FURDOME
- AND IT'S HISTORY -
When I first joined the Furry fandom on December 2004, I used to trial for a crew position on a well known board.
Back then I was Nr 1 concerning posts and I was given an oppertunity to trial for a position in the crew as moderator.
Unfortunately a day or so after I had started my trial, a new member had joined the board in question and herrassed the members with foul behavior. As a trial mod I thought it were my duty to let him know he should relax and treat everyone with respect but he didn't seem to care so I sent pm about it to the leading admins of that forum.
A few days after the person I had this discussion with about the herrassment was suddenly made moderator without a trial wich annoyed me.
Nonetheless I didn't stop defending the members against his diminishing behavior towards them because I thought that using power to protect members was the right way, a way to show them that power doesn't need to be used against them, but instead to help them when the rules were on their side ( justice! ).
Suddenly I was given a warning from higher up, letting me know I shouldn't not be fighting another crew member, that it would give the board a bad name..
I gave them links for this situation and explained everything but they didn't care.. they seemed to take him under their wings eventhough he himself was in
direct violation of the rules and insulting members when he didn't need to at all.. Ofcourse I didn't stop when I once again saw him do it and BAM I lost my position as a trial mod. A member of that board that knew me sent me a pm letting me know that it's no wonder that they punished me for doing my job, because the guy I was standing up against, had become their playmate in real life and so I was unlucky to have thoughts of justice.
I was so angry of these facts because I only did what they expected me to do, and then they mistreated me just for someone that provided them with sex (if what this member told me is true, but if not.. I still do not have a valid reason why they would remove my trial, especialy since the guy that I had been defending the members against sent me a foul pm directly before I was banned, a pm wich proved that there had been power abuse).
A member of the crew who I still consider a friend contacted me shortly after, asking me to come back and stay as a member but I didn't want to serve under a crew gone corrupt. With this emotional state I made Furdome on March 2005, thinking that I could act as a guard of justice to handle what others had been unable to handle. I thought that with me in command, no one would never ever treat one of my members with disrespect again or use power to boost ego. Because I would be here to protect them whenever someone would feel it was ok to laugh with someone's feelings or hurt your feelings for dissagreeing. I had even banned yiff off my forum just to not be associated with the board I used to be on. Ofcourse I took it to far when I enforced certain rules as a dicator that would force everyone to behave properly and with that I lost track of what the fandom is realy about , what I had forbidden on Furdome in the first place was exactly that wich allows us to be Furry wich starts with being ourselves.
Today on the 21th of August 2009 with the help of friends, I have finaly realised that and therefor I'm taking away those shackles.
I know now that I should not have been hiding in discust all this time, I should have been growing so I would be able to show them that you can operate a forum and still treat your members as friends, aq equals, as furries. And together I believe we can achieve that !And me.. Ignore me.. I'm just here to be your guardian as I've always wanted (Call me odd but I love to serve).
Since of October I have been married with Aruna and she now runs the board with me, together with my loyal crew and friends, mainly because they treat my members exactly the same and I wouldn't want it any other way ^-
Further questions you might have can always be answers on the Furdome forum ~SXTC