So we've had a few people contact us about this issue lately, so I figured it's a good time to explain what's going on!

If you're ever on FAM and receive a message stating you were banned for a DOS attack, don't panic! This is triggered (most often) by either having lots of tabs open at once, or refreshing a whole lot. When you do this. the website thinks you're attempting to perform what is known as a DoS attack, or Denial of Service, by overloading it with lots of page refreshes. This slows things down, and can actually bring the site down if it's bad enough. So what the system does for us is sees that some unusual page loading activity is happening, and it stops it to prevent the site from crashing.

If you get hit with this, don't panic! It will clear up on its own. Of course, if we find out this is being done on purpose, the users responsible will be permanently removed from the site.

If anyone has any questions about this, feel free to ask!

Hey FAM!

It's that time of year again... 2015 is ending, and we'd like to start 2016 off right with a few sitewide announcements and reminders!

-Art Alerts are once again allowed to be posted on FAM! We feel the higher site traffic here is more beneficial than a niche site, and will do both the community and artists a great deal of good.

The rules will be the same as they are on FAZ (which is really quite the same as Alt Alerts.)

We have no plans to re-integrate the other parts of FAZ at this time, however.


- Users are only allowed ONE thread per sales-related section! This includes inactive or locked threads. Please be aware of this in moving forward, and remember that staff is always happy to unlock threads that the site locked automatically for inactivity. As always, we have a tutorial on how to find old threads here so that you can find you things without much headache!

As usual, we do NOT DELETE OLD THREADS unless we are ASKED to! If you want an old thread deleted, either message the mods or change the title of the thread to "DELETE" so we can find it!

Also, we don't ask users to provide all the links to their affected multiple threads to be mean or annoying. We want to make sure that you know how to find them so we can avoid this headache in the future! It's for everyone's benefit, we promise!

Please do not change your thread titles to "don't delete," since they come up in our sweeps and we need to change the titles ourselves so that we don't accidentally delete them.


-Please check post dates before posting in someone else's thread! If the OP has not posted in the thread in a month or more, it is considered thread necromancy, and is against the rules. Please be mindful so we don't have dead threads smothering ones that are actually active.


-Users are only allowed one account per person. Of course, we know some people are on a shared IP and/or have roommates, and we understand that, but until we speak to you about it, we have no way of knowing whether a second account is yours or someone else's! If you are locked down for this, just let us know (POLITELY!) and we will make a note in the staff forum to remind us in the future.

This goes for shared accounts. If you are sharing an account with someone, you are not allowed to have a separate account for your own personal use, as this will count towards multis.

Keep in mind that, because of how the site's ban system works, if you are sharing an account or an IP, both people attached will get banned. We do not have a good way to tell the system "hey these are different people," so please please please try to remember that your actions WILL affect another person!


As always, if you need a rule refresher, please do take a gander at them. Staff is ALWAYS available to answer any questions about any rule you may not understand or need any sort of clarification on. We don't bite, especially when it comes to helping users understand the site better so everyone has a better experience overall.

Have a happy new year, everyone, and stay safe!

As of late, we've noticed an upswing in users linking offsite to sell their goods. Normally this is not a problem, but the links often contain multiple types of things being sold (art, alts, digos, etc.)

We'd like to remind users that linking offsite does not make you immune to the rules, and they do still apply to your threads.

For example: Hayden posts a link to a journal containing alts, designs, and digos on his alt thread. This goes against two separate rules: digos in the alt tack, and art on FAM. If he wishes to keep this link up, he would need to remove the digos and art and put them in their own journals to link out to.

tl;dr: Please do not use external links as a loophole to break the rules.

Staff is available if you have any questions on this matter.

Hello, FAM. c:

We are looking to update the digo list very soon. However, we do not have a comprehensive list of what digos have been released since the last time the digo tags were updated.

This is where you guys come in! Any digos we're missing, please comment below with the digo name and the for-life pixel tag of it in .png format.

We appreciate your help!

-FAM Staff

It seems the amount of necro bumps occurring has increased a great deal, so the mods figure it's time for a reminder.

- If a thread has not been posted in for a month or more by the OP and does NOT belong to you, DO NOT POST IN IT. This counts as reviving a dead thread, and is against the rules. Constantly reviving dead threads adds clutter to the boards, which makes it more difficult for active users to find things relevant to what they'd like to buy or sell. Repeat offenders will be dealt with accordingly.

- If the thread is your own, you may revive it, as that is making it active once more.

- If your thread was locked because someone attempted to revive it, please contact any mod and we'll be happy to unlock it for you for continued use.

Please remember to re-read the rules if you feel rusty, and contact anyone on the mod list if you need any clarification about anything. We're happy to explain things if they aren't clear to you, since it saves everyone a headache in the long run.

On that note: Inactive threads get a big, glaring red message telling you not to post there and suggests making a new thread. We cannot turn this off. It's built into SMF, so there's nothing we can do about it. PLEASE DISREGARD THE MESSAGE, as it does not reflect or coincide with our forum rules.