They don't just not have rules against bigotry in their rules...
- They have rules that attempt to rank kinks based on how 'extreme' the site creators think they are.
- These rules on kinks have kink-shaming titles, ('Questionable', 'Extreme'), they openly admit the 'extreme' category was formerly called 'NSFL' (Not Safe For Life, implying there's something that bad about them)
- They've been flagging posts as NSFW just for having fat furs in them.
They're basically doing the 'respectable furries' routine. Somehow not having rules against bigotry is okay, but stigmatising you for your kinks are. I think it's quite obvious what their priorities were at.
So, adding onto the last folk's post with things that I've noticed since:
- They since realized they fucked up and went overboard on forcibly tagging content, and have since informed the moderator at fault
- As seen in the current rules and with context added from the aforementioned tweet, the site now categorizes on much more sane "Questionable" and "NSFW" titles.
It looks like you won't have to worry about your art getting slapped with a "questionable" just for being obese anymore. However, what about the lack of a bigotry rule? What did they do about that?
Avoid sensitive topics and don't bring external drama to Itaku. There already are many websites on the internet where you can discuss and argue over politics/ideology/drama to your heart's content, but Itaku doesn't need to be one of them.
- Do not backseat moderate in comments or direct messages.
- Do not use Itaku for preaching ideologies, politics, etc in text posts, as its not what the site is designed for.
Oooooof. They're still playing into the "respectable furries" routine.
For anyone confused as why this is a bad rule, let me tell you upfront: Nazis will not come to you brandishing swastikas and telling you to kill all jews if the law of the land clearly doesn't allow that. They will come to you as your friend. They will be respectable, kind, and even tolerant to the extent they can convince you they are a Good Person. After they have convinced you they are a Good Person, they will then slowly introduce you Fascist ideas wrapped up in agreeable, non-controversial sounding terms, and without having argued or preached their point, as the rules here might say, they have indoctrinated you into Fascism.
Nazis are masters of respectability and manipulating the status quo into charms of ages past. Rules like "no politics and drama" will fail, every single time, because Nazis will worm their way into whatever new standard of acceptability you set and appeal to your own respectability. The only way to reasonably expunge Nazis is to allow "political" discussion to warn others about how Nazis infect your communities, and to set a zero tolerance policy on bigotry and fascism, not on politics itself.
