You’ve been posting a lot of debate over content restrictions on AO3, and I’m just wondering if there is some sort of campaign to close AO3 down at the moment? I haven’t seen anything, but I’m pretty head in the sand wrt fandom drama.

seananmcguire:

Yup!

Some charming folks have decided that AO3 is a hive of horrors, and are trying to a) convince them to change their rules because OMG HOW DARE, b) convince fan writers not to post there, and c) get the FBI to step in and shut them down for being child pornographers.

We have been here before.

queeranarchism:

A part of ‘calling someone out’ (or ‘angry criticism’) online that I don’t think people realize is that if you have a decent amount of followers and any remotely ‘radical’ point of view (or anything specific tumblr communities hate with a passion) you will receive a LOT of angry, twisted and misleading posts that are obviously made in bad fate by bullies and bigots, and well, as a result you kinda stop reading after the first few words when you see yet another hate message. So you end up missing a few important criticisms too. I haven’t found a work-around for that yet that doesn’t involve constantly exposing yourself to abuse.