You walk away for a day...

[marzydotes2011.livejournal.com]

I've been busy working like blazes on my first story for a brand new fandom at FFNet so not paying so much attention to the changes. I've been spending a lot more time on FFnet since somehow the powers that be at the sites completely broke Fiction Press during these updates.  I just sent them an email asking them to explain how I can enjoy the bells and whistles at Fiction Press if the log in page no longer exists?   Since stuff at Fiction Press never gets fixed quickly, I know that I probably won't be able to update anything on that site for about six months.

While waiting hopefully for a response to that life altering question and for the six months or so to pass, I've been at the other site which I no longer recognize. I don't like ranking fandoms by popularity since mine are pretty much not on the top 100 hits list. I'm not brilliant so it took me a few minutes to figure out how to rank them alphabetically. Anyone know what was wrong with doing it that way?

The avatar boxes are tricky and the images seem silly. I would rather have a functioning site because it's through the grace of luck that they haven't crashed FF.net like they crashed its step-sibling.

Purging, yes, noticed a few stories from one of my fan-doms that went poof. The so-called F/F stories. I think that's so stupid. You don't like a story, don't read it and move on but since the guidelines on what's M vs MA vs XXX have never been clear and censorship is just repugnant unless it's plagiarism or a copyright violation, it's just a lot of busy work when they have at least one crashed site to fix. 

It's always puzzled me while mild references to humans (or vampires or aliens or whatever) having sex is always much, much more offensive than graphic violence. That's why I dislike the MPAA rating systems and if FF/FP are going to ape those, they should have guidelines that are much better.

That is all for now. While I pick daisies' petals and repeat, "they will respond to my email", "they will not respond to my email" and so forth.

Forum Posting?

[gamma-x-orionis.livejournal.com]

Is anyone else having difficulty posting in the forums - specifically, has anyone else found that if you try to highlight and delete something that you're typing while making your post, the whole post disappears?  Is that just me?

EDIT: And has the font suddenly changed?

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

More Features? Really?

[awanderingmuse.livejournal.com]

I stopped by the front page of FF.Net for the first time in a while. (Normally I just go straight to my profile.) And, there's a newish piece of news declaring that they will reveal a "notes feature". Does anyone know what that's going to be? I'm kinda afraid it's going to be something else to clutter up the story area. * head desk *