Stratadrake

I've noticed the "Who's Online" tab has been missing for the last few days. Is this a glitch, or a deliberate alteration? 

That widget has been removed.  (According to cstdenis, it never worked right anyway.)

Thanks for letting me know. I remember the Who's Online widget occasionally stating someone was online when they weren't, but didn't realize it had never worked properly. 

I had someone leave two comments on my comment section which you alone can read but they said they wanted me to remove a picture? Last I checked I wasn't an admin. I mean I do come in occasionally and check on things but I'm not a staff member. Hopefully things are going well for you considering the situation at hand.

Also I got to go to a ren faire after how many years since grade school. I happened to see a dragon puppet that was blue with gold trim like a certain icon of yours. Sadly he was pushing $500 otherwise I would have gotten him and sent a picture to you. Afterall the way he was sculpted reminded me of your artstyle.

Ah, I see those are two pictures I am aware of currently.  I am still not sure whether to draw the line -- as I said on one of them, if it's judged to be hate/attack art then it is getting removed; if it's not, it falls under artistic speech and can stay.

Given the situation at hand, it's disguised as artistic speech but it is attacking someone. I would say remove the picture and all signs of the fight to keep it from escalating and put them both in a corner. Also keep in mind to onlookers I'm a neutral party. I'm not taking sides I just want the fight to go away. There's something called the block button folks, use it.

Guys, if I may point out that posting images on your profile page is NOT governed by the same terms as your gallery submissions are required to follow.  A.k.a. claims of "art theft" do NOT necessarily apply here, users are generally allowed to post whatever images they wish.

This being said, the image in question is clearly causing some issues with other users, so I am going to remove it for now.

This is just an FYI -- as you can see from the posts below, I've taken the liberty of culling several comments from my page here. I can still access them (via staff tools) when I need to. The situation surrounding them is not considered resolved, however.

Autism isn't one specific disorder so much as an entire class of disorders.  It has degrees and variations and so forth.

And, unfortunately, learning disabilities (of any sort) and short tempers seem to coincide with each other.

Ya know if ya want people to believe you, maybe you could try taking a picture of your medical records.

Just a thought.


(I am not whiteknighting btw. I honstly think the "PE013 Fiasco" is a dead topic)

Its OK that you lost your temper and did bad. You don't have to say everything was an accident. Just be like "Yeah man, I got pissed and did some dumb things, my bad." Everyone does from time to time. No shame in admiting it.

That actully makes a lot of sence! I'd have to agree with drake, though. Don't break the rules of the site over it. Maybe you could confide and vent to a friend instead? Or air greivances is a less intrusive way then spam? 

I know now first hand it can be hard to wrap your mind around a neruological disorder and controll it at time. I think that being able to vent to someone could help.

Yeah, you do seem pretty quick to go hot-headed.  Sometimes it can help to just put the computer down and walk away for awhile, then return to it later (such as the next day) with a cool head.

In my case, it probably helps I was born the middle child in my family, a social position that favors being calm and cool-headed.

As for the subject of autism ... I personally believe the condition is over-diagnosed and over-medicated, but that's not important because I have no practical use for the lay opinion.  And heck, I probably meet half the criteria for some degree of it myself....

Why aren't people simply blocking her? Some of these people actually knew what she was like before she came on here, so like me I blocked her right away. Are people actually waiting for her to make the wrong move so that they have an excuse to get her banned? I'm not sticking up for her, I know what she's done and it's disgusting, but it doesn't seem right to just let her comment on something or someone's artwork, knowing what will happen down the road. By blocking her, she can't express her anger at all towards anyone! Maybe it will help her cool down eventually, I don't know. 

Everyone has their good and bad days.  While I was looking through her comment history there I did find some comments that did not provoke arguments, and a few comments that were even positive in tone (and I'm talking "top-level" comments, not replies).  I made sure to review each page to catch the context/conversation in which they were posted, too.

Ultimately, the matter of blocking is a personal preference.  Some people are quick to block, sometimes you block someone pre-emptively, and some people (like me) prefer to avoid blocking.  (And I'm not saying that just because I have a mod/admin position; my blocklists on dA and FA are virtually empty too.)

Well, for me, blocking or disabling the comments prevents hate speech. Not necessarily because of bashing on my content or me. I can handle that. But it’s to prevent hate speech against individuals in the comment section, especially if it’s a child. Some person might come along, say something mean, and then I’m liable for it because I should’ve been there to stop that from happening. Now, there’s an emotionally scarred person that might commit suicide or something and that could get me into trouble. There have been cases of that, too. That’s just one of the reasons why I would block somebody whom I’ve seen multiple times say things that cause people to lose their heads (not in a literal sense). I don’t know, I’m just being cautious. But, in all honesty, I hope Erin grows into a better person

Heya! I'm a new(ish) member of the site!

I actually have a question about... well.... "cursing"

It automatically censors, right? Because I have the WORST habit of doing it and it is pretty much uncontrollable for me now. I'm afraid I'd forget I'd have to censor it and recieve a flag which would suck because so far this site has the BEST ADMINSHIP I have EVER seen.

Taken care of, we did not initially catch that this was a direct edit/trace, which per submission rules is not allowed.

Hello sir i understand that you are investigating a certain someone ahem (princesselizabeth013) but i would like to inform you of some evidence i have against her. i hav equite a lot and if you would contact me personally that would be great.

Hello. I understand you must be getting fed up with the amount of comments about Erin on your profile, but I feel this needs to be adressed. She is trying to get a user to report me and two other users. I saw this and left a comment to the other user explaining what exactly had happened between me and her to which she verbally attacked me for it. Please can you do something about it?

http://www.fanart-central.net/user/Charade/profile - where you can see the comments

Hi there