Vivisector
Daggers and Spears and Songs => FA Obsession Collection => Topic started by: Conan on September 02, 2012, 02:16:40 pm
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Figured we should just have a dedicated thread for this subject.
Recently, the staff page was updated for the first time in months.
First, we have Sigil (http://www.furaffinity.net/user/sigil) (using a separate account (http://www.furaffinity.net/user/modgoat)), wife of current administrator Bazeel and known friend of Sciggles and Dragoneer. No known qualifications other than telling people to leave and "free site"ing (http://pastebin.com/S4e1hvuQ) following the Dec 2011 hack.
Second, we have Hendikins (http://www.furaffinity.net/user/hendikins), the new Photography Admin. You may remember FA had an open application for this position a few months ago. No surprise here, he seems to be friends with Summercat, which no doubt influenced the decision to bring him on to staff.
As for departures from staff, it seems that SkieFire (http://www.furaffinity.net/user/skiefire) has left.
And a reminder that Glaide (http://www.furaffinity.net/user/glaide) is still an administrator, no doubt doing absolutely nothing other than threatening to kill himself should he lose his shiny @.
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First, we have Sigil (http://www.furaffinity.net/user/sigil) (using a separate account (http://www.furaffinity.net/user/modgoat)), wife of current administrator Bazeel and known friend of Sciggles and Dragoneer. No known qualifications other than telling people to leave and "free site"ing (http://pastebin.com/S4e1hvuQ) following the Dec 2011 hack.
I love the "free site" comback. It's a combination of a Jewish mother's guilt trip and a used car salesman's customer service. "Security? It's not like we have a responsiblity to ensure information assurance within our database of sensitive information!" Not even a hacking event can dislodge that sense of entitlement, since the dev team takes such a backseat at FA. And by dev team, I mean yak. And by dev team, I mean competent developers who can move site forward, so I guess I don't mean yak.
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So, it's cronyism all the way?
Say it ain't so, Preyfar.
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Summercat reveals that new coders are in the works (again):
There's quite a few things I dislike with priorities, but hopefully the new coder/s we're bringing aboard might be able to help :3 Plus I noticed an interesting package being installed that might mean I can halp out a tad. Probably not, though xD
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Summercat reveals that new coders are in the works (again):
There's quite a few things I dislike with priorities, but hopefully the new coder/s we're bringing aboard might be able to help :3 Plus I noticed an interesting package being installed that might mean I can halp out a tad. Probably not, though xD
New coders? How long before Yak chases them away, refusing to work with anyone as he always does when his status as "FA's only and most trusted coder" is put in jeopardy?
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Summercat reveals that new coders are in the works (again):
There's quite a few things I dislike with priorities, but hopefully the new coder/s we're bringing aboard might be able to help :3 Plus I noticed an interesting package being installed that might mean I can halp out a tad. Probably not, though xD
New coders? How long before Yak chases them away, refusing to work with anyone as he always does when his status as "FA's only and most trusted coder" is put in jeopardy?
I'm curious, do you have a source for this? I don't doubt your knowledge, I'm just not familiar with yak drama.
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I'm curious, do you have a source for this? I don't doubt your knowledge, I'm just not familiar with yak drama.
Yak was always having trouble with Neer attempting to bring in new people, claiming it's not necessary and how he can handle everything by himself. I guess he doesn't want people to see what kind of clusterfuck he's doing with the site's code or doesn't want anyone to find out he's giving away FA's server space for his Moldovan friends to host their websites on. (https://forums.vivisector.org/index.php?topic=480.msg4960#msg4960)
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In addition to the random idiots being made admin and fucking everything up (https://forums.vivisector.org/index.php?topic=659.0), FA seems to be losing staff at a faster rate than in recent past. Within the last week or so:
Kitashi (https://www.furaffinity.net/user/kitashi), who was the "lead admin" and also working on coding in new features (https://forums.vivisector.org/index.php?topic=635.0) to the site has inexplicably lost their '@' and has been removed from the staff page. Last November, Kitashi said in the first monthly town hall (Also the only monthly town hall) that he was working on making userpage tabs made consistent, removing the +watch and send note tabs from user's own pages, and working on some sort of stream notification system. The first two were said to be done, but have yet to see the light of day.
Hendikins (https://www.furaffinity.net/user/hendikins/), mentioned in the OP, has also left, citing that he "can not in good conscience agree with certain recent executive decisions." He then promptly created a Weasyl account.
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Kitashi has posted the usual "I don't want to start drama!!!" post that follows these types of things:
It was not on good terms, and I disavow any and all statements and promises I made regarding FA while Admin Lead. For multiple reasons, I won't go into more detail than this on the matter. For the same reasons, I discourage anyone from leaving replies to this journal or shouts on my page. All that said, the brand new admins are great people trying to help how they can, and it was a joy interviewing and working with them.
I have removed my submissions, primarily because they weren't great to begin with, and partially because I do not foresee the site improving to a state where its features, both coding related and not, are competitive with those of alternative sites. I will still lurk on FA for now, but I will likely begin using another site and supporting artists there instead (and no, I don't need suggestions; I'm already well aware of the alternatives).
It really bothers me former admins rarely ever say anything for fear they'll start "drama", or rather Dragoneer will ban them from the fandom the site. It's quite counter productive, really. "Things need to change, but I don't want to tell people how screwed up things are, so just keep using the site and keep letting these things happen because no one is held accountable."
(But if one of the former admins is reading this, they could always send something to fasucks at vivisector dot org or get on irc.synirc.com #vivisector and we'll make up some story about Pi hacking your computer.)
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Kitashi apparently talked about the code he changed on FA (http://paste.pound-python.org/raw/BWwCYsA55fKgb641m0zf/) on an IRC.
tl;dr
He was mad that little changes to the code were taking so long to get the go-ahead. Who wouldn't have expected that!?
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Summercat complains about being de-adminned here:
http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/4512676/
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Summercat complains about being de-adminned here:
http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/4512676/
Additionally, it turns out "Carmen" is Chase.
Yes, that (https://forums.vivisector.org/index.php?topic=448.msg5555#msg5555) Chase.
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There is another informative thread about chase here: https://forums.vivisector.org/index.php?topic=319.0
if you are unaware of why he is not an appropriate person.
"TheModergator" has recently vanished from the staff page, along with simbathelion. Hendikins has posted a journal mentioning why he quit:
Just a cross-post since the FA staff can't delete it here.
Since it is now out in the open (lulz, vivisector, stated on user's admin account, etc.), I'm going to say it in as many words - the direct appointment of Chase to the FA admin team was the final straw that resulted in my stepping down from the team.
Edit for the lulz folks: Sorry guys, I haven't posted in that thread. And I didn't hang around to see if I got along with the guy. This wasn't "I don't get along with this person *ragequit*", it was "I object to this person being here to begin with, based on their history. As this matter is not open to discussion, I'm out of here."
Place your bets folks. Do they remove the journal or ban my account, and do they claim "leaking private information" (hint: none of this is private), "inciting drama", or something else?
Edit #2: Removed as a call out journal. Interesting...
Edit #3: The flushing out of my account there was my own action, not administrative action - just before anyone starts wondering. Yeah, now it has progressed to "ragequit" (well, more along the lines of "fuck 'em, but close enough), not a month ago when the step down happened...
Regards,
Hendikins
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https://www.weasyl.com/journal/12396
And he had this to say on lulz.net, in response to someone defending the re-appointment of Chase:
Yeah, I tend to be a handful when confronted with excessive stupidity, and I'm not a "yes man". I also tend to work better in environments where all staff are valued team members whose input is listened to.
Needless to say, once Sciggles started throwing her weight around my days were numbered anyway. This just made me leave sooner rather than later.
-- Hendikins
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http://lulz.net/furi/res/2566075.html#2566936
Summercat had this to say (in the same thread):
The worst you guys came up with was that I'm socially awkward, and I like to help out instead of enjoying things. Not exactly anything... damning. Right now I'm not ready to talk about anything, as there's still a chance that things might be worked out. I'm hopeful for that, because I like to help. I like to help out. Sure, I make mistakes. I'm not a perfect being, after all. I'm usually* willing to listen when I'm wrong about items. *I've got hot-button issues. Won't deny that. That said, I'm not saying anything else of substance at this time.
But a local furry responded to him:
I believe the actual allegation was "you suck up to any furry in any position of authority, regardless of how trivial, in order to have recognition, your name attached to the event." There's a difference between being "involved" and being a sycophant, you're the latter.
And you do. At Califur, at the PS house, you suck up to that OggyWolf girl who is in charge of the so cal furs group all the time... You do more "white-knighting" than actual helping. I think you even suck up to RainbowJokerHound, for fucks sake... and apparently you're still sucking up to Neer and Co, according to the above post.
Why don't you try living life on your own terms for once?
I, and I think a lot of other so cal furs think you're a total brown-noser and for that reason, we have no respect for you, even if you're otherwise a nice person.
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Chase? Chase?
"@Fur Affinity Administrator - Harassment Unit Leader@"
And he's working on harassment? It's as if we're back in 2005 or something. I honestly thought FA might be (slowly) getting somewhere, since it seems that even some of the 'popufur' artists are having action taken against them, and a whole bunch of new guys are on board. Then this happens. welp
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Summercat reveals that new coders are in the works (again):
There's quite a few things I dislike with priorities, but hopefully the new coder/s we're bringing aboard might be able to help :3 Plus I noticed an interesting package being installed that might mean I can halp out a tad. Probably not, though xD
New coders? How long before Yak chases them away, refusing to work with anyone as he always does when his status as "FA's only and most trusted coder" is put in jeopardy?
Finding this post made me laugh.
About six months: http://furaffinityleaks.blogspot.co.uk/ .
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About six months: http://furaffinityleaks.blogspot.co.uk/ .
I never was even staff, and I went on for five years before I eventually gave up. I met Dragoneer at AC and had a discussion with him about it. The ensuing words went literally nowhere, so I pretty much stopped caring.
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FancySkunk (http://www.furaffinity.net/user/fancyskunk), One of the more recently-appointed administrators who sucked FA's cock like a ten-cent hooker, has been de-opped for unknown reasons.
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They're recruiting yet again:
http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/5122085
On the google docs app. form they say:
Candidates must:
* Be 21 or older.
* Must not be currently enrolled in college/technical school.
* Must be able to give at least 10 hours to the community a week.
* Have Skype
Princess Piche insists that they've added new coders but evidently he couldn't be bothered to add them to the staff list yet:
http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/5122085#cid:36326802
I suppose that at this point, they're only going to get new or hopelessly naive people to be on staff.
IIRC The Princess had mentioned on twitter a few weeks ago, in response to being questioned about how trouble tickets were piling up yet again, that they were going to get some more staff. So, as you might have imagined, no change in course.
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Chase has, without any warning, gotten rid of at least one mainsite admin/FA forums admin (QTmelon/Arshes Nei) and a mod from the forums (MLR). The forums mod says he was ditched because he was on staff at weasyl. Note that MLR quotes Chase calling Weasyl a "competitor site":
So, I log on to my FAF account tonight, only to receive a message from the forums' new lord and master Chase that I've been removed from staff. The reason given, of course, being my involvement with Weasyl, a 'competitor site'. So after five or six years working with them, pretty much without incident, without causing offsite drama, without causing leaks or anything, I guess this is what I get.
Oh, but they 'appreciate' what I've done for them up until this time. That's so fucking nice to hear. Yeah: you're welcome, cocksuckers. Have fun sitting around licking each others' assholes from here on out.
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http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/5362239/
From the comments section on the journal:
Honestly, this literally all happened within the last couple of days. It was nice and steady sailing for years, but then Arshes Nei gets booted without forewarning to anyone, Xaerun and the other admins get demoted to Super Moderator for some reason, and Chase gets handed the reins to the whole thing, not knowing dick about the community there or even who the moderators were. Apparently they're now trying to 'better merge the forums and mainsite' or something, but I guess they feel that in order to do that they have to utterly destroy the current structure over there. It's like being asked to build a house for your boss, who doesn't check in with you at all during the construction, only to have him come in after it's finished and have his friend drive a bulldozer into it and knock it right the fuck back down.
I had no opinion of Chase before all this. I now think he and Dragoneer are incompetent scumbags.
Before this, I was rather careful not to make any disparaging remarks in public about some of the incredibly obviously stupid decisions being made by the FA higher-ups, and I tended to reserve judgment since I never knew the full story. I also was rather careful not to share proprietary information between the two sites (that being FAF and Weasyl). You know... because I'm not an idiot or an asshole most of the time, and I held no animosity toward either site (if I did hold any animosity toward a place, I wouldn't volunteer my time to work for them; unlike some folks, I actually do have a life). Of course, I can't just ignore it when my loyalty gets rewarded with a punch in the face.
But I don't want to make this about Weasyl, and whether or not it's so much better than FA. Honestly, that's really neither here nor there. If folks who know me want to migrate over to Weasyl because of this, that's lovely, and quite touching, but I'm not telling anyone they should start an exodus away from this site because of what happened to me. Just know what did happen, and know that you should never, ever try to become part of FurAffinity's staff, if you value your sanity. And don't ever bother trying to fix FA, because the people who run the site do not care what you think. We are but flies. That's the moral here.
This one is very telling WRT to how nothing ever changes with Princess Piche:
I don't know... It's this bizarre paranoia that Dragoneer seems to have about the site, like he has to run a furry art site as though it were the fucking CIA or something, and that everyone everywhere is out to take it all down or subvert it. If only you could read some of the weird shit he posted in one of the threads in the admin forums, equivocating like crazy about why he's so loath to accept coding help from the many thousands of people who have offered it over the years, and completely ignoring addressing legitimate points being made by the staff. It was really quite fascinating to see.
I guess I could have let him know directly at some point that I joined the Weasyl staff (not that I made ANY effort to hide the fact), but honestly the thought never even crossed my mind because of how infrequently I had any kind of contact with the guy. And gee, I guess if I would have let him know earlier, I would have been booted a long time ago!
So is this:
The thing that kills me is, as you know very well, having been forum staff and then main site staff here, I knew just as much about main site goings-on as the regular userbase. Mainsite admins, with the exception of Trpdwarf, bless her heart, made NO effort to contact us about anything, and so I was permanently out of the loop. That being the case, I felt no obligation to keep my activities restricted to FA; FAF has been nearly an independent site for years now, because up until now Dragoneer and everyone else had zero interest in making use of it.
It's interesting that MLR describes the FA forums as being an independent site, because I noted Princess Piche recently referred to the FA forums, just a few days ago, not with the usual royal "we", but "they":
https://twitter.com/Dragoneer/status/416190801916354561
(all bolding in quotes was done by me for emphasis, MLR did not bold anything in his original comments).
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Chase has, without any warning, gotten rid of at least one mainsite admin/FA forums admin (QTmelon/Arshes Nei) and a mod from the forums (MLR).
Term (https://www.weasyl.com/profile/term) also looks to have been removed. Further, all the previous forum admins are now listed as supermoderators, leaving only Dragoneer and Chase in the forum admin position.
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My drama instincts kicked in and I saved a backup of the journal. Good call too, it's gone now.
Backup of journal. (https://aldude999.net/cache/livid-mlr.htm)
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Chase has, without any warning, gotten rid of at least one mainsite admin/FA forums admin (QTmelon/Arshes Nei) and a mod from the forums (MLR).
Term (https://www.weasyl.com/profile/term) also looks to have been removed. Further, all the previous forum admins are now listed as supermoderators, leaving only Dragoneer and Chase in the forum admin position.
I find it fascinating that they did an across-the-board demotion of everyone, including people like Yak. Something more is going on, me thinks.
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(http://i.imgur.com/tdYjoLY.gif)
Shitstorm incoming.
(edit: Already been removed, probably by Chase)
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http://forums.furaffinity.net/threads/937022-Regarding-Recent-Changes-to-the-Forum
I invite you to look through that thread, because the second Dragoneer opens his mouth, he falls deeper into the rabbit hole than he's gone before. He clearly has gotten to the point where he is putting friendships first and foremost over the good of the site. No longer even TRYING to put a PR spin on things, he spouts off bizarre statements about Chase, about how he is willing to "forgive" Chase for past events and that things like the attached picture were "mistakes" that he can forget about.
He goes as far as saying that "if" Chase had diddled a dog, it would be a-OK because it wasn't against the law at the time and it wasn't against FA's rules to talk about it. I cannot make this up. It's right here: http://forums.furaffinity.net/threads/937022-Regarding-Recent-Changes-to-the-Forum?p=4370953&viewfull=1#post4370953
Not once does he stop to think about how this LOOKS, about how damaging to FA's image it is to have Chase on staff, and instead he just plugs his ears and goes "LA LA LA CAN'T HEAR YOU". It comes off as if his "friendship" with Chase completely revolves around Chase having administrative rights on FA. Some friendship!
And the best part, is this.
What issues that Chase and I have are our own, and we've gotten into spats and disagreements in the past, but if you're going to base the majority of your judgement on leaked logs from an untrustworthy source who selectively shared only snippets of a heated conversation... then be my guest, but the issues between Chase and myself have been long resolved.
He refers, of course, to the chat logs that were leaked here (https://forums.vivisector.org/index.php?topic=448.msg5555#msg5555). Funny thing about that leak: Vivisector representatives had it more than four months earlier, and wisely stored a copy of the pastebin page away in the VivCorp Vault. Interestingly enough, it was posted the same day the chat log was made (http://i.imgur.com/uZoxgIE.png), an interestingly short window for "untrustworthy sources" to doctor a friendly conversation between friends into something much more sinister! This chat log comes from a time Dragoneer frequently used Pastebin, and I strongly believe it is he who originally posted it to begin with.
There is so much to say but I have no idea where to start. This is really just sad all around. FA is starting to come apart at the seams, and it's all happening at the hands of Dragoneer.
Couldn't think of a better ending.
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(http://i.imgur.com/BFuReIx.png)
Apparently, he has forgotten
(http://i.imgur.com/R0z57ET.png)
It did totally happen. He was told it happened.
The PR hole he is digging is getting deeper.
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Too bad you can't call that "aiding and abetting."
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I'm not sure how I feel about this Chase situation. While I don't particularly like him, I'll play Devil's Advocate here. Most of the quotes I have seen about him seem to be largely lacking in context or just conjecture and rumor. Example 1, the (infamous?) quote from FA about jacking off dogs. It's not entirely inconceivable that - whilst condemning actually fucking animals - he does not have a problem with people doing that to dogs, but the quote was cropped to just show that. While still distasteful, it's at least a more reasonable position to hold, especially if the context is actually about dog breeding, in which case it's practically a necessity some times (or at least so I have been told by someone who was in the trade once). As for the PM to Dragoneer, I would assume that everything said in there is accurate, as it was intended to be a private and personal message to someone he trusted. While he admits he did "experiment with an animal", he also appears to regret having done it, that it was a dumb thing done by a dumb teenager, and does not wish to repeat the experience. All this doesn't exactly paint him in a favorable light, but it could be far worse. The rest is just interpersonal rubbish.
As for how he will actually run the forum, I'll wait to see how it progresses. So far it seems to be fairly standard FA nonsense really.
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I'll play Devil's Advocate here.
don't
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don't
If you'd told me that earlier it would've saved a lot of time
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There has to be some dirt that will land him in a pound-you-in-the ass prison.
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There has to be some dirt that will land him in a pound-you-in-the ass prison.
That seems a little vindictive.
Nothing has suggested chase has done anything at all wrong, just that he did when he was "younger" and thought it was regretful.
Now I highly suspect he's a scumbag due to the "standard" that seems to be in place to get hired at FA, but I think expecting him to be a criminal who needs to go to a pound him in the ass prison might be stretching laws past where I'd want them to be.
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There has to be some dirt that will land him in a pound-you-in-the ass prison.
no
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Edit: Bazeel did not quit of his own free will, he was given the boot and gave his side of the story in some tweets, here pasted to form a whole:
As many of you know, I've recently been removed from the FurAffinity Admin Team. This was under the grounds of 'Failure to do tickets' and because I was creating a culture of having people go to me directly, to get things solved. I will respond to each in kind.
1) As per my agreement with Dragoneer, I was to take tickets others were unable to handle on their own, or large scam/theft items. These Were often brought to me by Dragoneer himself or other administrators. While working as a liaison between Fur Affinity and Artists Beware I was able to put an end to many accounts that had scammed users for years, out of thousands of dollars. Of course, they don't count.
2) This culture exists because I managed to complete tasks and correct problems in an efficient, timely manner. While I hated taking work from my notes, I would retrieve the original ticket, often idle for 3 months, and solve the issue, getting assistance if necessary. While I understand these do not make a difference ticket-count-wise, this is often a user's final resort before losing faith in the site as a whole, and it is our duty as Administrators to try and prevent that, amongst keeping the site running smoothly as individuals are able.
It was a fun, if frustrating ride. I do wish FA the best in the future, but there is a lot of good-ol-boy politics that I did well enough without. I fully expect to be booted for bringing this us, but people should get at least some explanation, versus nothing at all. Cheers.
Tl;dr - I got canned for something I don't quite understand, and stating that bit about tickets seems pretty convenient, considering what my position working with AB was understood to entail.
It also looks like Dragoneer may have refunded a commision Bazeel had from him, before giving him the boot:
Refunding me for a commission right before canning me as an Admin? While it may be unrelated, I -have- to state that publicly
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Bazeel: http://www.furaffinity.net/user/bazeel , has quit, probably on February 14th since on that day his wife Sigil (who is active within the furry subculture as a furry artist) quit FA in favour of Weasyl:
http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/5505460/
He is of course, at the time of posting, still listed on the staff page because god forbid Princess Piche ever update anything in a timely fashion. Sigil was also an admin on FA at one point, but quit.
Oddy and Keio also are no longer admins:
http://www.furaffinity.net/user/keio
http://www.furaffinity.net/user/oddy
FA is currently down to 14 admins, including Dragoneer, and 3 technical staff (listed on the staff page at least). In contrast Weasyl has 5 directors, 7 admins, 9 moderators and 8 technical staff.
FA has a publicly listed total of 17 staff and Weasyl 30, at the time of posting. Also, anecdotally I've heard that FA staff are still leaving trouble tickets unanswered for several months+, which suggests that the same issues which have always plagued it are continuing to plague it.
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Bazeel: http://www.furaffinity.net/user/bazeel , has quit, probably on February 14th since on that day his wife Sigil (who is active within the furry subculture as a furry artist) quit FA in favour of Weasyl:
http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/5505460/
He is of course, at the time of posting, still listed on the staff page because god forbid Princess Piche ever update anything in a timely fashion. Sigil was also an admin on FA at one point, but quit.
Oddy and Keio also are no longer admins:
http://www.furaffinity.net/user/keio
http://www.furaffinity.net/user/oddy
FA is currently down to 14 admins, including Dragoneer, and 3 technical staff (listed on the staff page at least). In contrast Weasyl has 5 directors, 7 admins, 9 moderators and 8 technical staff.
FA has a publicly listed total of 17 staff and Weasyl 30, at the time of posting. Also, anecdotally I've heard that FA staff are still leaving trouble tickets unanswered for several months+, which suggests that the same issues which have always plagued it are continuing to plague it.
Dragoneer said a few weeks ago that they were super really close to adding more admins from the last recruitment drive ASAP, HONEST! Shocking that never happened.
I follow Oddy on Twitter and I'm surprised he lasted this long. He seems to have some amount of common sense that wouldn't mesh well with FA's modus operandi. Kind of wondering if they've kept him around hoping he'd supply FA:U with AV equipment like he does for some other cons...
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Also, anecdotally I've heard that FA staff are still leaving trouble tickets unanswered for several months+, which suggests that the same issues which have always plagued it are continuing to plague it.
I got a TT answered a couple days ago,that I had filed two months and a half ago. I was shocked to get a response at all!
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I noticed that both of the admin accounts Sciggles used on FA: Helperdog and Shivadramon, have been de-admin'ed recently and her personal account has not been given admin privileges:
http://www.furaffinity.net/user/shivadramon
http://www.furaffinity.net/user/helperdog
Her accounts are still listed on the staff page though, so either she's taking a temporary break or else it's Princess Piche's usual inability to get anything done on time or at all.
Sheepdust : http://www.furaffinity.net/user/sheep, http://www.furaffinity.net/user/sheepdust has also lost their @ and gone from the staff page.
Currently this puts FA at 11 admins including Dragoneer.
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Another admin gone : Cerberusnl
Due to repeated issues with communication, I feel I no longer motivated to help FA out, administratively. As such, I'm resigning.
I'll still be around... I'm just not going to be doing any banhammering.
http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/5840700/
FA is now down to 10 admins inc. Dragoneer.
I also looked at the pages of all the remaining admins to see if/when they were active.
I noticed that of these admins AsiaNeko has shown no external sign of activity for over a month (since May) and she mentioned in a journal (from December last year) that she is recovering from surgery, and that she will be "not allowed to work for who knows how long". So it seems probable that she isn't doing any admin'ing on FA.
Nerosilent has shown no external signs of activity on FA for 5 months (since the beginning of Feb.) and his journals mention physical therapy and surgery on his back. So again I wouldn't be expecting him to do anything.
Of the other 8 admins, chase (aka Carmen) has nothing on his page so you cannot really get any clue as to whether he's been active or not, but the other 6 : Dragoneer, Foxamoore, Jasu Fox, Kryphosdrgn, quoting_mungo, SSJ3Mewtwo and Surgat, all have favourites, shouts, submissions and journal entries which show they have been active on FA in the past few days.
However, the only admins I've seen in the past few months daring to show themselves in an admin role in comments, journals &c. and that I've heard of as answering trouble tickets are Dragoneer and quoting_mungo.
It seems possible then that Dragoneer and quoting mungo could be the only active admins left on FA, and that no other admin is now prepared to stick their head up above the parapet on FA and communicate with users (likely because Dragoneer is so shit at communicating with everyone from the rest of the staff downwards).
It just goes to show that no matter what Dragoneer promises to do, things always end up back here : trouble tickets piling up, issues not getting resolved, admins quitting and the userbase getting ever more soured on FA and its staff.
Dragoneer has already posted a string of FA United related site announcement journals so I suppose he's going to try and bury his woes in his vanity convention.
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There's a new admin sock puppet, SystemAccount (http://www.furaffinity.net/user/SystemAccount) being used for admin work (https://twitter.com/DanzaDragon/status/479302732965502976). I'm willing to bet Chase and Sciggles are still doing admin work, but using SystemAccount instead of Carmen and HelperDog/Shivadramon. Because FA's all about transparency, right? Speaking of, I finally got banned from FA for sharing the common knowledge that HelperDog, Shivadramon, and Carmen are all sock puppets for Sciggles and Chase (https://twitter.com/Kitashi_/status/479443880530944000)! :D
Also of note, remember that FA admin drive 8 months ago (http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/5122085/) ? Yeah, still waiting to see new admins from that!
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Wow, they managed to get Cerberus to leave. I remember that he was perhaps one of the biggest defenders of the site back in the day. $5 says the "communication" problem had to do with either Chase or Sciggles.
There's a new admin sock puppet, SystemAccount (http://www.furaffinity.net/user/SystemAccount (http://www.furaffinity.net/user/SystemAccount)) being used for admin work (https://twitter.com/DanzaDragon/status/479302732965502976 (https://twitter.com/DanzaDragon/status/479302732965502976)). I'm willing to bet Chase and Sciggles are still doing admin work, but using SystemAccount instead of Carmen and HelperDog/Shivadramon. Because FA's all about transparency, right? Speaking of, I finally got banned from FA for sharing the common knowledge that HelperDog, Shivadramon, and Carmen are all sock puppets for Sciggles and Chase (https://twitter.com/Kitashi_/status/479443880530944000 (https://twitter.com/Kitashi_/status/479443880530944000))! :D
Also of note, remember that FA admin drive 8 months ago (http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/5122085/ (http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/5122085/)) ? Yeah, still waiting to see new admins from that!
I really, really love Oddy's reply (https://twitter.com/0ddj0b/status/479451678278561793) to your tweet.
A long time ago, back when it was quite clear that a lot of the FA Admins had only clawed/sucked their way to the top just to show off their shiny admin badge, one of the ideas people had discussed as being possibly "good" for the site was anonymizing the administrators. The idea was that, without being able to yell "I'M AN ADMIN" and throw their weight around (without actually doing anything, mind you), that maybe only people who wanted to actually help the site would be compelled to be an administrator.
At this point however, it's fairly obvious that they're doing it just to cover up Sciggles' (and probably Chase's) reign of terror. I don't think it's a coincidence that "SystemAccount" started getting used right after Sciggles emptied out her other two admin sockpuppet accounts. Banning you for "posting private information" about the abandoned socks reeks of desperation. Sorry, Sciggles. You can't hide. We're not as dumb as you think we are.
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This person: http://www.furaffinity.net/user/xaerun
is an admin again, though I don't know how long they've been restored. He describes himself as a "toxic and negative" person:
(http://i.imgur.com/aWgl1xD.jpg)
He also mentions this information about how the FA staff are supposedly currently structured:
Administrators are grouped into different category tickets, with training relevant to that category given to each administrator. Harassment administrators deal with tickets relating to harassment, and so on. I'm actually moving into that category myself. It's possible the cub porn administrators are still getting to those tickets. Dragoneer covers a range of tickets himself, and trust me, there's a lot. When you have tickets submitted for things such as "Uh yeah so this user has an otherkin-phobic slur in their shout history", they get in fast. Non-valid tickets are closed pretty much the moment they are noticed.
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https://forums.furaffinity.net/threads/1254207-Tickets-about-child-porn-not-getting-read-in-6-months?p=4815439&viewfull=1#post4815439
Normally I'd ask why you want someone who is "toxic and negative" to be an admin, but then I remembered that it's Sciggles who is in charge of "training" the staff.
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This person: http://www.furaffinity.net/user/xaerun
is an admin again, though I don't know how long they've been restored. He describes himself as a "toxic and negative" person:
...
Note that a) it's in quotes and b) he's appears to have been demoted from forum admin back down to supermod (along with ArielMT). I would hazard a guess that someone cited him as being "toxic and negative" as the reason for his demotion, and he's expressing it in the only way that won't simply get him banned for sharing private information. It's more likely though that the demotions were chase removing them because they're not active enough for his liking (I doubt 'neer would care). The quote may or may not be related to that, but I assume that it is a quote.