they took down her letter

Here is her letter:
I think more people should be able to read it. 

I can take it down if you disagree.

Dear fanfiction,
I am very concerned about the purging of stories you have undertaken
recently. You have done this without warning to writers and without
notifying members of your site that there would be a tightening of policy. I
believe this is a reaction to a vocal minority that call themselves the
Literate Union or LawlClan Critic Group, or something like that.
I write fanfiction and I post it on your site under the name mrstrentreznor. I
have many loyal readers who have pushed my total hit rate to 2,574,874.
Each of those hits is a chance for your site to earn some advertising
revenue. Do the above groups write fanfic? Do they earn income for your
site? Somehow I doubt it.
You ask that people allow anonymous reviews. In my experience the
You ask that people allow anonymous reviews. In my experience the
majority of anonymous reviews are ranting, abusive posts that bear no
relevance to what I write. And because they are posted anonymously, I
have no right of reply or way to contact the writer. If they truly believed
what they wrote, then they would not be afraid to log in to the site and to
have PM's turned on, so that they too could receive these kinds of
messages. I recently received this 'review' (I do hesitate to call it a review)
in one of my stories titled 'Bells' and another titled 'the Bad Seed'.
Story: Bells
Chapter: 1. Chapter 1
From: r u kidding me ()
r u kidding me:this is NOT ALLOWED! and not even good NOT ALLOWED! learn how to write
decently and post elsewhere and maybe i'll read your stuff but this is
garbage. and you think you're so great? i've read third graders book
reports that's written better. it's not allowed on this site. consider yourself
reported.
Both stories have no sex at all in them, let alone NOT ALLOWED. It is rated M
because I rate most of my stories M and M ratings ARE allowed on your
site. This is a shotgun blast from someone who can barely write and
clearly cannot read. At the very least in their cut and paste response, they
could have turned on spellcheck and grammar check. This person
presumes to tell me that my writing is below par.
I truly hope that you are not taking their complaints seriously.
I have three teenage children. It is ridiculous to expect the rest of the
world to keep them safe; that is MY job as their parent. These people are
expecting you to protect their children, and you can't. Access to images
that are pornographic on the internet is remarkably easy. The children of
today are digital natives; they understand this world and they can pretty
much get around age restrictions or any other limitations on websites. If
they are reading fanfiction at least they are reading. It is the choice of
such complainers to block certain sites in their own home if they wish to.
They should not presume to parent my children.
Nor is the fanfction site a parent.
You are losing members on a daily basis. The site has had problems for
more than a year now with issues in logging in, posting reviews and
more than a year now with issues in logging in, posting reviews and
disappearing content. Each time you do not admit that you ARE having
issues. You do not respond to complaints from members. Members are
lucky to get a one word response. You post nothing on your home page
saying that you are fixing it or that you are even aware of the issue. You
respond to clearly wrong complaints and change the names of characters
and yet do not fix other issues. You delete people's profiles on the basis
of anonymous complaints.
You are deleting translations of stories as well. A number of my stories
have been translated into French. They have been done with my
permission; they are published as a translation with a clear link to my
page. It is not plagiarism and it is not a duplication of stories. It is
providing a service for French readers.
Now you are deleting stories and removing profiles with no warning and
no message to the members to make sure they have time to back-up a
copy. Nor do you give them a warning or an opportunity to fix the issue.
This is poor business practice.
If there is one thing the recent popularity of 'Fifty shades of grey' has
shown, it is that fanfiction can be a force for change. You could have
ridden on EL James' coat-tails to greater success. You could have said
loud and long that it was YOUR site that published her first as
snowqueensicedragon. You could have attracted many, many new
readers to the site.
But you didn't.
And now you are in effect, book burning.
Shame on you, fanfiction.
Yours sincerely,
Mrstrentreznor.
I posted this letter to fanfiction today. I do not expect a response. I expect
to be deleted like some other authors have been recently.
I did forget to mention that Paypal tried to stop the sale of erotica ebooks
recently and LOST. Badly.
recently and LOST. Badly.
We have to fight this. The vocal minority is winning while we keep silent. I
do not believe that READING is harmful to children. What fanfic is doing is
wrong for a number of reasons, besides the fact that the site has been
having major tech issues for some time.
Any public library holds books that are no worse than anything I have
written. In fact, fifty shades just got reinstated to Florida library after much
publicity about censorship.
Someone pointed out that 'rUkiddingme' may be a teacher. That is a
thought that makes me shudder. God help her students.
Education is the answer. I have always believed that ignorance is not
bliss; it can leave you pregnant and diseased, or abused and tormented
because other's ignorance leads them to bully you.
It is not on.
My stories will always be available at jacobblackNpack. But it is an over
18 site. Please feel free to say that I sent you and I am happy to be your
sponsor.
Keep reading, keep writing and keep fighting the good fight.
mtr
ps. I asked my children about this and they read my letter; fist pumped me
and told me to fight.

Even though I have this, I couldn't for the life of me remember who wrote it (novel idea, right - searching through my files??). I remember reading the summary and being curious about it. Now I may have to grab my copy (I refuse to read PDFs and don't know why y'all like them - they're the worst type of file because they don't convert to mobi or epub well (if at all) and the font size appears very small on eReaders) and move up the TBR queue. Thanks for the reminder!

Omg, you are so right.  I just bought a 10 inch tablet because reading pdfs on anything smaller is starting to get crazy.  But you are right, they don't convert well if at all 

Mobi all the way !!!!! 

...I honestly don't understand all of the reporting and policing these people (kids?) are doing.

How do they have time for this? I barely have time to organize and read my fics, let alone go on some misguided crusade. Nor would I want to do so if I even did have the time.

Why are 'they' so worried about what some authors include in ffn? I know it's been explained who's behind it and why but seriously....WHY DO THEY CARE? Don't enjoy smut? Move along. No need to tattle like a first grader    I thought that most people understood that everyone had different interests and the only way to exist in this world is to accept that fact and move. on. Apparently that's not the case.

I personally don't read slash fics. Would I report them? Um....no. I don't like it, so I don't click on the story link. It's as simple as that.

I just....I just do not understand this. It's ridiculous. This fandom is pretty tight-knit, there's a lot of communication that goes on. Maybe it would be better to leave fanfiction.net all together. Twilight is the biggest fandom. Imagine how it would hurt to lost it.

Apologies if this doesn't make as much sense as it does in my head, it's been a long day and I'm irritated about all of this 

I think you got it right - they are not adults, they are kids with nothing better to do.

The forum posts I looked at looked like kids with all the mispellings & text speak.

And? Other than the BDSM, Harlequin Romances have just as much explicit sex nowadays as the fanfics. And no one is going after them. And I read those things as a teenager.

Maybe we need to move to another site. Just as long as flag works on it!!!! 

SoapyMayhem has now had two fics pulled

A Taste of Honey (now at You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login and her blog, You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login)
Ex-Senator Edward Cullen has denied himself the pleasure of living the BDSM lifestyle for years now. Shortly after deciding to seek a new sub, he meets artist Isabella Swan in the most unexpected place - her high-school graduation!

and

Hot Bubblegum (destination unknown)
Swan rose to fame starring in the hit Disney Channel series 'Girl Next Door'. Now that she's finally legal, she's ready to lose the sweetheart image. What better way to start than to get a tattoo? E/B Olderward/Tattward - Drabblish)

When Hot Bubblegum has a new home, I'll update this post.

with author's pulling stories and putting them on other sites the traffic at ffn is going to be down.  Personally it may even turn into another myspace.   Lawl is another term for lol my teen told me that.

What's myspace? lol (or lawl as you've taught us)

You know, their name is LawlClan. What I think when I hear that is the Klan (as in the KKK). Coincidence? I think not.

I'm just curious  How many of you have backed up your FF faves so far using flagfic? *scuffs toe on floor, lowers head, looks through lashes* anyone bored?

Tami

Whatever happened with Twilighted?  I know the black background put me off, but I thought it was supposed to be the place for twilight fanfics.  Yet I hardly see updates there.

IMO, the big problem with twilighted is the validation process. First, you have to be assigned a validating beta. Well, it's supposed to be on a first-come, first-served basis, but it wasn't. There was a hierarchy (which I tested when Betty Smith and I submitted new stories about the same time; I submitted more than a week before her and weeks after her story was assigned a beta, I was still in the queue...and she wasn't even a "big name author"). And then the whole process of validating chapters was ridiculous. My beta once had a family emergency; I waited three weeks to have a chapter validated (I felt for her, but....). It's based on their timetable.

They write t and k rated fics and or using the TOS and the rules to take down twilight fics.  They dont like twilight and they don't want there kids reading them. Typical tipper gore mentality when she did what she did in the 90s

only the album on explict music went through the roof.  They read some warrior clan shit

I was thinking the same thing about Tipper Gore.

I'm just curious  How many of you have backed up your FF faves so far using flagfic? *scuffs toe on floor, lowers head, looks through lashes* anyone bored?

Tami

I would hate to do the WIP's but it seems like it's getting to that point. I may start tonight backing up the WIP's on my list.