They took my story down!

[jessioriginal]

I'm pretty ticked off here.  First, they ignore you whenever you contact them.  But then they can suddenly allegedly review and decide to delete your story?  And over what?  The fact that they felt it should have been rated higher?  Their ratings guidelines are extremely vague.  I gave it the rating I thought was appropriate.  It takes FIVE SECONDS

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[paksenarrion2]

In reading that email and trying to wade through some of those threads, I don't think they are giving false reports. They are reporting stories that have words like blood or kill in the summary and are reporting stories that have very mature content or otherwise violate the TOS (like songfics, lists, chatfics, etc). I do know two fics in one of my fandoms they reported. One got pulled due to the mature content, one has not (yet). I think because the one that got pulled had keywords that pinged the bots and the one that was pulled used euphemisms that didn't ping so didn't end up getting yanked. I think that the site has a program that can search fics according to certain parameters it sets and when those parameters set off flags, the admins can look at them and delete them if they violate the TOS. So if you call a penis a cock-it will get flagged and removed. If you call it a member and uses a lot of euphemisms for the various sexual acts, it won't ping the search bots. (Which is how my other favorite has survived the purge so far.)

I do think that many of the fics that got pulled did violate the TOS and should have been pulled. I think the admins handled it the wrong way. Warning emails should have been sent out allowing people to change or remove the parts that were in violation and they should have been given a reasonable frame of time to do it in-say a week. After that, purge away.

I also think they need to reinstate an MA area. You would have to filter that in and also click a link saying you are over the age of 18 to read the fic. There are several websites that do this-the one that immediately comes to mind is Teaspoon. One of the larger Doctor Who websites out there.

They've spent all this time on a stupid site redesign that makes it look worse when they should be dealing with clarifying the ratings and what really constitutes an M rating in their mind, among other things.

/soapbox.

[jessioriginal]

They are making false reports, they are acting like mods, and their overall behavior is atrocious and trolling.