Trying to silence the masses is a massive red flag, especially as they try to casually sweep their own bad decisions under the rug and bury their heads in the sand.

That's just it though, I don't see how the new policy was a bad decision. It just sounds to me like they're trying to get rid of pedophilic things. Isn't that good?

Then they should raise the site's age registration requirement to 18. You can currently register for this site at 13 years old. They also are currently trying to argue that fetishes aren't fetishes and therefore are okay to use on characters of the same age as the minimum registration age, they only JUST caved to pressure to make pregnant children not okay anymore.

They also have restricted feedback to trouble tickets, or a six hour delay on Discord requiring a phone-attached account (remember, they closed the site forums in favour of Discord). Users have been getting conflicting feedback regarding if their content is even considered safe or not, on top of this.

I agree, this site should be for 18 and up only. And the fetish and pregnancy thing was disconcerting, to say the least >_>;;; And the feedback situation definitely sounds like a mess, yikes (I haven't really kept up with that part, since I just keep to my own corner)

But even if all those things were fixed, even if the site was 18+, my original point was that the new policy seems to be about getting rid of pedophilic art/writing/etc and I don't see the problem with that, in itself. I can't tell if other people are having a problem with it or not but if they are, I find that just as concerning as everything else, if not more

The issue is the unclear enforcement and the hypocritical nature of it, given the site owner's fursona theoretically violates the update. It also was, initially, "you will be immediately banned and put on final warning for a permaban" rather than having the grace period after it comes into effect. So you have a bunch of people unsure if their content is applicable, being told different things by different staff members, there's no rhyme or reason people are able to collate, and the staff are unwilling to define things beyond the most nebulous ways possible and saying "just report your own artwork so we can review it, lol".

Ahhh, I see now. Thanks for the explanation

this i'm so scared

and how to make sure the person registering is 18+ ?

Bringing you tough news: The outside of the fandom world already sees us as animal f.... crying out and pointig at those drawing underaged characters will not make us seem better XD

Considering they shut down the discord chat for it when last I checked it was up for 4 days, over 600 messages and 0 responses from staff? And I've seen screen shots of staff saying they won't change their position no mater what? They don't give a fuck about the community