Comment Moderation on AO3

[lil_shepherd]

Comment moderation is being introduced to AO3 in the near future.

http://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/4004

This reads as if it has been very well thought through.

Comments

[clothsprogs]

I had no idea AO3 even existed and it looks like it's dangerous (in terms of timesink probability) to get into.... 126 hits on Swallows and Amazons alone.

{backs away slowly}

Teddy

[oreouk]

It is a terrible dangerous thing but it is *far* *too* *late* for me to back away.

The moderation options do look good.

[clothsprogs]

Is there no way we can save you...?

Teddy

[lil_shepherd]

I don't think Lissa wants to.

Well, I don't want to.

[clothsprogs]

Well Poo! That doesn't seem right, leaving you both languishing in a pit of nefarious fan-fic....

Teddy

[oreouk]

I'm not sure that languishing is quite the right word here. Revelling, perhaps.

[clothsprogs]

{sigh!} Go right ahead. Crumble my delusions. See if I care.

Teddy

[oreouk]

I'm afraid not. You can blame Smitty though, as it is all her fault.

[clothsprogs]

Well she was always going to be a candidate for that one.

Teddy

[lil_shepherd]

Well, it hasn't acquired anything like the reputation TV Tropes has as a time sink, or ff.net's bad image (they don't call it the Pit Of Voles for nothing.

[clothsprogs]

Never heard of any of those either.

Teddy

[lil_shepherd]

Oh, you lucky, lucky man. (Leave FF net alone, but if you have a few hours/days to spare, Google 'TV Tropes' or follow this link ( http://tvtropes.org/ ) and hit the random tropes button at the top of the page. It's a ridiculous addictive wiki analysing tropes in TV, Literature, comic books etc etc etc.

[clothsprogs]

I'm safe from wanting to follow that link, at least, I don't want to pursue something that analyses anything.

I'm a firm believer that analysing something spoils any enjoyment to be had from it. Probably why I got such bad marks in English at school.

Teddy