A load of crap

"Unleash your imagination and free your soul."

That's the statement on the fanfiction.net logo. Unfortunately, we've come to discover something quite unpleasant: this motto only applies if your creativity and soul comply with the formats they have deemed worthy or appropriate. Does anyone else see something wrong with this?

The latest aggression of ff.net against its many loyal users is the banning of script-format stories, which has apparently been a "long-standing rule" that nobody knew about. As a result, many outstanding stories have been taken down, whether by the idiotic powers that be or the authors themselves to avoid getting into trouble.

Supposedly, script format is considered to be exactly the same as "chat room." I can understand the chat room fic thing--most of them actually aren't very good, at least the ones I've read. But some of the best stories I've ever read were script-style or similar to script-style. And now we're being deprived of reading these wonderful stories because some idiot moderator or whatever decided that it's not appropriate, for whatever reason.

Can someone explain this to me, pretty please? I don't understand it. I don't believe in censorship as it is, and that's what this amounts to, for me. Censorship. You can't put creativity in a box, restrict it, and then expect it to flourish. It doesn't work that way!

The whole thing just pisses me off, and I've read that several authors are already rallying the masses and sending off emails in protest of this action. Some have even highlighted their own fics--we're talking big names within the fanfiction community--as examples, at their own risk. Some script fics should not see the light of day, but there are those shining ones, too, those ones that could not be written any other way, that make us come back for more because they are just so fantastic. There is no excuse for taking these outstanding stories away from us.

I, too, plan to send in my two cents about this. Some of their rules, I can understand, but the reasoning behind this one completely escapes me. Could someone explain it to me? Pretty please? If someone can give me some logical reasoning behind this ban, then I'll accept it happily. Until then, I stand quite angrily against it, along with many other authors of the fanfiction.net community.

"Unleash your imagination and free your soul." Quite trying to put a goddamn leash on my imagination, and let my soul--and my creativity--be free!

A load of crap

"Unleash your imagination and free your soul."

That's the statement on the fanfiction.net logo. Unfortunately, we've come to discover something quite unpleasant: this motto only applies if your creativity and soul comply with the formats they have deemed worthy or appropriate. Does anyone else see something wrong with this?

The latest aggression of ff.net against its many loyal users is the banning of script-format stories, which has apparently been a "long-standing rule" that nobody knew about. As a result, many outstanding stories have been taken down, whether by the idiotic powers that be or the authors themselves to avoid getting into trouble.

Supposedly, script format is considered to be exactly the same as "chat room." I can understand the chat room fic thing--most of them actually aren't very good, at least the ones I've read. But some of the best stories I've ever read were script-style or similar to script-style. And now we're being deprived of reading these wonderful stories because some idiot moderator or whatever decided that it's not appropriate, for whatever reason.

Can someone explain this to me, pretty please? I don't understand it. I don't believe in censorship as it is, and that's what this amounts to, for me. Censorship. You can't put creativity in a box, restrict it, and then expect it to flourish. It doesn't work that way!

The whole thing just pisses me off, and I've read that several authors are already rallying the masses and sending off emails in protest of this action. Some have even highlighted their own fics--we're talking big names within the fanfiction community--as examples, at their own risk. Some script fics should not see the light of day, but there are those shining ones, too, those ones that could not be written any other way, that make us come back for more because they are just so fantastic. There is no excuse for taking these outstanding stories away from us.

I, too, plan to send in my two cents about this. Some of their rules, I can understand, but the reasoning behind this one completely escapes me. Could someone explain it to me? Pretty please? If someone can give me some logical reasoning behind this ban, then I'll accept it happily. Until then, I stand quite angrily against it, along with many other authors of the fanfiction.net community.

"Unleash your imagination and free your soul." Quite trying to put a goddamn leash on my imagination, and let my soul--and my creativity--be free!