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crankylexHere is my one and only weigh-in on the whole 'fanfiction.net dropping NC-17 fic' thing.
IMO, it would have gone a lot easier for Xing had he said, "I'm getting a lot of flak for NC-17/RP/whatever fic, lawsuits have been threatened/lynch mobs have been formed/cease and desists have been issued, and so to protect the site at large, I'm ousting those categories." Period. The end. There's no argument there. It's his sandbox, and at the end of the day, he has to protect his own ass.
I've noticed that some people who write NC-17 rated fiction (non-RPF) have been deleting those stories and re-uploading them as R rated fiction. Granted, yes, some of those stories are probably in reality only R-rated, with nothing explicit, but some of the ones I've seen have explicit sex scenes.
How can anyone justify reloading the story at a lower rating if (a) the content hasn't been altered or (b) the story was not incorrectly rated in the first place?
'Just because I want to keep it on the site' is not an adequate answer to this question.
IMO, it would have gone a lot easier for Xing had he said, "I'm getting a lot of flak for NC-17/RP/whatever fic, lawsuits have been threatened/lynch mobs have been formed/cease and desists have been issued, and so to protect the site at large, I'm ousting those categories." Period. The end. There's no argument there. It's his sandbox, and at the end of the day, he has to protect his own ass.
I've noticed that some people who write NC-17 rated fiction (non-RPF) have been deleting those stories and re-uploading them as R rated fiction. Granted, yes, some of those stories are probably in reality only R-rated, with nothing explicit, but some of the ones I've seen have explicit sex scenes.
How can anyone justify reloading the story at a lower rating if (a) the content hasn't been altered or (b) the story was not incorrectly rated in the first place?
'Just because I want to keep it on the site' is not an adequate answer to this question.
