What Grinds Your Gears? :)

[BubblyShell22]

Originally Posted by pennydreadful

What's the dealio with the ratings system over at FF.net, Bubbly? I haven't been there for years and years after they changed their system to disallow some (but not all) NC-17 material.

I've also found FF.net's category system very frustrating to navigate - if someone wants to read Turtle fic (of any rating), you've got to browse through four separate categories for Cartoons, Television, Movies and Comics respectively. Am I hopelessly behind the times - is there some easier way of finding Turtle fic all in one place that I don't know about? Or is FF.net just badly in need of upgrading their site to something more user-friendly?

You know what else would be nice on FF.net? A feature which sends you an email alert when new fics go into the TMNT category.

Well, the ratings system is K, K plus, T, and M, though like you said, nothing too graphic. But I heard from someone else that this group called Critics United is going around and looking for work that violates the rules and reviews the work telling the author what they're in violation of as if they're the admins of the site or something. I've never had to deal with them so far, but it's frustrating that we have people like that out there.

Originally Posted by MsMarvelDuckie

Why are you guys so down on that site? It's perfectly friendly (in my experience), easy to use, allows for some pretty diverse tastes and depictions, and AFAIK, doesn't seem to mind darker or more mature content as long as it's not graphic. Several of the writers who've been hassled on DA also post there- with the same stores- and have not had any complaints against them. It's a far more tolerant atmosphere, from what I've seen. I like the set-up, and it's got a wide range of fandoms to work with.

AO3 doesn't seem to have NEARLY the same amount of authors playing in their sandbox, at least from the small amount of browsing I've done. That may change now with what's going on, but for the moment, it just doesn't have much of interest to me.

Also- yeah, the irony of that is SOO glaring it's just sad.

^ Totally agree with this. I love FF.Net and feel it's an awesome community with some great authors. I've had no problems there so far, and I just find it be an enjoyable place. With A03, I heard you have to be invited to join, and I don't think you can sign up the way you can for FF.Net. So if that's the case, I'll just stick with FF.Net. It's not as bad as people make it out to be. Another great place where you can post your work is Stealthy Stories. They even have a section for adult material, though you have to be over 18 and have a certain number of posts to do that. But it's still a great community as well.