Difference between revisions of "Talk:Fur Affinity"

Revision as of 19:57, 31 August 2008

As discussed a while back by Green Reaper, internal redirects to Wikifur would be under "See also," while external ones (Like to the Wikipedia website,) would be set under "External Links." Has this been changed recently?. Spirou 22:35, 3 Dec 2005 (UTC)

I changed it to 'See Also' because it deals with the same subject, albeit on another site - but you're probably right - it is an external link after all. Though, I should mention that I have seen quite a few other articles here at WikiFur that enlists its wikipedian counterpart under 'See Also' instead of 'External Links', so I've got no clue as for what's really the correct way to do this. :) --MKerris 22:54, 3 Dec 2005 (UTC)

Funnily enough, I've just been writing the Furry Book of Style for this exact purpose, and others like it. My view is actually that links to Wikipeida and other wikis should be in See also, as they are essentially the same as other article links, just on a different wiki site. Likewise, I typically put links from Wikipedia to WikiFur in these sections - I've seen this done in the past for links to WikiWikiWeb and Meatball. --GreenReaper^(talk) 00:18, 4 Dec 2005 (UTC)

Alright then. Will need to change a couple of my own entries then. Spirou 00:21, 4 Dec 2005 (UTC)

Regarding the removal of Corrosive

Regarding the removal of Corrosive from the article, I noticed that it's impossible to verify who the admins of FurAffinity really are. There are no obvious links on the website, and bth the "Account" and "Help Desk" link are 404 at this time. --Dmuth 23:45, 8 Jan 2006 (UTC)

I made the edit (forgot to log in). As one of the admins and communitiy representatives of the site, I can assure you personally that Corrosive is not an admin. And that's all there is to it.

--Preyfar

Fur Affinity URL edit

Oh man. I need not edit anything when deprived of two days of sleep (while stuck at work on nightshift no less). =| I can't beleive I made such as stupid error. HA! I am such a plebe! Thanks for the fix, Green. Red Bull only keeps me going so long. =P --Preyfar 07:00, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

No problem. Just remember that Red Bull may give you wings, but that doesn't mean you're qualified to fly quite that long. ;-) --GreenReaper^(talk) 11:02, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Staff listing

JSharp - Did a little checking: Fur Affinity's Staff Page. Uncia's listed as a moderator. --DataBank 03:51, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Hmm. This is twice that Damaratus has been moved back to admins, but the staff page says Moderator. I get the idea one page or the other is in error... question is which one? --DataBank 16:21, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

I recently promoted Damaratus to the status of administrator but as have not yet had a chance to update the staff roster on the site. If you need proof you can check the promotion statement here. --Preyfar 19:55, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Protected and artist listings

Why is this article locked? It's not drama to report the facts, whither or not it's liked. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Honeymane (talk • contribs) .

I will try to make this brief, but I'm not so sure how brief it will be. For that, I apologize in advance.

The intent behind adding a list of users who are leaving FurAffinity is moot, and does not have any worthwhile informational value behind it. The fact that numerous people plan on or have left FurAffinity is not relevant to FurAffinity's history. That is relevant to the individual's history. If one wishes to write in the individual's article, "In 2006, [he/she] left FurAffinity," that is fine, because it is relevant to the individual. However, the fact that they left the FA community is not relevant to FA's global history.

What I will contest is relevant, however, is that this had become such a scandal to the FurAffinity community, and thus, deserves historical notation. (I understand how pretentious it is to say "historical notation" on a Wiki, but you get my point :) So, I have decided to protect this article to prevent others from adding in this information, since the influx of people adding things to the Wiki will be great, I'm sure.

I know I don't come around here very often to flex my administrative muscle, but seeing this drama explode and expand onto other places is just too much. I'd like to nip it in the bud where I can. Verix 06:27, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

I've unprotected this article (before seeing this, I might add). People should be free to add and remove sections as they see fit. If there is a disagreement here over whether or not there should be a list of people leaving, they should argue that here and get consensus from WikiFur editors first.

Protection is appropriate in cases of vandalism. This is not, it is a disagreement on content. I appreciate your motives, verix, and I agree with your view in part, but I would ask you not to use your administrative powers to preserve your point of view. Contest it all you like, but on an equal footing. --GreenReaper^(talk) 06:35, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

You've a point. However, I'd like to warn you that I believe there's going to be a rather large influx of edit battles soon to arise out of all of this-- people adding the list, deleting it, back and fourth, etc.-- so I admit I jumped the gun and protected it before I believed it got started. The polarization of FurAffinity is certainly causing its current drama to expand to other parts.

I agree with you, GreenReaper, and apologize for jumping the gun (and, essentially, using my own logic before consensus). But, again, I feel I must warn you that a rather large edit battle may arise, and we may have to protect the article again. Verix 06:38, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

It's not the first time we've had such things happen. What normally happens is there's lots of adding (and some removing), then a few days later people get bored, and then a week or so later someone comes around and cleans up, and we end up with an article with more useful information than we started with.

My personal view is that numerous people leaving Fur Affinity over this decision is worth mentioning, but that it's not particularly relevant who the artists are, except for those of particular prominence in the fandom. We could say something like "around 50 artists left over the new policy, including X and Y".

For reference, I was looking at Wikipedia's protection policy when unprotecting, which is quite clear on people not using protection to enforce a particular edit they made. Of course, we're not Wikipedia, but I think it's good advice in general. --GreenReaper^(talk) 06:48, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Yep. Again, I agree, the list is irrelevant, which is why I deleted it, but also agree that the statistic of people leaving is relevant as well. It was overkill to protect it. (Most of this is just reiterating what you've said already, but I'd still just like to make my point clear.)

Hopefully, though, this will be the catalyst to bring me back to this thing so I can actually do my job as an admin, instead of just doing what I did here tonight when I find it relevant. Sorry for the knee-jerk. I'll make sure not to let it happen again. :) Verix 06:53, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

where should the list be posted? here? it maybe useful because alot of artist proflies are going to be in need of editting. and I forgot to sign again--142.177.139.173 07:01, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Quite frankly, I'm not sure. Perhaps in an article dedicated to the actual event itself? (Although, in that regard, I'm not sure if the event even deserves it's own article. Perhaps it does, though, since its informative reach has even gone to the likes of Encyclopedia Dramatica.) I just don't really see a point to maintaining a list of artists who've left, since the intent seems more to document a counter-offensive and make a mountain out a molehill, rather than inform. But on my judgement, if one were to post the list of artists who left, it'd certainly be in an article about the situation itself, rather than the site. Verix 07:06, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

I would agree that a list of the artists that have left would be overkill; I think the article would be better off with a notation of how many people have left, with maybe one or two "big guns" mentioned. I don't think the situation merits its own entry; it's pretty much confined to Fur Affinity itself. Carl Fox 08:24, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

But really, how would you get those numbers with any sort of accuracy? How many artists have declared their intent to leave but never actually did. How many artists left the site quietly? There is no way to really get an accurate number which would be more speculation, especially if those artists decided to comeback after cooling down from their initial reaction.

I understand your reasoning, but there's just no way to have solid numbers -- and even as lead admin for FA, I don't have those numbers on hand. There are too many variables to consider, and even if I did have them I would not release them because all they would do is further the drama. At some point, the drama needs to stop, people need to let go and move on.--Preyfar 09:12, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

What we would like to do would be to quote a source which had done that research, and let the reader decide how accurate it was, based on the evidence they gave (which would probably include the names of those people they claimed to have left). For example, "A post on Place X stating that Y artists had left the site, including A and B". If there is no source, of course, no exact figure could be given. Even rough figures would be useful - after all, there's a big difference between 5, 50 or 500 artists leaving. And no, I wouldn't expect you to be able to furnish such a list, or desire to do so - it would be something that one of the artists would do, if they bothered to (that they'd done at all it might be some indication of relevance in itself). --GreenReaper^(talk) 09:25, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

It is difficult of course to do such a thing, but I am trying to compose a list of artists who have left based on FA jounral's they've posted.

I attepted to leave a request on the FA LJ ask for anyone with information to post the artist's names, as I would assume that the majority of the people on there would have FA accounts and be watching people, and have prehaps seen other journals of people I do not watch, which state they are leaving/have left. However, I was told that such questions where too dramaic and was revolked from that Community. --142.177.139.173 22:27, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

There is the question of what constitutes an artist leaving. Some have taken all their artwork down, others are leaving it up but won't be uploading anything new (and they could be subdivided into those who will still be checking in and those who won't). Some are leaving temporarily until filters are in place. And some are taking time out to see what happens and then decide whether to return or leave for good.

Possibly relevant is that some users were still upset over a database upgrade about two weeks ago that caused all private mail messages to be lost. For many it was no big deal, but some users had important information about trades, commissions, etc., that was lost as a result. While not really related to the cub issue, it may have contributed to some user's overall impression of dissatisfaction with FA. --mwalimu 22:53, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

An excellent point--Honeymane 01:52, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

The issue of when the cub problems were brought up have occurred numerous times, starting well before August of 2006. The original issue exploded in the first iteration of Fur Affinity, brought up by myself, which originally lead to 8horns being banned and causing the cub rule to enter the TOS in the first place. It has been an ongoing issue on FA, and was started along with the site's birth, well before August 2006.

It's been debated off and on with no clear resolution since I joined FA in mid-2005.--Preyfar 09:09, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Probably why it was so painful now. It's bad enough deciding things when a site is young. I've made what seemed to be appropriate changes to me, characterizing it as an ongoing discussion that restarted with no resolution. --GreenReaper^(talk) 09:28, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

That fits much better. This is going to be an ongoing issue not merely with Fur Affinity, but the fandom as a whole. Where do the limits end and begin for freedom of speech, the fandom's image and the sexual nature that lurks behind (and in front) of the scenes? I don't like the change we made, but it was the only one I feel I could make. It's hard to tell where to draw the line when the fandom's proverbial "line" has been pushed so far back it's impossible to tell where it is anymore.--Preyfar 11:35, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

With regard to Fur Affinity, I don't see that any other choice was consistent with the site's initial promotion. If art of any rating depicting just about anything is allowed, then it becomes hard to justify being picky about a particular topic.

As for image, I think it's possible to worry too much about it. The people that matter will either get into the fandom or not, but only if they hear about it at all first. Plenty do so through things like CSI, and I don't see that as a bad thing, even if the portrayal is inaccurate. It's unfortunate when (e.g.) a hotel uses that kind of work as a reason not to continue a contract, but as we've seen with Anthrocon there is no guarantee of hotel stability even if you do try to run the cleanest of ships.

Personally, I dislike lines. They tend to divide people. The furry fandom is big enough that there are places you can go if you like X and other places to go if you don't like X. There is no real need for the fandom as a whole to take a stand on any particular issue. The whole reason there are different stands is that different segments of the fandom have different views, and you can't just cut a segment out of the pie and keep calling it the whole pie. Just pick out the mushrooms if you don't like 'em. --GreenReaper^(talk) 17:40, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Mascots

The Mascots section of this article has significant overlap with the articel on Fender. I think trimming the mascots section to a line that Fur Affinity has two mascots, Fender (since date) a such and such, and Rednef (since date) a such and such, would work well. Thoughts? -- Sine 19:37, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

Move Rednef to her article, the same as Fender, move their images and information out from this article to the new/existing ones, condensed "Mascot" section to the necessary amount of data?. Sounds reasonable Spirou 23:23, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

24-Jul-07 outage

((unverified claims follow, here for the record only)) Alkora Husky, the owner of FA domain name, attempted to sell it Dragoneer for $8000 even though Alkora only owns the domain and not any of the content on the site. Dragoneer got upset and removed Alkora from the admins; in retaliation, Alkora requested the site's hosting provider to pull the plug. As of Jul 25, the site is up and running normally. -- Wesha 18:16, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

See Fur Affinity access disrupted amid ownership dispute. --GreenReaper^(talk) 20:13, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

2008 Outage

The section of this article discussing the 2008 Outage resembled an out-of-date news article more than an unbiased, basic presentation of facts, and I have pared it down as such. Who users PMed during the down time, what kind of issues FA had with buying the equipment, what the error message looked like etc are trivial details that are considerably "not encyclopedic". I have left a few of these details to avoid being labeled a vandal, but IMHO it could use some more whittling. 128.196.204.224 23:29, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

In addition to this, I modified the "site run from/to" section. The site had a hardware failure, yes, but that did not shut down the entire community as the previous edit implies. The FA community exists beyond more than just the main site, and as such, this is simply misleading FUD.

--Preyfar 23:57, 31 August 2008 (UTC)