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FA Obsession Collection / Re: Project Phoenix

« on: January 19, 2014, 04:38:43 am »

Looks like Zaush is feeling some heat now. He made these comments on a journal someone made about other places they post their art:

Hopefully you don't subscribe to the here-say that's been the bane of my fandom existence for the past 3 years or so.

Thanks, I'll probably be putting a journal up soon to address said accusations directly.

When it was suggested that he should say nothing and not acknowledge all this, he replied:

I tried that, and since then things have only gotten worse. People's only real source of information, if not for my interjection, are various drama articles and repositories that take great entertainment in seeing a popular figure encounter as much torment as possible. I can't sit in silence forever, not anymore.

Comments all from here:

http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/5421310/#cid:38085989

From Zaush's twitter:

Thanks. I'm really hoping to address this issue via journal tonight, and say my piece. Pulling out the chat logs for this one

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https://twitter.com/Zaush/status/424775149125001216

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Interesting that this has now been made:

FurAffinity Exodus Database

This is a blog that is devoted to featuring and spotlighting artists who wish to leave FurAffinity (or have already done so) but either cannot due to requiring commissions to stay afloat financially or, for those who HAVE left, will be dealing with financial issues as a result.

This blog is NOT a place to argue or discuss the goings on of FA, its staff, or the validity of any actions that may or may not have occured! We WILL delete your asks without responding, especially if all you are doing is sending hate! There are countless other places to argue and fight over the goings-on; this place is not and will not be one of them.

If you would like to be featured, please visit our submit page for more information about what is necessary!

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http://fa-exodus-database.tumblr.com/

Also, someone drew a picture:


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http://artboigles.tumblr.com/post/73534003999/current-state-of-affairs

This one was done by an anonymous person posting on lulz.net:

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FA Obsession Collection / Re: Project Phoenix

« on: January 18, 2014, 11:37:49 am »

Some cracks may be starting to appear with Dragoneer/Sciggles and (some of) their friends over all this. Today Silverautomatic apparently suggested on twitter, to Sciggles, that the Furaffinity United convention should be renamed/sever its formal connection with FA (what else could have prompted this but Zaush?) and Sciggles was not pleased and responded in her usual style:

Its still FA related because Dragoneer and Fender, unless you start a new con and remove the two its still gonna happen...

Yeah, but we've mentioned a few times that it might be time to change the name. "New coat of paint." Might not be a bad time.

I've not been part of that discussion and I disagree. Regardless not something that should be discussed publicly.

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https://twitter.com/Scigglicious/status/424524687712874497

If Dragoneer/FA takes a hit, she takes one too since the only thing that gives Dragoneer any traction in this subculture is his ownership of FA and the only thing that gives Sciggles any traction is her relationship with Dragoneer, so I imagine she's extremely agitated at the moment. She can feel it starting to slip away.

Also, note that Silverautomatic said "we". He is on staff ("events director" and "head of security") at the FA United convention, so he might be speaking for other staff there too. Would be rather funny if Princess Piche and wife lost their vanity convention.

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FA Obsession Collection / Re: Project Phoenix

« on: January 17, 2014, 01:17:35 pm »

lots of leaving journals to ensue.

Sciggles has been popping up in some of them, I noticed. I wouldn't be surprised if there is a scraper for "weasyl". Anyhow Sciggles is handling queries and requests for clarification from people in in her usual style:

I appreciate your input but I am not discussing the issue further. Your question has been answered.

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http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/5422162/#cid:38068961

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FA Obsession Collection / Re: Project Phoenix

« on: January 16, 2014, 04:19:04 am »

It's mentioned by someone on that news journal:

http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/5417252#cid:38036744

that 8 people have already been banned for mentioning that whole Zaush thing in the comments. Lots and lots of hidden comments on that journal:



The official FA line is whole hearted defense of Zaush:

Zaush is a pretty cool guy. He knows his stuff and we've got an awesome team dynamic going right now, so things are pretty good!

Whatever rumors may exist are rather inconsequential. What matters in this context is how he performs in his role as head developer, and from what I've seen he's doing quite well so far.

We're willing to address comments about FA's history, about this project, but the policy and tolerance toward personal attacks and what is potentially libelous commentary has not changed.

There are a lot of negative and skeptical comments in general too, perhaps even the majority of them. Plus, as you'd expect there appears to be no intention/ability to give the users what they actually want (folders is mentioned a lot).

One "Nanuk" has been appointed, by the grace of Princess Piche, as the PR person for the project and in this case PR means stilted cargo cult PR (from the comments on the announcement journal):

we're increasing transparency with this project to keep you guys updated as we move along [...] We're also going to be reading through suggestions (like yours!) and keeping track of them. So I'll start out by saying thanks for the suggestions! We're definitely looking at ways to improve the UI, so we'll be looking at that as we continue to iterate on it. We're also aware of the high demand for folders and mobile phone support, and that's something on our roadmap as well.

Site outages aren't necessarily related to the code

We're aware of the desire for folders so it's something we're looking into

As for folders, we're definitely aware they're in hot demand and it's one of the many suggestions we're looking at.

A document reader is already on my list of suggestions, but unfortunately it's rather difficult.

Mobile support is definitely on our roadmap for the future.

I can see why Piche would choose him since he joined the site recently, in 2012 and so has no idea about all the other failed attempts:

http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/5417252#cid:38030031

And is a beep-boop admins did nothing wrong:

Those who get in trouble have the perception that the admins are picking on them unfairly when, of course, you and I just know they're doing their jobs.

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FA Obsession Collection / Re: [THE CREATURE STIRS] or "A rare FA code update"

« on: January 02, 2014, 05:03:58 am »

Meanwhile, it's the same old same old on Twitter:

We will be bringing on new admins soon to help quell the queue as well (week or two?).

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https://twitter.com/Dragoneer/status/418545263670607873

AUP is in final draft, pending approval. AUP will be updated, clarified, massively re-written.

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https://twitter.com/Dragoneer/status/418547840344788992

It's just a shame the site won't be massively re-written!

Also I loved this:

he didn't show us anything in return except a PDF with some bullet points for "development milestones" (that didn't really make a whole lot of sense because they included no real back-end work) and two mock-ups that looked like knock-offs of Weasyl with rounded corners

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FA Obsession Collection / Re: Furry's favorite rapist wants to fix FA

« on: December 29, 2013, 07:51:10 am »

^
https://twitter.com/Dragoneer/status/417141741142016000

Also, Zaush continues to be unable to handle criticism or even discussion about his role at FA:

https://twitter.com/Zaush/status/417125377685745664

From that exchange:

@SilverAutomatic @coderlion this is likely an issue with the owner's history with untrusted outsiders he has no experience with.

Rewriting the history of FA so that anyone who helped or offered to help is now an "untrusted outsider"!

Also curious:

Two weeks ago, @SilverAutomatic told me outright they are not wanting volunteer coders from fandom anymore

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FA Obsession Collection / Re: [THE CREATURE STIRS] or "A rare FA code update"

« on: December 29, 2013, 04:18:44 am »

This is how Dragoneer dealt with people whose paid-for adverts were affected by the downtime:

I was emailed at the beginning of the outage saying that all ad holders would get 10 extra days added to their time. Once the week was over, I felt it was more than a bit unfair to basically get only 3 extra days in exchange for a week out of the holiday season. So I complained, and Neer told me he had already MADE an announcement about a second extension for ads. When I told him I had not seen it and asked for a link, he did not link me to one and then proceeded to send out a mass email explaining how 'a couple (aka me) of people complained and he was extending it again'. Then he bawwed at me for suggesting that he wasn't going to do the right thing in the first place. I told him he was unprofessional and I was taking my business elsewhere.

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http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/5362239/#cid:37706245

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FA Obsession Collection / Re: Staff Changes Megathread

« on: December 29, 2013, 03:34:32 am »

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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FA Obsession Collection / Re: Furry's favorite rapist wants to fix FA

« on: December 25, 2013, 06:06:32 pm »

Not 100% on the db, but probably going to run MariaDB in a cluster considering the resources. For the rest, node.js

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https://twitter.com/Zaush/status/415713723655782400

According to wikipedia: MariaDB is a community-developed fork of the MySQL [...] The intent is also to maintain high compatibility with MySQL

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FA Obsession Collection / Re: Furry's favorite rapist wants to fix FA

« on: December 24, 2013, 05:24:13 am »

Hostage to fortune there. Maybe he'll end up leaving the site in a huff (like most of the furocity staff did) if (when?) this project falls flat on its face. Perhaps its also a bit of hostage to fortune for Princess Piche too, since Zaush, having so many watchers (I think he's currently in the top 5 most watched on FA), could make a lot of fuss and drama on FA if he wanted to. Makes me wonder if such an consideration played any part in Princess Piche letting Zaush do this: he might have been afraid Zaush would kick up a fuss, or perhaps he just saw a kindred spirit in Zaush.

I noted from twitter exchanges that Zaush boasted he is presiding over a "small and focused" team, but when someone replied to him that you don't run projects by team size alone and he just brushed them off:

https://twitter.com/Zaush/status/415390189368774658

Looking at exchanges on his twitter:

https://twitter.com/Zaush/status/415424777650569217

He's received a lot of sceptical responses about the prospects of this project and his responses seem to me to be rather arrogant e.g "Ok, clearly there's no pleasing you", which does not bode well.

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FA Obsession Collection / Re: [THE CREATURE STIRS] or "A rare FA code update"

« on: December 15, 2013, 06:17:56 am »

Sunday. FA is still fucked. A badly hungover Dragoneer slowly rolls his massive bulk off of sciggles, from what he affectionately calls his "fuck position". Donation money paid for the booze, lube, and baby dick sized condoms.

Sciggles is still sleeping, dreams filled with images of shitty ornaments and squishy, ill-gotten, cows.

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http://lulz.net/furi/res/2809695.html#2813273

Plus the thread on the FA forums about the downtime ended up getting locked. According to someone on lulz.net a person made a post which mentioned weasyl and that post was quickly deleted. When that person made a second post asking why their orignal post was deleted that 2nd post was deleted as well and trpdwarf locked the thread in a patronising fit of pique:

http://forums.furaffinity.net/threads/814724-Site-Status-What-s-Going-On-and-an-Apology?p=4196194&viewfull=1#post4196194

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FA Obsession Collection / Re: [THE CREATURE STIRS] or "A rare FA code update"

« on: December 12, 2013, 05:06:32 pm »

It seems that FA has had two hard drives fail:

@Lunar_Arc I don't have a status update right now. We're waiting on two new hard drives to come in as we had two drive failures, too.

https://twitter.com/Dragoneer/status/411289299582070784

Princess Piche says he's overnighting new HDs.

Meanwhile, FA admins are really starting to get antsy and are indulging in paranoid fantasies about riots and mobs:

[...]
If you want to come here to advertise other websites, or entice riot/mob behavior, or try to frenzy many of the wonderful people we have on FA into a exodus, we will remove such posts and handle things accordingly.
[...]

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http://forums.furaffinity.net/threads/814724-Site-Status-What-s-Going-On-and-an-Apology?p=4187030&viewfull=1#post4187030

Plus, no screenshots of the new FA UI which is allegedly being worked on because "people might spin it into something negative":

https://twitter.com/Dragoneer/status/411237306729627648

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FA Obsession Collection / Re: [THE CREATURE STIRS] or "A rare FA code update"

« on: December 12, 2013, 02:58:07 am »

Princess Piche must be a little rattled at this point since he's made a thread on the FA forums about the downtime. I think it's just PR'ing (as you might expect) and all he can promise is to try to focus on moving on with the improvements we were trying to implement which strikes me as feeble and evasive even for him.

Firstly, I'd like to start with an apology: we had not intended for the downtime last as long as it has. We'd hoped not to have any downtime at all, but were unable to avoid it. Long story short: we had an issue where queries were backing up and not being executed properly. This happened on a J-curve, and as more queries started backing up, the site slowed down, and more and more mounted into the backlog. The Tribble Effect. The issues kept multiplying, and lead to degraded performance (as no doubt all of you have felt). This all came to a stand-still almost overnight, and we were unable to resolve the issue before it ramped up to the point that it did.

We fixed the source of the issue, and had put the site into read only mode under the hopes it would finish executing the backlog. It didn't. To resolve the issue, we're taking the above steps (new server) with upgraded services which should help.

We're trying to get this resolved ASAP and to have good news soon. Nobody likes downtime (myself included). I'm as much a user of the site as I am owner, and I know the frustration. All advertisers of the site, we will be compensating all ads with 10 days credit.

Again, I'm sorry for the major inconvenience the read only has caused the community. I know "sorry" doesn't make the frustration any less so, but we are working to get this resolved. I really want to put this behind us so we can try to focus on moving on with the improvements we were trying to implement.

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http://forums.furaffinity.net/threads/814724-Site-Status-What-s-Going-On-and-an-Apology

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

« on: December 08, 2013, 10:45:07 am »

Dragoneer and Sciggles are too busy profiting off of FA's clueless users to care, I'm sure. They'll likely walk away with somewhere around $4000 when the ornaments are all shipped out.

Whatever happened with the recent admin recruitment drive a few months back?

Didn't Sciggles buy a laser-engraver a while ago? Presumably they're trying to pay it off with this awful tat.

Looking at the comments on that journal, it at least confirms that Sciggles is still completely unable to cope with even the most polite and mild voicing of different opinions and, unable to ignore them, quickly responds with accusations and hostility in her strange clipped style. Meanwhile Princess Piche is claiming that he never ever promised anyone a new UI or folders.

http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/5323508#cid:37486530
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FA has been going fine for all these years without selling a few holiday ornaments, why NOT donate it to charity? I'm sure that their local homeless shelter would love that money!

So FA is never allowed to make more than enough to keep the power on or hardware updated? This money is going to the people who code this site FOR FREE so they can work a little harder to get extra features added...there is only so much you can do with free time but if we can pay them then something can get done a little faster. Mobile FA is one of those things that can get done if we have the extra funds for it.

People are free to donate to charity if they want to, they are also free to purchase an ornament to help support FA AND they get a physical item to show for it.

To be fair, if you guys actually hired people in the first place, it would be nice- the site would probably work 10x better. It's sad when sites that are inferior for varied reasons *coughcoughdisrespecttoartistscoughcubporn* are, in terms of technology, far superior to FA, and last I checked none of them are paying their coders!

Also, for what it's worth, I've given money to FA before, in exchange for services, and got THE WORST service I've ever gotten, so if stuff like Ads were handled better, it would be nice, and I wouldn't mind actually giving money for them.

That said, Nobody is saying that you HAVE to give to charity, we're just saying it would have been a better reason in our eyes, to sell things during the holiday season, considering how many people are in need now, and your reaction is amazingly unprofessional, and I certainly don't like the way you're trying to guilt trip people. I'm not sure WHAT you do for the site, but I hope it isn't public relations. :/

Not sure how I am guilting anyone into anything and I'm sorry if it came off that way. I was simply making a statement that its perfectly reasonable to be selling a physical item in return for money going to the site to help improve upon things that need improving. I am not forcing anyone to buy. But saying FA makes enough as it is is incorrect. There needs to be a little more income to help improve upon things. It's great that others can do it better. Unfortunately we need a little help and I am sorry you disagree. I feel FancySkunk said it best in his post really. I'm sorry you have had a bad experience with the site. I wish things were better and I am trying in my own way to help them get better.

http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/5323508#cid:37481075
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I feel like that $10 would be used much more effectively in a Charity. It is the Holidays after all...

FAU (Fur Affinity's convention in NJ) Donated over 10k to the NJSPCA this year, which I think is fantastic! Just because its the holiday doesn't make it any more important to donate than before and they did a hell of a job there

No, it doesn't. My thoughts were simply "Tis the season". As I said before, I made no demands. Simply stated my opinion.

I am just saying that is how it came off is all. Saying " It is the Holidays after all..." just made it seem like you were trying to make people feel guilty. That's how I read it at least. My opinion.

http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/5323508#cid:37484980
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If they actually use the money to do what they say they are in the journal, and we get a mobile site, then I will gladly eat my boot.

Until then, I willing to bet this will go in the same pile as the Gallery Folders and the new UI that was promised the last few times they took donations.

I promised folders and the UI?

That said, UI has been rebooted again and is in the works. I don't have dates, but we've made quite a bit of progress. It will take a few months.

...well, for what it's worth, you DID promise UI... years ago. And times since then... to the point that when the beta site was announced we were finally going to see something like this: http://d.facdn.net/art/thoron/1295495280.thoron_new_ui.jpg

It's taken YEARS. I mean, it's okay if shit happened that stopped you guys from being able to do so, but own up to it, and don't act like promises were never made. :/

Not donations for that, at least not recently.

And that UI was scrapped some time ago because, while nicer, it wasn't quite as user friendly as it first appeared. It didn't work well in a variable width format.

No, but it was promised! It would be nice to see a UI update from the one currently, if not because it would be nice to see the entire site re-written to a better, more stable, up to date and secure format.

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

« on: December 07, 2013, 04:48:28 am »

Someone on lulz.net posted this thread:

http://lulz.net/furi/res/2805944.html

w/this picture in:



so that's nearly 5 months of unanswered trouble tickets there. There are currently 20 admins listed on the site staff page and a few more who are not.

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Other Topics / Re: I am a nonbinary trans* individual. My pronouns are he/him/his, it, and burd

« on: November 23, 2013, 05:30:00 am »

I have a sneaking suspicion that the "someone at Lulz.Net who contacted the poster" _IS_ the poster.

No, it wasn't me. It was one Ka (Dama Megido is the poster of the pounced advert). FWIW, here is the chatlog which he posted:

[8:09:08 PM] Ka: Hey, I saw your ad on pounced
[9:14:40 PM] *** Damara Megido has shared contact details with Ka. ***
[9:40:12 PM] Damara Megido: I know I have no right to ask you, but, do you perhaps have an ad yourself?
[10:36:45 PM] Ka: Hey, sorry I was afk. And you have every right to ask! Unfortunately no I don't, but I'm an open book really. I'm a genderfluid werewolf otherkin.
[10:47:41 PM] Damara Megido: It's quite alright, I understand life gets in the way. But genderfluid, fuck yeah. Pounced is kind of a really questionable place and I don't see many trans* members who aren't binary male or female. And nonhuman? I like you a lot already.
[10:50:32 PM] Ka: Hell yeah. I know what you mean.. all the local furs here are cissies. I just can't find many to relate to. ._.
[10:50:45 PM] Ka: I have members of my wolfpack in others states so that keeps me sane.
[10:51:55 PM] Damara Megido: literally fuck all cishets, they are goddamn trash. and all my friends are forever away. I have no way of seeing them offline. guess it's for the best tho, since I am not a hospitable thinh.
[10:51:56 PM] Damara Megido: *g
[10:52:36 PM] Ka: why do you say that?
[10:53:13 PM] Damara Megido: because I want the apocalypse to happen so humans can go extinct, for starters
[10:54:42 PM] Ka: I've thought about that a lot. Sometimes I would think about how I could fake my way into a position of power to make it happen. Be like a Bradley Manning, except try to get the nuke codes, you know?
[10:57:32 PM] Damara Megido: I wish it were so easy. But I'd rather escape to a secluded place in Canada to live under the radar. Don't wanna raise Hell and live life in misery aka prison. I'm a coward and people ain't worth my time.
[10:58:16 PM] Ka: maybe you should just become a biologist and make a disease that kills off all the cishets, haha
[10:59:52 PM] Damara Megido: No, I want to either be a zoologist or a sex therapist, who does glassblowing and falconry on the side. Tho I'd love to see all the cis and str8 trash go away forever.
[11:02:45 PM] Ka: Sex therapist, huh? that'd be pretty cool. You could even give sex therapy to wolves and other theratins!
[11:04:04 PM] Ka: I know I definitely have a deeper connection to four leggers. Particularly canids.
[11:05:07 PM] Damara Megido: I HATE humans but am so fascinated by their sexuality and gender stuff, so I would like to study it deeper. But I'll never survive that long in college. Really, my place isn't there. It would be better for me to go study tayras in the wild or some other obscure critter I love endlessly.
[11:06:30 PM] Ka: What about it in particular? I think it is most interesting when I shift between spectrums and can experience sex from different facets.
[11:08:24 PM] Damara Megido: I don't know, truly. Maybe the variety and depth. Because I am so far from the majority, being agender and not straight. Then there's all sorts of other identities and I am amazed by how everyone makes it work for them. Humans are gross but their capacity to be so diverse is astounding.
[11:10:08 PM] Ka: Really? I feel like they need more diversity forced onto them sometimes though. Like we should perform sexual surgery on every cishet born to make them know what it feels like, and then they can become the new minority.
[11:11:03 PM] Ka: And any who try to refuse would really just be feeding the patriarchy and bigendered normative constructs.
[11:12:54 PM] Damara Megido: I don't really want them to be like us, though, since then our safe spaces would be truly overrun with these cisshits. I like being able to shit talk them and I am justified in it because I don't take shit from oppressors. One day I'm sure being heterosexual will be obsolete as fuck. If we don't last that long, fine. Let the humans work themselves into a hole or corner in their own fetid way. I will be busy living my life as the gryphon I am.
[11:13:27 PM] Ka: you go gryphon
[11:15:02 PM] Damara Megido: I want to focus more on my nonhuman and queer identity but unfortunately, I am ill prepared at this time. Stuck at home without a job and unable to drive. Plus, no romantic partner to work with on this. I can do it with just my moirail but I'd like more help as welll.
[11:19:44 PM] Ka: surprise, you're on candid fandom
http://lulz.net/furi/res/2790451.html

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Other Topics / I am a nonbinary trans* individual. My pronouns are he/him/his, it, and burd

« on: November 19, 2013, 03:09:43 pm »

This is an advert on pounced.org, the furry dating site. Someone on lulz.net contacted this person via IM and they are for real. This is a rather extreme example, self proclaimed social justice warrior and all, but it encapsulates some of the current trends in the furry subculture (washing in from tumblr and elsewhere on the net') such as giving yourself lots of labels, "My pronouns", being "non-binary" etc, though as I said, this is a rather extreme example esp. when you factor in otherkin and homestuck.

I'm sure they're just an edgy immature teenager in the end, though, looking to find some identity or community in a hard and largely uncaring world. But there are better more constructive ways of doing that.

I promise to get another photo up soon, as well as a profile pic. Just got back to Connecticut so by the end of the month I should hopefully have this ad more completed.

In the meantime, I have a webcam and can mic or webcam chat on Skype, if you want.

The name is Kusari Kaikou Burd. Not legally yet, but I'm working on that. I've had an account here before a while ago but deleted it and am starting totally fresh.

I'm agender so that means I am a nonbinary trans* individual. My pronouns are he/him/his, it, and burd. I prefer it above all else.

My sexuality is hard to describe but it's something like pansexual and something like Fuck Off Cishets. Only interested in dating fellow queers, trans* beings very much preferred. Don't own a binder yet but my moirail is buying me one soon. CISHET DUDES NEED NOT APPLY, EVER. And if you're an ~ally~ then you can fuck right off as well. I have no need for ~allies~ at all.

Technically I am indeed 21 and have been as such since May 28th. And I would be interested in dating someone between ages 18 and 26.

You can say my species is gryphon, specifically a keythong. Keythong is the term for wingless gryphon with spikes instead of wings. They often have horns but I do not. The things that make up my species are Hagsfiend a Tayra. Hagsfiends are a species from the Guardians of Ga'Hoole book series, and they are a strange mix of crow and owl. So I've got strigiform, mustelid, and corvid as my makeup. Keythong is my Kintype, and I've gotta go back and rework my Fursona. It may end up being a different kind of keythong. I'm thinking meerkat mixed with fiery billed aracari.

The relationship I am in is very open and I'm seeking a new primary partner. I put single not open relationship because I'm not looking for a side interest, I'm seeking a being who will be my front and center partner. The being I'm currently with is wonderful but I don't know if I will be staying with her much longer. Even if I do, I am polyamourous and she is comfortable with me pursuing this. I'm open to dating a monogamous being but I am not limiting myself to that.

I have been a Furry since mid-2009, and I have been Awakened as Otherkin since around 8th or 9th grade. I graduated in 2010 so it's been a real while. Right now I'm not as involved in the Furry community as I used to be but still am part of it. It's just that my Otherkin identity matters to me more AND I don't have much time for Furry stuff lately since joining Tumblr.

Homestuck is my most favorite thing in the whole of forever and I will continue to fixate on it after I'm dead. Currently I own a Megido hoodie bought from the What Pumpkin store but will be getting more stuff later on. Including a Breath hoodie since my God Tier title is Soul of Breath. I have a moirail and he is the best frickin fawks I have ever known or ever will know, so my pale quadrant is occupied. However, I'm looking for a new primary matesprit and am open to getting a kismesis as well.

I also have a huge metaphorical boner for the zodiac. My sun sign is Gemini, moon is Aries, and Rising is Capricorn. Ask if you wanna know the rest.

I have no job currently and I cannot drive, forgive me.

There's nothing REALLY specific that I'm looking for so try me and we'll see where things end up. As long as you are open to getting into Homestuck or like it already, are not cishet, and are either Otherkin or like Otherkin, we're cool.

I'm white. And never refer to me as a person, I prefer to be called a being. Thank you.

My God Tier classpect is Soul of Breath. I'm also a Prospit Dreamer. My Land is called the Land of Lightning and Abyss.

I AM A FEMINIST AND A SOCIAL JUSTICE WARRIOR SO I WILL TOLERATE EXACTLY ZERO BULLSHIT.

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Scandal! / Re: The sound you're about to hear is a 52 year old, unskilled manchild...

« on: November 10, 2013, 04:48:36 am »

Also, according to this comment on his latest FA journal, he has a sub-machine gun worth at least $15,000 and 100s of other guns which he is getting to keep (and could sell), but he is demanding money from his divorcing wife:

Hey Jim, its been a while.

First of all, a hearty "get better soon." It sucks being sick, and I can empathize.

My real reason for writing you today wasn't to wish you a speedy recovery, though upon landing here and seeing that you are feeling under the weather, I do wish you well. Unfortunately, its to ask you why in the fuck you're decreeing a flat fee payout in your divorce.

You're walking away child support-free and alimony-free, and with your pile of stuff worth anywhere from $60-80k, because Rebekah just wants you gone and to be left alone. Thats really saying something, that shes letting you off of that hook...and you've got the nerve to ask her for a flat fee? She doesn't have any fucking money, Jim. You are getting all of the belongings. All you have to do is sell the hundreds of guns that you have, and you'll be more than back on your feet. You could go back to AZ, which is the area you love, and buy a house once all that stuff is sold. Your sten alone is like $15k -- sell it and you're set. Are you seriously asking for even more?

I mean really, a lot of people have been following this and are stunned stupid, dude.

You've had a few months to get some cash together. I understand that your depression problems are debilitating and that you can't touch your stuff (for the purposes of selling it) until the papers are signed (we'll just ignore the car you sold while on the road & the pallet of hot wheels you sold to retain your lawyer, for arguments sake). What I'm trying to convey here, is that Rebekah doesn't have a pallet of hot wheels that she could sell to pay you off. You however, do...and should sell your stuff to pay yourself off and get setup somewheres. I think its time you sign the papers so you can take legal possession of your belongings/guns, give the guns over to an auction house that can fetch you a really nice price, and move on with life. Asking for even more money, is some of the greediest shit I've ever heard of. As well...she straight up can't do it. Like, good luck with that, dude.

I think its interesting that your 18 year old son -- the same boy who used to punch people in the nuts under your influence -- has grown up to be a stunning young man. At 18, hes paying for his own college tuition, moved out of the house, paying his own rent, and has his own job. I think you should take a page from your son, and grow the FUCK up.

Kind regards,

Kat Valentine

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http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/5228292/#cid:36959252

It's amazing.

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Scandal! / Re: The sound you're about to hear is a 52 year old, unskilled manchild...

« on: November 10, 2013, 04:19:13 am »

Wow, that tumblr. Jim Goat went to a furry convention while his wife was delivering his first born child(!!):

An open letter to Jim, upon news that he’s trying to fleece his ex-wife

Jim:
Some of us reading this have known you for a while. Like years. Ten, twenty, almost thirty years.  We’ve grown up. We’ve matured. We’ve had life experiences that have changed and tempered us into adults. And while we may not always be better off for the growth, we grow nonetheless. Even a failure is a new opportunity to grow for many of us.
Except for you.

You’re the poster child for arrested development manchildness whose Peter Pan-esque refusal to grow up and be a man has wrought pain and suffering to those around you—to the point where your wife has chosen to divorce you, much as one might amputate a necrotic, gangrenous limb.
We get it. We were all young once and did the stupid things of young people. In our 20s and 30s, we knew it all. We were invincible. We lived thinking about no one but ourselves, and we didn’t care about the aftermath. Who cares if a hotel janitor has to meticulously sweep silly string out of industrial carpeting…as long as you got your chance to ambush someone for both the cameras and/or your Gallery or Yarf con report. Who cares if you leave Confurence Seven organizers to deal with an angry hotel that had to clean up styrofoam pellet stuffing…as long as you had the chance to pull out your knife and gut a stuffed Smurf in the hotel lobby…again for cameras and your con report. Who cares that you terrorized the staff at Confurence East 1996…as long as….well, you get the pattern by now. Attention-by-any-means-necessary was your code, and you lived it to its fullest, no matter how much embarrassing attention it got you. Remember when you went digging for trash for the WKOW cameras? Garbage picking, Jim…all because you could do it on camera and get some attention from the news.

And through it all, your long-suffering wife sat in the shadows, enduring your embarrassing and childish behavior because she loved you in spite of it. When she was on the verge of delivering your first child, you flew out to Orange County for Confurence Six in 1995. As she was delivering, you told people that you were out eating sushi (probably not on your own dime) with people like Carl Gafford and Matt Henry. Do you remember walking back into the hotel, only to see a full-grounds search on for you to get you a message to call home because not only had Rebakah delivered…but almost died in childbirth. All while you were out reliving your 80s glory days as a fandom hasbeen. A man only gets one firstborn child—one opportunity to hold his own offspring up for the first time and experience that moment of connection. You squandered it. To play at a furry con.
But fatherhood is one of those aforementioned growth opportunities we mentioned at the start of this letter. Many men see it as a transforming experiences that challenges them to grow and care for their family. Many men step up in ways they could never have imagined to care for their families.

Instead of using it as an opportunity to better yourself, you played more—almost always on someone else’s dime. How many times did you go begging for money, transportation, a place to stay, or meals either before or during a con? How many cons has it been where there’s been a desperate emergency that was going to jeopardize your attendance at a convention? Con staffs have had betting pools on when you’d pull the stunt, what the nature of the stunt would be, and how much money you’d have your hand out for. And you rarely failed to deliver. Your begging ran like clockwork.
It’s like you were conditioned after Angouleme that good people’s spirits and intentions were an easily-exploited income resource, and that became your newfound livlihood. Remember Angouleme, Jim? You didn’t calculate the tariffs on the books you were bringing in to France, and began your “oh shit! Shit! What am I gonna do!” routine that eventually became fandom performance art, as people stepped in to (begrudgingly) help you out of the goodness of their hearts.

In spite of it all, there was Rebekah, paying your bills and keeping you afloat as you went to enough furry conventions and SCA events to make an actual working professional artist (remember, Jim: professionals make a living by their art; amateurs get play money…or gun and How Wheels money in your case) blush. You never paid for the trips, and you never seemed to ever make any money at these conventions.Just like you gripe about cash flow issues before a con, you gripe about them after. If you’ve never profited at a con over the last twenty-plus years…why do you keep going? It’s not like you’ve generated new material to even try and make yourself relevant in furry fandom anymore. You had a niche comic whose heyday peaked around 1986. You then chose to do a webcomic about a MUCK whose user population was already on the decline when you started, and you perpetually griped about dwindling views and sales…all while burning through (volunteer) colorists and web site hosts like drummers in Spinal Tap. From con to con, your table is like a time capsule from the mid-90s, right down to the yellowed copies of Morphs that you’ve been trying to sell since the mid 1980s.
Every Sunday at a con, when you complain about losing your shirt, just look behind you…you’ve not lost them. You’ve been dragging the same shirts across the country since Bill Clinton was in office.

You never have money before the con, and you claim to never have money after the con, yet you still have money to go to the cons, buy the toys, buy the cases Hot Wheels, buy the guns. It’s not like you realized that you were a failure as a working artist (or at least one hiding income under the table) and tried to build a career for yourself after all of those “profitless” conventions. The money has to be coming from somewhere, right? It’s certainly not going to your family…
So after eighteen years, almost two decades, Rebekah finally had enough of being your support system. She had enough of putting her own attempts at self improvement, like trying to take IT classes to get into a better-paying career, on the backburner, to support you. She decided to divorce you, and you now find yourself without income and in need of a new place to live.

And we understand. You can’t keep a job, Jim. There’s always some liberal force of evil that’s sought you out to stymie your employment. Never mind that you seem to be permanently stunted at the emotional age of fifteen—complete with the lack of impulse control and vacancy of responsibility. It’s always someone else’s fault, isn’t it? People are always out to get you in the workplace, and you always find yourself unemployed after a few weeks or months because some big, bad liberal has targeted you again, and again, and again, and again, and again…. Frankly, the longest job you’ve kept was being Rebekah’s husband…and you’ve finally been fired there too.
But Rebekah isn’t your job. She’s not your support system. Going after things like her retirement pension is the most gutless and cowardly move that a man can make—especially after she supported you for eighteen years and you never supported your own children.

And now….demanding a six thousand dollar payoff? You’re asking your WIFE for alimony, Jim? Where’s that tough-talking, “self sufficient” Libertarian we’ve seen over the years? Or do put on the right-wing Tea Party wolf’s clothing to hide the begging, welfare-queen sheep underneath?
Sell your shit, Jim. Sell the guns, the toys, the collectibles. Liquidate it all. Turn your horde into cash. Take that money and go start anew somewhere else. You’re in your 50s, and you can still start a new life…and maybe pick up new job skills before you become an elderly burden on society.

Likewise, if anyone reading this is approached by Jim in the weeks before a con, realize that this what you’re enabling. These are the patterns. Anyone reading this is more than encouraged to share their own stories about Jim over the years here. Enough is enough…
Jim, your marriage is a failure. You were so busy playing at furry cons and acting like a perpetual tween for the last twenty years that you alienated your wife, who decided that keeping you around was too painful and costly to endure. And like any failure, this is a chance to grow and learn from it.

Sell your toys. Take the money. Get away from your ex-wife, and leave her alone. Stop trying to use her for money. As a grown man and father, you should be ashamed of yourself.

Wanted: “Heeb-Man”

If you were a regular on the con circuit in the late 80s or early 90s and in and remote proximity to Jim, you no doubt were exposed to Jim’s “Heeb Man” at a room party.

For the uninitiated, “Heeb Man” is a re-dubbed episode of the He-Man and the Masters of the Universe cartoon, “A Tale of Two Cities.” In Jim’s re-dub, He-Man (called “Heeb Man” in this version) is given a stereotypically Jewish male’s voice and the queen’s voice is replaced by a caracatured Ebonic inflection. Jim (at least when he was showing it at room parties) has admitted to doing both voices.

We’re looking for a copy of Jim’s racist and anti-semetic cartoon in the fan network. If you have a copy—maybe an old VHS dub that he made for you—do feel free to place a copy up on Youtube and comment here. Even a copy caught with a camera phone and uploaded should suffice. Sockpuppet Youtube accounts are great for something like this.

Jim went to a great deal of work to make that video. We feel that it’s a shame were it lost to the sands of time. Let’s upload a copy and tag it here in the comments, so we can all remember what a class act Jim has been over the years.

This was his source material:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW68AjWH5Rk

Close Encounters of the Groat Kind: Your Stories

We know that Jim’s made a lot of friends over the years with his glowing, courteous, and professional behavior. We’d like to hear from you. Have you had an encounter with him? What happened? Were you one of his convention “benefactors” who ceased to exist once your cash flow stopped?

As Jim is most likely to turn to the fandom as his ATM as soon as his wife cuts him off, we’d like to start some public awareness.

If it suits you, do feel free to tell your own stories in your favorite places and post URLs here in the comments, so we can all share in Jim’s sterling character.

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http://groatscam.tumblr.com/

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Other Topics / Re: Soggy Diaper Exchange

« on: October 28, 2013, 04:09:56 am »

A picture from his twitter acct., he's decided to end it all:



https://twitter.com/DiezelRaccoon/status/391025122460463104/photo/1

Actually the picture is from earlier this month, but it still doesn't seem very wise behaviour. He describes it as "breath play".