While Tom Fulp is running The Behemoth Booth at PAX Boston, the mods shall play! You probably saw my tweet from a little under a month ago about being banned from the Newgrounds Forums for standing up for myself and another woman in the topic P*rn Artists: How to Deal with Anti-Hornies?, the very thread that I created and had its thesis proven by the Hate Squad showing up, including one with a very “creative” name, and a certain mod showing up to lock the thread. Thanks for proving me right! And they’re still doing so!
The latest grudgemod is I’m being prevented from posting in the Nudegrounds — NG Nude Studies+ thread, a spinoff thread of my locked thread. magianfellow wanted to have a chill hangout for tasteful nudes, which I support because I want everyone to have a good time. A certain mod locked the thread, and left a comment about how it was a duplicate thread (what rule is that?) and their concern it would become “a place where people will just re-post their existing artwork.” (WHAT RULE IS THAT?????)
While you cannot Internet archive A-Rated threads on Newgrounds, you can make PDFs. I have many, and I will link to them throughout the thread. They are NSFW due to an image being posted to the thread, so I will include screenshots. [PDF 1] is a certain mod’s comment on the Nudegrounds thread when it was locked.
After I assume some going over this mod’s head occurred, the thread was resurrected and users were allowed to post in it again. I thought I could post in there again too. No, I cannot.
When I posted to the thread last night around 12:01am AEST (10:01am EDT) with a link to a piece of art that was well within the topic of the thread, I thought it would stay. It did not. I awoke the next morning to find that my post to the thread had been deleted. I do not have a screenshot of the original post. I didn’t think I’d have to be so freaking careful, documenting my every move because of a mod with a grudge. However I mended my error, and I have every single freaking PDF archive after this.
[PDF 2] is when I reposted to the thread at 9:10am AEST (7:10pm EDT). The post stood through the day, it even had comments referring to the post.
[PDF 3] is from 10:16am AEST (8:16pm EDT) which includes SirMoony’s posts and my replies.
When I returned to the thread after my stream which ended at 4:12pm AEST, I saw that my posts and SirMoony’s posts were removed as seen in [PDF 4].
I once again posted the same thing I had in the morning at 4:16pm AEST (2:16am EDT), seen in [PDF 5], only to see it get removed at 5:21pm AEST (3:21am EDT), which you can see in [PDF 6].
I have received no mod mail. I received no communication over why this post has been removed or even why SirMoony’s posts were also removed. I have not been banned or any other action taken against me except for post removal with no mod comment. And these aren’t the only posts of mine that have been removed recently.
In the thread titled AI Scrapping and How to Protect Yourself, my husband @alsoknownas1 and I chimed in with our two cents on what we thought was an open discussion. He mentioned LoRas being trained on Newgrounds art and I mentioned that Bluesky has an API to teach LLMs. We do not have Internet archives of the original posts as we didn’t think we’d have to be so careful, but we do have subsequent archives as we were not banned and allowed to continue to post over and over and over, trying each time to make the post in line with what we thought a certain mod would allow. My husband has gone over this in his Newgrounds News Post.
I am asking @TomFulp why he is allowing a certain mod to continue to grudgemod. If you say I should report it, well, we have. You will see that in the post to my husband’s thread above. I am thankful to the person who interceded on my behalf to Tom and got me unbanned. I am hoping that Tom will once again see that he needs to step in and stop this abuse of mod power for personal reasons, to stifle talk about NSFW and AI, and to ultimately bully my husband and me off the site like hundreds of others have been. Please stop this.
