AlertPay is the DEVIL!

C/P from my FA entry. This is my take on furaffinity's art bans because of AP.

http://www.sofurry.com/page/201550

And now for my 2 cents.

AlertPay has stripped off the freedoms that we loved to have about this site, and it will do it to others if no action is taken.

I feel like we've all been thrown under the bus. I don't think the mods of this site explained the situation clearly enough. Mostly because with explanation they'd have to admit that they're allowing people to demonize artists for what they do with their own expression for cooperate gain. I've been here long enough to FA pull along thing site on donations and ads from users for long periods of time.

I can't hate too hard. You do what you have to do to keep the site going AND make profit off it. Now let's see how far FA's willing to go before it breaks. I'm seeing this to turn into another "SheezyArt" dilemma.

For those of you that don't get that ref, back in the day Sheezyart allowed porn, and was a very popular adult art site, at that. 2 years after it started they banned and removed all adult art. They started advertising with Google, and Google has VERY strict porn policies. I'm expecting a good crash and burn from FA, however. I don't see them getting through this, because of the mod's openly cowardice behavior. I see them putting up with it for a few more months (maybe giving them too much credit on that), than FA disappears altogether. No more site, no more lj, twitter. Nothing.

I'm not usually this harsh without being ready to eat my words, but I think I safe on most of this. Even if they don't close the site the easiest thing to do would be the make the site clear art only. That would kill the arguing, for sure. Go ahead and tell people they aren't welcome anymore and the offended parties just leave. Not without the mandatory journal entry criticizing the mod's new turn for the site, but still the result comes of it.