I should of titled this The 2nd Biggest Mistake of my Entire Life.
As I reported earlier I joined the Furry Writers Guild Forum, mainly because of a couple of friends recommended it. One is now no longer my friend, so you see how that went.
Although The Furry Writers Guild Forum is not a bad forum, it’s admin is quite friendly. But some of it’s members were so bad I almost quit this blog of mine.
After being there a while, I decided to get to know more of them. But it only seemed like other newbies would have anything to do with me. Those who had been there a while simply avoided anything I had to say, but when I asked about Rainfurrest 2015. That was when things started to go bad, I was insulted, my post ridiculed, I was even told it was even wrong to ask anything about the fur con that killed the fandom in the NW. A couple even said I should be punished for asking such a question.
From then on it got worse, I checked out their Chat Room. Like the forum, few would talk to me. That is when I learned of the cliches, also called discussion groups. Unless you were apart of one, no one would have anything to do with you. I did not assume that, I was actually told that…directly. It was repeated the 2 other times I tried to use their chat…and I did try to join one. Oh boy the shit hit the fan. There was a few who ripped up my blog, tearing at what they saw was a constant series of repeating the same mistakes repeated over and over again.
I been online for roughly 10 years, I have shared possibly 1000s of links. But with some members, it isn’t allowed. I found out they could kick you out if you shared a link of a fellow member…without asking 1st.
I think that is crazy too.
But what really did it for me, and this really did expose the darker side of Furry Writers Guild Forum. Was something I have done countless times in the past and that was to repost an article I found on Rainfurrest. HUGE MISTAKE, I was ripped apart, threatened with physical harm, then hit with 11 Twitter Rants, 1 comment posted here and a email, all demanding I take down the article. Besides that is when I got spam attacked. Admittingly only for 12 hours. But someone made an effort to directly attack me. Over 1800 alone on this blog. 24 on the Greymuzzle group I Admin, including several hate messages supposedly quoted by me. Thankfully the other members knew it was spam. But after finding out the one who wrote that article was also a member of that forum and the one helping me with reviews turned out to be a self appointed member of the copyright police. Who during a session with him on Facebook kept on insisting for that one mistake I was going to jail. They don’t even do that with small time movie pirates, why would I be the exception. He then sledgehammered of how this blog is run. I agree I should be more careful with off site posts, because I do not want this repeated. It’s not like I am going to stop re-posting interesting articles all together, I just decided to leave the article on whatever site it can be found. What you will see here will for a description, comment and a link by me.
Also worth mentioning. I don’t think I am going to be apart of Furries Among Us 2 project. Not that I am removing myself from the project. But given what happened with someone who also happened to be both the author and publisher of that book. I don’t think it will ever happen.
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