Fur Affinity/Furocity Joining Forces

[ShadowSparkle]

The main questions,
Is Furaffinity gonna change alot? If so, what will happen? What is allowed? What if someone has the same name? Will ours change?

I THINK: We should not merge.

ALSO, If some fur went on vacation or something and came back, they would not know what happened because FA is gone. The name will be changed possibly. ~Shadow

[FennyK]

With the situation that happened a few months ago; if that happens, they can still draw it, it is just that they will have to find another furry site to host it. There are plenty of sites that will cater to what you are looking for, it is just that you have to look for it.



I doubt it. If it is a minority, there will not be that much damage done to the site unless porn is "Banned" as a whole. Then you have something to worry about. :V

Well, I know plenty of people who indulge in feral porn (myself included), so this whole buisness has me worried. I just want Dragoneer to make a definitive comment on it so I can a.)stop worrying or b.) find a new site to frequent.

[Ben]

Haha, god dammit, of course my seriouspost ends up at the very bottom of a page. I have such great luck, it's amazing.

EDIT: Or I guess not. Deleted posts, woo woooo.

Kinda surprised that Furocity was the post FA's hitching itself to, though. Its only significance was "that thing Benchilla would never shut the fuck up about."

Thems fighting words, boy.

[Syntex]

I have adblock, noscript, etc

I legit don't care if feral porn gets banned.
I just don't see a reasonable explanation for drug art being banned. [if it's even in consideration]

I was just drawing reference, I see no reason for any other kind of fetish to get removed either.

[Ozriel]

You do realize that, while it may very well be true if people got to see what was really going on their criticism would be less strident, there is insistence on secrecy that makes sure people have no idea what's actually going on "behind the scenes." It's kinda funny hearing complaints that "if only people knew what it was really like" or "if only people would stop speculating about what they didn't know" or "if only people would stop trying to find out what was actually going on." If you fight against people knowing what's going on "behind the scenes." that's a choice to accept the consequences of speculation and not living up to "their standards" just as openness has its own consequences. Cry more. :V

Secrecy aside, it is true. It's not so much of a complaint, but it is true. If we didn't have that secrecy, people would either calm down a bit or bitch more because it is not what they asked for in the first place, or just bitch for the sake of bitching. Some have a hard-on for that.
So QQ MOAR and go back to your conspiracy theories, Bobby.

[Sekhmet_Pyralis]

The main questions,
Is Furaffinity gonna change alot? If so, what will happen? What is allowed? What if someone has the same name? Will ours change?

I THINK: We should not merge.

ALSO, If some fur went on vacation or something and came back, they would not know what happened because FA is gone. The name will be changed possibly. ~Shadow

Did you read the updated original post? Both sites are remaining independant.

[Night-san]

Not sure if want.

I've never been on Furocity, so I can't really give an educated opinion.

[Shikaro]

in my opinion no fetish should be removed, if we talk about that
but if they do, well, deal with it! im a feral/bestiality porn lover as long as its art, no real stuff, no breaking laws etc. but if they ban it well i'll deal with it and just look for it in another site.
in general not much will change really!

[Taasla]

Then I guess I'm just one of those people who know of adblockplus

But drug related art also has a big share amount as feral porn, so I don't know....Dragoneer stated that art is art, but cub art is cub art as well and it got removed.

Cub porn got removed because Alert Pay dropped FA for it. They didn't care about anything but cub art.

[Syntex]

in my opinion no fetish should be removed, if we talk about that
but if they do, well, deal with it! im a feral/bestiality porn lover as long as its art, no real stuff, no breaking laws etc. but if they ban it well i'll deal with it and just look for it in another site.
in general not much will change really!

I'm guessing the only true people would get angry and upset enough to leave and bad talk the site would be either

1) too lazy to look for other sites
2) Artists who used such porn to get their fame to where they are today, taking into consideration that if they couldn't upload it anymore, their account would grow dead, just like the cub porn artists.

[dineegla]

PLEASE NOTE:

We also have a legal entity called Furocity Gym. It is also online. We have no association with Furocity.com.

Just some clarification just in case someone may think that it's us.

Dineegla and MuscleWolf, owners of Furocity Gym

[Ben]

PLEASE NOTE:

We also have a legal entity called Furocity Gym. It is also online. We have no association with Furocity.com.

Just some clarification just in case someone may think that it's us.

Dineegla and MuscleWolf, owners of Furocity Gym

I don't think there was any confusion about that in this thread, but good to know I guess!

[74WolfRam]

dA is good if you like trojans n shit

Just curious...Dragoneer.. will you be making an announcement if/when you do decide to change the AUP to gather user support/votes/whatever?
Cause I for one, will be kinda irritated if the "no depictions of illegal activities" art rule gets put into place without consulting the users first, cause I think that will ban all marijuana-related art..
but if it does, meh.

..... They want to let Furocity admins/owner join FA...
I think it will benefit FA greatly.

You're free to think that.

[Enkai]

What about the fact that Furocity is full of art and character thieves?

[Dragoneer]

Also cheers for using the site-wide announcement thingie instead of Twitter~

I learned my lesson

[Xenke]

What about the fact that Furocity is full of art and character thieves?

Not relevant?

[Glaice]

PLEASE NOTE:

We also have a legal entity called Furocity Gym. It is also online. We have no association with Furocity.com.

Just some clarification just in case someone may think that it's us.

Dineegla and MuscleWolf, owners of Furocity Gym

You should change the domain name to prevent confusion then.

[Dragoneer]

in my opinion no fetish should be removed, if we talk about that
but if they do, well, deal with it! im a feral/bestiality porn lover as long as its art, no real stuff, no breaking laws etc. but if they ban it well i'll deal with it and just look for it in another site.
in general not much will change really!

As long as it's art... it will be protected as best we can.

[Verin Asper]

will this take months upon months with you constantly reminding us taht the merge gonna happen like...everything else :V

[Syntex]

Not relevant?

just what I was thinking.

[Clayton]

What about the fact that Furocity is full of art and character thieves?

Uhhh those are roleplayers and roleplayers are everywhere on every furry site. :\
If you see someone stealing art on FA... report them?

[Zercompf-Sanika]

You should change the domain name to prevent confusion then.

oh you're serious.



~ ~ ~ Can we make it clear somehow (without the PR garbage, 'neer) that this isn't a "merger" because that's the word people are freaking out about?

[HOOT]

I'm guessing the only true people would get angry and upset enough to leave and bad talk the site would be either

1) too lazy to look for other sites
2) Artists who used such porn to get their fame to where they are today, taking into consideration that if they couldn't upload it anymore, their account would grow dead, just like the cub porn artists.

Honestly, that's exactly why artist's need to be flexible. Drawing one thing of one topic can get you popular with one spectrum of people, but you could honestly do a lot better if you give your talent different situations to be drawn in :U.

On a side note, though, I do support and look forward to what can be/will be done when Furaffinity merges. More staff means less trouble and trouble can be quickly dealt with. And maybe they'll both collaborate to improve on fixing safety issues that may occur in the future.
I just hope that both owners are firm about this, and truly don't have their differences and should negotiate all of this (if they haven't already), including both of their rules, and keep us updated with their agreements and so forth. It would be really upsetting to see this called off if a disagreement on a subject comes at hand. I'm pretty sure that almost happened to United and Continental airlines xD.
But it may just be my curiosity of the happenings that got me a bit more excited about this than most. :P

[FennyK]

As long as it's art... it will be protected as best we can.

As best as you can? Its shit like that that worries me. This is your site, why bother changing anything to the AUP because of Furocity?

[Dragoneer]

will this take months upon months with you constantly reminding us taht the merge gonna happen like...everything else :V

Nope. You'll be seeing changes within the month. Maybe not cosmetic, but staffing wise. Other changes will take longer to enact, but we're pushing forward with this as of today.