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There's a big topic around this type of mismanagement. It's the "nobody's job" problem. Internet platforms allow chaos where nobody curates. Part of the solution would be striving to draw lines in IRL space - not settling for weakness there too. dogpatch.press/2024/10/21/g...

Speaking of ownership, here's opinion by the Chair of Furrydelphia about GSFTW damage control. x.com/Drayne_the_W...

On Xitter, Drayne's criticism of GSFTW is a target of attempted suppression. An argumentative community note was proposed that cites GSFTW's own ass-covering PR that landed with a flop. The note has not been approved.

Previous reporting mentioned that at the first GSFTW in May, panels hosted hostile/competitive language towards the other nearby convention. Now I'm getting tips that staff of Furrydelphia are being banned from GSFTW chat. The Philadelphia con staffs New Jersey furs sharing the same community.

I'm reporting this after having made effort in first reporting to reach out to GSFTW and get their statements about problems inside. Those statements weren't honored. Consider the source of the conflict.

Tea about one of the members of the corrupt board of GSFTW, Scooby/Lone Shep. This isn't his first rodeo with trying to damage-control a mismanaged event built by sketchy people. In this case, Soda City Fur Con failed before launch in early 2023. Lone Shep was Vice Pres: x.com/NazifurRecei...

Getting forwards about GSFTW management getting tore up in their chat.

Sent from @tommybean.bsky.social

Massive protest in GSFTW chat has persisted through mods censoring it, closing chat and reopening with futile hope to control it. Mods are being scrutinized as problem people themselves, with no competence to fix broken management.

"Answer for your crimes" "Step down" "Mods legit have no fucking control anymore" Today protest posting reached such velocity that chat was closed again, with mods saying the entire chat is due to be deleted. Members say "there should not be a con" unless the entire board and staff are replaced.

The final post in GSFTW chat. Is this an epitaph for management who were too chicken to care for their community?

GSFTW management must be pouring sweat over what they let happen to their chat. It's closed, but check out the reacts on their new announcement channel. "We are looking into multiple situations" -- little late to put the cows back in the barn after lying about action almost a year ago, isn't it?

The dilemma the con faces concerns what contract terms they may have to honor, and how to get people to come back to a con saddled with a self-inflicted reputation as Free Fur All 2.0. Deleting a 500 member chat, purging vocal members, or keeping them to preserve numbers - no good options. Fold con?

Thanks @yachtrockdragon.bsky.social - "the unofficial nsfw chat also got locked. With one of the mods leaving a very important message for remaining staff".

Thread of previously posted screens from the unofficial NSFW chat for GSFTW. It's about Peter/Flynn, and it's kinda nuts that he's just allowed in a place where people post private stuff with no mention of his Kiwifarms posting. bsky.app/profile/hail...

GSFTW: "but the Furry Raiders and doxers didn't do anything bad in OUR group" bsky.app/profile/elle...

This is what I was getting at in mentioning the "nobody's job" problem earlier in thread. It crops up throughout fandom spaces where the Geek Social Fallacies rule. t.me/communityorganizing GSFTW has made itself representative of that problem. It's not that hard to solve, it just requires caring.

Chat with Aurora, a former GSFTW staffer and chat mod who just quit over the mismanagement. "Tried to help... It was undone by these actions... People gotta step down" (1/2)

Chat with Aurora, a former GSFTW staffer and chat mod who just quit over the mismanagement. "I was trying to push for the necessary change but just felt it's not worth it" (2/2)

GSFTW DJ coordinator Zade is demoted as mod in their locked chat, while it is being considered for deletion. Tippers had sent evidence that Zade's Twitter was a "cesspool" of alt-right hate, which appeared in previous reporting. Members posted the tip in GSFTW chat when it was open for protest.

The debunking was already linked in previous reporting. It discusses revenge-porn that leaked from a site run by GSFTW's chair. Allowing alt-right staff to perpetuate false and abusive disinformation to deflect criticism tells you the quality of GSFTW's management, and why they can not be reformed.

GSFTW's site is itself spreading false information right now. Guests who withdrew will no longer be part of the con and it hasn't been updated. "Everyone who pre-registers at this point is being mis-sold." bsky.app/profile/boxo...

GSFTW management, to all the former staff who quit