#HotchReidParty

[piepeloe.livejournal.com]

WELCOME!

Hello all, and welcome to the first #HotchReidParty.

Since it's the first, we're not sure how this is going to work, how many people will show up, how long it will keep going, etc. so please bear with us. If you have any suggestions, we'd love to hear them. We like the idea of H/R fans coming together in one place to meet and catch up and squee, so we hope this could be a regular thing. And we hope you feel the same way!

Ground rules: be nice. That's really the big, main one here. You can talk about pretty much anything, have discussions and disagreements, but be nice and respectful. This is a Hotch/Reid community and a Hotch/Reid party, so many or most people here will ship H/R. That said, we are open to anyone who likes Hotch and/or Reid, even people who don't ship it. In return, all we expect is the same courtesy. (Of course this goes for other arguments too: go ahead and talk about whether Reid looks better with short or long hair, but if things get out of hand, just agree he looks gorgeous no matter what, OK?)

Since we figured it might get quiet or awkward if we didn't kick things off somehow, we came up with some discussion topics. One related to Hotch/Reid and one more general getting-to-know-you thing. This week's topics:

- H/R: 'Gifts', for example what is the best gift Reid has ever gotten from anyone? What's Hotch's all-time favorite Christmas gift? How about least favorite? What kind of presents do they like to give/get? What would they get each other? Was it maybe a slightly too personal Secret Santa gift that got them together? Does Reid freak out about the first present he gets Jack after he and Hotch become a couple? And, of course, we can't forget those gifts that are, shall we say, hard to buy and impossible to wrap ;)

- Random: Share something that always makes you smile. Could be anything; a video, a pic, a fic, a site, a song,...Give us a smile.

Have fun!

Comments

[blythechild.livejournal.com]

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.