Talk:Furry fandom

'Powdered chlorine'
Chlorine is a gas at human-comfortable temperatures, so the term in the text needs changing. 2A00:23C4:F507:2700:EDE1:4654:4EE4:4002 (talk) 13:55, 16 January 2018 (UTC) RSamys (bla) 08:41, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
 * you can buy powdered chlorine to clean pools. google it. AMassiveGay (talk) 14:32, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
 * It should be noted that "powdered chlorine" is.
 * Add correct chemical term in brackets perhaps? 2A00:23C4:F507:2700:D95A:58D1:39F9:4106 (talk) 12:34, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
 * what for? it adds nothing. AMassiveGay (talk) 13:20, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
 * It's just the vernacular term for the technical name. What's the problem? Boredatwork (talk) 13:28, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Changed it to 'chlorination powder'. - Smerdis of Tlön, LOAD "*", 8, 1. 18:31, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

A newsworthy item
Sorry for the (prior) irresistably stupid headline pun. 217.119.171.154 (talk) 09:51, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

Edit war
Solve it here. — Oxyaena   Poke me  17:35, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
 * As I have already elaborated, I simply don't see a problem with most of the content. It's snarky, sarcastic, and Irreverent yes, but then so is most of the site. 18:14, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Some of the content does seem to be lifted from common internet attitudes a decade ago. ikanreed 🐐Bleat at me 18:17, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
 * I agree with the goddamn communist heathen, which is why I got involved. 18:17, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
 * This does look like a blog written by someone from the internet a decade ago. I can feel the dust gathering in my nose. 18:20, 21 March 2019 (UTC)


 * It looks like the four of them are settled on this one for now.
 * That being said, having only just now found out about this page from this Talkpage edit, I'm not entirely pleased with some of it either (CYD has been dead for nearly a decade, and Vivisector -- its replacement -- is currently out of commission after its owner fell off the face of the internet) and might edit it myself. Thanks Streisand! ℕoir LeSable (talk) 18:23, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
 * To be clear, I don't think the jokes are funny, and it's bad taste, irrelevant, and I don't like it. 19:04, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
 * It certainly could use updating, but I still think the animal costumes and sexualized art deserve mockery. 19:11, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
 * (Also, check out this masterpiece courtesy of an Arizona state Rep. 19:13, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Excuse me, "deserve"? ℕoir LeSable (talk) 19:22, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
 * I should probably step out of this before I get the urge to punch people more... 19:25, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
 * I will never do the good post gif thing, but the sentiment you're expressing here is is quite reasonable and in line with my reaction to reading that. ikanreed 🐐Bleat at me 19:31, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
 * I think this crosses the line, making fun of furries is what enables prejudice and bigotry toward them in the first place, . — Oxyaena   Harass  20:02, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
 * I'm very much on the "furry fandom is stupid" side of things, and since that appears to be the unpopular opinion, I guess I'll step away from this article and go back to doing history/religion stuff. 20:51, 21 March 2019 (UTC)

Pretty apathetic about the edits being discussed, but how about getting rid of the furry porn-external links section? 2A02:1810:4D34:DC00:2876:3C83:70A9:92EA (talk) 22:20, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
 * I am staring at the information that I had an edit reverted. And I honestly cannot recall making any such edit as I have seen attributed to me.  In fact, I'm pretty damn certain I didn't.  What the hell?  Kencolt (talk) 14:34, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
 * @Kencolt — It looks like you might've hit "Rollback 1 edit" twice, and Duce hit it afterwards for three. ℕoir LeSable (talk) 20:11, 26 March 2019 (UTC)

My opinion
Personally, if you say "kill it with fire" then I don't really think the person who said such a thing just appears to be an asshole, they clearly are one. That's a death threat which is super illegal. Not to mention all of the attempted murders and hate crimes against furries caused by anti-furries in general. They truly are a toxic bunch of "people", if we can call them that? (They might actually be the children of Satan!) Honestly, I never see other subcultures hated nearly this much besides goths which are still not as hated as furries are. People used to accuse the goth community of being satanic, even if they were admittedly devout Christians. It didn't matter. This is what I hate about bigotry.

DonutBandit (talk) 06:00, 15 April 2019 (UTC)

I really need to bring up WikiFur and its problems
Don't get me wrong, I do think a furry-centered wiki is necessary, but over the years it has become pretty problematic as it looks and reads like Conservapedia. At least half of its articles are editor self-inserts, they deliberately leave red links "for future use", they whitewash neo-Nazis, they still use Monobook as its skin, it's littered with sexual inuendos in places where it doesn't belong and it's overall laughably bad. Can we please at least remove references to it in favor of better sources? 16:51, 19 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Sources for the nazi bits? I honestly don't know.--Max Sinister (talk) 07:28, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Just look at their articles about DiezelRaccon, Foxler and Free Fur All. Note how they intentionally avoid certain words and incidents unless they are put on the "controversies" section with quotation marks. 15:31, 10 January 2023 (UTC)

Permanently protect this?
Other people have pointed out that when protection expires it immediately gets vandal'd again.
 * Probably a good idea to just revert and then implement months-long autoconfirm page protection. 03:13, 9 December 2022 (UTC)
 * I'd support autoconfirm protecting this indefinitely, just because there's not a whole lot interesting to say about furries from the wiki's perspective. This page doesn't need frequent editing.. 03:15, 9 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Well not being high-traffic (also borderline missional) would be a reason to keep unprotected otherwise. That being said, we DO have semi-protection on troll magnet pages like the page on the n-word. 03:47, 9 December 2022 (UTC)
 * It's both a troll magnet page and one that doesn't need frequent editing. There's no problem protecting it. 03:58, 9 December 2022 (UTC)
 * I support protecting it. Vee (talk) 15:16, 9 December 2022 (UTC)
 * A short little review of the edit history leaves me only with a 'Yes Please' Servasym (Talk / Contribs) 15:59, 9 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Done. If anyone has a problem, let me know, but the talk page consensus is an overwhelming "YES". Vee (talk) 16:05, 9 December 2022 (UTC)
 * i had permanently semi-protected this because of long term vandelism ←§ Edward the eight (talk) 21:33, 10 February 2023 (UTC)