I have a small criticism here about how the furtopia staff treats threads pertaining to fursuiting and plushie related questions.
In my year on this forum so far, I have found that numerous members have started simple "How do I make _________" threads. From what I've seen, the staff's usual approach to these simple threads are to link to guides other people have made on their own sites.
In this thread, for example,
http://forums.furtopia.org/index.php?topic=41344.0, this member asked how to make a tail. Plain and simple. I did the same, months earlier. The staff's reply was to tell me that I should look at this guide or that guide. That reply did not answer my question. I tried to ask again, but the reply was "did you even look through the guides?"
Yes, I looked at the guides, but found no answer. That's why I asked again. It made me feel as though I was wrong for asking my question about fursuits and plushies..on the fursuits and plushies board. It made me feel as though this was not the right place to be posting questions, like I was too ignorant to look for a guide before posting a simple, friendly question on the simple, friendly forum.
If you look at the thread I linked, you'll notice that I posted a simple 3-4 line guide after Kobuk linked to tail guides. That member thanked me for it. It was that simple. No links or outside sources were necessary.
This is not to say that it's wrong to link to other sources, but I find it silly that we insist on telling the askers to go elsewhere. A forum is for discussion. It is not an organized FAQ.