Comment on Fandom nonfiction: seeking feedback

  1. anon (Guest) Fri 15 Mar 2013 04:41AM UTC

    Fair enough, but I don't see why it couldn't have gone someplace like LJ or Tumblr.

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    1. kowaiyoukai Fri 15 Mar 2013 05:15AM UTC

      I didn't realize there was an issue with posting meta on AO3. I'd seen meta posted before here and thought it was fine. Personally, I hate tumblr because it's impossible to navigate and posts seem to disappear. As for LJ, fandom as a whole seemed to be moving away from LJ and I hadn't used it in about a year. Trust me, if I had realized this was an issue, I wouldn't have done it.

      I'm going to stop replying to this thread. The point of this post is not to discuss how I tagged one essay. This space could be used for the more helpful activity of discussing how meta should be handled on AO3. I already apologized and there's really nothing I can do about it now. I took down what seemed to be the tags the 3 anons had issues with. That's literally all I can do.

      It's good to know that how meta is handled is being considered here. I hope a solution is reached soon. Any future essays/meta I may or may not post will be tagged minimally so as not to unintentionally frustrate users (if I decide to post here at all).

      Also, I'm not sure if this is relevant, but some users such as myself rely on AO3 for most everything fandom related. I only get internet on my cell, and while tumblr & LJ take forever to load and eat my data, I find AO3 to be a much preferred site--it loads and data usage isn't too bad. So, yes, maybe it's easy for the vast majority of fans to switch between websites, but that's simply not true for everyone. I'm not suggesting we include reaction gifsets and the like, but the sooner clear rules are outlined for what's allowed and what's not, the better for everyone.

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      1. nigeltde Fri 15 Mar 2013 07:15AM UTC

        I have to say I was never affected by your original post but I think you've handled yourself well in the face of some rude nonnies. Thanks for continuing with the discussion tothe best of your ability because their complaints (which as facetofcathy says below says more about the design of the archive than you) and your responses have tangled with the issues at the heart of this nonfiction decision and it's been good to read.

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      2. anon (Guest) Fri 15 Mar 2013 05:25PM UTC

        I meant in the context of this being an appropriate venue for what amounts to a rambling personal journal entry, not whether you could access those sites on your phone, but okay.

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      3. anon (Guest) Sat 16 Mar 2013 11:53AM UTC

        If this is what you consider meta, I hope meta gets banned from AO3.

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