... NAYRT and haven't commented in this thread before, but I assume this is wankbait.
I know fuckall about the person who founded Dreamwidth except that I've read their takes on problems both inherent in and specific to running social media and other websites that seemed well informed and not wanky, going back awhile now. I seriously doubt they want to destroy Ao3, or that the volunteer you're accusing of heinous shit ... idk, faked their way into volunteering for a thankless job for what sounds like a long time to set up a nonprofit volunteer version of corporate trojan horse sabotage?
And your take just seems weirdly culty and conspiratorial because I assume any website that hosts content from the public at large will eventually attract asshole creeps and trolls posting illegal shit (by which I do not mean fictional incest, underage sex, rape etc) trying to ruin things for people who want to use the site as designed.
Even if assholes were actually posting CSAM to try and sabotage the site, so long as it was promptly removed and reported as required by law, it wouldn't actually pose a threat to Ao3.
The people pointing out that Ao3's treatment of volunteers and handling of (again, actually illegal, not fictional) CSAM have room for improvement aren't the same people trying to get, idk, fic where Winnie the Pooh and friends gang-bang Christopher Robin taken off the site.
And of course there should be measures to protect volunteers and make their lives easier in place, the whole fucking org is all volunteers.
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I know fuckall about the person who founded Dreamwidth except that I've read their takes on problems both inherent in and specific to running social media and other websites that seemed well informed and not wanky, going back awhile now. I seriously doubt they want to destroy Ao3, or that the volunteer you're accusing of heinous shit ... idk, faked their way into volunteering for a thankless job for what sounds like a long time to set up a nonprofit volunteer version of corporate trojan horse sabotage?
And your take just seems weirdly culty and conspiratorial because I assume any website that hosts content from the public at large will eventually attract asshole creeps and trolls posting illegal shit (by which I do not mean fictional incest, underage sex, rape etc) trying to ruin things for people who want to use the site as designed.
Even if assholes were actually posting CSAM to try and sabotage the site, so long as it was promptly removed and reported as required by law, it wouldn't actually pose a threat to Ao3.
The people pointing out that Ao3's treatment of volunteers and handling of (again, actually illegal, not fictional) CSAM have room for improvement aren't the same people trying to get, idk, fic where Winnie the Pooh and friends gang-bang Christopher Robin taken off the site.
And of course there should be measures to protect volunteers and make their lives easier in place, the whole fucking org is all volunteers.