[ SECRET POST #6008 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6008 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT but from the info coming out, some of the committee chairs and specifically legal are/were interfering with the PAC volunteers ability to do their jobs, and the existing setup for how they handle complaint tickets makes burnout more likely because there isn't anyone whose job it is to tell volunteers who are on the verge of burnout (from having actual CSAM sent to them, among other things) to switch with another person and take a break, and actually no requirement that any one volunteer deal with that shit at all, so someone ended up dealing with too much of that shit because no one else wanted to help and no one else could make them.

Just because the organization is made up of all volunteers doesn't mean there shouldn't be requirements for shit like "everyone does their fair share of the nasty shit no one really wants to do." That's how you end up with a group of traumatized ex volunteers and eventually run out of new ones.

And that doesn't just go for Ao3.

Plus apparently the site's coding makes it difficult to comply with federal law about retention/reporting of actual CSAM, not bs "omg those adults are child-coded" nonsense.

Also the idea that everyone in an all volunteer org the size of Ao3 has an equal amount of clout within the organization is ludicrous. Yeah of course everyone has the ability to leave, but again, if that's all they can do in the face of getting firehosed with triggering shit, eventually the only people who stick around will be the ones who aren't faced with horrible shit as part of their unpaid gig.

I support Ao3's mission to archive all fanworks that are legal under US law, and I think they're doing a great job with that specific thing.

But from everything coming to light recently, they treat at least some of their volunteers like replaceable cogs and not people who donate time because they believe in Ao3's mission too. Volunteers in the trenches deserve consideration, not "if they don't like it they can fuck off."