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The Pitfalls of Fanfiction
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Pitfalls of Fanfiction

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Welcome to Fanficrants. Home of the slightly wanky and not so bright sometimes.

What this community is and is not:

This is a RANT community. People are going to RANT about things. This isn't to say that the rants themselves are the end all and be all of a person's attitude toward writing fanfiction. (They might not even think the same way in a few months.) This is not a happy fluffy place where everyone can expect bunnies and daisies.

And now the reading of the rules:

BTW, the moderators expect all members who join the community have read the rules. IGNORANCE IS NOT AN ACCEPTABLE EXCUSE.

The following rules are basically minimum standards of how we expect members to behave. It is not an end all and be all list, and the moderators reserve the right to make proper addendums and changes, as well as rule additions, whenever necessary. It must be noted that just because we may not /specifically/ state a rule, you may be asked not to do something because it's just not cool. We will attempt to cover most of the rules here, but we're only human and there's always an asshat somewhere who can cause a stir with something we'd think is common sense, but apparently isn't.

1. If your post is long, we require you to use an lj-cut. Here is the FAQ on how to use an lj-cut.

2. Community promotions have been allowed in the past, but considering the size of the community now, the moderators request that all possible promos be approved by them, first.

3. Please do not make separate posts to reply to someone's post. Keep your comments to that post.

4. There is to be no posting links to bad fanfiction without an accompanying rant. In fact, moderators request that your post actually have some meat to it. If it's only a few lines long, (Or hardly even a sentence!) then please reconsider posting at all.

5. Do not post entire fanfics in the community for the purpose of mockery. You may post snippets, however.

6. Sock puppets are not allowed. Sock puppet being defined as 'A journal used solely for the purpose of trolling the community or being too cowardly to post ones opinions using their main journal'.

7. Don't disable, freeze, screen, or delete comments (including your own, unless you're just deleting & reposting to fix a minor error like broken code). Don't delete your own posts or edit them to remove the original text. If you believe something needs to be taken down, contact a moderator.

8. Do not try to whip up the community members into a frothing mob to sic on someone.

fanficrants does not condone trolling other sites off the community. Violators will be banned if they are caught doing this. Posts pointing out links to other forums, communities, websites, etc and asking members to flame will be deleted and the violator banned. (I must also point out that doing so is likely to have the unintended effect of making people point and laugh at you.)

9. Do not go to the moderators personal journals and accost them there with a problem you're having on the community. You have contact information below, use it.

10. Rule number 10 is secret. You will be banned for breaking it.

11. No posting comments whose only purpose is to predict future wank. This includes "in before mod tags" and fetching internet popcorn. No posting unfunny macros, either. Who decides what's funny? The mods. It's your choice to take the risk or not.

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OH NOES I HAVE AN ISSUE! How do I contact the moderators?

Very easily, simply go to this post and leave a comment for us to look at. All comments are screened.

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To those who may be offended: We are allowed our opinions. So long as we keep them to our own little forum, don't get your panties in a knot.

A few links members should take note of:

Ways to Avoid Ending Up on Fandom Wank.

You DO NOT have the right to a fandom free of badfic.

Ways to avoid getting bad Mod tags.

Moderators are