Aye, or the ones who say "Oh man, that hunt last night was exhilarating, the wind in my fur and the rabbit I killed with my fangs"

Heh. I've often thought it pretty funny the lengths said posers will go to to avoid providing proof of p-shifts, their hunts, and the like.

If you could p-shift and you wanted to prove it could be done, you'd set up a camera to record a video and then begin the change after it was already recording. I think if somebody actually did that, we'd have no problem accepting a hunt story.

That's a pretty good point, actually, Gremlin. Someone intelligent who knows what they are talking about will of course know enough to be thought of as genuine.

TheGremlin wrote:

Although, just to be awkward...can you weed out every "poser"? I mean, I'm not saying this is the case, but couldn't anyone of us who have posted within this topic be a poser? We could just be more tactful in our approach, by reading up on information first, knowing whats "ok" to say and what isn't, and by doing that we appear to be more "genuine" :)

That's why I don't really bother.  You can't tell who's lying to themselves or others and whos not, so you just don't bother.  It doesn't really matter anyway, as there's really no point in pretending...

True...there aren't enough Therian forums.

given that the term Therianthropy itself was only recently coined and that the vast majority of people are unaware of it the small number of sites catering to therians is to be expected.

yeah...possers are the ones that try to hard....

This all sounds like a BAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWW!-fest to me. >:|

What I think is funny is how when you start talking about "posers" all the stupid people (this encompasses both therians and non-therians) like to jump in and agree about the "serious problem on the internets".  I also see that a good few of the people complaning have never really been to an actual therian site (as far as I can tell), yet are complaining about something that is an issue for reasons that haven't been encountered here.  I expect that many of the people here will leave at some point having decided that they never were therians making this little "discussion" all the more pointless in the end.
How's that for my opinion on the matter? >:|

Indeed. I don't think I've ever known a Therian who took it very seriously very long and I don't think there's been any harm done to the community.
Just remember, before you get all fired up with holy zeal and ramp across the forum like Maxwell, that this is not a Therian forum - it's a fandom forum and in most of the place, it's perfectly legitimate for people to be posers.

I gotta agree.  As annoying as stupid people (again, both legitimate and non-legitimate therians) can be, they don't do much harm other than the occasional bit of misinfo. 
Also, going crazy on Werewolf forums like VanZandt described has given therianthropy a worse name than people claiming to be therians ever could.  The reason I wanted this forum in the first place was for separation: Therianthropy doesn't belong on a Werewolf fansite in the context it was being presented, this is a better place to talk about it.

Chaoticist wrote:

True...there aren't enough Therian forums.

lolwut?  There are hundreds of Therian/Otherkin/Vampire forums on the internet, and they're pretty easy to make.  Just do a search for it or look at Therian.Wikia.  OR start your own. (if you really have something worth making: there are too many that were unorigional or stupid and didn't last long)

ShadyHowl wrote:

I think I gave up being angry at blatent posers after the first 6 months or so.

No you didn't.  You're still getting angry. >:|

>:|

WAT.  Go away Thira.  This topic is dead and has nothing to do with Twilight.