flame wars or pornographic content?
Like how youtube chanels disable comments when the people can't stay civil?
Eitherway, I do not know this, but I've never been on the forums here.

Most I know is th "SAGE" thing on 4chan.
I don't partake in the idiocy there anymore because they lack tollerance for anything.
Anything black, anyone with anything above a 36 waistline, anything remotely cat-girlish...
And I'm fed up with seeing Rickrolls and Hoodz.
But thats beside the point.

I dunno why I never tried the forums here.
I just figured that it was the 4chan's 4chan.
If humes like me are tollerated I can abide.
Although yiffing in a thread seems rather risky... like the internet equivalent of public indecency?
Or is there a rule that says no yiff threads in the FA Terms and Conditions agreement that I skipped over?

Yup. It stops the flame wars, or at least allows them to cool down, especially if the thread's got content besides. It's impossible to post a comment on Fur Affinity Forums (FAF) without bumping the thread; in *Chan terms, you can't sage a thread, you can only age it.

If you do venture over there, you definitely want to lurk for at least a week before deciding whether you want to register. (Forum registration is kept separate from site registration so that, when the site goes down, the forum stays up and able to give news and take complaints and such.)

You've pretty much described the same reasons I don't go to 4chan often. The idiocy spans all the boards there. Try IdleChan for manga/anime boards with less overall idiocy: http://iichan.net/ . Unlike 4chan, often described as the Internet Haet Machine [sic], IdleChan describes itself as the Internet Apathy Machine.

I think that, as long as you go with a thick skin, you'll be all right over on our forum even if you outright deny any furry affinity. Not only do we have folks who aren't furries as posting members, we have at least two self-professed trolls from the YouTube Furry War as regulars there.

And yes, yiffing in a forum thread is spot-on the Internet equivalent of public indecency. It's one of the reasons roleplaying in general is expressly disallowed on the forum.

Finally, Fur Affinity Forums is governed by an entirely different set of rules, since a discussion forum is so different from the art sharing community that Fur Affinity proper is. So the rules here don't apply there, and the rules there don't apply here, unless they explicitly say they do.

Words cannot express the lvel of thanks for your help in directing me to Idlechan.
Sounds like my kinda chan.

I don't have thick skin but I have a thick head, and I'm a sucker for trolls.
Like I have "fresh meat" tattooed across my forehead, and I'm feeding the troll just by being present.

The lock thing is a good touch, whoever thought of it needs a medal.
Locking a thread means it can still exist without need for deletion?
Or is that people can see the contents of the thrad but simply not post/bump

On 4chan, everyone can SAGE like crazy but it only takes one moron to yell LOL or SAUSE to bump it back to page one.

Can people not make a "private" thread for Role Plays and stuff?
Or is that why, because it's inevitable there will be nothing but yiff threads?

And I should definitely Lurk moar there and go over the rules to be clear.
Thanks once again.

Not a problem.

Check out the Overchan if you need a directory to even more anonymous image/message boards.

Both. Locking a thread means it still exists and can be read, without the need for deletion and without the ability to bump it (except by mods).

There's no such thing as a "private" thread, but there is the private message (PM) system, and as long as the recipient of each message approves, anything goes.

There's an OverChan?
What is THAT?
There seems to be every type of Chan don't they?

So I have no risk of ACCIDENTALLY walking in on a bunch of naked teens discussing their genitals?
lol Fantastic. By doing it THAT way you're also protecting the 12 and unders who may accidentally happen in upon it to.

But is there anything tht FA can do to stop pictures opening to underagers?

But is there anything tht FA can do to stop pictures opening to underagers?

There's the mature art filter. If pictures shouldn't be opened by those underage, then the uploading artist should tag it as mature or adult. No guest, no one underage and signed in, and no one with the "View Mature Art" setting on "No" can even load tagged submissions.

If you mean accidentally on FAF, then only mods enforcing the rules and deleting embedded images. I don't have to do that often.

Can it stop them though? If an underage person signs up and witnesses vore or shemale and is pulled into child counselling for drawing such things in sunday school is fA liable for any of it, or the artist?
Cos I may be over the age of safe legal browsing, but I worry that if my nephew happened upon my work I'd be in some serious shit with his mother.... see what I'm saying?
Whats stopping him signing up and not checking that box or lying about his age?
I worry is all...

Nothing can stop a determined person, and that includes a determined enough minor. All that can be done is what's reasonable to stop those who don't want to see mature works or who can't legally see it from seeing it by accident.

Like a bookstore or video store, though, the difference in who's to blame if it happens is where the adult section is: up, out of the way, behind a warning, censored by coverboards or a curtain, and watched; or down and out in the open next to the candy at checkout. In the latter case, reasonable people would obviously blame the owner for the minor having seen it by accident, but in the former case, reasonable people would have to blame the minor for defeating safeguards (however strong or weak) to deliberately access that content knowing it's there. On FA, that curtain is a setting with a warning.

Anyone caught lying about his age on FA to get around the mature filter gets at minimum age-locked by an FA admin (which I'm not), and he doesn't get unlocked again until he's able to reasonably prove to FA's staff that he's 18 or older. Anyone caught posting a submission needing a mature tag but lacking one finds that submission deleted, along with more serious actions if it clearly wasn't an accident. To get caught, all that has to happen is an admin stumbling across an account in violation, or anyone filing a trouble ticket on it.

Also, according to both my memory and the FA wiki (admittedly implied), the "view mature artwork" setting is "No" by default, meaning that the filter is on by default: Except by shoulder-surfing on someone else's account, no one can see mature-tagged or adult-tagged works on FA even by accident without having logged in and deliberately turning that setting to "Yes."

Hmmm I didn't know all this.
Good to know though. And puts me a little at ease knowing dA has taken apropriate countermeasures.
To protect itself, and rule abiding users from law suits.
Thanks for all your knowledge, it was tasty.
lol
:-_