AO3 was created deliberately as the place for taboo fanfiction that no one else wanted to host.
It was created in significant part in response to the spontaneous deletion of adult and queer content fanfic on other archives; specifically fanfiction.net and livejoural.com.
I cannot stress this enough. Fanfiction.net and livejoural.com straight up deleted users adult and queer content without warning, backup or recourse.
AO3 was created so that authors could host queer fic, porn, and transgressive adult material without the threat of deletion.
AO3 was created as the place for shipcest and underage fic.
If you want a clean archive with no taboo material, those archives exist. AO3 was created to be their alternative.
I cannot stress enough that AO3 is the place that you “otherwise” like so much EXACTLY because they allow all that icky stuff you want gone. If they start banning it as a policy then you will just get another ff.net and you all have been very vocal about not liking it either because they’re not user friendly.
And if you’re one of those who claims to just want the framework and interface of AO3 but with strict policies, the code is available open source. You CAN make your own. And if the mass of people who want that is so great as you claim, then they are ready to give the monies for it in your donation drive, I’m sure. Nothing stops you.
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