Re: OT; What's up with ff.net?

["Heather Sinclair" <viceverza1@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- In buffywantswillow@y..., "Madora Bianco" <vree1@h...> wrote:
> They removed all r and nc-17 fic. So if your story qualifies it 
was 
> removed. I'm really displeased with them because they didn't give 
authors 
> or other web pages enough time to get the files before deleting 
them so a 
> lot of really good fic was lost.
> 
> Dory
> 


Dory an others-

I'm really not trying to defend FF.net because I was pissed that they 
took down 2 of my NC-17 stories, but:

THey announced on 9/12 that they were changing their policy to not 
include NC-17 stories. They left the R-rated stories alone and 
changed the menu to show only G-PG-13 stories whereas you have to 
actively click on the R-rated menu to view choices.

They gave everyone a month to pull their stories off and went so far 
as to empliment a download program for those people that wanted to 
save copies. 

It sucks, but it's a lot more than some site owners would do. 
Normally I just see sites go poof. And it always comes down to it's 
their site and they can do what they want. Our only recourse is to 
not visit FF.Net until they rethink their policy. 

Try some of the excellent sites that are listed in this list's Links 
section, or Fandomnation.net as Kimber suggests. I've seen its 
layout, and while it's not really to my tastes it's not too bad.

Heather Sinclair