One of the things is that, because the size and scope of the fandom is so broad, I don't mind one bit about the existence of DogPatch, Global Furry Television, and other such media outlets. Only because when you look at things from a community perspective rather than a individual perspective, you realize that community is better served when you have people working together to cover such things. Even if we are working together separately as it were.
An article saying 'we need more' is good, but I think the way you get people interested is not by asking but by doing and then people will be inspired to do their own thing.
I remember when Global Furry Television was a smaller YouTube channel than my own, and now it's grown beyond it. Also it bears noting while you may hold a grudge about DogPatch's behavior around your past, which is your right to hold, Flayrah and DogPatch are being eclipsed by YouTube furries. Pocari Roo won last year's Ursa for the 'Magazine' category. YouTube is replacing us much more readily.
In a way, we already are becoming history, we don't even have to wait all that long.
Which is why I'm trying to focus more on teaching others "here is how you do good non-fiction writing" rather than trying to push this site myself too far. I'm hitting the age where I'm about to go over the hill, and there is only going to be so much further I can go. The more people doing stuff like this, the better. Especially if they are younger people who will be able to keep it going when I'm gone.
To be fair to GreenReaper, in 2010 convention leaders were probably not used to being questioned by third parties AT ALL. Not in any regularly known forum anyway. So it wasn't necessary starting a beef rather than a establishment of Flayrah as "we are going to present events that occurred and allow people to discuss them" rather then, "conventions get carte blanc unquestioning loyalty." Opening that kind of gate of course is going to ruffle a few exoskeletons.
That is compared to these day, where conventions kind of expect to get questioned for just about any little thing. But people aren't using Flayrah for that, they're using their own social media platforms. So it's more our job to sort through what's going on and present it in an understandable format rather than being the organizations creating the questions and quandaries ourselves.
One of the things is that, because the size and scope of the fandom is so broad, I don't mind one bit about the existence of DogPatch, Global Furry Television, and other such media outlets. Only because when you look at things from a community perspective rather than a individual perspective, you realize that community is better served when you have people working together to cover such things. Even if we are working together separately as it were.
An article saying 'we need more' is good, but I think the way you get people interested is not by asking but by doing and then people will be inspired to do their own thing.
I remember when Global Furry Television was a smaller YouTube channel than my own, and now it's grown beyond it. Also it bears noting while you may hold a grudge about DogPatch's behavior around your past, which is your right to hold, Flayrah and DogPatch are being eclipsed by YouTube furries. Pocari Roo won last year's Ursa for the 'Magazine' category. YouTube is replacing us much more readily.
In a way, we already are becoming history, we don't even have to wait all that long.
Which is why I'm trying to focus more on teaching others "here is how you do good non-fiction writing" rather than trying to push this site myself too far. I'm hitting the age where I'm about to go over the hill, and there is only going to be so much further I can go. The more people doing stuff like this, the better. Especially if they are younger people who will be able to keep it going when I'm gone.
To be fair to GreenReaper, in 2010 convention leaders were probably not used to being questioned by third parties AT ALL. Not in any regularly known forum anyway. So it wasn't necessary starting a beef rather than a establishment of Flayrah as "we are going to present events that occurred and allow people to discuss them" rather then, "conventions get carte blanc unquestioning loyalty." Opening that kind of gate of course is going to ruffle a few exoskeletons.
That is compared to these day, where conventions kind of expect to get questioned for just about any little thing. But people aren't using Flayrah for that, they're using their own social media platforms. So it's more our job to sort through what's going on and present it in an understandable format rather than being the organizations creating the questions and quandaries ourselves.