FanLib and LJ deletions/suspensions

[icarus]

The CEO of Six Apart speaks: Well we really screwed this one up.

They recognize they suspended journals that should not have been suspended. Now we'll see what they do to fix it.

In the meantime, my name at Greatest Journal is the same as the one here.

Interesting fun facts about FanLib:

Someone told me the 40 Highlander stories they have are all by the same author. Curious, I checked out the Stargate Atlantis stories.*

Two-thirds, 87 of 137 Stargate Atlantis fics, are by the same two people.



* Yeah, FanLib made its advertising money off me today -- and may I add what a pain in the ass it is to click through stories ten at a time? This is the most awkward, difficult to use site.

Comments

[celtic-tigress.livejournal.com]

I also have to say that if their goal was (as stated) to gather the most talented and popular authors together on their site, they failed miserably. I surfed around over there yesterday as well, and looked for anyone or any story that I knew, and knew was popular, and yet I found none, either in SGA or in the HP sections. It seems as if the only people who have fallen into their site are ones who are either too new to fandom and too naive, or ones who are too lazy to do their own PR and actually contribute to the community the way the rest of us do. Thinking about it, that must have seemed like a great opportunity superficialy to some authors who have had little exposure, but on second glance it is a real quagmire of potential fuck-ups over there.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Oh, you know, I think that was just sucking up to us. Maybe they hoped to differentiate themselves from the Pit of Voles by bringing in better writing. Maybe individuals with FanLib had that on their agenda.

Honestly, though, I think the fact that they rewarded people for the number of stories uploaded tells the story.

I've never seen a single author I've ever heard of there, though I guess lttledvl is going to play guinea pig and give us the inside scoop.

[teaphile.livejournal.com]

Honestly, though, I think the fact that they rewarded people for the number of stories uploaded tells the story.

Which is why I went over there the other day -- looking for stories I recognize. This is a grand opportunity for plagiarism, especially if none of the good writers go there.

[lttledvl.livejournal.com]

that was a contest that they were running which has recently ended - and it was also for posting and reviewing of fics (though I'm not clear if it was if you got reviews or if it was if you gave reviews)

but yah, I saw that contest and was like wtf?