[ SECRET POST #1930 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1930 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 05 pages, 110 secrets from Secret Submission Post #276.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - posted twice ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
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Comments

[vickyblueeyez.livejournal.com]

But I see that being ignored ALL the time.

[bayliss.livejournal.com]

Not if it's reported. Twenty-four hours later all your fiction is removed for no reason other then somebody complains. But report fan fiction plagerised and wait six months to see it removed.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh plagiarism. I remember like 7 years ago, when I was just getting into fandom, I read a new fic that had been copied word for word from another one, which was a few weeks, maybe a month old. I reported it (though in hindsight, I probably should have informed the original author as well), but last I bothered to check, it hadn't been removed or changed at all.

[bayliss.livejournal.com]

They don't do anything unless you email them repeatedly like I did. I emailed them every week for six months. The person had 54 stories posted. Every one was a plagiarised story.

[fanficcleanup.livejournal.com]

You're way behind the times. The support staff don''t remove stories that violate the terms of service anymore, they just ignore them and let those people go right on pisting their garbage fics.

[hooves.livejournal.com]

Right, but there for a while they were banning people for it. And they USED to allow NC-17 fics but took them out...when was that, 2003? :( Chased away some good authors in general who disagreed with the mere idea, that's for sure.

[joshua-glass.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I found out about the change in the rules when I went to login and found out I had no account. They'd deleted every fic I had, not just the NC-17 ones, and deleted my account as well. No warning, no chance to remove fics that were no longer allowed, just trigger happy deletions.

I also think the problem with FFN if you're looking for fic as opposed to posting it, it's a very big issue of quantity over quality. I found you often had to slog through pages and pages to find something readible, while because there's more specific comms on LJ, you often have less fics to poke through in order to find something you want to read.

[hooves.livejournal.com]

I'd have been so pisseedddd oh God.

That said, I agree re: quantity vs. quality. I think the issue there is that it's easy to post, it's public, and it's extremely well-known. Remember MediaMiner.org? There was even more crap there than on FFN.

Though the quantity thing is just more true with big fandoms, anyway, and if we'll be perfectly honest, I think we can all agree that most people who write a fic (hobby, for fun, just practice, etc etc so on) are not amazing at it. And then there are people that are good or passable, people that write enjoyable stuff even if they're aren't totally ace, and then we have the ace writers whose works are mindblowingly awesome, but of course, those are the rarest breed of all. :P

[(Anonymous)]

The ban was in September of 2002. (I only remember that because my best friend and I spent the next week ranting at great length about the sudden removal of a number of Harry Potter and Gundam Wing fics we'd both been following, most of which we never did find anywhere else.)

[ingridmatthews.livejournal.com]

Yeah, *if* you want to break the site's rules, but I'm not into posting works to archives that are not welcome there and I'm pretty sure most authors feel the same way. RPF is also not allowed, all of which makes LJ -- for all its agreed upon flaws -- a better, more open platform for authors. The complaints seem to be more from the readers side in this secret, which is okay, but readers aren't the ones who choose where the fiction goes.