Re: Why I Do Not Support Emerging Artists
Apr. 28th, 2021 10:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynlingThe other reasons why I've moved away from AO3 are:
- Now that recent updates to FFN have made the site almost unusable, I'm starting to see FFN comment culture crop up on AO3. This involves things like random people roleplaying in the comments and users requesting "kudos for kudos" interactions, offering to leave kudos on a story they haven't read if the author will leave kudos on their stories in unrelated fandoms. It's a mess.
- I'm also starting to see a lot of bot-generated spam comments. There's no way to block users on AO3, so you have to report each comment individually as you wait for the beleaguered volunteer staff to delete the account.
- The content warnings that people put on their stories make me unpleasantly self-conscious about what is considered "problematic" these days. Like, one 40yo (but probably immortal) character can seduce another 40yo (and also probably immortal) character into a poorly planned sexual encounter whose fallout will haunt both of them for the rest of their (probably immortal) lives, but there apparently needs to be a serious content warning if one of them takes so much as a single sip of brandy before or after sex. This sort of thing started to affect my writing, and I didn't like that.
- Too much time spent in Zoom meetings has made me want to limit the downtime I spend looking at screens.
- I am very very very lazy.
- Now that recent updates to FFN have made the site almost unusable, I'm starting to see FFN comment culture crop up on AO3. This involves things like random people roleplaying in the comments and users requesting "kudos for kudos" interactions, offering to leave kudos on a story they haven't read if the author will leave kudos on their stories in unrelated fandoms. It's a mess.
- I'm also starting to see a lot of bot-generated spam comments. There's no way to block users on AO3, so you have to report each comment individually as you wait for the beleaguered volunteer staff to delete the account.
- The content warnings that people put on their stories make me unpleasantly self-conscious about what is considered "problematic" these days. Like, one 40yo (but probably immortal) character can seduce another 40yo (and also probably immortal) character into a poorly planned sexual encounter whose fallout will haunt both of them for the rest of their (probably immortal) lives, but there apparently needs to be a serious content warning if one of them takes so much as a single sip of brandy before or after sex. This sort of thing started to affect my writing, and I didn't like that.
- Too much time spent in Zoom meetings has made me want to limit the downtime I spend looking at screens.
- I am very very very lazy.
