Help, My Human Thinks He's A Dog

[lupestripe]

I haven't been on any forums, message boards or 'have your say' type comments sections for six months and I feel a lot better for it. These places tend to be the bastions of reactionary and ill-informed opinion and I would rather not read such nonsense. I tend to prefer proper debate rather than thunder and bluster. Plus I am one of those people who is prone to getting pissed off easily.

This means I haven't been on the UK Fur forum for six months either. It simply doesn't offer anything for me. I avoid the main threads for the reasons described above while I only ever used the Northern threads and the one about football. But when the latter is your job and the former merely displays meets I would find out about anyway, my motivation to visit has been severely reduced. Every other topic of discussion doesn't interest me so ultimately I have left it alone.

I also have an issue with the conduct of a small handful of moderators and would rather not patronise the site with attitudes like that. So ultimately, removing myself from UK Fur is just another example of removing myself from the mainstream of the fandom. And that suits me fine.

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Comments

[symphonic-rp.livejournal.com]

I gave up message boards long ago. They are just the place to hear from those who have not a clue what they're talking about. For the last few years I have restricted my online contact with the fandom to LJ and Second Life, as both places give me the power to select who I'll hear from, and thus I can tailor my fandom experience to my own preferences and needs.

Try not to think ill of the fandom because message boards have a tendency to be useless. That's the fault of the boards, not the fandom. You don't need to hear from every small mind that calls itself a Furry. You only need a few Furries who match your tastes to have a great Furry experience.

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

LJ and twitter are my only two forms of online contact with furs now and that's largely because I can access them on the phone. I agree, it's probably a function of messageboards rather than the fandom and every group has people of the type who frequent such media.