Hello everyone!
First of all apologies for not having followed through with some ideas that I've had recently. I've found myself with less time than usual and been away for a while as well.
In the meantime I wanted to ask you what topics that are furry or furry related would you see yourselves discussing or debating?
I know that one of the rules of Yiffit is to avoid drama, but if we find certain debate/discussion topics and create the necessary environment to discuss them in a healthy way this might be something we could do.
In my case for example, a topic that always pops up on twitter is the debate around feral nsfw content. I won't get into details since this is not the post to do so, but I'm leaving it here as a potential topic for future more organized debates and discussions.
Please feel free to share or mention the topics that are furry or furry adjacent about which you have strong feelings and which you see yourself discussing in we found a proper way to do so. Feel also free to agree with other people in the comments as in "yes, I'd like to see this topic discussed as well".
The goal is to find topics we would love to discuss without necessarily opening pandora's box in this thread itself.
Thank you <3
I hope I don't come off as too cautious. I'm just unsure about what topics will be suggested and want to preempt a major flame war in the comments :P
Note:
topics don't need to be controversial at all. You can propose talking about everyone's favorite fursuit artists. The cautious approach I took here is just in case something controversial comes up.
I don't have anything off the top of my head, but this sounds a bit like r/RealFurryHours - maybe you can take some inspiration from some of the topics there
r/RealFurryHours is a weird subreddit because on one hand it's good to have a place to talk about more serious furry things but it really rubs me the wrong way that the subreddit description explicitly welcomes anti-furries
I've never really visited it for more than a few minutes, but I know historically they've tried to have discussions on some of the more controversial issues. As a whole I would guess it's probably a very self-selecting subreddit of smug/holier-than-thou furries and anti-furries. "I'm a furry but I'm not one of THOSE furries!" Discussion is likely not representative of general population.
I use to regularly use it when it first started. It's not as bad as you make it out to be. It was actually very well moderated and had serious discussion where both sides could talk, ask questions, and explain things to one another. The more trollish comments like "Furries Bad", or "kill all furries" were generally removed immediately.
Anti-furries could ask the questions they normally would never have asked when in an anti-fur circle jerk and furries could explain things about the fandom or LGBTQ stuff within the fandom in general to Anti-furs. And even bring up controversial topics like the difference between feral and zoophilia.why do furries have fursona's, why do furries act as weird as they do?
And Furries could ask the serious questions they never want to ask Anti-furs, like "why they hate furries so much? What caused it? Etc."
You even had burned furs participating and talking, explaining the experiences that made them choose to leave the fandom and their problems with the fandom. But that was when it first opened up.
I'm not sure when it happened exactly, but I will only assume it was around the time r/yiffinhell got it's entire moderation staff ousted by the Reddit admins and the new lead moderator put in place, was a furry.
I think it drove much of the Anti-furs that were participating away from wanting to communicate and participate and talk anymore. Very few remained.
From their, it kinda became more about drama in the furry community itself and on reddit. Like how the mod staff of /r/furry were overzealous in their moderation of r/furry or the drama surrounding that necrophilic zoophile YouTuber, Kero something....
I mean, it was still well moderated when I stopped subbing that sub, but it was more about furry drama among furries at that point. Well moderated drama, but still drama. And frankly I don't care enough about furry drama to stick around.
And that is why I left that sub. I still appreciate what it was trying to do early on.
Oh god I can only imagine. I'm sure that popped up a lot
I never visited for more than a few minutes either
I have very mixed feeling about /r/RealFurryHours. On one paw it really is the type of community that I'd love replicating here on reddit, on the other paw what I've seen from it was often some sort of echo chamber where differing opinions where downvoted without really fostering real discussion or debate. IMHO, Mastodon is probably a better place to host that type of group / community since it does not have downvotes or even upvotes.
I could very well be mistaken, though, and it would work better on here. I'm not sure I'm fit for moderating it though. Maybe it's something that can be hosted on Pawb?
Yeah I didn't mean to replicate it, but just to skim some of the topics they've talked about for inspiration. I'm not a fan of the whole "asktrumpsupporters" vibe where everyone has an agenda from the outset.
Oh, that's actually not a bad idea. I should skim a few of the top threads to get ideas. Thank you, I hadn't thought of that!