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[farla]

Okay first, this is awesome. If you don't know what it's about, reading the rest of the community should help. Short version: They are a fanfiction site. Also, they are evil.

Second, I've decided that my passive observation and less passive forum posts on the site were not enough.

They're rerating bible fanfiction with gay characters as adult (ie, hidden behind the filter of doom), and it's pretty obvious they're going to have to do the same with other stories. I'm going to go write het bible stories, bible stories with incest, lesbians, g-rated stories with gay guys and anything else I can think of that's not what they want. (I knew reading the bible would come in handy!)

Then I'm going to write some Ash/Latias and possibly Ash/Tauros. And perhaps Misty/Female!Psyduck for variety.

Forcing the issue is a completely legitimate tactic. Also, it's fun.

I strongly endorse anyone else taking any similar actions, as well as posting defamatory material about them, hacking the site, sending them viruses, or throwing bricks through the founders' windows. I would prefer that you made sure to tape a NC-17 pink guy/blue guy slash printout to the brick first, though.

Comments

[ember-reignited.livejournal.com]

Question: How much net damage will this really do? Is it possible we'd be playing into their hands just by creating an account, posting content, and giving them clicks by navigating around their site?

[farla.livejournal.com]

Their official business model seems to rely on marketable content rather than traffic, and their unofficial business model relies on stealing madly. The bible is out of copyright and bible fanfic is publishable (just ask Anne Rice!) so they can't steal it. Fanfic based on non-affiliate groups (anime) is also likely safe, as is anything unmarketable based on content (Voldemort/Harry rapefic is a hard sell to the mainstream).

At the moment, they also don't appear to have much in the way of third-party ads, and they've made it clear they don't want controversial content on their site because it'll make their sponsors pull out. Also, from the way they've been blundering around like idiots, I don't think they're bright enough to have a reverse psychology bit going on.

[ember-reignited.livejournal.com]

Lovely! I'll get on it when I get tired of this LJ crisis that just popped up.

[farla.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that one's a pretty nasty mess. I wish the internet was better at scheduling these things.