Warning for purges at FFN

[madeleone]

Aurette has posted a cute little tongue in cheek ficlet called The Warning over at FFN. But rumor has it, according to her response to my comment, it is apparently serious. Word has it that stories and sometimes entire accounts are being deleted, especially anything smutty-ish is getting the cut. I don't know how true it is but just wanted to pass on the info as this is the first I have heard of it (this time at least, I've heard that it has happened in the past). So if you have any smutty fave fics that are only posted at FFN, you might want to download them now just in case.

For easy downloading from FFN, as well as a number of other archives, I highly recommend flagfic.com. It is very simple to download and you can have a choice of formats: EPUB, Mobi pocke, PDF, and HTML.

I have fic there, and some of it smutty, but I post at a variety of archives so I'm not too worried about losing my fic.(although I would probably be pissed off the they did get deleted).  Just wanted to give others a heads up though, in case there are fics they want to save...*cough*...Aurette's...*cough* which I believe was the whole point of her story today. ;) (Being the paranoid bitch that I am, I saved them long ago, as well as a whole list of others!)

Comments

[bunney.livejournal.com]

I pulled all my fic from FFN years ago, when they did their initial smut purge (which resulted in AFF being created). For a while they were pretty strict, but over the years their diligence has faded. Then, you have utter busybody assholes like The Literate Union, who have made it their mission in life to target any fic on FFN that doesn't meet their approval. They've managed to get hundreds of fics removed for the most arbitrary of reasons, but one of their primary targets are fics that have sexual or mature content. I don't know how active they still are, but their FFN forum is still getting active hits. It wouldn't surprise me if they're behind this.

[madeleone]

Man, I checked out that link and those people sound like real dickheads. But the kind of people who would gang up on people and do stuff like cyber-stalk them. Scary, scary dickheads!

[bunney.livejournal.com]

I've heard some pretty scary things from them and what's worse is that they feel they have the moral high ground. Ugh.

[mrs-helenesnape.livejournal.com]

Good grief! The LU sound like complete and utter bastards! Encouraging flaming over support and directly targeting "smut" regardless of its quality. It makes me want to flame every signed "LU" review I might see.

[bunney.livejournal.com]

Rumor has it that FFN has deleted over 12% of just Buffy and Dr. Who fic AND preventing members from exporting their fic to other sites.

I'm so glad I've not posted anything to FFN in a decade or more. They suck.