Seriously, Toris? I'd rather ask what the point of this thread is. It's, as Alley pointed out, again shoving that topic down peoples throats that likely didn't want to hear about it. At least the thread-title warns, so people can stay away. We've heard your arguments over and over again and the community came to the conclusion that we'd not want Furries to be part of this universe. It's a simple decision you'll have to accept and there's no reason whatsoever to keep showing your arguments under the disguise of "not wanting to change decisions". Yes, it's okay, nice wall of text you have there. Please keep it to yourself. What you wish to achieve besides bringing this topic up -again-?
And what's next? Ponies, Arachnoids and Insects, a flying space-amoeba? It's all nice and fine for various other universes, but not the Freelancer one.
To be quite frank, some of the biggest reasons as to why animal-anthropomorphic beings or 'furries' haven't been accepted can be condensed into:
1.) Like Gallia, the execution of their introduction into Discovery was... less than well-thought-out. Most of them were either scientific-experiments-gone-wrong, or beings that came from out-of-the-blue. Many, if not most or all of them, were somewhat mary-sue-ish in their backgrounds, and nobody really wants to RP with mary sues.
Had the furry disco-members at the time, say, banded together to create an entire SRP planetary sector dedicated to the emergence of anthropomorphic beings, as an example, the community may have been more accepting of them and slowly get used to them as time goes on, instead of the Deus-ex machina mary-sue characters that made a bad name for furries here.
2.) Most of the hate stems not from iRP, but OORP drama and disgust. Human societies, as a whole, are usually averse to things that they consider 'abnormal', and furries are no exception. People that see something they're uncomfortable with aren't usually willing to try to understand them in a positive light, and would rather call them 'witches with curses' and proceed to 'stab them with pitchforks and burn them in pyres'.
In this case, the people who were accepting of furries at the time were drowned out by the very LOUD minorities who HATED furries to the core. This hatred, like toxin, spread throughout the community, until even the accepting ones were convinced that furries were indeed the bane of Discovery.
To be honest, I don't really mind if furries would, iRP, be banned from many, if not all of the houses, and be given Xeno-status, but it's when the players themselves attack the furry-RPers directly that then creates a lot of friction and drama. That's what I don't like. They're still beings with feelings too.
(01-31-2017, 01:32 PM)Mr.Fabulous Wrote: ...
In this case, the people who were accepting of furries at the time were drowned out by the very LOUD minorities who HATED furries to the core. This hatred, like toxin, spread throughout the community, until even the accepting ones were convinced that furries were indeed the bane of Discovery.
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Don't bring it down to the vocal minorities as the vast majority of the community had their say in rejecting furry-RP.
//Edit: Just got this over PM
Sinh Wrote:Hello user!
I have noticed your post:
You Wrote:I'd rather ask what the point of this thread is.
I cannot help you, if you can't read post with understandment. But hello, I am good hearted and I would like to introduce Magnificator 2000:
Sinh Wrote:Thread is not an attempt to ask admins to revert the ban, but to deliver extended constructive commentary onto the subject.
(01-31-2017, 01:07 PM)Legión Maltesa Wrote: Furries are automatically banned from Malta.
(01-31-2017, 01:08 PM)The National Council Wrote:
(01-31-2017, 01:07 PM)Legión Maltesa Wrote: Furries are automatically banned from Malta.
Approved.
This thread is meant to be a constructive and well-thought reply to the Admin decision and to create drama-free enviroment to discuss why it was disallowed - in universe in which genesplicing, genetic manipulation and overall human DNA tests are canon by lore - especially to the player with characters that were on Discovery for over 7 years. Posting flood with faction accounts, especially when one of them belongs to the official faction, should not take place.
I feel sad for all those people who try to derail the actual serious subject in here, which was meant to be taken seriously with all the data shown in the OP. But it is not for me to decide how you should behave in the first place.
You are beating a dead horse again, and you know it well. You are either triggering us on purpose, so in return you can pretend to be the victim "once again", getting triggered by the community's responses to you, or something is terribly wrong with you. Not sure if troll or serious.