The Awful Yearbook, in my view, is not a user friendly social network. What it appears to be is a female, transexual, and gay bashing site. The site is made up of predominately male goons who find it humourous to verbally assault these persons. The site is hosted and ran by a male "dictator" of sorts, "Fletcher" who randomly humiliates females, trannys, and gays by publicly defaming them, and of late forcing a female to public ridicule, while posting comments accusing her of being male, along with her family photos, also posting numerous other untruths with a "LOL" sign attached, on a SA forum. This was very painful to watch, and extremely immature and unprofessional of a business owner. I watched as his small barbaric mob joined in his harassment field day. He allowed an AYB user to place this female's photo on his personal AYB profile, (which is against the rules) for further ridicule of her, to seek more "shock" attention of "Fletchers" power of "above the law" discrimination. Why SomethingAwful Forums is associated with a person known for their unscrupulous behavior is beyond my comprehension. While I find SomethingAwful Forum to be a well managed, fair, interesting, enjoyable, and worth joining, their association with AYB seems like a liability. In my opinion, Awful Yearbook is trash.http://awfulyearbook.com/img/cache/38563/ac0e3c...

AwfulYearbook in my opinion, does seem to discriminate against women, transexuals, and gays. It seems to start with their registration process, where new users are asked a very private question, which should make no difference to the creator "Fletch", that question is, are you a male, female or "tranny" which referrs to transexual. As stated before, what possible difference would this make for membership in a comedic photo commenting site, other than discrimination? AwfulYearbook rules are vague, and one rule states that profiles with fake photos with be banned, but hundreds of male profiles with fake photos remain active? The rules state nothing about banning for gender reasons, as stated before.The unfair incident that I am responding to is the young lady who was falsely and maliciously accused and banned by "Fletcher" for "pretending to be a different gender". I think that public statement could possibly be considered a hate crime, due to the fallout that the young lady endured as a direct result of "Fletchers" libel statement. Even though this young lady was an actual female, "Fletchers" public banning statement must have assuredly put much fear into the thousands of users on his site that are transexuals/gays, who won't feel free to comment photos in fear of the same fate as this young lady, of being discriminated against, humiliated, and banned by "Fletcher". It seems, and a person could only think, that these acts of discrimination and humiliation are enjoyed by "Fletcher" who has become judge, jury, and executioner in his own private domain.It is a sad day when discrimination is allowed and tolerated in our times, whether online or offline. As far as his moderators mascarading as users, and commenting users, often ending in drama, yes, I would think this practice would not be tolerated by "Fletcher" due to the resulting attitude that one of his moderators may feel towards a member user, whom innocently may have "burned" with a humorous comment to the mod, not knowing they were a moderator. The "mods" should be there to watch the forum, not to entertain theirselves while judging member users. As far as "Fletcher" not responding to this young girls emails, that is also very unprofessional of a business owner, but how would one answer a question of discrimination? This is yet another questionable practice of this company, sadly. Members should be treated fairly, and there should be a system set in place for quick resolutions with his company. Although AwfulYearbook claims not to be affiliated with SomethingAwful, they are through membership fees, and a person could only hope that their private information would NOT be shared with the Awfulyearbook company, this information is personal and private. Although not affiliated they are associated, and AwfulYearbook should maintain a quality standard as set by SomethingAwful Forums, and I wouldn't think banning members because of their gender is a practice of theirs, I would hope not?

Awfulyearbook: I decided to do some research. Personally knowing a young lady whom "Fletcher" had accused of pretending to be another gender, that banning act was purposely malicious. She is female, and payed to be on the awfulyearbook site, and then was exposed to a defaming public insult by Fletcher, that was deliberate and sadistic. After researching it seems like she was the only female, out of some 2900 bans to have a libel containing ban, which makes one only speculate that this was caused by a personal vendetta or dislike, by Fletcher. As many, many women are disrespected widely on AYB jokingly, and remain quiet/meek on this site, this female would strike back with a humorous vengeance. It seems like the small group of non-self ban victims chosen are mostly female. Scores of males whom broke the same rules were not banned? Unfair to many users are the hidden male mods and even Fletcher, who mascarade as users, interact with females, and some whom do have apparent fake/no-face profiles are allowed to behave badly and, are not banned. Another unfair practice is Fletcher being allowed to vote on the users comments, while reading the daily comments he decides whom he personally likes and dislikes and then figures how to ban them. To be fair there should be a probation note given, and the user should be able to defend theirselves through an email or comment. As it stands Fletcher can and does accuse, and ban innocent persons, makes public outrageous statements about them, gives no proof, doesn't return their emails, and revels in trying to ruin their reputation. This is typical behavior of a high school bully, but, not that of a successful business owner. While Awfulyearbook claims not to be affiliated with Something Awful, they are associated through AYB membership, and I wouldn't expect bannings in SA by way of false accusal of "gender pretending" nor for any persons gender, period, this is discrimination. AYB's banning rules do not include gender issues. What does making comedic comments on pictures have to do with the commenters personal gender anyway? Answer that Mr. Fletcher.
I just wanted to update viewers from AwfulYearbook & Something Awful Forum on the latest progress on "TimeTravelers" quest for vindication in her "gender pretending" accusal ban. For those who can not grasp the situation, here is a short summary: TimeTraveler, a female, and a prior user member of AwfulYearbook was banned from her account, and was given the public banning announcement by AYB creator "Fletcher" of "pretending to be a different gender". Finally, after weeks of email attempts, with no response, "Fletcher" posted on SA a brief accusal explanation, stating that she was banned from AYB due to her not being a female, but, for being a male, a male who was in one of her photos on her profile. Although untrue, bizarre, aggravating, and humorous combined, it shows how gender discrimination is still alive and well. The photo "Fletcher" left on SA was a photo of her brother, the "guy" she is accused of being in real life. "Fletcher" stated that he had emailed "TimeTraveler" and asked for proof that she was not a guy by emailing a photo of the guy in the picture along with herself in a photo, this email was never recieved, nor were any of the many emails she sent answered. She uploaded, for Flether, two photos on SA of herself and her brother, in the same setting, to prove she is indeed a girl, and that the "guy" was her brother. Although the banning accusation is false, outrageous, and humorous, how funny would you find it if you were put in the position of proving you were a female and not a male or a male not a female, who was pictured in one of your photos?? I have to think that there is more to this banning story than is being given by "Fletcher"? I think she deserves an explanation, and one has to ask, why would one person be singled out of over 15,000 users to be publicly slandered? Stay tuned for the verdict, maybe birth certificates and nude photos, as proof of gender, should be added to the AYB membership requirements?