Portal of Evil

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The Portal of Evil, PoE proper or simply PoE is a website that specializes in cataloging strange, shocking, or otherwise amusing web pages, and has been described as "the Yahoo! of the weird". PoE was founded and continues to be maintained by Chet (of Old Man Murray, currently an employee of Valve Software). The site also has several sister sites, including POE News, which specializes in odd and unusual news stories, and POEtv, a video repository portal with a similar slant (yet, all videos must remain 'Safe For Work'). Most sites on the PoE Network incorporate lively discussion forums.

Though the sites listed on POE range from religious extremism to sexual fetishes, the large number of furry fandom-related sites that have been listed on POE, along with the often harsh comments passed upon said sites in POE's forums, have caused it to be branded by some as an anti-furry site.

[edit] The Prime Directive

Contrary to popular belief, the great majority of PoE members do not organize attacks on the websites that are listed on PoE. Rule #1 of the PoE forum rules, also known as the Prime Directive (or PD for short), states: "Do not contact the site listed. Do not email the site owner. Do not post in their guestbooks. Do not post in their forums. If the site owners want to interact with visitors from PoE they can come to these forums." In other words, PoE members are to keep their criticisms of the site to the PoE forums, even if the site owners post to PoE of their own accord.

Occasionally, casual visitors to PoE will react to featured sites in a way that violates the Prime Directive, e.g. by privately contacting the site's owner, posting rude messages on the site's guestbook, or otherwise causing the owner to alter or even shut down his or her website. Sometimes this is done maliciously by people opposed to PoE, in a deliberate attempt to make the site and its members look bad; such behavior, as mentioned above, is against the forum rules, and people have been banned for this.

[edit] Furry Posters on PoE

Mostly, posters on Portal of Evil don't make direct contact with furries, due to the PD. However, furries often post to Portal of Evil for a variety of reasons, most often to defend either themselves or some aspect of the fandom. Furry webmasters also frequently visit the site, and many furry site forums on PoE have large post counts due to flamewars between furries and PoE regulars. The 2 forums are a good example.

A few regulars, however, are themselves furries. A few try to conceal the fact, for fear of ridicule from their fellow posters, while others manage to gain a large post count while still openly admitting their furriness. The reaction from the other forum posters tends to depend on the attitude the furry takes toward PoE.

A few notable furry PoE regulars include Wheelie McJesus, a furry who many at PoE regarded as a "good" furry; MyTanookiSuitHasBalls, a furry troll who has been banned from PoE multiple times; painterfox, a babyfur who occasionally lurks and shared the same college with crossaffliction, a Christian furry whose user forum was at one time the most posted to on PoE.

PoE had a long-standing Wikipedia article. This was deleted in April 2007 as "non-notable", but has been re-posted. It remains to be seen whether Wikipedia will also delete the restored article. Lee M was falsely accused of the original deletion, but was not in fact a Wikipedia administrator.

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