Should fursonas be banned from CS? and other stuff

[wibeke]

Fursonas shouldn't be banned from CS. That's just a bit extreme and it would cause more fights than it does already. Most forums don't get quite as worked up about them as Cs does and I won't lie about that, but it's still not right to completely ban them because or arguments. People argue over everything. If fursonas are to be banned you'll have to get rid of a whole lot of other things as well.

And "Before fursonas and twilight came along this forum was a happy place." is completely off and untrue. (the fursona part anyways, Twilight has a way of ruining things) Avian existed before CS, fursonas are popular thoughout the web, and furries existed even before you were BORN.

They didn't just "come along." I remember browsing through the CS forums back in July 08 (before I joined) and saw quite a few of them. The people who care too strongly about them came here a little while later, but it's not like some huge tidal wave just came and crashed over the website.

The other thing that kind of confused we was that "This place is starting to get full of bashing/hating/fights and It's not right." I don't see why people are all so obsessed with getting CS back to how it was. That's not possible and probably never will be. The main difference then was the population. This place has gained TONS of members since then. With smaller amounts of members a community can be nicer and calmer, but you can't keep a site from growing. With new members comes more drama and more arguments.

"Sorry if you disagree that's my opinion some people do handle these things properly and are nice, but there are some that simply can't act properly with fursonas/twilight the other thing is just kind of something that bugs me and other people too I suppose."
We really can't let a few bad apples ruin the bunch here. For the most part both sides are handled nicely and maturely with the exception of some people who are just a bit too opinionated. It's better to just smile and bear with it than ruin half the fun of CS.

Hopefully that didn't come off as rude or anything.

[pizzas and scream]

you can't be on a site like this and lack, even 1 fursona.

its supposed to be something deep but then it's not, and people treat it like their soul "OH Nos ui no like my raver glowstick hottopic foxwolfferretrino u is meannn wahhh"


if you get to touchy over the fursona then it does mean more to you than "my charrie" and being that insulted and hurt over it then it -was- supposed to be "you"

by this methoid most people are over the top and colorblind and have little to no taste and fashion sence.


"less is more" is like an ethnic slur to candyrainbow animals



Fursona is a portmanteau of "persona' and "furry"

[Mara.]

I agree on some, but not all. Like the fursona suggestion.
A fursona is an animal that represents you, once you have one it's like a part of you, I'm sure not many people would agree to just let them be taken off just like that. Sure they cause arguements like for sparklesonas and gloomsonas {dunno if it's called that or something else..} but that doesn't mean all fursonas would just be gone. Tess has a fursona, the mods have fursonas, they have pets of them too, they couldn't take away the CS pet of it. Though arguements about sparklesonas are stupid and pointless. If someone feels they have a sparkly girly personality, so be it. It's no one else's business but the owner's.

The Twilight threads get far too out of hand, yes. The 'i hate twilight lol lets talk abot how st00pid it is and stuff lol' threads get out of hand, and should not be allowed. But an opinion is an opinion, people that like Twilight and Hanna Montana and the Jonas Brothers don't need to go into threads like that and harass them, but state their opinion. Vice versa, people who hate things like that shouldn't go into thread that are fans of them and harass them, but maybe state their opinion in a non hurtful way.

I don't know what this site was before fursonas if it ever was that way, but before Twilight... it was a little better, I admit, but not all that much. The 'omg twilight sucks!' threads and the 'Omg I love twilight its so awesome!' threads have died down quite a lot since the last movie. But still, an opinion is an opinion, one should be able to state their's, but not if it actually 'hurts' another.

I'm not sure if much of that made sense or not, but that's just my two cents on the subject. ^^

[wind song]

like wibeke said, theer hasnt been that mutch "actual fighting" people say that, and it is a community so ur always gonna gave argumnets, you cant have everyone agreeing with everyone, thats just not right..
its not like half the people are shouting at everyone, swearing , putting people down and i dont think that the other half run off crying, its a good community with lots of people and its gonna grow, even more, and theres nothing wrong with that.

sure there might be a few negative threads, and people DO get too sensative about this whole fursona thing, but people have to notice how many amazing and nice threads are out there.

i think some people take things to seriously but then blame it on the site, taht theres too mutch hate when there isnt, people have exagerated, and really.. come on.. you cant even have a group of 100 people and all of them agree with everything.

<3
and thats MY opinion, and i hope this once again doesnt turn into a big argument. ^^

[Toastberg]

Whut?? Ban the fursona ranters, sure, I find them a bit irritating. But you can't ban fursonas, that'd be ridiculous.. Fusonas have been around much longer than CS, and the mascot of CS just -happens- to be Tess's fursona. It;'s true that Twilight, ect. can be touchy subjects, but if people would learn to stop hating each other because they hate that person's favourite book/singer/movie/fursona/octopus. People make their threads and then someone who thinks opposite comes and can't speak their opinion without the caps button.

The people who care too strongly about them came here a little while later, but it's not like some huge tidal wave just came and crashed over the website.

I'm not sure about where it started or whatever, but (from my perspective) it did actually kinda feel like that.. one day everone was just ranting about fursonas, even a few weeks later someone would decide to try and pick up the old trend and go on a rant again.

Personally, I'd just like it if everyone would calm down a bit, e.g. not making it look as if certain people are stupid because they had a design contest for their fursona. Some people just want a character to call special.

[Mara.]

But if you didn't talk about them, how would you order art of them and where would you put fanart and stories, ect? You can't fit ALL of that in your siggy.
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I though Avian was just a mascot for a bit at first, but lots of people when they make fanart of her, say something like 'Tess's fursona, Avian' ect. I think Avian is a wolf, but I don't know xD

[pizzas and scream]

a fursona is kind of like a personal mascot? I guess.

[Swiftnose]

If people would just get over the fact that maybe THEIR definition of a fursona isn't always used for others, we wouldn't have to fight over it.

People also need to realize that just because they didn't particularly LIKE Twilight, doesn't mean you have to go around offending people who did like it by calling it "bad literature" or something else.

There's this thing called and "O-P-I-N-I-O-N" ya know. -_-

[FlyingTiger]

Yes, the trend I've noticed is that when a site get a lot of members, they stop being nice to each other. If you have less than a few thousand members, they are all familiar with each other, and the mods, so they respect each other. But when there are a hundred thousand members, you can't possibly know everyone (the name-change complicates this further. I'm not saying it's not good, because I'm considering a change, but it makes it hard to recognize people when they change their name all the time. Anyway.) When people don't know each other, they are more likely to be rude. You might not scream at an acquaintance whose opinion differs, but some random stranger? Maybe.
Sometimes I think it would just be easier if websites said, from the beginning, "We want a nice community, so we're gonna cut of registration at 50,000." {Please, no one kill me for feeling that way.} I know that's not gonna happen for CS, and would be considered unfair. And probably increase instances of people selling accounts/pets for real-life money.

And yes, those percentages in signatures are annoying and make me kind of sad. Some things are good-spirited banter, but I don't think those are. They are all made up, and quite frankly, not funny. Especially when every other person has one. However, we have a right to freedom of expression, and if we banned those, anything could be next. Someone could be offended by my avatar. It's not intended that way, but I can never know what will or won't offend someone. Outside of racial or sexist slurs, freedom of speech generally outranks protection from being offended.

^--- Way longer than expected.

[ErinGoBragh915]

I don't care about fursonas, Twilight, etc. except to say that if the subject of a discussion does not interest you, DON'T READ IT. If you KNOW fursonas or whatever tick you off, why even click on that thread? You are only aggravating yourself and have no one but yourself to blame.

As for threads asking for medical advice, it's simply a bad, bad, bad, BAD idea to give advice to people you cannot even SEE concerning medical problems based on nothing more than the person's own description. You have no idea what you're talking about -- I don't care WHO you are -- and you can do far more harm than good. The mere idea of giving medical advice to what may be SOMEONE ELSE'S UNDERAGE CHILD is enough to give me the heebie jeebies. Just don't do it.