Re:Ask HN: How are online communities established?
by nostrademons on Friday September 11, 2020 @03:03PM
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The immediate reason was the whole "PLAGURISM!" kerfuffle - Cassandra Claire's work (which was immensely popular within the HP fandom) was booted off of it for having a few too many Buffy quotes. Discontent about FF.net had been growing for a while, though - since they let anyone upload with no moderation, many of the fics there were low quality or unfinished, many of the reviews were one-liners or abusive, etc.
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Re:Ask HN: How are online communities established?
by baud147258 on Friday September 11, 2020 @05:33PM
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Thank you for the answer. It seems that it dates back from before I started reading fanfiction, so I wasn't even there then.
It's true that sorting through the low quality fics on ff.net is complicated. Though I appreciate being able to leave a positive one-liner as a review (when it's negative, I usually try to elaborate a little more).