[[Image:LulzLogo2.png|right|250px]]
'''Lulz.net''' (formerly known as '''WTFur''') is a [[2ch]] style art community for the posting of [[erotic]] [[furry art]], and populated with former members from the /furi/ board on [[WTFux]].

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*'''Addressess''':
**'''Main imageboard''' http://lulz.net/
**'''Discussion forum''': http://lulz.net/dis/
**'''IRC''': irc://irc.lulz.net/wtfur
*'''Founders''': [[cho0b]]
*'''Administrators''': cho0b
*'''Moderators''': cho0b, [[Kiba]], [[Joe]], [[Sibe]]
*'''Ran from/to''':
** Early summer 2006 - July 24, 2006 (as WTFur)
** August 25, 2006 - November 30, 2006 (as Lulz.net)
** January 7, 2006 - present (as Lulz.net)
*'''Motto''':
** ''"Furry art discussion and critique"'' (2006)
** ''"You messed with me!''" (2007)

==Policies and content==

This board does not feature a list of people that draw furries that don't want them posted. Although polite takedown requests from said people are usually heeded, impolite or impatient takedown requests from artists are often disregarded. Due to the [[Wikipedia:DMCA|DMCA]], posting of media from [[Sexyfur|Sexyfur.com]] and/or [[furry artist]] [[Jeremy Bernal]] now considered a bannable offense.

As it was with [[WTFux]], its main [[furry]] directory image is a singular topical board called '''/furi/'''. This allows all manner of media topics to be displayed, ranging from clean art to adult material, to straight to gay sexual content, to vore, scat and cub art, all posted side-by-side.

Because of this, there have been several requests by users to subdivide this master board into smaller categories, using a model similar to other imageboards such as [[Fchan]]. The official stance of the moderation team is that requests of this nature will be ignored, and when questioned about this decision, moderator Mellis responded thus why the reason of a single unified board:

:"''People are going to bitch [about images] with or without separated boards, because there are a lot of people who are thin-skinned or just like to argue or be 'category zealots'. Personally, I would rather deal with ONE board where people are complaining about what should and should not be posted, than seven or eight or however fine you want to subdivide categories.''"

==2006 server move==
[[image:GovWTFur.png|250px|right]]
On July 25, 2006, in preparation to moving the site to a new server, WTFur's splash page was replaced by cho0b with a fake notice from the US [[wikipedia:fbi|Federal Bureau of Investigation]], [[Wikipedia:NSA|National Security Agency]], [[Wikipedia:MPAA|MPAA]], and the [[wikipedia:RIAA|RIAA]].

The "message" informs the viewer that "''This website has been closed by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation, in association with the United States National Security Agency, the Motion Picture Association of America, and the Recording Industry Association of America; pending a federal investigation''," that their [[wikipedia:IP|IP]] has been logged, and to "''Please stay where you are. You will be contacted for questioning regarding the investigations related to this website.''"

Clicking on "''Piracy Doesn't Pay''" lead to a placeholder image board on the server (/temp/,) with the title '''/pedofur/'''. Finally, until the move was completed, all hosted images were archived in a single [[wikipedia:rar|RAR]] image, and uploaded to the [http://thepiratebay.org/ The Pirate Bay], a [[Wikipedia:BitTorrent|BitTorrent]] tracker.

The original "takedown" image can be found at [http://vxbinaca.beevomit.org/ Vxbinaca.beevomit.org], under the section "''7/24/06 FBI Takedown joke page.''"

==Relocation changes==
[[Image:Wtfur2.png|right|thumb|Old Lulz logo|400px]]
The board re-appeared on August 25, 2006 as "Lulz.net," having lost its prior name due to legal proceedings with [[furry artist]] [[Jeremy Bernal]]. An European server was also chosen due to more lax copyright rules overseas, which meant that what little of a DNP copyright protection "WTFur" had could now be completely disregarded.

==Controversy==

=====Single board approach=====

Many visitors to Lulz take issue with the board's "''hands-off''" approach to posting and moderation, allowing all manner of media content ([[PG]] to [[X]], straight, gay, vore, scat, cub art, etc...) to be posted mixed, side-by-side on the site's single board.

Though controversial, the moderators defend this choice by reasoning that it will expose users to art or [[Artist|artists]] they would not have seen otherwise, and that because users are prone to complain about posts in categories no matter how finely they are divided, dealing with those complaints in a single board only saves the moderation team a great deal of time. And so, any future requests by users to subdivide the content of the board into smaller categories, will, as stated before (see "Policies and content",) be ignored.

=====Moderators' actions/inactions=====

Furthermore, there have been accusations of the moderating staff standing ''idly by'' in the past as a direct result of these policies, when threads have been posted that users object to, but do not necessarily break any of the site's rules, or the moderation team is slow to remove spam or invasion posts from the page. Though there have been requests by a small group of users to take down threads featuring [[Cub|cub]] or commercial work, such as work by [[Palcomix]], the moderation team does not appear to remove such material.

=====Cub art=====

When questioned in particular about 'cub porn' and the policy on the site of such material after one of many such threads caught the eye of [[CrushYiffDestroy]], the moderators of the site responded with the following:

*"''Enforcing rules based on morals is not the job of the moderators and/or administrators of an imageboard site''"
*"''If users think that a thread contains morally offensive images or text, they can sage the thread until it is permasaged into nothing"''
*''"While I whole heartedly agree that child pornography is not something that should be smiled upon, I feel that I must reinstate the fact that 'cub porn' is not child pornography"''<ref>[http://crushyiffdestroy.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=2478&highlight=lulz&sid=4f2e452174093b8a828829e76302d5fb cho0b and "cub porn" art on Lulz.net]</ref>.

These policies have been in place since Lulz's inception, and, for better or worse, remain unchanged to this day.

=====Admin split, board shutdown=====

On November 30, 2006, cho0b redirected the Lulz.net domain name. Some other moderators from the former Lulz began renaming Lulz to [[Sidechan]] that night, while cho0b set to find new hosting for WTFux.org and a new WTFur.org. Lulz goes offline

=====Sidechan gets hacked=====
[[Image:Sidechan1.jpg|right|280px]]
On January 7th, 2007, Sidechan was hacked by someone posting by the name "jihad" (believed to be cho0b), and all of the boards were wiped clean of their content, with an advertisement for lulz.net popping up on /furi/ before the entire site went down completely.

==2007 (back on line)==
[[Image:LulzLogo.png|right|280px]]
Lulz came back on line the same day Sidechan was hacked in January 2007. The set-up is still a single board approach and a lack of a [[DNP]]. The frontpage sported a temporary photoshopped version of the Sidechan logo, with name changed to "lulz.net" (using the [[wikipedia:Disney|Disney]] font,) and sidechan's mascot '''Downsy''' "head-[[wikipedia:Fisting|fisting]]" the persona of [[4chan]]'s moot.

===== Additional changes (3/22/07) =====

*sticky threads finally implemented (works great)
*management panel totally reworked (2,000x better than it was)
*collapsed threads stay collapsed when you leave the page and come back~
*janitor panel reworked (janitors cannot ban or sticky/unsticky threads; can delete posts/images)
*added choice to return to the current thread or go back to the main thread list after posting
*checkbox for "bumping" a thread has been added to postform reply view
*mods can now permasage a thread so that it cannot be bumped again
*mods can now close a thread so that it cannot be posted to

===== Additional changes (1/12/07) =====

*Sexyfur.co/Jeremy Bernal media posting ban
*Lulz.css style sheet completely revamped
*Post form reworked
*Collapsible threads implemented
*Original post thumbnail larger than reply thumbnails
*Added working janitor moderation panel

==References==
<references/>

{{Image boards}}

[[Category:Mature image boards]]
[[Category:2006 births]]

Lulz.net

2007-03-23T18:15:24Z

Cho0b: /* Sidechan gets hacked */

[[Image:LulzLogo2.png|right|250px]]
'''Lulz.net''' (formerly known as '''WTFur''') is a [[2ch]] style art community for the posting of [[erotic]] [[furry art]], and populated with former members from the /furi/ board on [[WTFux]].

{{rating-ma-button}}
*'''Addressess''':
**'''Main imageboard''' http://lulz.net/
**'''Discussion forum''': http://lulz.net/dis/
**'''IRC''': irc://irc.lulz.net/wtfur
*'''Founders''': [[cho0b]]
*'''Administrators''': cho0b
*'''Moderators''': cho0b, [[Kiba]], [[Joe]], [[Sibe]]
*'''Ran from/to''':
** Early summer 2006 - July 24, 2006 (as WTFur)
** August 25, 2006 - November 30, 2006 (as Lulz.net)
** January 7, 2006 - present (as Lulz.net)
*'''Motto''':
** ''"Furry art discussion and critique"'' (2006)
** ''"You messed with me!''" (2007)

==Policies and content==

This board does not feature a list of people that draw furries that don't want them posted. Although polite takedown requests from said people are usually heeded, impolite or impatient takedown requests from artists are often disregarded. Due to the [[Wikipedia:DMCA|DMCA]], posting of media from [[Sexyfur|Sexyfur.com]] and/or [[furry artist]] [[Jeremy Bernal]] now considered a bannable offense.

As it was with [[WTFux]], its main [[furry]] directory image is a singular topical board called '''/furi/'''. This allows all manner of media topics to be displayed, ranging from clean art to adult material, to straight to gay sexual content, to vore, scat and cub art, all posted side-by-side.

Because of this, there have been several requests by users to subdivide this master board into smaller categories, using a model similar to other imageboards such as [[Fchan]]. The official stance of the moderation team is that requests of this nature will be ignored, and when questioned about this decision, moderator Mellis responded thus why the reason of a single unified board:

:"''People are going to bitch [about images] with or without separated boards, because there are a lot of people who are thin-skinned or just like to argue or be 'category zealots'. Personally, I would rather deal with ONE board where people are complaining about what should and should not be posted, than seven or eight or however fine you want to subdivide categories.''"

==2006 server move==
[[image:GovWTFur.png|250px|right]]
On July 25, 2006, in preparation to moving the site to a new server, WTFur's splash page was replaced by cho0b with a fake notice from the US [[wikipedia:fbi|Federal Bureau of Investigation]], [[Wikipedia:NSA|National Security Agency]], [[Wikipedia:MPAA|MPAA]], and the [[wikipedia:RIAA|RIAA]].

The "message" informs the viewer that "''This website has been closed by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation, in association with the United States National Security Agency, the Motion Picture Association of America, and the Recording Industry Association of America; pending a federal investigation''," that their [[wikipedia:IP|IP]] has been logged, and to "''Please stay where you are. You will be contacted for questioning regarding the investigations related to this website.''"

Clicking on "''Piracy Doesn't Pay''" lead to a placeholder image board on the server (/temp/,) with the title '''/pedofur/'''. Finally, until the move was completed, all hosted images were archived in a single [[wikipedia:rar|RAR]] image, and uploaded to the [http://thepiratebay.org/ The Pirate Bay], a [[Wikipedia:BitTorrent|BitTorrent]] tracker.

The original "takedown" image can be found at [http://vxbinaca.beevomit.org/ Vxbinaca.beevomit.org], under the section "''7/24/06 FBI Takedown joke page.''"

==Relocation changes==
[[Image:Wtfur2.png|right|thumb|Old Lulz logo|400px]]
The board re-appeared on August 25, 2006 as "Lulz.net," having lost its prior name due to legal proceedings with [[furry artist]] [[Jeremy Bernal]]. An European server was also chosen due to more lax copyright rules overseas, which meant that what little of a DNP copyright protection "WTFur" had could now be completely disregarded.

==Controversy==

=====Single board approach=====

Many visitors to Lulz take issue with the board's "''hands-off''" approach to posting and moderation, allowing all manner of media content ([[PG]] to [[X]], straight, gay, vore, scat, cub art, etc...) to be posted mixed, side-by-side on the site's single board.

Though controversial, the moderators defend this choice by reasoning that it will expose users to art or [[Artist|artists]] they would not have seen otherwise, and that because users are prone to complain about posts in categories no matter how finely they are divided, dealing with those complaints in a single board only saves the moderation team a great deal of time. And so, any future requests by users to subdivide the content of the board into smaller categories, will, as stated before (see "Policies and content",) be ignored.

=====Moderators' actions/inactions=====

Furthermore, there have been accusations of the moderating staff standing ''idly by'' in the past as a direct result of these policies, when threads have been posted that users object to, but do not necessarily break any of the site's rules, or the moderation team is slow to remove spam or invasion posts from the page. Though there have been requests by a small group of users to take down threads featuring [[Cub|cub]] or commercial work, such as work by [[Palcomix]], the moderation team does not appear to remove such material.

=====Cub art=====

When questioned in particular about 'cub porn' and the policy on the site of such material after one of many such threads caught the eye of [[CrushYiffDestroy]], the moderators of the site responded with the following:

*"''Enforcing rules based on morals is not the job of the moderators and/or administrators of an imageboard site''"
*"''If users think that a thread contains morally offensive images or text, they can sage the thread until it is permasaged into nothing"''
*''"While I whole heartedly agree that child pornography is not something that should be smiled upon, I feel that I must reinstate the fact that 'cub porn' is not child pornography"''<ref>[http://crushyiffdestroy.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=2478&highlight=lulz&sid=4f2e452174093b8a828829e76302d5fb cho0b and "cub porn" art on Lulz.net]</ref>.

These policies have been in place since Lulz's inception, and, for better or worse, remain unchanged to this day.

=====Admin split, board shutdown=====

On November 30, 2006, cho0b redirected the Lulz.net domain name. Some other moderators from the former Lulz began renaming Lulz to [[Sidechan]] that night, while cho0b set to find new hosting for WTFux.org and a new WTFur.org. Lulz goes offline

=====Sidechan gets hacked=====
[[Image:Sidechan1.jpg|right|280px]]
On January 7th, 2007, Sidechan was hacked by someone posting by the name "jihad" (believed to be cho0b), and all of the boards were wiped clean of their content, with an advertisement for lulz.net popping up on /furi/ before the entire site went down completely.

==2007 (back on line)==
[[Image:LulzLogo.png|right|280px]]
Lulz came back on line the same day Sidechan was hacked in January 2007. The set-up is still a single board approach and a lack of a [[DNP]]. The frontpage sported a temporary photoshopped version of the Sidechan logo, with name changed to "lulz.net" (using the [[wikipedia:Disney|Disney]] font,) and sidechan's mascot '''Downsy''' "head-[[wikipedia:Fisting|fisting]]" the persona of [[4chan]]'s moot.

===== Additional changes (1/12/07) =====

*Sexyfur.co/Jeremy Bernal media posting ban
*Lulz.css style sheet completely revamped
*Post form reworked
*Collapsible threads implemented
*Original post thumbnail larger than reply thumbnails
*Added working janitor moderation panel

==References==
<references/>

{{Image boards}}

[[Category:Mature image boards]]
[[Category:2006 births]]

File:Sidechan1.jpg

2007-03-23T18:14:23Z

Cho0b: New page: == Licensing == {{PDImage}}

== Licensing ==
{{PDImage}}