What's This?

[Crazy Lee]

Heh. Every time I see Quoting Mungo as a mod over at FA....

I met her years and years ago... probably almost a decade. I don't remember much except that I thought she was a bitch back then... don't know why, that's just how I remember her. Probably still is.

Considering how good Dragoneer is at picking staff, this does not surprise me.

[Ieono]

*Sigh*

With everything that has happened there, and how it is still being poorly-handled, I do believe that the people of FAF and FA have created themselves a "perpetual drama-machine". 

Edited February 27, 2016 by Ieono

[Nova]

On 25.2.2016 at 10:31 PM, WolfNightV4X1 said:

 

LOL

 

I have never ever in all my time received action from a mod.

 

...I mean this was a true statement honestly why cant the mods handle the truth? The truth is being censored

 

FAF is completing the prophecy of becoming a hugbox

OH ROOD

NOBODY IS ALLOWED TO REPORT WOLFNIGHT SENPAI.

[fennecbyte]

It's funny how they blame their fuckups on the service that makes it extremely easy and cheap for them to use SSL.
Then people who don't know how this works believe them and attempt to defend FA's image.
Seriously, the top result for a Google search regarding the issue is this.
How can you fuck up so badly when you are told exactly what to do?

Edited February 27, 2016 by george99g

[Sidewalk Surfboard]

Jesus christ FAF is even worse than before

[ArielMT]

33 minutes ago, Sidewalk Surfboard said:

Jesus christ FAF is even worse than before

Using autism as an insult is a little ableist, but the warning seems rather hypocritical coming from a mod with "crazy cat lady alert" in their signature.

[Nordo]

1 hour ago, Sidewalk Surfboard said:

Jesus christ FAF is even worse than before

I guess they really can't handle the truth. But then, that's the root of all the drama isn't it?

[Crazy Lee]

On 2/23/2016 at 8:40 AM, PastryOfApathy said:

But I am enjoying it.

Gay

 

5 hours ago, Sidewalk Surfboard said:

Jesus christ FAF is even worse than before

 

Exactly what I expected. See what I said about Mongo in the previous page.

[KingGigabyte]

On 2/26/2016 at 11:36 AM, Shiekra Tora said:

Pretty much. I posted 2 things that got auto removed by Asia Neko. One was removed for "Please do not discuss administrative disputes on the forums"

And the other was.. well here's what I posted. 
 

And the reason from Asia Neko was, and I'm not even joking "Please do not discuss content of this nature on our site. It is disruptive and erroneous. This does not follow our rules. Your message may have been removed or altered."

Typical FA logic for ya there

[Zeke]

On 2/27/2016 at 4:31 PM, Sidewalk Surfboard said:

Jesus christ FAF is even worse than before

Abelist language yeah, but I do not see it warning/infraction worthy.

On 2/26/2016 at 2:18 PM, Shiekra Tora said:

BUT! And I posted this in the other thread, so sorry if that's not ok, THIS is allowed. https://forums.furaffinity.net/threads/why-are-you-gay.1526325/

Brb reporting that for homophobia. :V

[LazerMaster5]

And FAF's user count is on the decline. I guess people got bored, with lack of Forum Games or Rants & Raves to keep them busy. 

[Endless/Nameless]

New FAF has been fucking boring; that is, unless you're into disscussing beastiality and debating the validity of furry porn. This here is the best thread I've seen in days:

Yup, Phoenix is the place to be. 

EDIT: Apparently this is actually an old thread that's been recently revived... Goddammit, what a ghost town.

Edited March 1, 2016 by Endless/Nameless

[Vae]

Oh hey, I see a me.

Lol at that person for not understanding the individual components of a contraction.

[#00Buck]

Wow.

That place is sad.

I mean when you consider Sidewalk Surfboard to be a danger to the community?!?

Really WTF?

[Shiekra Tora]

Well this just happened.

[ArielMT]

1 hour ago, Shiekra Tora said:

Well this just happened.

Because of course in two weeks this'll all be forgotten.

What I'm reading from the rules cited (which are basically all-new since I was a site admin in '11):

• If you think an admin is overstepping, say so, but don't you dare go over that admin's head to say so.
• If there's a problem, file a trouble ticket, but don't you dare file a trouble ticket because the resolution was basically "RESOLVED: WONTFIX".
• Don't tell the truth about absurdly long ticket wait times because tickets are never answered in the order they were received (true, and I was just as guilty of this), except in a ticket that will go invisible to users and ignored by admins for years.
• Effigies of political celebrities (within the context of website/service politics) is lese mageste.
• We hope you didn't log in with another account before discovering that this one was banned for two weeks, because if you did: Permabanned! Talk to the hand!

[Shiekra Tora]

14 minutes ago, ArielMT said:

Because of course in two weeks this'll all be forgotten.

What I'm reading from the rules cited (which are basically all-new since I was a site admin in '11):

• If you think an admin is overstepping, say so, but don't you dare go over that admin's head to say so.
• If there's a problem, file a trouble ticket, but don't you dare file a trouble ticket because the resolution was basically "RESOLVED: WONTFIX".
• Don't tell the truth about absurdly long ticket wait times because tickets are never answered in the order they were received (true, and I was just as guilty of this), except in a ticket that will go invisible to users and ignored by admins for years.
• Effigies of political celebrities (within the context of website/service politics) is lese mageste.
• We hope you didn't log in with another account before discovering that this one was banned for two weeks, because if you did: Permabanned! Talk to the hand!

This is part of what got me banned

[ArielMT]

11 minutes ago, Shiekra Tora said:

This is part of what got me banned

The loosest, most draconian interpretation I can think of for breaking Section 1.5 and the Section 1 Preamble of the Code of Conduct. Also, yup, that av is definitely unwritten lese mageste on FA.

[PastryOfApathy]

Wait are you telling me FA and it's mod's are acting like a bunch of stupid cunts who play fast and loose with the rules whenever it suits them?

That's so unlike them!

[Sidewalk Surfboard]

I can't believe that FAF is even worse than it was before. That's got to be a new record.

[ArielMT]

1 hour ago, Saxon said:

I don't understand why some people are continually manufacturing drama...apparently about content on reddit?

Not just Reddit.  Not only is posting snapshots of confidential staff logs (under the auspices of private personal chats instead of confidential official debates) expressly prohibited by FA rules, but so is linking to them.  The unwritten rule now being enforced is that linking to anything that links to them, regardless of however many degrees removed or how much discussion and editorializing is in between, is also forbidden.

1 hour ago, Shiekra Tora said:

This is part of what got me banned

Weren't you posting links to Flayrah as well as Reddit?

Edited March 2, 2016 by ArielMT

[willow]

1 hour ago, Saxon said:

I don't understand why some people are continually manufacturing drama...apparently about content on reddit?

the journal that Renashe posted when she was first terminated/suspended is on Reddit and a few other sites. as Ariel's already stated, even if you remove any of the incriminating links, it's still a violation of FA's code of conduct. hell, I think even posting Silver Eagle's videos are against code of conduct and there's no links in that either.

now the question that spurred this was that we wanted to know exactly what part of the code of conduct was in violation, because all Mungo did was cite a part of the code of conduct which relates to phishing, which isn't the same as posting a journal about your own experiences. she was called out on it and this was her response "It may not violate COC 1.2, but it violates other policies."

other policies which I honestly can't find. the closest I guess I could get is the plain English definition of no phishing which just says "Don't violate other user's right to privacy" which is vague enough to be used however they want

[willow]

31 minutes ago, Saxon said:

Obviously don't discuss drama on FA like a moron?

Let the staff concentrate on getting rid of the cub porn trouble tickets, rather than responding to smart-ass comments. 

no one was though, that's the thing 

my response was essentially asking Mungo the same question, "what policy does this violate?". because saying it violates some other policy but not citing which one is really unprofessional and highly suspicious 

the bottom part is more relevant than the top 

[Shiekra Tora]

56 minutes ago, ArielMT said:

Not just Reddit.  Not only is posting snapshots of confidential staff logs (under the auspices of private personal chats instead of confidential official debates) expressly prohibited by FA rules, but so is linking to them.  The unwritten rule now being enforced is that linking to anything that links to them, regardless of however many degrees removed or how much discussion and editorializing is in between, is also forbidden.

Weren't you posting links to Flayrah as well as Reddit?

For my initial ban, yes. I did post the Flayrah link and the full text of Ren's journal. They only requested I stop posting the link to Flayrah, and said nothing about the journal. I didn't post the link.

 

41 minutes ago, Saxon said:

Obviously don't discuss drama on FA like a moron?

Let the staff concentrate on getting rid of the cub porn trouble tickets, rather than responding to smart-ass comments. 

I don't think calling out the fact that the Administrative team is corrupt and didn't give proper reasoning to WHY the forums were gone for 6+ months, is censoring anyone who speaks out against them or proves them wrong and has gone so far as to ban/suspend people for publicly requesting clarification on the ToS/CoC qualifies as "drama." 

[Pignog]

when will phoenix get posting trophies

i demand answers mods

[Onnes]

1 minute ago, Pignog said:

when will phoenix get posting trophies

i demand answers mods

Aren't those just called Warning Points here?

[willow]

19 minutes ago, Pignog said:

when will phoenix get posting trophies

i demand answers mods

the best reward we can give is the friends we all made along the way up to this point. and that's better than any internet trophy we could create :V

[Endless/Nameless]

The hilarious thing is that they make such a huge fuss over this stuff, and yet they didn't bat an eye at the wonderful "Cooking With Semen" thread. (I believe it's been removed now but it stayed up unscathed for quite a while) They really got their priorities straight over there. 

[Crazy Lee]

Sounds like Mungo needs a candygram :V

[Pignog]

2 hours ago, willow said:

the best reward we can give is the friends we all made along the way up to this point. and that's better than any internet trophy we could create :V

so tru......... ;__;

[#00Buck]

3 hours ago, willow said:

the best reward we can give is the friends we all made along the way up to this point. and that's better than any internet trophy we could create :V

Someone made friends? 

[PastryOfApathy]

5 hours ago, Pignog said:

when will phoenix get posting trophies

i demand answers mods

Don't worry I got you guys covered.

Definition of Insanity: Seriously reply to a Rassah thread 50 times.

Crawling in My Fur: Make a thread about how horrifically depressed you are.

Fighting the Good Fight: Send a death threat to a mod over forum drama.

Fifty Shades of Why: Casually talk about your fetishes in gross detail.

We can always add some trophy DLC later.

[#00Buck]

3 minutes ago, PastryOfApathy said:

Don't worry I got you guys covered.

Definition of Insanity: Seriously reply to a Rassah thread 50 times.

Crawling in My Fur: Make a thread about how horrifically depressed you are.

Fighting the Good Fight: Send a death threat to a mod over forum drama.

Fifty Shades of Why: Casually talk about your fetishes in gross detail.

We can always add some trophy DLC later.

What?

No diaper achievement?

Gotta have something for people who are "poo curious."

[Valery91Thunder]

Meanwhile the mainsite is down, the last Site Status message on the forums dates back to 2015, and the only thread concerning this issue iiissss this: http://forums.furaffinity.net/threads/why-is-the-site-down-this-time.1526665/

They aren't even trying to inform the users.

(EDIT: They added one now, convenient :V )

 

And this is a minor thing, but they still haven't found a way to make moving GIF avatars work since they've put up the site, as you can see from Neer's one.
They forced me to choose a PNG! I haven't changed my forum avi since 2011! >:C

Edited March 3, 2016 by Valery91Thunder

[Valery91Thunder]

18 minutes ago, 6tails said:

Yup, new site update and down.

This is what is known as Pink Sombrero coding: Applying untested updates to a live production system.

Pink Sombrero coders piss me off to no end.

I'm curious as to what episode caused this kind of coding to be called Pink Sombrero in the first place.

[ArielMT]

21 minutes ago, Valery91Thunder said:

I'm curious as to what episode caused this kind of coding to be called Pink Sombrero in the first place.

Cowboy coding.

[Valery91Thunder]

1 hour ago, ArielMT said:

Cowboy coding.

That's disappointing, I was hoping that the name came from, like, a famous website disaster linked to a company for candy-coloured headwear. :C

[Xaende]

Why can't I hold all these dramas?

[LazerMaster5]

1 hour ago, 6tails said:

12:48 AM - 3 Mar 2016 - We're investigating the site outage.
01:49 AM - 3 Mar 2016 - We've identified the cause, and are working to get the site up ASAP.
06:37 AM - 3 Mar 2016 - We ran into an issue while doing a server migration, moving data to a new system. We're in the process of upgrading FA's main storage server.
06:39 AM - 3 Mar 2016 - We encountered issues on the old system and the server became unresponsive. We're working on verifying data, bringing the site up (30-60m).
06:41 AM - 3 Mar 2016 - No data was lost, and all files are intact. We're terribly sorry for the inconvenience.

Upgrading the storage server? Do you fucktards not know how to install hot-swap hard drives or what? Should've been ZERO reason for a system to go down for a goddamned space upgrade. Hot-swap and disk management technology to do such has been around WELL OVER A DECADE.

Well, Dragoneer isn't exactly the brightest.

[ArielMT]

2 hours ago, LazerMaster5 said:

Well, Dragoneer isn't exactly the brightest.

He's also unable to attract and retain the brightest help, which is probably more important.

[Zeke]

2 hours ago, LazerMaster5 said:

Well, Dragoneer isn't exactly the brightest.

Nor the most motivated. He has a bad habit of nepotism and the other staffers can be a bit cliquish. Some of the staffers refuse to take the opinions of other staffers outside of their inner circle, as proven with Renashae and a few others, unless the person within that inner circle has offered up the same opinion. There are others that need to learn how to stop being so stingy with certain job tasks and learn how to work well with others if it means progress can happen. 

 

[#00Buck]

1 hour ago, Zeke said:

Nor the most motivated. He has a bad habit of nepotism and the other staffers can be a bit cliquish. Some of the staffers refuse to take the opinions of other staffers outside of their inner circle, as proven with Renashae and a few others, unless the person within that inner circle has offered up the same opinion. There are others that need to learn how to stop being so stingy with certain job tasks and learn how to work well with others if it means progress can happen. 

 

At this point isn't it better if there is no progress?

Then the old site can die and everyone can be happier somewhere else. 

[Zeke]

26 minutes ago, #00Buck said:

At this point isn't it better if there is no progress?

Then the old site can die and everyone can be happier somewhere else. 

Ideally, yes. 

 

[PastryOfApathy]

35 minutes ago, #00Buck said:

At this point isn't it better if there is no progress?

Then the old site can die and everyone can be happier somewhere else. 

FA is already dead. We are simply just skullfucking its corpse.

[Zeke]

13 minutes ago, PastryOfApathy said:

FA is already dead. We are simply just skullfucking its corpse.

Without using a condom. The lube is just the blood and tears from over-dramatic furries and staff. 

[#00Buck]

3 minutes ago, Zeke said:

Without using a condom. The lube is just the blood and tears from over-dramatic furries and staff. 

Eww. With all the rumours of dog effing you could catch rabies. 

[Nova]

39 minutes ago, PastryOfApathy said:

FA is already dead. We are simply just skullfucking its corpse.

Plus it has aids

[#00Buck]

58 minutes ago, Nova said:

Plus it has aids

That's harsh coming from you. 

[Endless/Nameless]

Somebody's been spamming FAF all day with ads for a fake ID service.

 

So far he has 7 separate threads across several subforms. He has been posting these for 10 hours; a report was supposedly filed 5 hours ago. He is still posting.

They have such great moderation

Time to move

[#00Buck]

29 minutes ago, Endless/Nameless said:

Somebody's been spamming FAF all day with ads for a fake ID service.

 

So far he has 7 separate threads across several subforms. He has been posting these for 10 hours; a report was supposedly filed 5 hours ago. He is still posting.

They have such great moderation

Time to move

Money Seeking Necro Beagle from a server in China?