I'm pissed off!
Yes, I said this journal would only contain HP-related stuff. I lied! Bite me!
Just got an owl from Fictionalley.org, telling me they had banned me!
And why?
This week I once dared to thank people who gave me links twice in a sixteen-hour span.
And today I replied to an off-topic post, telling the user that a) it was not useful to question Harry's actions in canon, and b) this was not the place for his post - without adding the link to a story...
Oh, horror of horrors!
Supposedly this was my third point in two months. Too bad I never got an owl stating that I had gotten a point since April 23rd - which is definitely more than two months in the past. (Back then the point was for daring to bump my thread before a week had passed, asking if no one knew anything else.)
Mods have time to enforce all of those rules to the letter - while I understand the reasoning behind the rules, getting a notice of point just because I was thanking two different people in sixteen hours can be a bit ridiculous.
But uploading fics takes eternities. DrT's fics - which certainly don't need much editing as they are very well-written - take ten days to get uploaded. Might be a bit helpful if mods weren't just going nitpickily through every forum, looking for every tiny bit of infringement; and instead worked on getting stories processed for uploading!
I try to pay attention but every so often I will run afoul of one of those semi-ridiculous rules. I guess everyone who posts there regularly will do so.
Okay, I can make sure that my links don't go to NC-17 stuff.
I can make sure I won't post more than one request per day.
I can also edit my posts if I think of another story that fits lateron.
I certainly don't ever make grammar-unfriendly posts (because I abhor something like that myself). Even if English is not my first language, my English is near-perfect.
But every so often I forget something "minor"... And with such nitpicky mods, they will end up chasing away those people who regularly read fanfiction, who know a lot of diverse fics, who are willing to spend time to write a lengthy post (searching through their favorites for all stories that fit, giving more than just a link but also a summary and pairing). And soon they will end up with a forum full of kiddies whose posts are as grammar-friendly as the average fanfiction found on ff.net, who don't know a lot of stuff, who aren't willing to take the time to share what they know. But well, if that's what the Fictionalley-mods want, their loss. I certainly can find my fics elsewhere. I don't get much that I really like to read from my own requests anyway. Practically all my favorites came from recs for someone else...
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Edit: I have now gotten an apology from one of the mods. The thingie they use to count points was malfunctioning and therefore my second point appeared as the third. I am not banned after all.
I'm still somewhat miffed...
Just got an owl from Fictionalley.org, telling me they had banned me!
And why?
This week I once dared to thank people who gave me links twice in a sixteen-hour span.
And today I replied to an off-topic post, telling the user that a) it was not useful to question Harry's actions in canon, and b) this was not the place for his post - without adding the link to a story...
Oh, horror of horrors!
Supposedly this was my third point in two months. Too bad I never got an owl stating that I had gotten a point since April 23rd - which is definitely more than two months in the past. (Back then the point was for daring to bump my thread before a week had passed, asking if no one knew anything else.)
Mods have time to enforce all of those rules to the letter - while I understand the reasoning behind the rules, getting a notice of point just because I was thanking two different people in sixteen hours can be a bit ridiculous.
But uploading fics takes eternities. DrT's fics - which certainly don't need much editing as they are very well-written - take ten days to get uploaded. Might be a bit helpful if mods weren't just going nitpickily through every forum, looking for every tiny bit of infringement; and instead worked on getting stories processed for uploading!
I try to pay attention but every so often I will run afoul of one of those semi-ridiculous rules. I guess everyone who posts there regularly will do so.
Okay, I can make sure that my links don't go to NC-17 stuff.
I can make sure I won't post more than one request per day.
I can also edit my posts if I think of another story that fits lateron.
I certainly don't ever make grammar-unfriendly posts (because I abhor something like that myself). Even if English is not my first language, my English is near-perfect.
But every so often I forget something "minor"... And with such nitpicky mods, they will end up chasing away those people who regularly read fanfiction, who know a lot of diverse fics, who are willing to spend time to write a lengthy post (searching through their favorites for all stories that fit, giving more than just a link but also a summary and pairing). And soon they will end up with a forum full of kiddies whose posts are as grammar-friendly as the average fanfiction found on ff.net, who don't know a lot of stuff, who aren't willing to take the time to share what they know. But well, if that's what the Fictionalley-mods want, their loss. I certainly can find my fics elsewhere. I don't get much that I really like to read from my own requests anyway. Practically all my favorites came from recs for someone else...
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Edit: I have now gotten an apology from one of the mods. The thingie they use to count points was malfunctioning and therefore my second point appeared as the third. I am not banned after all.
I'm still somewhat miffed...