- Target:
- Fanfiction.net
- Region:
- GLOBAL
- Website:
- flutteringpages.webs.com
Fanfiction is a way for aspiring writers to nurture their skills and improve. It is a way for people of all ages to connect as a community and the authors in question get nothing out of it beyond the enjoyment of writing with the characters that they already know and love.
Fanfiction.net administration has begun a witch hunt of stories that they deem explicit and deleting them without warning to the authors in question or allowing for a window of time to rectify the violations.
Many of these deleted stories did not even fall under the category of explicit and it seems that administration is simply deleting anything reported, without following up to see if the accusation is legitimate.
I, along with many, have been writing and posting on Fanfiction.net for years now, some of the better examples of up and coming writers out there are now suddenly finding some of the stories we've come to love at risk of being removed without the chance to even rectify our errors.
For some, that means the permanent loss of a story. While I don't have anything that (I believe) violates your terms of use, there are those out there that are never able to recover a story in its original form, as while we cannot claim ownership of a character, the stories are OURS and simply destroying them is something that is inexcusable.
It's quite easy to simply add an MA rating, additional filters or even a simple requirement for a free membership to read the stories presented here, and would cut down on hateful anonymous reviews and posts at the same time, so I have to question as to why such a thing, in all this time, simply wasn't added.
If you're worried about falsification of a registration then have an appropriate disclaimer and then there can be no dispute, you took your steps and the PARENTS didn't monitor their children, if that is even your concern. If it is more of a personal view or desire then please at least let people know and give them a chance to remove a story that you and yours find offensive, most people on the site are actually rather cordial when it comes to such requests.
While I cannot say for sure if this letter will even reach those that may be willing to listen, of if it's more akin to a wide spectrum purge in preparation for something bigger, please understand that you are going to be losing a LARGE number of your writers, and thus your income from a lack of readers if there is not some level of action taken to help with this situation.
For those that may agree with this, please feel free to sign on so we can get some movement on this.
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The Stop Unfair Deletion - Reformat Rating System petition to Fanfiction.net was written by Jackie and is in the category Internet at GoPetition.