Hello again Furry Writers’ Guild members! We have allowed discussions to take place surrounding our previously suggested by-laws and code of conduct on the forums as planned and taken time after to formulate our newly suggested changes based on member feedback. With this in mind, it’s time to bring this to a vote! A link to the voting form will be included at the end of this blog post. Let’s get to it shall we?

We wish to bring to a vote an update to our by-laws. You can view our current by-laws here: https://furrywritersguild.com/guild-by-laws/. We discussed why they needed updating in our previous post. The amended by-laws being brought up for vote can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-TQcJ4B18UAlu_CHg3VZxvIJgBt_iz-fS0oFHaadMf4/edit?usp=sharing All changes are highlighted in red.

We also wish to strengthen our Code of Conduct. Our current Code of Conduct can be found here: https://furrywritersguild.com/code-of-conduct. Based on suggestions from our members we have made the following changes:

Made an Unacceptable Conduct section with specific wording to protect subjects discussed in works of fiction
Removed specific language that looked to be policing kinks
Better detailed the process for filing complaints
We would like to offer a general content warning as some of these things listed in the Unacceptable Conduct section might be triggers for some within our community. The full listing, alongside the changes we wish to make to the Code of Conduct can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eeHCXWU_p3CsK9IdqiY7JKs6U9iOnRGhAwU7CssWTC0/edit?usp=sharing. Changes to the Code of Conduct are highlighted in red.

We would now like to bring these amendments up for a vote! Voting will remain open for two weeks, from May 16th through May 30th. The link below will take you to the official voting form.

FWG By-Laws And Code of Conduct Voting Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdWv4D18z0fNGEJxMHk2WHshYKMcwswbJQS9sFBwQOoFLsiZw/viewform?usp=sf_link

Thank you again so much to all the FWG members that provided feedback and to everyone voting on these proposals. We’ll have an announcement on the results out to you all once the voting period is over.