I would like to appeal this suspension which we feel on Onionfarms is unfair.
Onionfarms is a forum that is devoted to internet drama and gossip concerning Lolcows (niche celebrities), celebrities, and political drama (countries and heads of state [i.e. political cows]) nothing more nothing less. Here is Section 3 of your license that you claim Onionfarms has violated.
You undertake to ensure that the Software is not used by You or others to engage in or promote: illegal activity; any activity that would violate the rights of third parties; defamation, discrimination, harassment, hatred or harm of third parties.
We don’t engage in or promote any illegal activity. I have not been contacted by any law enforcement agency regarding illegal conduct. We are in good standing with our ISP. There are no court orders against us. I can assure you that no one on my staff advocates harming or outside harassment of any third party. Because of the challenging nature of running a forum such as this we all have a vested interest in making sure what we do is legal
https://www.onionfarms.com/pages/Onionfarms_Clarification/
Our relationship with Kiwifarms – Here is what was inspired by Kiwifarms
The Onionfarms logo (actually there are 2 of them) came from the idea of an onion having many layers. I came up with the idea of layers of gossip and drama.
The Onionfarms logo (the one with the green leaves and the blue dew drop) on those themes without the asterisk was inspired by the green kiwifarms.net logo with the giant teardrop.
The Onionfarms logo (the purple smiling onion) was not mine. It was a former admin that came up with it.
Yes. The
general layout covering “lolcows” of Onionfarms was inspired by Kiwifarms.net. However even kiwifarms.net covers both celebrities as well as lolcows.
The Audience
Probably 95%+ of the members on Onionfarms are either Kiwis, former Kiwis, people from Encyclopedia Dramatica, people from other lolcow forums such as the now defunct lolcow.org forum or the Metokur forum or people who were followers of CWC. This s (Christine Weston Chandler). The people who join are people who like to keep up with internet trends, memes and culture which of course includes lolcows. This is simply the nature of the forum. Membership in multiple forums is normal for this subset. I knew this from the very beginning when I started Onionfarms.
Onionfarms is a separate entity from the Kiwifarms.
Onionfarms is a separate forum from the Kiwifarms. Kiwifarms does not control Onionfarms and neither does Onionfarms control Kiwifarms. Yes, we both have threads on each other.
We have a different atmosphere than the Kiwifarms. We are more relaxed and easygoing than the kiwifarms. We are moving in the direction of covering countries and heads of state. Kiwifarms in general does not.
Finally I would like to add that the staff who are helping to build Onionfarms are very proud of what we have accomplished. We are proud to be a part of the HostGator and Xenforo Community and hope you will reconsider your decision.
