It may sometimes seem that we don't take abuse reports and disruptive members seriously, but to give you an idea of how hard the moderators work, here's our stats for the past week (from 29th Jan to now):

Notes: 3
Warnings: 5
1 day suspensions: 2
1 week suspensions: 1
Permanent bans: 7
IP address bans: 12

IP address bans are usually for trolls, scammers and spammers that have no interest in the site other than to cause disruption or to get what they can from it. We have very strict sign-up checks that stop most of these at the door but for those that do get through we usually pick these up in a day or two.

Permanent bans are for members that may have some interest but have repeatedly broken the rules, usually by scamming or harassing other members or by persistent begging and advertising. These bans prevent people from signing-up by they can still view the site in a limited way as a guest.

The notes, warnings and suspensions are just for members who do have an interest in the site but play up occasionally, for instance may need a day off to cool off after an argument in chat.

Overall, we try to be as tolerant as we can of everybody, because it's not good for the community to ban lots of people. This means having to put up with some minor grievances, arguments and disruptions from otherwise good people just as you would in 'real' off-line life.

However I take your point about improving the reporting feature. Adding the ability to upload screenshots would be really useful because so often it's just one person's word against another. Thanks for the suggestion.

Please could you clarify this issue, since the update shouldn't have affected the forums. What's the URL of the page you're referring to?

Please accept my apologies for the chat issues, this was an oversight in the latest update but should now be fixed.

Perhaps I can explain my reasons for the navigation changes to show that there has been some thought gone into it and the changes are not just random. First of all the changes should only affect desktop users, the navigation for mobile users should still be the same as before. For desktop users, we've moved the navigation to the left hand side which gives space for many more top level links. It's using space that was previously just blank and cleans up the header, allowing room for more icons up there in the future. It also makes the desktop navigation similar to the mobile navigation, making it consistent for members who access the site on multiple devices.

Finally, were not finished yet, this is just the first step in improving the navigation and you should see another update soon which will recategorise some of the links into more intuitive groups. Oh, and unfortunately we don't have a test team like Microsoft, but we do try to get the fixes out as soon as we can. We rely on members pointing out bugs, so even though it can be hard to hear when we've screwed up, please do keep pointing them out because it helps us improve the site (I really mean it).

This thread seems to have veered of from the original topic of the film and has become more focused on size acceptance, which isn't the theme of this site. I'm therefore closing this thread.

Gender issues are import and a valid topic for discussion however it's a bit too political for the theme of this site. There are other places to discuss these. I'm therefore closing the thread.

One thing that doesn't seem to have been mentioned so far, is the importance of building up a following. Our most popular authors on this site have built up a following over time, so now whenever they upload a new story or even a new chapter, the notifications go out and it's immediately read by many of their fans.

If you're a premium author, then uploading some free stories in addition to the paid stories can show members the quality of your work and encourage them to follow you. If they like the free stories they may think it's well worth signing up to read the paid work.

Hey, your profile shows 139 stories and clicking through I see 14 pages with 10 per page (9 on the last page). It's the same when entering your name in the author search.

Which page are you on when you get the reduced number of results?

You can follow someone from their profile. Click the big red follow button near the top.

The messaging is deliberately limited because we rely on upgrades to finance the website. We can't rely on advertising like other social media websites because of the adult nature of feedism. We also respect your privacy, so won't sell your data. However if you have the means, you can get unlimited DM's and unlimted chat with the social upgrade - fantasyfeeder.com/upgrades.