AO3 abusers annoy me

[feng_shui_house]

I kinda wish that when you went to post a work on AO3 you'd see a note that it wasn't to be used as a message board- including fic searches, beta reader requests, RP partner requests, requests to fill prompts, requests for input on which prompt to write, and personal notes.

Some of them simply don't know better, I'm sure (particularly the users who don't have any other posts), but more and more often I see one that blatantly states they know it's against the rules, and don't care, they're going to do it anyway and even if people comment to protest, they reply with entitlement- you can skip this and read something else, AO3 will take care of it later, I'll take it down once I get what I want, etc.

Man, if I owned the ban-hammer, anyone who says they know the rules and deliberately breaks them would get their ass kicked out. They could get a different email and try to sign up again BUT checking the invite requests means they'd have a Damn Long Wait- currently more than 63 days.

https://archiveofourown.org/invite_requests

There are currently 15814 people on the waiting list. We are sending out 250 invitations per day.

Comments

[feng_shui_house]

Geography Homework! Heck, I could probably MAKE that a fanfic, just go with Spiderman or the Teen Titans, put a line in front 'Oh my GOD, I could be saving the day, but instead I have to do my geography homework!' and then paste in the whole thing and at the end put 'I hope my teacher is satisfied, I just saw a villain outside the window! BYE!'

It would be a VERY BAD fanfic, but technically, you know?

I got hooked on Spam Hunting, and when I ran out of spam... I guess it was like when England wiped out the native lions they went to hunting foxes instead. :^)

[thisbluespirit]

LOL, they had not gone to that effort!