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FA Obsession Collection / Re: Staff Changes Megathread

« on: June 19, 2014, 04:55:17 am »

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:



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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FA Obsession Collection / Re: Staff Changes Megathread

« on: June 18, 2014, 07:21:59 am »

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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Weasyl Wankfest / Re: Weasyl prioritizes infrastructure overhaul while usage drops

« on: June 07, 2014, 06:28:00 pm »

Some artists I've been following the work of have quit posting stuff on FA but they haven't moved to/become active on Weasyl or any other furry art site, instead they've been posting on tumblr and/or twitter. Anecdotally, I think there has been a certain shift of furry subculture community and social networking activity to twitter especially and also tumblr : away from FA and other furry run sites

Perhaps that is an issue here : people who don't want to use/be on FA can post their work and get feedback, comments and commisions from the large furry community on tumblr/twitter so for some that will be just as good, if not better than weasyl currently is.

Of course Weasyl is a dedicated platform for art and social networking combined and superior to tumblr/twitter in that respect (Just finding someones stuff amongst their reblogs, retweets et al can sometimes be hard) so I suppose it comes back to playing the long game and keeping things together over the years it might still take for Weasyl to become the go-to furry art site if it does become such.

In fact, I just noticed on the latest FA news journal that someone who has been on FA for a mere 8 months was saying:

Reading all the comments here just make me want to up and leave this site and go somewhere else.
I enjoy being on FA, but all the problems - drama, and shit that keeps going on regarding admins and running the site professionally is becoming REALLY off putting.

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http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/5819207#cid:40613411

These things always move slower than we might wish, but time will tell. Sooner or later, time will tell.

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FA Obsession Collection / Re: FA staff give up on answering trouble tickets

« on: June 07, 2014, 03:42:12 pm »

I had another look today at Dragoneer's page today and the ride never ends, as they say, :



Looks like he also forgot to renew the SSL cert. :



However, Dragoneer has suddenly mysteriously lurched into life today and is now asking everyone with an outstanding trouble ticket to post on this journal he just made and he will answer their tickets:

Trying to execute ticket backlog. If you have outstanding trouble tickets please respond to this journal, and just let me know -- I'll prioritize your tickets and add them to my queue. Otherwise, I'll start picking and hunting tickets at random as I go.

http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/5827356/

Naturally, Dragoneer is yet again promising to bring on more admins (in the comments) too, but given that they leave or get kicked out almost as fast as they are added (e.g in 2013 FA lost lost Hendikins, Summercat, Fancyskunk and QTmelon. In 2014 : Bazeel, Oddy, Keio and Sheepdust) it likely won't help much.

The last time he was promising to bring on new admins was October 4th 2013, per the staff changes thread on here. You can see how well that worked out.

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FA Obsession Collection / Re: Project Phoenix

« on: June 06, 2014, 06:02:17 am »

http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/5819207

Phoenix Team Recruitment   

By Fender, 8 hours ago   
   
We're looking for a skilled layout and CSS wizard to join phoenix team to help us finish our first milestone! Is that person you? Drop us a notice with some examples of your work in a comment on the journal.

What's this? Is Zaush really going to let someone else work on his part of the project? Or did he quit?

Because that would be fucking hilarious.

There are (at time of posting) 818 comments on that journal, and I read down the page, and they are overwhelmingly negative towards the project, towards FA and its staff and Dragoneer.

A comment that was positively received, with several people responding to it supportively was this one:

I'll care when you fire your pet Zaush.
PS: If most of the comments on your announcements are angry/negative have you considered that there's a big fucking problem and it's probably you

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http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/5819207/#cid:40580672

Also, I saw this little broken promise from 2010 while looking to see if peoples reactions were so negative to Fender news journals a few years ago:


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http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/1123385/#cid:9395463

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FA Obsession Collection / Re: FA staff give up on answering trouble tickets

« on: June 06, 2014, 05:48:32 am »

Just had a peek at Dragoneer's FA page ; of the 12 shouts currently left on his page (made from June 4th to June 6th) 10 of them are people complaining about how he hasn't read their notes, that their trouble tickets have been unanswered for months and begging for help with some site related issue.

On the FA forums in this thread:

https://forums.furaffinity.net/threads/1254207-Tickets-about-child-porn-not-getting-read-in-6-months

The OP complains that tickets they've made reporting cub porn and art theft have sat unanswered for several years and another person mentions tickets that have sat unanswered for 6+ months.

That suggests that none of the attempts Dragoneer claims to have made to clear out the unanswered tickets have ever been successful.

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FA Obsession Collection / Re: Staff Changes Megathread

« on: June 06, 2014, 05:38:15 am »

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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Scandal! / Re: so about this Zaush guy

« on: May 21, 2014, 03:24:47 am »

Zaush is involved in a kickstarter now:

https://forums.vivisector.org/index.php?topic=621.msg8192#msg8192

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Fuck-Awful Art / Re: Dunning-Kruger meets Crowdfunding - Furry Kickstarters Thread

« on: May 21, 2014, 02:25:29 am »

There is a kickstarter, which is being aimed at furries by being advertised on FA amongst other places. Its for some fighting computer game where people punch and kick each other etc and who should be on the team but Adam Wan/Zaush:



Thing is though, these people already got $20,000 last year on indygogo to make a playable demo:

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/beast-s-fury-project#activity
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"This campaign started on May 04 and closed on June 18, 2013 (11:59pm PT)."

And they didn't manage to produce the playable demo they said they would. So they're now back for more money just to produce a playable demo.

In response to people who ask why Zaush is on their team they are actively defending Zaush, and hiding comments:


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http://www.furaffinity.net/view/13512341/#cid:83155858

That comment above was in response to someone who ask if Wan was running that FA account ; he has to be because that is such an arrogant dismissive response that only he could have made it.


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http://www.furaffinity.net/view/13512341/#cid:83155689

Also, someone commented on lulz.net:

Fun Fact: Several peers I knew were slated to voice for this.

After I pointed out multiple red flags from a developer's perspective, and a couple from a voice artist perspective, all but one of them jumped ship (because the one who stayed is voicing the main character).

1/10 would not purchase the funding is both non-existent and all over the place.

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http://lulz.net/furi/res/2934138.html#2934428

don't get involved with this game. Their entire focus is on getting more funding to pay their animators, which apparently the first couple of times (I think this is their 3rd attempt at this now?) couldn't adequately pay. Yes, the art looks great now, but they are also stiffing entire other departments and members in order to do this. Don't condone that, please.

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http://lulz.net/furi/res/2934138.html#2934463

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FA Obsession Collection / Re: HORRIBLE TRACERS

« on: April 10, 2014, 11:10:27 am »

Sciggles has jumped into this, in her usual hostile way, so we now have the full involvement of the unholy trinity.

WRT to this photograph Dragoneer says triggered the ban: http://i.imgur.com/4XpaMDt.jpg

Kihu has said on his twitter that he was given a photograph by someone who said they had permission from the model in the photograph for it to be used and he, in good faith, gridded and copied the photograph (not tracing it) to make the picture. Chase/Carmen contacted him assuming it was a trace and ordered him to remove the image and said "If this continues" you will be suspended. Kihu responded to Chase that the image wasn't traced, but that he did have a traced piece: the selfy in the OP which caused Chase/Carmen to give him an immediate 30 day ban. Kihu did not expect to receive a ban because Chase had said "if this continues": he thought it was a warning, so he not unreasonably assumed the suspension was for mentioning the selfy.

Sciggles said to Kihu on Twitter that she thinks he is spreading false rumours and she has threatened to post a screenshot of Chase/Carmen's note.

Here is some back and forth between their accounts on Twitter:

unfortunately sciggles, even after I removed this image (though it was gridded and trasferred, not traced) I was...

...suspended after telling the mod that I had other pieces in my gallery that were traced - the selfies.

Unless you can explain why I went from a warning to a full on suspension at the mention of the selfies rather than from the...

...start, I'm going to believe and feel like I was banned moreso for the selfies than for this.

that's not what I heard/saw and I am also an admin so please contact me so I can get things sorted!

Honestly I don't want things sorted. FA Mods have shit on me too many times during my 7+ years there, and I'm done.

you are spreading false rumors though. You were told you'd be suspended in your first message from Carmen with the original image

that's not true at all! She said IF THIS CONTINUES you will be suspended, it was a threat, not a statement

If she had straight up told me I WOULD be suspended from the start trust me, I would feel VERY different.

I have the note right in front of me...please do not make me post a screenshot of it...

I wanted to talk privately, I don't want to be hostile but I have the facts in front of me...I would like to discuss and get this

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FA Obsession Collection / Re: HORRIBLE TRACERS

« on: April 10, 2014, 07:50:04 am »

The PR machine clunks and whirrs into life and so Dragoneer is saying on twitter:

https://twitter.com/Dragoneer/status/454263461904936960

that Kihu was banned for allegedly tracing this photograph (rather than the one in the OP) & because the photograph was not his/he did not have permission to copy it:

http://i.imgur.com/4XpaMDt.jpg
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NSFW!

If you look at the overlay there are things that don't match up as well as things that do. So I suppose he either he partially traced it but made modifications or referenced it very closely. Perhaps he didn't have permission, but then a lot of stuff people do doesn't so surely best to let sleeping dogs lie unless forced by the original copyright holder. It doesn't seem worth a 30 day ban.

For reference, someone in a thread on lulz.net, who had watched Kihu draw in a stream, said that he didn't trace:

As someone who's commissioned him in stream twice and watched a few others, I'd have to say "no" as he does use references but does never traces.

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http://lulz.net/furi/res/2903241.html#2903254

Another person said that they had seen Kihu draw in person and on a stream and that he didn't trace those times at least:

As far as Kihu... IDK, I've watched him draw before, both irl and on a stream and I've never seen him trace shit but he could still do it some of the time.

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http://lulz.net/furi/res/2903241.html#2903373

Dragoneer has no doubt and is staunchly defending his position with tweets on his twitter:

Why is tracing/copying a photo an issue? Why do I even need to explain it?

Referencing is fine. Totally fine. Outright copying and tracing the image... NO.

I really shouldn't have to explain why tracing somebody else's image is fine. But if you want to trace? Go for it. Just don't post it to FA.

And if Warhol traced, and posted his traces to FA, it would still be against site rules.

Seems a bit priggish to me. As Conan says its self-righteous outrage at the HORRIBLE TRACERS.

In, e.g the 16th century, artists might trace (from life as it were) by painting onto a sheet of glass that they looked at people/objects through, but don't tell Princess Piche that:

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Weasyl Wankfest / Re: Weasyl begs for more feature suggestions

« on: March 21, 2014, 10:09:53 am »

On that journal of Struguuri's, this seems to be the most popular response so far, judging from the replies to it:

Make it easier to find art / artists.

The search / tagging is great, but I think there's also the type of person who would prefer to browse a directory with categories. When you upload a video to Youtube you can tag it, but you also have to assign it to a category.
Maybe have a list of tags that are popular at the moment. An empty search box can be a bit daunting, especially if you don't even know what you're looking for.
I found a lot of art browsing FA that I didn't even know I liked. It would never have occurred to me to enter it into a search box, because I didn't know it existed at that point.

On FA your favorites are displayed directly below your own gallery, on your front page. I think this is a good thing.
People find a lot of art that is relevant to their interests by going through the favorites of artists they like.
I notice I get a lot of watches from people who just recently watched another artist who featured my work in his favorites.

In general I feel like I need to way more clicks to navigate this site than I do on FA. I'd rather scroll more than click more.

The thumbnail part is probably being addressed already so I won't go into that.

Also this is just a feature request, but please put a "previous" and a "next" button right below an image inside a folder, would be nice for comic navigation!

That's all I can think of for now.

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https://www.weasyl.com/journal/44078#cid104809

FWIW, My own personal experience using weasyl is, as PA says, that lack of visible favourites + drop down species/category/kink lists hinders finding art/artists compared to FA.

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FA Obsession Collection / Re: FA staff give up on answering trouble tickets

« on: March 12, 2014, 07:46:55 am »

These are examples from yesterday and today. They show that the situation where FA staff have just given up continues: the only way to get anything done or to get any infomation is to try and contact Dragoneer to try and have him handle it personally (and as you can see he just fobs people off with "We're working on it" re registration).

We have here a shout left on Dragoneer's page and three tweets directed at his personal twitter account:




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https://twitter.com/Dragoneer/status/443732783857684480


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https://twitter.com/Dragoneer/status/443764475251146752


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https://twitter.com/Dragoneer/status/443755644815159296

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FA Obsession Collection / FA United Guest of Honour treated badly

« on: February 21, 2014, 04:25:46 am »

Dragoneer has, today, made an announcement, on FA, about his vanity convention and things have fallen rather flat. Firstly, a 2012 Guest of Honour mentioned in the comments about how they were locked out of their hotel room because the convention had forgotten to book their room for Friday to Monday (instead it was Friday to Sunday) and how they were not reimbursed, as promised, for their travel costs and their e-mails were ignored:

Hey FAU, I was a GOH for 2012, while I had fun, I did had some issues (my room was for only Fri to Sun morning instead of Mon morning, and I was locked out of my room Sunday and had to explain to the hotel I was support to have my room for all of Sunday which was..stressful to say the least! While this was fixed with some talking with the hotel staff, it was rather scary when my phone, clothing and personal items where locked in a room I wasn't in control off under my own name..)

What I really want to say is, I had sent a few emails in regards to be reimbursed for travel costs back in 12', mostly that I was cool with swapping the reimbursement costs for my travel from Nashua NH, to Whippany NJ (roughly 4 hours+ NY tolls or about $88 back in 2012) for a Dealer's Table for the following year instead. However I have to this day not been replied to by anyone, I wrote this of as 'eh whatever' and simply not promoted or attended the convention since this.

If anyone would like to reply to me, and talk about this that would be nice, but not really vital, as I've long since written it off and covered the costs myself.

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http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/5525902#cid:38753823

And elsewhere in the comments people were not impressed:

Is there an anti-harassment policy at this convention?

Yes. We do not tolerate harassment at the convention. The goal is for everyone to have a fun time, kick back and have a relaxing weekend. Harassment is not tolerated, and we will eject anyone from the hotel who are causing problems.

Will there be any security on site that doesn't answer to FA:U staff, like hotel security or local law enforcement? To be brutally honest, I think potential sponsors should seriously consider whether FA:U-provided security can or will protect them considering the likely political pressures that may be placed on them.

The hotel provides their own security, and if an issue comes up, we will involve them or the local authorities (police) if need be. Attendee safety is paramount to any convention, and we take it very seriously. Many of our security have experience working as police or EMT.

Gonna jump in here real quick as the Sec Director-

Security Staff at FAU don't do politics. We have a strict set of guidelines and procedures that everyone is expected to abide by and enforce regardless of who they're dealing with. If they don't feel they can be objective then they are required to kick it to someone who can. If that means calling in another security staffer, myself, or even the hotel - that's what they are required to do.

I bring several years of law enforcement and private security experience to the table when leading this team; most of whom come from an emergency response, private security, or law enforcement background. I've put in place strict policies to prevent power trips, as well as an even more strict reporting system to make sure all issues hare handled correctly and to the best of our ability.

No one on my security staff have ties to site staff. Their job is specifically to aid in keeping the convention a safe place for every attendee.

If you have any questions or concerns about our ability to keep the convention safe, I encourage you to contact me directly. I can be reached by shooting an email to silver@faunited.org.

What? It's you?? Yeah, stay away, people. Stay far, far away. You are NOT in safe hands with Allstate.

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http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/5525902#cid:38750430

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Def wont be going until fA gets its well deserved face-lift and lobotomy.
The con is fun, but god damn.. get your ass in gear already, tired of this shit.

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http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/5525902#cid:38750550
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Fix shit and release an update, and then we'll talk.

That's our plan, actually.

Wasn't this your plan like 7 years ago when Ferrox was announced?

Phoenix is a complete reboot, and will take some time. We have some things to discuss on that, and will be making an announcement related to that soon.

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http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/5525902#cid:38750613

The good old "We're working on it".

See this is kind of irritating because I feel like with all the hype and shit about project firebird or whatever it was called y'all are just glazing over what needs to be done again. Why not save funds and actually put them into making the site better, skipping one year when y'all already have shit PR and lost at least 1/5th of your users due to some major slip ups is not going to kill you. Especially not if you're going to actually get into gear and start picking shit up around here.

I doubt quite a few people will even want to go with what all has happened, hell there's already comments asking about harassment policies and security. How's this going to look when hardly anyone turns up for this thing and you can't cover your major losses. You can't even cover your losses now.

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http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/5525902#cid:38751118

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Weasyl Wankfest / Re: Art 4 Bug Fixes

« on: February 19, 2014, 10:10:40 am »

I read through the journals and comments, and what I got from it was that the art 4 bug fixes thing was a way to encourage community involvement in the direction of the site and to make it clearer to developers what the community really wanted, but Struguri got too excited and didn't discuss it enough before rushing a statement about it out the door and the idea tripped over. In response Struguri has apologized, clarified and stated what happened.

So, I think it's encouraging that at least one of the Weasyl directors wants community involvement in the direction of the site and the underlying ideas here: community involvement in the direction of the site + making it clear to developers what people want, is good.

This are what I thought was the most relevant stuff:

The bounty experiment was not intended as some sort of "free art" scam, but rather, a communal effort to encourage direction.
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This was not some sort of scheme to have the developers work on things that need to be done-- far from it, in fact. The developers are currently working away at the issues related to the site regardless of there being no incentive system currently in place. Understand, however, that the developers have a very different viewpoint of the code, and as a result, they see different priorities than what users see. The bounty experiment was intended to not only make it more clear what the high-priority issues of the day were in the eyes of the users, but additionally, to incentivize the developers to do what the users want.

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https://www.weasyl.com/journal/38728/bounty-experiment-post-mortem

It's an unfortunate underlying theme in a lot of community cultures, that feeling of arrogance that you know better than the collective community because you have amassed power. I'm gonna be a total dingus here, but frankly, it's really hard to pass this up: you can't spell "Weasyl" without "we." And that's ultimately what we try to enforce at the end of the day. If we didn't take the concerns of our users seriously-- even when we feel it's a misconception-- then we really wouldn't be much of a community, would we?

It really makes me happy that even when we fuck up (even though the royal we isn't really applicable here-- I fucked up) [...]

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https://www.weasyl.com/journal/38728/bounty-experiment-post-mortem

I got way too excited and frankly only discussed this with the directors before going to the floor with the idea.

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https://www.weasyl.com/journal/38728/bounty-experiment-post-mortem

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FA Obsession Collection / Re: Staff Changes Megathread

« on: February 15, 2014, 01:44:10 pm »

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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Scandal! / Re: Ren Queenston gropes people in their sleep.

« on: January 25, 2014, 05:33:06 am »

Pretty important to the story, Nishimura made a really long and detailed post further explaining their relationship with Queenstion. 3 days ago. I wasn't paying attention at the time, oops.

Reading that account, Nishi was a vulnerable person before that Queenston fellow got involved: Nishi had been raped earlier in the year before meeting Queenston, was suffering badly from PTSD and anxiety to the extent of having blackouts (waking up confused and not remembering what happened) and had extreme difficulty in dealing with people demanding sex.

In that account Nishi described various occasions where Queenston had sex with/sexually touched Nishi, despite Nishi not wanting to and saying so. Additionally, at one point Nishi was wearing a collar and Queenston grabbed the collar and jerked Nishi about.

The furry subculture has some very vulnerable people participating in it and they can obviously be taken advantage of. Hopefully people will be more aware with the recent Zaush issues and this.

From a UK perspective, according to the Metropolitan Police:

"A person commits sexual assault if they intentionally touch another person, the touching is sexual and the person does not consent."
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http://content.met.police.uk/Article/Definitions/1400008450549/1400008450549

So someone in the UK behaving as Renard Queenston is described as doing would be committing sexual assault at the least.

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FA Obsession Collection / Re: OFFICIAL FURILEAKS THREAD

« on: January 22, 2014, 08:30:42 am »

Arcturus has been hosting the leaked notes, for the past three years, on the yiffyleaks website mentioned in the post above. Well, now Dragoneer (presumably due to the recent Zaush thing) has allegedly hired a lawyer to force Arcturus to shut the site down:


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https://twitter.com/panderp/status/426017827909537792

This is the e-mail Arcturus got:

Pursuant to 20 U.S. Code § 1232h
     
January 21, 2014
     
Ryan Dowell
8901 N Armenia Ave
Tampa, FL 33604
     
Dear DreamHost:
     
We represent Ferrox Art LLC. If you are represented by legal counsel, please direct this letter to your attorney immediately and have your attorney notify us of such representation.
     
We are writing to notify you that your unlawful hosting of personal identifiable information breaches the constitutional right to privacy as well as various international declarations and conventions. Some of this information pertains to persons under the age of 18, which violates the privacy protections afforded to children under United States law.
     
    The website in question:
    Address: http://faleaks.malicelabs.com/
    IP: 69.163.159.59 ( apache2-olive.hawkman.dreamhost.com )
    Name Servers: NS1.DREAMHOST.COM NS2.DREAMHOST.COM NS3.DREAMHOST.COM
     
The whois information for this domain is hidden by your company DreamHost, and this domain is hosted on your networks. This makes your company liable for the information posted on this domain unless one or more of the following criteria are met:
     
A ) You remove the illegal content from your network
-OR-
B ) You surrender the registration information for this domain, so we may direct our legal actions in the proper direction.

You have 24 hours to respond to this email. After this period we reserve the right to take legal recourse to resolve this issue.

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http://pastebin.com/U40jxZuA

However, the Florida State Bar also does not list anyone with the name "Ryan Dowell" as being eligible practice to practice law in that state, FL 2. 20 USC 1232h is actually an education law and that address the attorney gives is not that of a law firm, but that of a charity:

http://yellowpages.ny1.com/biz/brain-injury-association-of-florida/tampa/fl/33604/1495972

Therefore it seems possible that someone faked the letter and sent it to Arcturus, or he faked it himself.

The final message on yiffyleaks:

On the 21st of January 2014, I was contacted by an attorney hired by Ferrox Art, LLC through the anomymized information for my domain. They demanded the removal of the information presented here. I don't have the resources to hire an attorney to fight this, nor really, the fortitude to do so, as I am currently quite unwell.

So, unfortunately, YiffyLeaks is being shut down. However, this site is not the only place where such information could be found. Indeed, all this site ever did was taken already existing information and clean it up and make it searchable. The raw files can probably still be found elsewhere.

If you'd like to complain about the heavyhanded legal maneuvers, you could contact either Sean Piche aka Dragoneer, at FurAffinity (or his twitter, @Dragoneer). You can also contact his attorney, Ryan Dowell, at 8901 N Armenia Ave, Tampa, FL, 33604 or by email mr.dowell@gmail.com

As for myself, you can find me on twitter, @panderp and you can also find my IMs or emails listed on many of the art sites (though, of course, not FurAffinity, as I am banned from there.)

Thanks for flying YiffyLeaks,
Arcturus

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http://faleaks.malicelabs.com/

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FA Obsession Collection / Re: Project Phoenix

« on: January 20, 2014, 08:56:41 am »

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https://twitter.com/Kyammix/status/425158735334363136/photo/1

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FA Obsession Collection / Re: Project Phoenix

« on: January 19, 2014, 10:25:17 am »

Someone just linked to, on lulz.net, a chatlog posted on livejournal on December 2009 (a year before the note leak when the Ferality note about Zaush was revealed, so before people generally knew about Zaush's proclivities) where Zaush was badgering an uninterested woman about having sex and trying to persuade her that her boyfriend wasn't right for her so she should have sex with Zaush:

14 December 2009 @ 08:38 pm
ugh, Zaush 
So, I had the most awful conversation with the one and only Zaush last night.

A week ago, he IMs me out of no where and just wants to chat so it seems. Apparently he was looking for girls to have friends with benefits. So I out right told him no.

Last night's conversation was going pretty friendly, no sexual talk. Then the mention of sex came up, threesomes were talked between the two of us (not in the sense that I'd have one with him, god no, just in general if it was of interest).

Well...

(1:19:58 AM) Yote: My bf's not into the whole friends with benefits thing, but apparently wouldn't mind a threesome with another girl
(1:24:00 AM) VideoZaush: hm!
(1:24:03 AM) VideoZaush: do tell..
(1:24:19 AM) VideoZaush: i dunno if that changes your thoughts on anything?
(1:29:16 AM) Yote: Lol....not really.
(1:29:48 AM) Yote: I did tell him what you and I discussed, since neither of us keep secrets, and he seemed slightly put off by you to be honest xD
(1:30:09 AM) VideoZaush: lemme guess, it seems threatening to him?
(1:30:19 AM) Yote: Well, yes..you're hitting on his girlfriend.
(1:30:41 AM) VideoZaush: hm, that tells me a bit about his personality...
(1:31:27 AM) Yote: He knows I wouldn't cheat on him, but guys will always have that slight ping of jealousy
(1:31:57 AM) VideoZaush: i kind of encourage kio to flirt a bit with guys, or look for prospective or possible fun people to lend her to
(1:32:44 AM) VideoZaush: to be honest, if he's jealous i even mentioned the idea to you, then you two probably aren't super compatible. i don't need a guy like him breathing down my neck
(1:33:03 AM) Yote: Although when we discussed it. I was mentioning how, even though I'd never date another girl again, I would totally not mind messing around with one. Because, damn...girls can be so fucking hot
(1:33:52 AM) VideoZaush: kio and i have always been kind of interested in partner swapping or doing some fooling around with another couple, but again, that kind of sets off some warning bells
(1:34:22 AM) VideoZaush: the jealousy thing, that is
(1:35:03 AM) Yote: I'm not sure how I'd feel about sleeping with another guy to be honest
(1:35:12 AM) VideoZaush: who said anything about sleeping? >D
(1:35:19 AM) Yote: You know what I mean
(1:35:22 AM) VideoZaush: lol
(1:35:28 AM) VideoZaush: well, forget i said it then
(1:35:33 AM) Yote:
(1:37:41 AM) VideoZaush: what i really need to find are some girls who aren't attached to, what i can only sum up most guys as: jealous boyfriends
(1:40:52 AM) Yote: Well, he's not that jealous. I'm best friends with my recent ex still and I don't think he really even cares
(1:41:32 AM) VideoZaush: if me just asking about your thoughts on FWB makes him "put off" by me, then i would beg to differ a bit XD
(1:43:11 AM) Yote: Well, I think FWB to him is sort of in a way, cheating. He's sort of old fashioned and doesn't like the idea of his partner being shared.
(1:43:27 AM) VideoZaush: mm, but he's perfectly ok with fucking other girls >D
(1:43:34 AM) VideoZaush: seems one-sided, a little selfish
(1:43:41 AM) Yote: it's not one sided!
(1:43:47 AM) Yote: I like girls~
(1:44:05 AM) VideoZaush: i know, but he feels threatened by guys
(1:44:15 AM) VideoZaush: you do not feel threatened by him with a girl
(1:44:41 AM) Yote: He never watches porn with a guy in it lol, he thinks it's gross
(1:45:03 AM) Yote: the idea of seeing another naked man to him is gross
(1:45:25 AM) VideoZaush: i can only assume he'd mess around with another girl with permission. i can assume he would also not afford that to you if the roles were switched?
(1:46:38 AM) Yote: hm?
(1:47:27 AM) VideoZaush: basically, he'd mess around with a girl, and he would not want you messing around with a guy
(1:47:35 AM) Yote: pretty much
(1:47:55 AM) VideoZaush: mm, yes that seems selfish to me, is all
(1:48:07 AM) VideoZaush: so it's a bad fit
(1:48:22 AM) Yote: Eh, I don't mind :3
(1:50:29 AM) VideoZaush: i would guess this has something to do with your rule against drawing your character with other guy's characters?
(1:52:20 AM) Yote: Mm, not really
(1:52:28 AM) Yote: That's my own personal thing
(1:52:41 AM) VideoZaush: hm, you're no fun :3



I don't need a tiny cocked asshole like him telling me that my bf isn't right for me.

Fucking shit head.

If some of you don't know who Zaush is, google him.

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http://silveryote.livejournal.com/199219.html