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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.

Zade's demotion provoked him to openly post harassment towards me. Zade sourced it from debunked Furry Raiders/alt-right rumors spread in retaliation towards reporting. Actually I wasn't watching Zade's account. The public is. This is the quality of GSFTW's last support. bsky.app/profile/boxo...

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

Zade, the alt-right troll and GSFTW's DJ coordinator, is commiserating with his Furry Raider friends and threatening a waaaahsuit at me for accurate reporting. Guys, slow down, I already have enough of your humiliation to post about.

They sure do like feeding me new stuff to post. It's so baffling how GSFTW picked these people and wanted to die on their hill.

GSFTW's alt-right DJ coordinator claimed I could beg for crowdfunding if he does a waahsuit. He also pinned an appeal for help to take care of his pets. I guess if you help, it would pay his lawyer, if Saul Goodman would return his calls. It would have been easy for GSFTW to make better choices.

Point of the past few posts: GSFTW is run by and prefers to side with people who prefer lying by PR, suppression of protest, and retaliation by childish threats, instead of simply doing good management. bsky.app/profile/kimi...

Today GSFTW purged dozens of their most vocal members from their chat while it's still on lockdown. The history is disabled to hide everything that happened. This also hides their chat rules, so the link is "not found". Suppression looks so good for Free Fur All 2.0.

Good thing I've been live-skeeting and got so many screens of the state they allowed things to reach.

GSFTW had to lose 50 members so far to try and suppress protest in a 500-member chat. Only a fraction of any chat will be the active ones. That is literally the definition of Decimated. "The Romans used decimation to quell riots, mutinies, and other uprisings."

False-selling an event with departed GOH's isn't their concern. That's the money they care about. bsky.app/profile/boxo...

When GSFTW opens their chat again and hopes people come back