No one expects the Fanfic Inquisition.

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April 27th, 2005 -- FanFiction.Net would like to address a growing problem. For whatever reason, some writers feel it's okay to copy-n-paste musical lyrics they have not written into their fiction. If you did not write it, do not post it. This has always been our policy. Please remove these entries immediately to avoid account closure.

Um...wow. Okay.

"If you did not write it, do not post it."

By that rule taken not much farther, fanfiction itself is unadmissable.

Also, cutting out songfics? WTF? I mean... that's a fanfic trend I've long since grown out of, but you can't take that away. That's an integral part of the fanfiction community.

So if not songs... what's next? What about quotes of famous authors/movies/speeches at the beginning of the chapter?

What about fanfiction where you transcribe your own version of a given scene? It's not your dialouge, so does that count?

What if you use a song lyric for a chapter title?

::shakes head::

This seems unreal. The ff.net maintainers had to have known about songfic for ages. But worse than that, this really would hurt fics like sidewalksg's Leadbelly, and other fics that quote lyrics often in the beginning or end of stories, but aren't actually songfics.

I'd say this was a joke, except... well, it does seem to be right there on the ff.net front page.

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[herongale]

ff.net chased me away with the NC-17 ban. Not too many of my fics were NC-17, but I removed all my stories in protest. It hurt a LOT at the time... basically, I was deleting the online archive of HUNDREDS of reviews. But since then I've been so happy with that decision... who wants to put one's work up in a place where the rules of creativity are so needlessly circumscribed?

[uiggu.livejournal.com]

That was when I left, too. Or rather, when I was kicked off. Ahem.