Admin Feedback Thread (Archived)

[aerelm]

Okay Drrobe, seeing this, I would like clarification:

So Furry IMAGES are banned? Or are furry CHARACTERS are banned?

I'd like to know now, as your proposed announcement is a more fleshed out version of Garrett's that clarifies a LOT of things.

What you see in Finn's quote is from the discussion thread last week. Discussions like this usually also include a "announcement draft" from early on, which we apply clean-ups and tweaks to as the discussion/vote goes on (which, funny as it may seem, also means more often than not the admin posting the announcement isn't actually the one who wrote most of it). Also, just for the record: First draft of the announcement was centered around a more "be nice and just ignore furries, no need to make a fuss" approach, then as the discussion went on the "no more furry pics" part mentioned in Finn's quote was added, but over the next week which led to the admin vote, the staff had time to discuss this some more and also go through some of the "furry RP" posted on forums, which led to the final "no sugar-coating of no more furries" approach to the announced change.

So just for the sake of having a one-line clarification: No, the decision to only ban furry images was one of the options discussed early on, and is not what was decided in the end. As you can see in the actual announcement, the final decision applies to furry characters altogether.