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silverpetdragon

Letter to FA Admins

Sent to several high FA admins
Greetings!

    This is just a friendly notice that due to infractions on behalf of FA, their staff, and their Terms of Service which lack clarity, your Fursona has been made in 3D.  It will now be used in art at the creators convenience in manners, situations, and details with the same disregard and disrespect that has been given to the creator and their gallery.  The resulting art is in no way, shape, or form any representation of any real life intent, nor will it even be in regards to the same.  These are just fan arts with your character in situations you will have no say in.

    The infracting rule as you likely know is in regards to your ToS 2.5 rule.

"Content that was not made explicitly by you that is used as part of your submission (such as free-to-use lineart, backgrounds, or royalty-free content) must cite its original source and be used with permission from the copyright holder."

    Do note how there is no mention in writing for everyone of the following:
1.  How it should be cited
2.  Where it should be cited
3.  What constitutes a proper citing
or another part:
4.  If an artist made their own models or morphed them, how are they to cite them?

    All of the supposed facts about clarity are just implied rules and not stated facts for everyone directly in the Terms of Service.

It also should be noted that not everyone has to follow the rules in regards to this, although they supposedly should.  Such examples are:
Fursat - http://www.furaffinity.net/user/fursat  (posting uncited 3D work)
nosmoke - http://www.furaffinity.net/user/nosmoke/ (posting Secondlife screenshots with content not directly made by them)
Attack1942 - http://www.furaffinity.net/user/attack1942/ (uncited where models came from)
bushprit - http://www.furaffinity.net/user/bushprit/ (uncited 3d models)
Glitchfluxthewolf - http://www.furaffinity.net/user/glitchfluxthewolf/ (Gary's Mod screenshots)
mrdeviant92 - http://www.furaffinity.net/user/mrdeviant92/ (Uncited Gary's Mod screenshots / animations)


    Excluding the Krystal Fox and Renamon models, all of the other models are impossible to be morphed from any base models currently available in any Poser series that was in my gallery.  It was therefore assumed with no factual evidence that they were copywritten or otherwise stolen from others.

    I have tried working with Chase, AsiaNeko, and was ignored by Dragoneer to explain my case but they were hearing none of it and could only focus on making sure they made an example out of me.  I therefore was forced to make Fender, Dragoneer, Chase, and AsiaNeko's models and will do as I see fit with them, with or without permission.  I have nothing more to lose on this website and will make sure to make an equal example out of it, as they have with me.

    FurAffinity has done this to themselves and has made the fandom look bad with their pick and choose ignorance to the point where many upcomming furries are ashamed they would even consider pursuing their fandom careers.  FurAffinity is also now the laughing stock of NMSU-A campus because of their Terms of Service, which has caused far more strife than should ever have been considered.  As mentioned, if this is how the Fandom wants to also be known as, then so be it.  It is not bad enough the world thinks us as perverted, child molesting nerds with a craze for beastiality sex and sexual deviations - let us add more ammunition for the world to throw at us;  arrogance, ignorance,  pick and choose draconian, and hypocricy.

It has been a fun run on FA and I thank you for your time.  I know this letter will be thrown aside as "someone just raging" and I know FA won't change, but I am treating the administrators with the same due respect they did with me and warning them about my intentions and giving them a chance to change their policies; even though it is futile.

Thank you, and have a nice day.
SilverPetDragon

P.S.  I have left QuotingMungo out of this as they did not have any part of this dealing to my knowledge.
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Added: 8 years, 7 months ago
 
Gumbah
8 years, 7 months ago
Wow well said.....but like you said they will ignore it sadly
silverpetdragon
8 years, 7 months ago
it's sad, very much so.  they are in the wrong, but have their heads too far up their own asses to see it.

I think the word for that is called arrogant.  "they are right because they say so."  not so much "they are right because their stuff is infallable." even though they want it to be.  I will be posting the art I make of them on here.
Gumbah
8 years, 7 months ago
I'm assuming all the stuff you have done in the past will be lame compaired to what you're going to do to "them" lol
silverpetdragon
8 years, 7 months ago
they have earned the spot in the deepest, darkest areas of my psyche.  the only hope for them to come out is to admit they are sorry they weren't more clear and adjust their rules.  that's all.

just a little bit of humble pie for them is all I ask.  but knowing their egos, they won't do that.  still.  if they admit they are wrong, I'll take them out of their confines in my head.

Gumbah
8 years, 7 months ago
Those poor 3D models of them.  Gets popcorn
silverpetdragon
8 years, 7 months ago
I got a dumb truck that produces popcorn.  although we might need a blimp to bring in all the kernels we will need.
ezalias
8 years, 7 months ago
They really are terrible administrators. It'd be merely annoying if they were strict, but the fact they're inconsistent, ambiguous, and just plain dickish earns them two middle fingers from a lot of users who might otherwise sing their praises.

Like, it's not enough to delete cub art that's been up for years. They make artists go through and censor themselves - knowing if they underdo it, there will be punishment for perceived disobedience. And spamming the same "hey I'm streaming" sketch every single goddamn day is hunky-dory, either because there's only one version up at a time, or because the turnaround for abuse reports is half a year. But if you try to post a cropped thumbnail and link to art the site won't host, that's instantly verboten, even if you remove the link... despite the absence of any rule against cropped artwork, or against links to your other galleries.

They're stupid assholes. There's no other way to approach them. They're vindicative, incompetent, and petty, and at their very very best, they're still worse than Inkbunny's staff at their very worst.
silverpetdragon
8 years, 7 months ago
and they wonder why furries have bad names.  the admins on FA know that people will flock to FA all the time, purely because it has "fur" and "affinity" on it, and people mentally process that as "hey I'm a furry, I have a fur affinity"  and thus they don't care.

ooh well, I'll have fun making torture arts.  they still brought this to themselves, even disregarding reasoning.
PrysmTKitsune
8 years, 7 months ago
i had partway honestly hoped that after FA was bought out the new owners would realize how stupid the curent admins are andtoss them to the curb but it looks like IMVU only sees FA as a source for add rev and doesnt acutaly care what goes on in it
silverpetdragon
8 years, 7 months ago
that's true in most businesses.  nevermind it looks bad on their parts.
azraelmattfox
8 years, 6 months ago
if only i had the money i could send my friend after furaffinity and get their asses straight. too bad i am dirt poor.
well i guess i can wait a few years to earn my money and get them straight.
silverpetdragon
8 years, 6 months ago
well at I think 100,000 users they are required by some law to become a publicly traded company.  and it wouldn't be FA you'd want to go after, it would be IMVU you'd want to go after and make them straighten out FA.
LITTLEFisky
8 years, 3 months ago
I can't find 2.5 in ToS
silverpetdragon
8 years, 3 months ago
actually just for you Fisky, I went back to the FA website.  what you're looking for is here:

http://www.furaffinity.net/aup

it looks like they DID update it to say (since many people probably threw a huge stink over their ineptitude)

Added:
"All permissions and copyright holders must be cited in the content�s description."

now, had they included THAT part, and that part alone, I'd have had no case, but at the time that they wiped the whole gallery of mine off of there - including pictures that did not offend this rule, that part was NOT included and no one could tell me the correct location.

still, fk them.  it's a rubbish site that's being loaded with spam advertisements no one cares about.
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