A new group to be on the lookout for...

[jessioriginal.livejournal.com]

It's been suggested that part of the reason behind the purge were the mass-reports coming from a trollish community on FanFiction that felt they have the right to judge which stories do and do not belong on the site.  Unfortunately, they are not alone.  My Fatal Fanfiction story-a Fatal Frame parody revolving around the recent purge-was targeted by them.  Apparently the short prologue with references to the characters, story, and setting of the game was enough for them to declare my story an original work.  They have since demanded I change it or remove it, threatened me, they've reported my story, and they keep leaving those kind of reviews.  They have a very self-important view of themselves, and rest-assured they will cause the deletion of a lot of stories who don't deserve it.  And the one who reported my story to them?  An author with a grudge.  I wrote another story in the same fandom.  It's called "Mayu's Promise".  Apparently, he loves her so much that it's character-bashing, even though I explained to him she spent the entire game going through a lot and possessed and pointed out the signs of her own twisted obsession.-.-

This group is called Critics United:

http://forum.fanfiction.net/forum/Critics_United/78623/


UPDATE:

They succeeded in getting my story taking down and my account infractioned.  THEN the leader apologized and acknowledged their mistake, said she would talk to ONE of the people, and then banned me and deleted my message and those of people who supported me.  I'm trying to challenge the deletion, but I'm not hopeful.  I told her they should contact the site and tell them their mistake.  This is ridiculous.  As others have said, they really have a superiority-complex.


Further update:

In nothing short of a miracle, my story has been restored:

http://ffdotnetrants.livejournal.com/144727.html

Comments

[theladydae.livejournal.com]

Yeah... I went on their forum and while there's nothing particularly wrong with what they do, they do seem a bit overzealous. Thankfully, I've never had a run-in with them, but they report stories for every little infraction although they tend to work with authors who want to comply. For me, it would take a combination of things to report a story, if I report it. Plagiarism, i get, but some things can be solved by personally PMing or nicely reviewing the author to inform them of what they should correct and how they could possibly correct it. There is a difference between a critique and a flame, and it seems CU leans more toward the flaming.

[kagenoneko-maat.livejournal.com]

Also, I think the group that is called LU for short does the same thing as well as the Lawl Clan or some other group. I think it is best to lurk and take evidence.