I worked at a wilderness program
Well fornits sure ain't what it used to be. Expensive program lawyers, powerful law firms, Sue Scheff and Co., nobody could shut down fornits and kill it's spirit, that is, until Psy took over. We have been told we are being protected for our own good with the numerous restrictions imposed by Psy, but the evidence shows now that it only hurts fornits, and the ability to have discussions, which is the entire point of this place to begin with.
Now we have program staff censoring, moving and chopping up our posts. They get to decide whether we are "on topic" enough, or if our posts should remain. I find this repugnant, and I truly wonder whether the owner of fornits had a seizure, or what. It's like fornits has entered upside down world, where staffers are still in control, and survivors get banned for saying the wrong thing.
Does anybody else remember the old days of fornits? When it was tan and orange, and you could post anonymously and your avatar would be a paper bag head? Fornits actually served a useful purpose back then, when the people who created the content on fornits retained the ability to post where they wanted, about whatever they wanted, and respond to whomever they felt like. Now it feels like fornits is run by an obsessive compulsive, communist. Or perhaps, program staff.
Psy isn't even a program survivor. He was an adult who signed himself into drug treatment, a program for 18-27 year olds. His entire program was payed for courtesy of you and me, the US taxpayer. He could have walked out at any point. He was never abused, or mistreated. He thinks he got duped into signing himself into treatment, sorry, but stupidity and such child like acquiescence to parents demands does not make you a survivor.
So we have an adult who went to rehab, and wasn't abused, running fornits, and who does he pick for his main censor/moderator? A program staffer. Fornits has been getting slower and slower, and posters have left in droves. The reason is simple, restricting speech does not, and will not work. Fornits must return itself to it's original ideals of free speech and expression if it expects to stay relevant, and online. Ursus, Troll Patrol, Anne Bonne and Robert Bruce arguing with Whooter, is all that is left of fornits.
It's not too late. Remove Psy as admin, remove all moderators and all moderation and go back to the orange/tan color scheme. Otherwise fornits will eventually suffer the fate of every other forum Psy has had control of, it will die.