H203:
I would, but I’m not really sure I could call this person a scammer. More of a catfish… I guess? Although they might be who they claim but still just wasting my time.

ILuvChubbyChix:
Substantial misrepresentation, or catfishing is also unacceptable and is a potentially ban worthy offense. While they might not being trying to scam you out of money, they often engage in the same kind of behavior. In some ways, it might even be worse, since this is what predators may do.

Certain amounts of fudging is acceptable and even expected. Examples include, but not necessarily limited to might be:

- Height is off by an inch or so.
- Weight is not expected to be up to the day or minute accurate. If you don't want to say, you can use an extreme that clearly doesn't fit the pictures provided (e.g. 100 lbs or 800 lbs).
- You aren't expected to answer income or occupation, etc.
- Location doesn't have to be entirely accurate. It's accepted, even expected that users who don't live in a large city, will often choose the nearest larger city or metro area as a balance between privacy as opposed to cultural and potential meet-up purposes.
- Any pictures of you, if provided, are expected to closely represent what you look like now, or properly represented to mean this is what you looked like in the past.
- No one is expected to potentially highlight negative traits.

I think you get the idea.

This is in contrast to substantial misrepresentation. Where if you were to somehow meet this person face to face, the individual is nothing at all like you expected. Examples of this include:

- Images that look nothing at all like the person, and aren't labeled as such, or it's not immediately obvious it's not.
- Age being incorrect. You can use an extreme outlier if you don't want to answer.
- A male pretending to be female, or vice versa. If you don't want to answer, you can set it to "other." We do recognize that some individuals could discover being trans, but that's why the options of "trans-woman" and "trans-man" exists.
- Pretending to live in another country.

These policies are in place to protect not just you, but both parties in fact. Not to mention, it saves time in case it means you aren't each others' type.

After all, suppose you do ultimately meet the person face to face? What do you think will happen? At best, one person might get up and leave immediately, or might perhaps say something like "Get the fuck out of here, right now." At worst, it could result in severe physical altercation, significant injury, and the police potentially getting involved.

Roleplay isn't prohibited, but you don't have to misrepresent your profile to engage in it, and agree to certain parameters before commencing.

Olga01:
... Yahweh , because of lack of unconditional faith and love for Him ... sent to them draught, locusts, shortage of food and water...

Kitsune:
I was hesitant to play Smash Bros with my siblings during Easter but I played anyways. Of course, I ended up looking like a tomfool. :'(

I've come to realization that multiplayer games overwhelm me and I prefer to play in single player mode. I rather play for my own enjoyment and not be judged by others. Anyone here in this same boat?

Now, I should play my good ol casual flash games sometime.

Munchies:
Generally, I prefer to play solo, but sometimes, I enjoy playing with other people Depends on my mood.

My favorite multiplayer game will forever be to Fire Boy and Water Girl series. I don't know what it is, but it scratches a particular itch for me.

Enas:
Throughout the history of capitalism, its dynamic center has shifted. There has never been a succesful attempt to stop this, by any country/region that it was leaving from.

I think the only way in which America could get out of this is by building a huge worker coop sector, which will certainly not move anywhere, but the sociopaths running the country will have none of it.

Morbidly A Beast:
How will a huge worker coop help us in a service based debt economy?

Enas:
Edit: This could go out of topic, but rereading your post has made me curious... You say "eurocentric standards", what do you mean by that?

Munchies:
This refers to the idea that anything involving white people is the gold standard. This includes things such as beauty standards, philosophy, fashion, religion, and more. Eurocentrism is a lasting holdover from colonialism.

Zowee:
Serious question for those in the know:

I’m based in Seattle (very inclusive on paper), but the reality here is… mostly cishet, neurotypical, and very “tech-bro-transplant” vibes. A lot of folks perform wokeness but still cling to eurocentric standards and don’t actually know how to treat marginalized bodies.

Adding another layer with Feedism....

Anyways while I have amazing friends, the dating/meetup scene here has been exhausting.....fetishizing, dismissive, or just plain desperate.

I’m a trans, neurodivergent person of color, and I’m tired of being seen as a category instead of a person.

Where are the pockets of community that are:

Queer-inclusive

Fat-positive without being creepy

Neurodivergent-friendly

Actually full of good food and good people

And where bigotry isn’t tolerated as a "difference of opinion"?

This is part vacation planning, and soul searching. Just wanna go somewhere I can exist, indulge, and connect without feeling like a token or a fantasy.

Enas:
Would i be a Trump apologist for saying that Trump was not the facilitator of all this crazyness?

Munchies:
Yes, actually. You would be.

I'm all for acknowledging system issues, but you cannot ignore the impact of individuals. Focusing on one over the other is, as you like to say, illogical and stupid.

Take FF, for example. This place used to be rife with lots of bigots. Misogynists, racists, homophobes, transphobes, and more. Lotta fucked shit. It was very systematized. This is not to say FF condoned the behavior per se, but seeing that the site owner is an older white British man, there were a lot of blind spots.

You know what changed it? Individual members confronting other individual members. Some changed, some left, and some stopped posting gross things as much. And as people grew unified in standing up for the vulnerable, the system changed.

And this is why you specifically are getting the pushback you are getting. Focusing on systemic issues while overlooking individual actions exonerates the individuals (even if that's not what you meant to do) and strengthens the system. In your efforts to play "enlightened scholar," you are propping up a system that FF as a whole is trying to leave behind.