an appeal from a writer to her readers

[manaika]

Hi!

I'm sure some of you have already heard about this, but just for recapitulation:
The popular site fanfiction.net, has decided to take a charge against the M rated fanfic, that include MA content (over 18) and delete all of the fanfics containing such. Many of the fanfics that contain such scenes (sexual scenes, or any other scenes of the adult

Comments

[subarukun]

Well, I am old enough to remember when they first banned the adult stuff and I' a bit surprised so many people where either unaware of their TOS or simply chose to ignore it this long.

There are places where you can put up higher rated stories without a problem.

Don't get me wrong. I don't think ff.net has done a very good job of handling this. And I never liked their reasons for banning adult sruff in the first place and some other part of their TOS rubbed me the wrong way, too. But that is why I use other places that have Terms of Service I can agree with and that allows my fanfic.

Why not use your journal to archive your fic? Others have already pointed you to different places that would work.

[kudouusagi]

Yeah I am old enough to remember when this happened the first time too. I was actually surprised it went on so long unregulated. The mass deletion of adult rated fanfics is the whole reason that AdultFanFiction.net exists today.

[kudouusagi]

Well they haven't removed anything yet but they are reminding people about the rules and letting people move stories that break those rules and then I think they are going to start deleting them in a few days.

[manaika]

We ignored it, because no one ever acted on it. The mods didn't seem to care much, so why should I?
And I always thought that M is the 18+ thing, for some reason. But alright, that was just me being stupid, I acknowledge that.

Right?
There ar eother ways to handle it. Ways that most of the sites use.

I do post my fanfics on my journal - that's the reason why I have it, in the first place. Recently I stared an y!gallery account and this might actually be the last straw that will make me done and over with fanfiction.net. Many users will probably feel this way.

Thanks for the response and the opinion. ^^

[raeraesama]

We ignored it, because no one ever acted on it. The mods didn't seem to care much, so why should I?

I can understand this mindset, but I can't sympathize with it. If you blatantly ignored the rules because you see other people getting away with it? It's really on you.