Someone on their staff has to be a Farmer.
Not necessarily, it is possible, it is a pretty open secret that furries use us a way to filter out the exceptionally bad actors for them, helping them pick out those who are particularly bad and who they want nothing to do with.
While no furfag myself and while I shit on them constantly here on the farms, I actually don't have an issue with furries for just being furries, they tend to be exceptional in other ways worth ridicule that I prefer to focus on. As a hilarious result of my apathy towards the state of being a furry I got a few furry friends (heck, my SO is a furry despite me not being one). They know I am a Farmer, and they will regularly ask me to look up someone to see what dirt we got before they do business with them, or if they want to possibly ban them from a local meet. I get put onto some interesting threads or posts in general threads just by someone asking about some new furfag to their area.
We don't talk about it as much, because there's no milk to be had, but local fur meets are a practically monthly affair. They often provide the groundwork that builds up towards getting the staff, people, and money together to start a new con. From what I hear they are often invite only events, often made by making a ban list then inviting everyone in the area not on the list, or if they are posted "publicly" (read in some Facebook, Discord, or Telegram chat for local furfags) they will come with some pretty extensive ban lists. A lot of those lists are made by looking up the people in question and seeing if they got a thread.
To quote one furfag I know "If they got a post, they're on thin ice, but if they got a thread, just ban them now and unban them later if it turns out they aren't that bad when you get to reading it". They know we don't talk out of our ass. We collect receipts, as such we are one of the more trustworthy places to check someone's reputation and behaviour. I wouldn't be surprised that their "investigations" into "problematic individuals" starts with "Popping their name into the Farms search box". The way their
form [
Archive] words the qualifiers for "Evidence of misconduct" as "If there is a police report, registry entry, or
public thread regarding this person", it makes me think they want people to think they are just talking Twitter threads, but they know they will get KF threads, and they fully expect them to be useful. They will deny this of course.