I can only agree!
I tried a joining more local fur forum once, but I had a similar experience there... There weren't many topics actually about furry stuff, even less serious topics..
Neither did anyone, including admins, seem to be very serious about the whole furry thing, almost everyone seemed to just have it as a hobby or interest aside from their social lives rather than actually be very serious about it.. neither were they very open as it seemed, for example I felt like they found me too
weird and childish too fit in!!!
This is just my experience from that forum however...
Then, not too long ago, several months after I left the forum, one of their mods added me and invited me to the forum's chat group on skype.. -the one I had been kicked out from earlier for being, as said,
too weird- telling me they wanted me back.. stupid as I was, I accepted the invite, hoping they had gotten better over the past months. The first day went pretty well and I almost got back onto the forum... but then, during the second day evening, pretty late, we got into a very adultish conversation! I, trying to fit in, replied and continued with the subject.. at the end, we had even gotten to a extremely gross and weird subject.. the guy did make a really freaky voice and talked as if he, so to say, did bad things to helpless animals (!!!).. I felt extremely uncomfortable, but still continued replying, stupid as I was.. finally I made up an excuse to leave for the night and get away from there..
Then anyway, the next thing I heard from them was the next day, the mod that had first invited me send me a message in a private chat saying that she was disappointed with me. She explained that
THEY HAD JUST TESTED ME to see it I had
GOTTEN BETTER or something.. They did it to see how far I would go and told me I have to learn to set my limits!
Like seriously, you come and gain my trust over a day and make me feel like you have become a better forum over the past months, almost a year probably, and then you test me to see how far into a sick, perverted chat you can get me before reaching my limit, when I try to fit in!Then she even claimed that they are
more open and friendly than most other furry communities!
Nope, I think I've put my paw there for the last time. I'm so happy that atleast here everyone is much more open and lets me be the way I want, instead of telling me to grow up or judge me like the other forum did.. I am forever thankful to all of you!