Kinda like all those icky furries. Such perverts!

Yeah my friend is in the same boat. She hates what is going on but commissions is her income. She is trying to find another place to get costumers but she is finding nothing.

'...I am about to leave X thanks to it.'
'But I'll lose all my commissionnnnns!'

I've read this a lot -- and of course, I can see where it's absolutely a real concern!

I might suggest, If you would like to make a site your primary, and Other Site is where you make your commission sales (it doesn't actually matter what site), it's likely to not go well if you simply pull the plug on Other Site, especially if you don't have an established base at the new location. It amounts to saying 'I'm open for commissions!' to an empty house, and then (understandably) declaring the effort a failure to everyone who follows, reinforcing the belief that it can't work.

I might suggest deploying a 'faster (or) better (or) cheaper' incentive from one site over another, if you want to nudge traffic and ultimately your business to a new location - just as a storefront would.

Faster: Offer commissions on your preferred site some number of hours or days before you do on other sites, and advertise on all sites you do business on that this is what you intend to do - especially for example, saying so on Twitter, when high demand can mean slots fill very quickly. Then, when you get the inevitable 'But you filled up' on secondary sites, said person has noone to blame but themselves - unless, of course, they go to your primary and nab that spot first. If your slots fill up on the preferred before the others? You don't have to open on the other sites at all. Done.

Better: Offer more complete/more complex/on demand (like stream) commissions in one location. Perhaps 'full color' is only offered in one place, while you can get sketches in multiple. Again, advertise on all sites frequented that you intend to do so. The caveat for this one is that you have to go through the trouble of making the account on the new place to take a spot for UberNeatCommission.

Cheaper: Offer discounts on your work when that work comes in through your preferred mode. Just as before, advertise on any sites you have a presence on that this is what you're doing. Whether at its core this amounts to a higher price on other sites and keeping your prices 'the same' for your preferred, or offering a discount below that baseline on the preferred is technically immaterial; it again incentivizes coming in via the path you want.

These sorts of moves don't remove you from places you don't want to be overnight, but they do nudge your audience in that direction over time. In the end, that's the ideal, from a business standpoint, right?

Well I think he already lit the fuse with who he just hired to code the site.

I've just been going over the comments on Fender's journal announcing StarryKi- sorry, I mean Zidonuke joining, and I'm pretty surprised to see Zido admit he's been a secret admin for a while and Dragoneer knew his past but didn't give a shit. I think it's far past the time Dragoneer should have stepped down and gave the site to someone else more competent.

You are a saint. I did not want to be helpful.

So basically, I should treat my FA account as if the systems administrator is a hacker who has abused his power to leave gaping security holes and mess up sites before. I hadn't heard about anything being revealed, but considering the anonymity of the new account, I had a feeling something would be revealed quite quickly.

I can also see how most users think these little…‘transgressions’ don’t directly impact them, which doesn’t give them a reason to care about leaving FA.

That alone gives me no hope for FA. If the community won’t band together in large numbers and tell Dragoneer to knock his bullshit off, nothing is ever going to change there.

It's either WalMart or not at all for most of the groceries around here.

It's very frustrating.

True, art talks in this fandom.

Not to mention they probably couldn't perceive how Zaush could be a threat to THEM, you know. Most of them are guys who are into guys so a sleazebag with a reputation for harassing women and coercing them into sleeping with them isn't going to raise many eyebrows.

But a hacker who once took down a known and popular fap-fuel site like F-List? That's going to be harder to defend in their eyes.