The adult content thing happened years ago (like maybe 4 or 5 years at this point) - that's how old I am ;) FF.net was being threatened with lawsuits for hosting pornographic material while not age-restricting user access. There was talk that the servers would be shut down if the situation wasn't fixed and at the time it was the biggest fan fiction site out there. Instead of revamping the user interface to limit access to adult content, they opted to forbid NC-17 material from the site. But because so much of that already existed on the site, they still had to deal with it. It seems as though some self-appointed users began flagging certain works to site admin to be removed. This then morphed into these groups flagging material THEY didn't approve of (for reasons other than graphic content). It got a little witchhunt-y for a while and that's when I left. In the end it seems it was all for nothing because, as you pointed out, lots of graphic content exists there and I don't believe they ever officially enacted their 'no NC-17' policy.
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on 19 December 2016 03:17 pm (UTC)