Message-ID: <20040627211020.71269.qmail@web41403.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 14:10:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Michael Haney To: megami@usagi.org, thepokegirlworld@yahoogroups.com, ranma@usagi.org, Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: [tenchi:105282] FanFiction.net Petition Reply-To: tenchi@gold.win.jp ML-Count: 105282 Precedence: bulk Hey ya'll, sign this PLEASE! Fanfiction.net is getting out of control, and read the letter below from another concerned FF.net author, and sign w/ your pen name if you have one, and if you don't, make up one and SIGN! Hi there everybody, Sorry for all the e-mails i have sent you today but i have decided that ff.net has no right to delete our hard work. My friend Kikakai lost her whole account becaues some one reported her. Black Wolf Pack was a great story and i know all of us are going to miss it, mostly me. But...ff.net is going overboard. If you do not wish to join this petition then please don't. But for all of you who know some one who has lost their work, or account for that matter, then please sign this petition. I mean, some of you will be like "Who Cares?" Well all i have to say is the authors who loose their work care. If you wish to see many more pieces from the very talented authors, such as MoshoMoshiQueen or Little Wolf LOVER, then please sign this because all i can say is it won't be long until your work is destoryed. Please copy and paste this petition, because we don't want those arrows getting in the way. Oh and put your ff.net name, you don't have to put your real name. When we have reached at least 300+ people, then either send it back to me at kawaii_wolf_lover@yahoo.com or if any of you know the e-mail address of ff.net then you can do it. And please, don't send this back to me because i won't sign this twice. We must get 300 individuals. Thanks so much. Remember...COPY AND PASTE and DO NOT SEND IT TO THE SAME PERSON WHO SENT IT TO YOU!!! Thank you. Halu ppl, dis is Eli-chan, aka babybluestarangel! As soon as I finished reain dis email, I responded at 1ce, dey hav no right 2 do dis, I was super pissed 2 find out dat Kikakai lost her whole account! I barely started readin her stories, & I've got 2 say, her stories were d 1 of d best! & now Wolf Blossom's stry, "Black Wolf Pack" has also been deleted! I doubt dat dere was good reasonin 2 dat! PLZ sign dis! Imagine if it happened 2 u? What would u feel? I can't respond 4 u ppl, but I know I'd b super pissed 2 find out dat all my hard work got deleted! 1ce gain, PLZ PLZ PLZ SIGN!!!!!!! Thank u in advance ^.^ This stupid. WE wrote the story, WE post it on there, WE made that stupid web site this popular, WE kept them alive! Where did THEY get the freaking right to delete OUR work. Who the F888 do they think they are! I'm with ya! ~J I have to agree many a good story i've read that got deleted because someone else didn't like it! It sad to see those good stories go to the bin! You've got my vote! 1. Wolf Blossom 2. Miko Tsunami 3. babybluestarangel 4. Shichinintai no Jakotsu 5. Alana-star 6. Portal-girl (One of my best stories was deleted because it was 'interactve', even though it wasn't!) 7. Matthias Drake The White Raven (Vinny get you? Although I suppose it IS their site, which they pay for from their own >pocket... Those popups can't be worth much, especially with AdBlocker available for free.) 8.Blkwidow77 (as many of you know, I've already lost 2 stories and counting....) 9. Dark_Hi_Youkai666 10. NiteMistris09X (this is an unspeakable outrage to all authors and authoresses from everywhere and can not be tolorated!) 11. YuYuHakusho (reported what?) anyway it's wrong to delete pll's work. if reviwees like i..keepit! i would so not want to lose my work! 12. Kuramagal 13. Mors Laminil (ff.net should be a free place to write. No restrictions. After all, writing should have no restrictions. It takes the meaning out of the writing and fails to keep it's purpose) 14. Sugaricing (Fanfiction.net really needs to learn to ask the authors first, tell them exactly what they did wrong and how they did it. I myself have gotten my story deleted, and I have not the slightest idea why. Still don't know. I feel for all those other wonderful writers who are reported by heartless flamers who are most often lying or delving too deep and too far into these stories so they could come up with a stupid excuse to get it deleted. I agree wholeheartedly with you all.) 15. Liothiel (This is my third account. As you can see how many times I have been "kicked off" and "banned" from ff.net. I didn't know why I got kicked off the first time [maybe cuz of 7 interactive gudam wing fics? But what's wrong with interactive fics?] Second time, they deleted four of my fics so I got pissed off and sent the staff a bunch of flames. Third time, said my story was not "rated properly" ya rite... >=P!! And that it broke some other stupid rules... so... I made a bunch of stupid senseless swearing fics dissing and trashing the staff and posted it randomly in any random cataory.. and that's it. But the point is... they got no right. Sooner or later, they keep this up, NO FICS will be allowed on the site and it'll go dead... WE'RE THE ONES KEEPING THE SITE ALIVE!! and some of us [not me...] are even kind of enough to donate money from time to time!! anyways.. why won't someone start this on petitiononline.com instead? a lot easier I'd say!] 16. ~VoilesDragonGurl~ 17. Draco MalfoyGirl 16 18. Strawberrylover 19. Midnight Insanity (I lost a fic a long time ago and was really ticked off, but I understood why. If they gave us a warning first, before banning us or taking off our stories, I think it would be a lot better. The staff is way uptight... I appreciate what they're trying to do, but you can't please everyone! And what they're doing now is hardly pleasing anybody.) 20. Merodi - My stupid fic which got the most reviews out of all of my stories....*bwah* 21. Regina Nex - I got tons of reviews for ym fic daddy and stupid ff.n deleted it without a warning to lessen it. it's not the first time i have been 'warned' or my fics removed, and it's royally pissing me off, i demand NC-17 to come back, or I'll be saying goodbye to ff.n. for anyone who gets this who has read daddy and wants to find out how it has ended it's up on aff.n and mediaminer.org, it is now complete. BRING BACK NC-17!! 22. CC Queen Of Death - Bring back nc-17 ----- Side note (delete this before sending to staff) there are other sites to post your fics on if you dislike ff.net Try soupfiction.net It's a good site and well run and it includes NC-17 ratings and allows for five-star rating as well. The population is small, but if more of us join, it'll grow and prosper like ff.net has. 23] Sakura-Hiwatari 24] ChibiHarika - FF.net site's life blood=Authors. Without authors, fanfiction.net won't technically be a fanfiction archive. Authors of Fanfiction.net makes this specific site more popular; it makes it live. Sure, it's the one giving author's an opprotunity to post up their work, and make it visible to the whole world, but they're putting pressure;forcing author's to write a specific way. It frusturating for the authors, and sometimes for the readers to read a fiction that is organized neatly;perfect. But everything is not perfect, and everything cannot be written in the same format over and over and over again. I may not be a great authoress, these are my personal opinions. But, I would hate to have my hard work erased from public existance, if that is to come. It would be like ripping a piece of my heart off and burning it. The flames engulfing it bit by bit, slowly and painfully. And with every second, my heart becomes hollow... Please sign this petition, I'm begging you to... ~Harika Huynh, proud writer of yaoi/shounen-ai/yuri/shoujo-ai/incest/lemons/darkfics. 25. Jordan Shekiah Lee (Pen name: Shekiah) Fanfiction.net was a great site, and has the potential to remain so. But deleting people's work without so much as a warning is just wrong! Think about it, and please sign this petition. 26. Polina A. Malamud (Pen name: Penny: Angel of Darkest Dreams) Fanfiction.net was, and still is a great website, but three things tick me off about it: the whole no lemon thing. Perhaps there's a great fic, uber cool plot and all, and one chapter has a lemon in it, and the fic gets deleted. My friend Kat has not put her fic Ai Shiteru onto fanfiction.net for fear of that. If people are offended by NC-17 and R ratings they don't have to read them! The rating is written right where the title of the fic is! Nobody has to read them if they don't want to! No self-inserts? Why not? So what if some people think it's a disgrace to the thing that the fanfic is about? They don't have to read it. Sure, I understand where they're coming from. But most fics are mainly written by the authors for themselves, they're posted on the internet because the authors feel that they need to do something with those fics, and they want to know how well they did. Even if not all warnings are in the Summary they are normally in the Author's note of every chapter, as well as the disclaimers. So what if the author forgot the disclaimer in one of the chapters? We sometimes happen to be forgetful, no da! And, the last issue I want to cover before I stop ranting: Why are interactive fics not allowed? I, personally, like them. They're a bit like a roleplay, only.. different. And they're really fun for me, and most likely for most people. Fanfiction.net owners and staff need to pay more attention to the needs of the majority rather than the select few. Not to be finicky or anything, but I might as well point out that most people who write pointless flames can't spell. And swear far too much. Get a life people, don't read if you don't like. Really. 27. Rowan Anzu Morona (Penname: Rowan and Sakura)- I have never had a fic of mine deleted, but I live in fear of that. And I admit, I did report a fiction once, but not because I disliked it for any reason. I simply noticed that the fic was a complete copy of someone else's work. And so, that fic was deleted. But I had good cause. Plagerism is illegal. Writing lemons/yamons/whatever-ons is not, and we, the writers of FF.Net should not be punished for our freedom of speech. So what if we have offended someone who happened upon our story and found it not to their liking? Are we to be punished for that person's foolishness? Honestly, if you don't like a story, DON'T READ IT! We are not forcing anyone to read our work. We only want people who do enjoy it to read it. Which brings me to my next point. Not only are the writers of FF.Net being punished, but so are the readers. I have often of late found myself looking through my reviews and finding that a good handful have gone missing. Take today for example. I was in search of my reviews for one of the only Bakura*Yugi pairing fic I have ever come across and found it to be gone. Why? Probably because someone who didn't like that fanfic, who didn't like that pairing, had it deleted. I'm sorry, but FF.Net is for everyone. Just because one person complained and said they didn't like a fiction for some reason, does NOT mean that it should be deleted. There has to be better reasons for deleting a story. 28. I luv Yugi and Daisuke so :p I can 100% support this. FF.net mangement are total wankers. My Beyblade story I Need You was deleted bacuase of inapproirate rating. I gave it the highest fucking possible rating because of their stupid ban of NC-17. People shouldn't report writers because od stupid things like rating. They didn't have to read it. I was so pissed cuase I think I lost over 20 reviews. I have decided no longer to contine stories on ff.net though I remain a member so I can review those who are patient enough to sustain ff.nets stupid rules. I suggest mediaminer instead because it doesn't seem so horrible. I like interactive stories to! There's nothing wrong with them and theres nothing wrong with having a chapter thats just an authors note. What if the author needs o tell us reviewers something. Please sign the petition! 29. takuya i would really hate it if i lost my work and i really loved "I Need You" 30. dragi I think its really bad for authors that have worked really hard on their stories and then they see their stories are gone and everything. and to people that really liked that story get to know that the author have lost their stories. 31. LadyK --- Look at FF.N's motto. "Unleash your imagination and free your soul." Well how on earth can we do that when there are TOO many rules, regulations and other bullcrap. Whatever happened to NC-17? I mean, its a WARNING right? People shouldnt read NC-17 fics if they are uncomfortable with it. I would really hate to loose my work just because one person reported ONE measley problem with it. And whats with this 'No author notes as a chapter or your whole fic will be deleted' thing!? Maybe some authors NEED to post notes just to keep their readers interested and updated on whats been going on! So, 'unleash your imagination and free your soul' my ass! 32. nEo-cHaN - This is so true. FF.net really needs to take a look at what they're doing. Let's hope those stubborn assholes really take a look at this petition. 33. Tyson FoxFlame- Neo, I doubt calling them assholes will help. But she's right, I heard that FF.net doesn't even look at the reason people report others. PERSONALLY, everybody should have the right to write whatever they wish, I mean, first ammendment, hello! Freedom of speech and freedom of the press, both of which qualify for FF.net. Don't like, don't read, I mean I'm not a real supporter of incest, but I don't report it, I avoid it and respect the fact that others enjoy it. There should still be some rules like the spelling and grammar stuff, but nothing like, no interactive. Sure, not your characters, but your plotline. We need to be served our rights. 34. Amazonian Anime Queen- God, they deleting fics, in my opinion, from the best authors on ff.net. What the use of even writing a fic for fear that it will get deleted. I know that not everybody will like your fic, and I understand if it got many abuse reports, but one, that I do not. If they ever delete one of my fics, they better hope I'm in a reasonable mood because there are going to be hell to pay if I'm not. To whomever runs FF.net, please look at your motto and the 1st amendment, because that's the reason why most of us write. 35. The Strawberryish One- As a authour on FF.net i'd be very displeased and very angry if my stories got deleted. I know people who have gotten their stories deleted and it isn't fair. I mean, why do people have to report them? Just leave a review asking them to do whatever it is they're going to report them for. Everyone would be happier if they would stop deleting everyones stories, who people have come to love and enjoy. 36. AnimeObsessionFantasy yep yep!! u guys have my support!!!! ^_^ the stories that i have love so much, are gone and i'm sure i'll never read ones just like it.. -sighs- so u guys definitely have my support 37. ac4cherryz One thing I gotta say about FF.net: they really have no right to delete the fics we have written and worked on so long and hard for. They should really at least warn us by sayin they're deleting one of our fics or sumthin. Feh, 'unleash your imagination and free your soul' my @$$! All of y'all have my support as an author of FF.net b/c this is wrong and I blame on the ppl who reported most of the greatest fics I've read and now I can't read them again. If they don't like the fics they're readin, then DON'T bother to go back to it and read it again! I mean, there are other ppl like us who never might know about the fic, but interested to read it, but the ppl who reported about it are not giving those ppl a chance! I'm with you guys and we gotta stop this! 38. Michael "TheZorch" Haney (I lost only a couple of fan fics over the years, but that was due to stupid reasons. I think FF.net is way too sensitive about content on their site and they need to reinstate the NC-17 rating. I would recommend to all of the people who signed this petition to send an email or letter to the ACLU and tell them what is happening so they can put some pressure on FF.net to get their act together or their site will eventually die under the weight of their own stupidity. If all else fails you can head over to www.fan-fics-r-us.com, its got a new automated interface and allows NC-17 rated fan fics and a 10 star rating system. I've already posted all my fan fics there.) ==== -- Michael "TheZorch" Haney zorchhaney@yahoo.com Site where you can find Anime Fan Fics by Me. My Own Site http://zorchcentral.4t.com/ FF.net http://www.fanfiction.net/~michaelthezorchhaney FFRU.com http://www.fan-fics-r-us.com/NewSystem/AuthorPage.php?AuthorNumber=8&NameSearch=& __________________________________