A warning to FF.net users...

[moon_watcher99]

I'm not sure if anyone here knows about this, but since we have several fic writers who also post to FF.net, I thought I would pass it along.  There seems to be a new group trolling FF.net and forcing deletions.  This came to my attention from the kirkspock  community, and I was concerned since I know a lot of people repost things from the kink meme.

Comments

[darkyo]

ffft lol
some people just have too much time on their hands.

[fondued_jicama]

[popehippo]

Well! Ain't that a crock. :\ Thank you for the warning.

[lalaith_raina]

Definition of loser:
Spends all day trolling ff.net to report stories.

Joke's on them for needing a real life.

[sinvraal]

What's frightening about this is the power of bots. With a bot, one person has the power to do piles of damage to thousands of stories in a self-righteous crusade to make something "better".

I'm disturbed that the maintainers of FF.net don't seem to be responding to this.

[fifmeister]

So they're basically trying to "cleanse" FFN of badfic?

Um. That would be like trying to rid the ocean of salt. The site isn't called "The Pit of Voles" for no reason.

But yeah, I find badfic as annoying as the next person (unless it's just so bad it's hilarious *icon*), but actually crusading to purge all of it from the site is kind of sad.

[sinvraal]

What bothers me is that badfic may be funny to a lot of us, but to at least one person, it means something. And getting something out there and getting feedback is often the best way to improve. The only reason I don't have some atrocious stories of my own floating around is I didn't have ff.net when I was 17.

ff.net may be a mire in a lot of ways... but the very fact that it's open to everyone regardless of talent isn't such a terrible thing. A pogrom against new, young, or ESL writers is just counterproductive, aside from being hateful.

[cikrapt]

Agreed. Everyone has to start somewhere, even if it is a pain wading through all of the bad ones. There are people who genuinely like some of them, and I know if one of my favorite fics was deleted just because it didn't pass the test, I'd devastated.

....damnit I just realized a lot of my favorites could be taken down for MA content. Time to go download them all!

[fondued_jicama]