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FA Obsession Collection / Another day, another crash

« on: December 19, 2011, 01:41:20 am »

It appears that the database has crashed and is currently in the process of recovery.
This is not something that should be happening, so an investigation as to why it took place is underway. No ETA yet

Yak, once again, shows us that nobody at FA has a goddamned clue what's going on with FA. The site's been slow-to-unreachable in the early morning hours for the past week or so, and you'd think they'd have looked into things because of that.

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FA Obsession Collection / Dragoneer cancels his Iron Artist, rededicates himself to FA

« on: November 15, 2011, 08:40:03 am »

Well, the latter, I'm not so sure about.

Last night I sent refunds out to everyone still waiting on a slot for my Iron Artist. Regretfully, it's just not working out. I had good intentions when I started, but the more and more I sat down to work on them, the more I was pulled away. I spread myself too thin, and I tried to take on too much at once. I couldn't focus on any one thing, and I fell behind. The more I fell behind the more guilt and more frustration I felt, and it only made things worse.

It ended up with me depressed, frustrated and stressed. The site and the pressures that come with it didn't help. Add in a relationship that needs attention and love, a car accident and more, and it just ended up getting all wibbly wobbly.

I'm not quitting drawing, but I will no longer take money for it. I'm not an artist who should be taking commissions. Ever. I'll be following up with people waiting on commissions from me next week (when I get my paycheck) to square things away with them.

I sent refunds out to the original accounts who paid me. All of them went out last night. If your Paypal has changed since this started please note me, and I'll make sure you're squared away.

It's not easy typing this, but I need to come to terms with the facts. I do too much, and the more I do, the less I can focus on any one thing. I'm sure more than a few people probably are due an "I told you so" and "I was right" and I'm going to concede that, yep, you were. But I'd rather refund everybody. It's the right thing to do.

So, this weekend, I decided that I needed to focus on something. And I chose to make my only focus FA. I'll still draw, but I want the site to be my priority. We've got over 550,000 registered users, and we gain hundreds of users a day. The site needs a person willing to focus all their attention on it, and that person has not been me. That has to change.

Some of you have noticed some changes on the site recently, all for the better. That's what I'm focusing on. I want the site to be better, work better. I can't do that if I'm not focused on the site.

Again, my apologies to those who waited on me. I failed in that aspect. But I realize now, more than ever, I need to focus my attention on the site.

http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/2910879/

I want the site to be better, work better.

So...he's firing yak?

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Scandal! / Lulz is dead...for now

« on: March 09, 2011, 06:22:14 pm »

http://rip.lulz.net

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FA Obsession Collection / FA's new support site

« on: February 07, 2011, 04:07:47 pm »

http://kb.furaffinity.net/

It uses this software, which is sold for $1,000.

Part of the site's code:

Code: [Select]

</table>    <table align="center" width="100%">
        <tr>
            <td valign="top" height="100%" width="20%">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Untitled Document</title>

Code: [Select]

  <tr height="5" bgcolor="#387ED4">
                      <td></td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr height="5" bgcolor="#5899E9">
                      <td></td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr height="5" bgcolor="#8CBEF9">
                      <td></td>
They overpaid by $1,000. I've seen Geocities sites with better coding than this. WTF was Dragoneer thinking.

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Scandal! / Betawolf. Just...Betawolf.

« on: January 16, 2011, 01:19:23 pm »

Or, as the regulars on my board call him, "PedoTaz".

tl;dr version - http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Betawolf

http://dammitfreehaven.com/hugbox/res/8675.html
http://dammitfreehaven.com/hugbox/res/9317.html

(Sorry if you get 503s when trying to visit TGFB.)

I'm sure the poster by the name of "Edd Dobbs" will be along shortly in order to provide more evidence and sum things up far better than I could.

But for now, here's the two most damning comments Betawolf's made about himself.





So...yeah.

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Scandal! / Anthrocon employs pedophile

« on: June 29, 2010, 04:46:01 pm »

http://silversyourstep.blogspot.com/2010/06/good-help-is-not-that-hard-to-find.html

I've had several reports come in to me from people who did attend the con that convicted sex offender Daniel "Tora" Llamas was spotted at the con. Not just spotted, but working the registration desk, meaning that he had access to plenty of personal information on minors who were attending the con.

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Scandal! / Fchan pisses off the userbase TWICE

« on: April 02, 2010, 02:55:24 am »

On April 1st, Fchan decided to play an April Fools' Day prank on the userbase of the site by redirecting all the boards on the site to a single board - /f/, the female-only board.  This, as you might expect, pissed off the site's users quite a bit.

The response of the mods on April 2nd probably didn't help matters much - the boards were all redirected to a page with this message on it:



And apparently, Fchan has a Twitter account (or, if the name on the account is any indication, High Bitch Nadia does):

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Scandal! / Nigerian Money Scam: Furry Edition

« on: July 10, 2009, 03:12:34 pm »

Some idiot thought he wouldn't get caught lying about having a terminal disease while asking for donations for a tour of the US.

He thought wrong.

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Scandal! / M. Hirtes drama! Yay!

« on: April 05, 2009, 01:52:12 am »

Recently, a few artists have had to deal with noted toe-ring fetishist Michael Hirtes and his attempts to scam free art out of people.  I'll get to the two most recent victims of his bullshittery in a moment.

First, check out this FA submission from ClubStripes' Midori (posted last September).  Turns out, Hirtes tried to get a refund out of Midori because she hadn't finished the commission he'd ordered within a month; when she refused his refund, she ended up finishing the picture and reselling it (amusingly enough, the auction page says Dragoneer ended up with the winning bid, having to spend only 50 USD to get the pic).  Hirtes, ever the stubborn jackass, tries to make himself out as a victim -- until Midori exposes his scam in the submission's comments by revealing PMs/communications showing that they'd never agreed to any sort of timeframe for delivery of the finished product (and tells Hirtes that, with her heavy work schedule, she would have never accepted a commission with such a tight timeframe for completion to begin with), leaving him to drift in the wind...

...up until the middle of last month.  Artist Kat Smith, under her FA account "Chill", started accepting commissions and initially agreed to do one for Hirtes.  But then she learned that he owed another artist money for a prior commission, and after talking with the artist in question, she dropped Hirtes from her commission list.  This led Hirtes to try and make himself out as a victim again, this time claiming that Kat screwed him out of a commission and shouldn't be trusted; he essentially tried to slander her and ruin her ability to do business.  But then Kat let everyone know why she'd dropped him as a client, and pretty much every place he posted on -- my site, FA, CYD, even Lulz.net -- told him he was full of shit.  (DISCLAIMER: I am on friendly terms with Kat Smith, though I don't believe that biases my perception of the facts of the situation.)

And now, FA user Fluffball has become his latest victim.  On April 3rd, Fluffball posted this submission that had been commissioned by Hirtes (note that it features only characters that Fluffball created, and that Fluffball's own "fursona" (ugh) is covering her naughty bits; that's important to this story).   On April 4th (Fluffball's birthday), she wakes up to find an e-mail in her inbox from Hirtes demanding a refund and the deletion of the image from FA.  So what do you think she does?

A.) Quietly refunds his money and removes the submission
B.) Apologizes to him on an FA journal, then gives him a refund and removes the submission
C.) Calls him out on his bullshit on an FA journal, then refuses to refund him and remove the submission

If you guessed "C", you win a no-prize.  (You're also stupid for guessing, since I linked you to the submission earlier.)  Turns out, Hirtes was demanding a refund because he said the image Fluffball posted was supposed to stay private, and he even went so far as to threaten to report Fluffball to PayPal if she didn't refund his money.  However, Fluffball turned the tables and posted a PM that Hirtes had sent her (which Hirtes admits is genuine) that indicated the image would only stay private if Fluffball's "fursona" (ugh) had been fully exposed; she believed that since no agreement had been made between the two to keep the image private should the character remain "modest" in some form, she was free to post the finished image.  Practically everyone ripped on Hirtes again and called him out on his bullshit after he posted on Fluffball's journal.

So basically, Michael Hirtes is a scam artist whose reputation is starting to spread faster than the Black Plague during medieval times.

Oh, and one more thing: on his FA page, Hirtes has (as of the writing of this post) several shouts that are in support of him, the shoutee telling Hirtes that he thinks the fandom's "always accept, never judge" attitude is what's ruining it.  Hirtes' response?

Ironically, it's vice-versa ("Never accept always judge") when it comes to how I'm treated here.

Because trying to screw artists out of money they worked hard to earn, insulting and demeaning and threatening said artists after they call you out on your scam-artist bullshit, and trying to make yourself out as a victim during the whole situation despite knowing you don't have any support at all TOTALLY deserves complete, unquestioning acceptance by your peers!

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News Media / Maybe you wouldn't be homeless...

« on: March 01, 2009, 03:39:04 am »

...if you didn't use all your money to buy furry art.

At least, that's the message Dragoneer seems to want to send to now-former FA user Allan, aka Lupine Assassin.

It all started with this FA journal by Allan:

I AM SITTING IN FRONT OF http://www.comfortinn.com/hotel-bro.....new_york-NY275

I AM RELYING ON THEIR WIFI SIGNAL

I AM HOMELESS AND JOBLESS AND I NEED A TEMPORARY PLACE TO STAY

I AM FREEZING OUT HERE

SOMEONE, ANYONE PLEASE SEND HELP

It should be noted that Allan has a reputation for asking for financial help from other furries, then turning around after furries give him their monies and using said monies to buy a fuckton of commissions (almost all of which can be seen on his FA account), all while doing exactly jack and shit about improving his life situation.  With the pattern seemingly about to start itself all over again, Dragoneer swung the banhammer at Allan and laid out the reasoning behind the ban in a journal of his own:

Under normal circumstances I would never state as to why a user is banned. I believe every user deserves privacy, but from time to time there are exceptions. This is one of them.

As you've no doubt gathered from the title, Allan (Lupine Assassin) has been banned from Fur Affinity. As admins, it is our duty to protect the interests of the users, and we feel that this is in the best interests of the site.

The reason I write this is as a warning: help him, but do so at your own risk.

Allan is what I call a "habitual offender". He seems to continually find himself homeless, kicked out from place to place and put on the street. Compassionate individuals extend their support, help him get back on his feet, try to do the right thing. They get burned, he gets kicked out. Again and again.

When this happens, Allan posts journals requesting people help him get back on his feet, send money, send cash. And when he gets said money he turns around and commissions people. Lots of people. He puts art above finding himself a home, finding himself adequate shelter. His gallery on Fur Affinity contains over 1,300 submissions. The majority of them are commissions, paid for by a person without a job and/or a home for most of the time. That is a huge red flag, and I've watched that flag raised time after time, and had people come to the staff for help.

I won't tell people not to help Allan, but I will tell you to be wary.

The Reason

The Terms of Service wrote:

FA may, at any time and without notice, suspend or terminate a user's membership with the Service and/or remove content without notice. You agree that we are not liable for the loss of data, information or financial loss resulting from termination or suspension.

I won't sit by and watch people get duped again.

So, for once, Dragoneer may have actually done something intelligent and worthwhile for FA's userbase, as well as that dumbshit Allan.  As for Allan...well, if he's dumb enough to keep buying furry art with money that should be going towards keeping his stupid ass alive, I say let the fucker freeze on the street.

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News Media / Ganador: Future E-Law Legend

« on: February 02, 2009, 08:37:28 am »

Ganador, the co-producer/co-creator/co-whatever of an upcoming series of Second Life porn videos called "Peach Fuzz", revealed his plan to prevent the Internets from seeing the final product.  The journal entry is reposted in its entirety below for the lazy (and just in case he decides to delete it):

i need to take this opportunity to explain our identification method, as my lawyer requested.
this is being handled by an experienced adult film lawyer. who is treating this 3d cartoon porn no different than any of the real life human porn from the many years past. to him there isnt any difference.

upon ordering one of our videos, a customer must provide their home mailing adress (we wont accept p.o. boxes). this adress holder will be held legally responsible if there are copyright infringements. peach fuzz is legally protected under title 17, sections 501 and 506.
once the request for a film is made, we re-render a brand new copy that will have several "markers" hidden within the film in many places. for example if "roger fox" orders a copy, i will make a new rener that will have a certain clock on the wall in one particular scene, and a little crab way in the backround of another. etc...
if rogerfox decides to make a copy to hand to his next door neighbor, there isnt much we can do. just dont upload it online anywhere, because if we find it, we download it, watch the film, and the film will tattle tail to us which customer it was sold to. even with me explaining exactly how we are doing this, there is no way round it. you wont know how many signs there are, what is or what isnt a sign, where they are, or when they are, how many they are.
lets say two people each buy a film, and work to clip them together to make one film, using scenes from both copies.... both customers end up in court. one at a time O.o
i dont suggest tsting this, if you do i cannot stop you, and at that point, this offending customer will then be contacted by my lawyer, if they cant be reached or found, then a federal agent will do the contacting. and whichever state the offender resides in, will be the on that pays for the fees of our flight and court processing. both opius and i, my lawyer, and an agent, will be present in court. and if the offender is not 24 years of age, the united states will not recognize them as financially independant, so their parent or guardian will need to be present. in the end it wont b a negotiation. the agent will have the evidence that the video was reposted, and a fine will be incurred.
this is not a joke, and i have done this before. i know for sure that some poor guy is gonna call my bluff, i feel kinda bad for that person but it will be necessary. because i promise that after that first event occurs and they end up with a fine (there will not be warning letters, CND's of any kind, just an aperance in court face to face, and a fine) then no one will repeat it. i promise you that ;)

this happened once before. someone who i wont name, offended my copyright, and since the poor kid was only 18, his parents ended up with the minimum 700 usd fine. im sure he had a serious talking to when he got home.
people dont realize that simply writing "copyright me" in the corner of your art doesnt mean anything. not since the late 1970's.

Peach Fuzz has been legally registered with my lawyer and notary. the same two people who worked with me during my time as an adult actor in real life.

in accordance with the amednmant of the DMCA, it is now also possible that whichever server owner or website that displays or hosts the copyright offense, can also be subject to a liability. i will send a courtesy letter to a couple of sites, to give them the chance to protect themselvs ahead of time from being deemed responsible in part or in whole.

again this is not some DMCA registry. offenders will not be "persued". this is a film copyright under title 17. that means with or without monetary gain. offenders will receive a summons, not a CND letter.
if a customer living within the united states, canada, the united kingdom, or australia, offends the copyright, this will be a simple series of events like i explained. and i am not required to apear in court. my lawyer has the right to represent me and will be present with a federal agent.
if someone who resides outside of those places, not much i can do then, only the DMCA can handle that.


this is not a debate on whether piracy is ok, or a debate on the definition of piracy. im not here to discuss peoples various opinions on the subjct. this is me, laying it down for people. explaining how this works. this isnt a negotiation.

the plain simple fact is: we are working hard to make these cupcakes, if you wanna take one from our table, i have to ask you to pay for it ;)
and i hope you in turn love the flavor!

people who want it will come and buy it. peach fuzz tries to have something for everyone. but we dont play salesman, we dont seek custsomrs, customers seek us :)

i dont mean to sound stern or anything, people who know me know im a nice guy X.x;
i just needed to get serious for a moment to explain all the math and legal crap. i prefered keeping our identification method a secret, but my lawyer says im required to make a public anouncement of some kind. otherwise im required to place a copy of the explanation on every single film we sell. i hope people actually READ the fbi warning at the begining of a movie ;)

blah blah blah legal crap i HATE typing this stuff x.x

i really hope people have been enjoying the stuff we have been coming up with. we have been trying really hard to come up with stuff for everyone out there. not just the usual "foxs and wolves". not that theres anything wrong with foxes and wolves, just that i think we need to be eclectic.

if people have any questions they can contact opius or i directly :)

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Fuck-Awful Art / Cub Porn + Plush Porn + MSPaint = Megafail

« on: November 10, 2008, 08:52:05 pm »

http://www.furaffinity.net/user/cubsgonewildmagazine

Even with just two images posted to the (created earlier today) account, it's already proven itself to be a massive pile of fail.

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News Media / 2 The Poisoned Gryphon

« on: October 26, 2008, 02:48:45 pm »

http://2-gryphon.livejournal.com/194672.html
http://2-gryphon.livejournal.com/194874.html

2 the Ranting Gryphon nearly gets killed via someone attempting to give him alcohol poisoning.

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FA Obsession Collection / Dave Hyena quits FA Administration

« on: October 05, 2008, 12:48:07 pm »

Drama is sure to ensue as he basically calls Preyfar and Damaratus incompetent on his way out.

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News Media / The (Baby)Furluminati

« on: July 24, 2008, 01:48:39 am »

Saw this on CYD; it's unsourced, but given the stupidity that runs rampant in the furry fandom, I doubt even CYD could make this sort of faggotry up:

A few weeks ago, in the midst of some minor turmoil, it was suggested, once again, that a small council of Babyfurs be established to discuss matters of importance to the community, suggest courses of action, and present their collective opinion before the Community. There is growing concern that the weight of these decisions and the voice to share them with you should not rest on the shoulders of any one individual as has been the status quo for the last eight years.

A council which is too large becomes unwieldy, is bogged down by it's own weight, communication between all parties becomes too time consuming, and in the end the entire process is ineffective.

I would suggest a eight person council, two from the US, two from Canada, two from Europe and two from the remaining areas (Central & South America, Asia, Africa & Australia), based on Babyfur concentrations around the globe, with a nineth to "maintain order" over the council's discussions, keep debates "on topic" and cast a vote only in the case of a tie. The nineth council member may be from any country.

There are some among you who will say that the community has subsisted for eight and more years without the need for representation or a body such as this. To these I will assure that this council is not intended to be a "governing body." It's intention is to be a "brain pool" made up of respected members of this community to discuss actions and incidents which impact the ability for all of us to enjoy who we are and what we do in a safe, sane and conscientious way for everyone, and propose a suggested course of action to maintain that.

I open up this topic for discussion. If the discussion proves positive we'll take another step to build said council, so while you consider the above proposal, also think about who in your particular region, you think would be a good representative. But for right now, let's keep it as a friendly discussion, brain storming the council idea.

Thank you for your time, your restraint and your consideration.

*Hugs*

Swift Fox

Yes, you read that right -- "Swift Fox" wants to make a "Council of Pedos" to help keep the "babyfur community" from delving into chaos and turmoil.

Seriously?  In all my years in this fandom, this is the single dumbest thing I've ever read.  Not just because it's suggesting that one of the most hated and reviled subsects of the fandom needs a council of Grand High Poobahs to say "Stop being dumbfucks", but because they think this idea would actually work without it eventually imploding on itself.

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News Media / Sage Nazia Returns to fChan

« on: December 17, 2007, 12:17:34 pm »

...or so it seems, according to rumors -- and this FurAffinity journal (see below).  As some of you know, it was my stepping down from fChan in June 2005 that left Nadia and Xenofur in charge of the board (they were my handpicked replacements -- Nadia for her at-the-time fair treatment of posters, and Xenofur for previously helping out with fChan technical issues in the past), and it was under Nadia's reign as site admin that fChan became the board it is today.

It's times like this I'm glad I don't associate myself with fChan any more.

EDIT - FA user (and former fChan moderator) Snowhawk removed the journal telling of how they learned of Nadia's return to power.  Here's the text of that journal courtesy of a thread on Lulz.net:

Drama! D:<

I don't care what the hell anyone says about this, that I'm drama-whoring or whatever. Just shut the fuck up an listen.

As you may or may not know, I'm Samiya Rossini online now a days. I not only go by that name on SL, but I did on fchan as well. Yes, I was a mod.

Note the past tense...

I'm sleeping the other night, when Raven comes in to lay down. I wake up, and he says "Nadia's taken over the site."

Wait what?

To make a long story short, Xenofur is too much of a fucking pansy to handle fchan on his own (he openly admits this, just not in so many words) and wanted Sage Nadia to stay around as an advisior. But he never removed her access. So, she never left.

Xeno hid this fact from everyone, as did Nadia.

Skip forward to a few nights ago. The straw that broke the camel's back was apparently that Nadia lost her @ in the moderator channel on IRC. Raven didn't want her to have an @ because, afawk, she wasn't in any sort of power situation.

Oh no, you lost your op, what's the proper response?
a) Upset the balance and take over
b) Get over it
c) put it in (sorry, I had to...)

That's right, a is apparently the proper response.

Commence coup.

(More when I get back...)

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Other Topics / Brazilian Music Video featuring furry characters

« on: December 02, 2007, 02:13:53 am »

The video for Brazilian rapper Dogao's "Banho E Tosa", which prominently features two furry characters throughout the video.  Warning: this does contain very brief nudity (animated naked tits), so it warrants a small NSFW warning.

While I'm ambivalent towards the video itself, I kinda dig the song.