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I think one of my favorite things is when antis are like “omg you got banned from AO3?! What did you write that was so fucked up that even they didn’t like it?!” because they just can’t fathom the fact that it’s not fictional stories getting people banned, it’s the harassment that they themselves promote.
If someone gets banned off AO3 there is a 99% chance that it had nothing to do with dark or offensive fics and everything to do with how they reacted to someone writing shit they didn’t like.
Writing gross fics won’t get you banned from AO3, but telling people to hurt themselves over those fics absolutely will. How is this not common knowledge by now?
If you get banned from AO3, there is a 100% chance that it is for violating their TOS and not for the type of fiction you write or read.
People get banned for things like repeatedly and flagrantly shilling for commissions, posting ephemera such as empty fics and calls for RP, and harassing other users.
People seem to believe that there’s a sliding scale of badness, and if you cross the Bad Line you get banned, and AO3 has inexplicably put noncon guro porn on the wrong end of the scale. It doesn’t work that way at all.
This is NOT because they believe that begging for money is worse than murder. It’s because they believe in not censoring fiction no matter what themes it deals with, and also are trying to maintain a website where users treat ONE ANOTHER a certain way. They have some rather specific rules about the nonfiction areas of the site, and and the only rule about the fiction the site hosts is that it has to be a fanwork (or fannish original work) and has to be legal under United States law (a country with famously permissive laws about fiction).This is a good addition and something I forgot to mention. A lot of antis are also baffled by the concept that monetizing fanfic could possibly result in legal issues for the site and fanfic as a whole. Antis just assume that getting banned for this means AO3 “hates authors getting money for their work”.
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