I was going to say it's a bunch of non-drama. It's very easy to make accusations against a person and get people to believe stuff that never happened, I had that happen to me when I was on the FurAffinity forums. People insisted I said stuff that I hadn't until others believed them. However, if there's no evidence to back up those accusations then they should be ignored. On a forum where I'm an admin we had a rape accusation, where we repeatedly told the guy (not the alleged victim) he should go to the police but we couldn't act on "he said, she said" claims. The accusations eventually stopped, after the alleged victim himself said it didn't happen and he'd overreacted in private. Admins can't control or punish people according to what they do off the site. We don't have the resources to investigate such claims.
The only reason I'm now seeing this as less of a non-drama is if Dragoneer told the supposed victim not to press charges. That is very bad advice. If it's true then it needs to be taken to the proper authorities. The fact that it wasn't actually suggests to me that it is all a fabrication. If your first thought is to message the owner of a furry site rather than go to the police when you've been raped then your thinking is seriously messed up.
But it's probably a pointless controversy because so many people have said they would revamp FA and it's never happened. I've pointed out a number myself, with the whole collapse of the Furocity merger being the most amazing example.
"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
~John Stuart Mill~
I was going to say it's a bunch of non-drama. It's very easy to make accusations against a person and get people to believe stuff that never happened, I had that happen to me when I was on the FurAffinity forums. People insisted I said stuff that I hadn't until others believed them. However, if there's no evidence to back up those accusations then they should be ignored. On a forum where I'm an admin we had a rape accusation, where we repeatedly told the guy (not the alleged victim) he should go to the police but we couldn't act on "he said, she said" claims. The accusations eventually stopped, after the alleged victim himself said it didn't happen and he'd overreacted in private. Admins can't control or punish people according to what they do off the site. We don't have the resources to investigate such claims.
The only reason I'm now seeing this as less of a non-drama is if Dragoneer told the supposed victim not to press charges. That is very bad advice. If it's true then it needs to be taken to the proper authorities. The fact that it wasn't actually suggests to me that it is all a fabrication. If your first thought is to message the owner of a furry site rather than go to the police when you've been raped then your thinking is seriously messed up.
But it's probably a pointless controversy because so many people have said they would revamp FA and it's never happened. I've pointed out a number myself, with the whole collapse of the Furocity merger being the most amazing example.
"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
~John Stuart Mill~