Between the good and bad, that's where you'll find me, Reaching for Heaven

http://civilinitiative.blogspot.com/2010/08/redbotton-issue-and-what-it-means-for.html

It seems some group of wonks who call themselves the Literate Union have taken it on themselves to clean up all the badfic on FF.N. They've somehow hacked into and tweaked the site to add a bot that will arrange for the mass deletion of tons of fics, mostly for bad grammar, and they're also targeting M-rated fics wholesale, and there are reports that slash fic is being deleted "by the truckload".

I'm going to start moving the rest of my fics (or at the least, the "A.I." fics and the Matrix fics) to AO3 this week, not because of the proposed boycott of FF.N which the poster of that article has suggested, but as a security measure. I'm not perfect, and spell checks are not infallible.

Mind you, I'm all for correcting wonky grammar, but no one has the right to hack a site so that they can delete wonky-written fics en masse. Granted, there are slash fics out there that make even the most perverted member of my headspace collective cringe in disgust, but that does not give anyone the right to delete all slash en masse. I hate to think what this group would do to the Yami no Matsuei fanfics, since the bulk of that is slashy to some degree. And mature fics... I'm all for parental vigilance, but that is reserved to the actual parents, not some Media Watchdog Group that would erase anything higher than a PG rating from the face of the earth: adults need media that is geared toward their age bracket, too, even if that media isn't entirely "family friendly".

One reason I'm glad I've been posting my more recent work to AO3: they have a much better interface, much more understanding maintainers, and their tag system helps you know exactly what to expect in the fic...

If you have fics on FF.N, or you have friends that do, spread the word, warn them to move their fics before they're deleted, repost the link above to your LJ, FaceBook, Twitter, etc.