"When a story is published on Flayrah it's primarily because its author thought the topic was worth noting. I don't go around assigning stories, nor do I exercise a heavy hand over topics.
Certainly, I consider a story's tone and suitability for the omelette. But the fact is, having to register and write a coherent story in news style is sufficient to deter most unsuitable stories.
I can recall only one time that I refused a submitted story for being in the wrong place, and that's because it belonged on another furry news site, along with the stories it was responding to. It ended up on Flayrah anyway when that site closed."
So, Patch says he got one blammed, but then again he says it was redundancy rather being off topic; really, this whole discussion is kinda pointless, because GR's policy is "everything goes". If Higgs keeps submitting them, he'll keep posting them, and everyone will continue whining, but unless they start their own furry news site (spoiler alert: they won't), nothing will change.
And while we're on Vivisector, I forgot this case, where the contributor submitted a video but deleted it off YouTube and Flayrah himself; basically, a case of a teenager being a teenager.
I asked Green Reaper about it, and since Vivisector is mostly just "FA did something" these days, he hardly even bothers lurking there anymore, so he claimed this was the first he knew about it (seeing as how it was probably responsible for Kyell Gold's withdrawal from the Ursa Majors, it was a pretty big thing that just kind of got ignored by everyone).
Finally, and apropos of nothing, I saw a fox on the way home from work tonight.
The Vivisector link:
https://forums.vivisector.org/index.php?topic=474.msg4852#msg4852
I'll just quote GreenReaper:
"When a story is published on Flayrah it's primarily because its author thought the topic was worth noting. I don't go around assigning stories, nor do I exercise a heavy hand over topics.
Certainly, I consider a story's tone and suitability for the omelette. But the fact is, having to register and write a coherent story in news style is sufficient to deter most unsuitable stories.
I can recall only one time that I refused a submitted story for being in the wrong place, and that's because it belonged on another furry news site, along with the stories it was responding to. It ended up on Flayrah anyway when that site closed."
So, Patch says he got one blammed, but then again he says it was redundancy rather being off topic; really, this whole discussion is kinda pointless, because GR's policy is "everything goes". If Higgs keeps submitting them, he'll keep posting them, and everyone will continue whining, but unless they start their own furry news site (spoiler alert: they won't), nothing will change.
And while we're on Vivisector, I forgot this case, where the contributor submitted a video but deleted it off YouTube and Flayrah himself; basically, a case of a teenager being a teenager.
https://forums.vivisector.org/index.php?topic=649.msg7169;topicseen#msg7169
I asked Green Reaper about it, and since Vivisector is mostly just "FA did something" these days, he hardly even bothers lurking there anymore, so he claimed this was the first he knew about it (seeing as how it was probably responsible for Kyell Gold's withdrawal from the Ursa Majors, it was a pretty big thing that just kind of got ignored by everyone).
Finally, and apropos of nothing, I saw a fox on the way home from work tonight.