Update on the Critics United saga and FF.netI just got an automated notification from FF.net admin saying our triabble has been removed.
I may have got a bit carried away in my response to FF.net support. Ahem.
Dear Fanfic.net
I emailed you about this innocuous little story and its rating several days ago, asking for your advice on its rating so that I could take action to change it should you think that the current rating was incorrect. You haven't had the courtesy to reply. Instead I get this notification of removal - which I find extremely rude and discourteous. This is not a reasoned, well thought out response to my query, this is a weak knee'd, over reaction to a small group of vocal and nasty members of Fanfic.net that you, as moderators and administrators of this community should be taking action to curb the excesses of.You may guess from this email that I am somewhat angry about this. You may not care. Perhaps you are more concerned with appeasing a small group of (mostly) young and inexperienced people who are not even contributing their own writing efforts to your site, rather than making Fanfic.net a great place to be for the larger majority of fanfic writers who want to share their works without having it torn to shreds or subject to self righteous vigilanteism.
I know that other members of the E/O Challenge community have written to you expressing their concerns about the activities of the Critics United group, but as yet you have not seen fit to reply. I would urge you to investigate our concerns with an open mind, as their activities are likely to cause a lot of harm if they turn on someone young or vulnerable. They themselves have clearly stated they don't care about the feelings of the writers that the attack with their vitriol, and it is apparent that they do not understand the meaning of the words constructive critisism. It is also not their place to make decisions about ratings of fanfics posted - that should be up to the site administrators.
Perhaps you are happy to abrogate your responsibilities but inevitably you will end up with a desert instead of the flourishing garden of the imagination your site purports to encourage.
regards
Anne-Marie (Amberdreams)
From: FanFiction <bot@fanfiction.com>
To: ambyrne1@btinternet.com
Sent: Thursday, 23 August 2012, 16:35
Subject: FanFiction AdminAmberdreams,
Title: "Man with the Golden Balls"
Summary: "E/O WOW: balcony. Our word was athlete in honour of the London 2012
Olympics. A 3 x100 word triabble by Amberdreams, Dizzo and Edina Clouds not
necessarily in that order . No spoilers, just nakedness and we don't own
anything, not even the Olympics."
Rating: "Rated: K+"
Storyid: 8396970
Main reason for removal: "Rating: explicit content or adult content above
current rating"
The above story has been removed because it violated the guideline detailed on
the upload page.
http://www.fanfiction.net/guidelines/FanFiction.Net has a set of guidelines for the uploading of stories and
chapters.
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