![]() Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: There are multiple statements in AO3's Terms of Service reiterating that the website isn't responsible for any content that harms, disturbs, or triggers the user, often rattling off a list of intense adjectives describing said content that always ends with "grammatically incorrect" or "badly spelled".Users who still want to retain some degree of control and be able to reply to new comments are advised to either add the works to the 'anonymous' collection note which is modified such that any mentions of the author's username are replaced with "Anonymous" and the work isn't shown on their profile anymore, or transfer ownership to a throwaway account using the "co-author" property. All orphaned works are moved to "orphan_account". Alan Smithee: If authors want to disassociate themselves from a work but don't want to take it down, they can choose to orphan the work.It's one of the most comprehensive filtering systems of any fan-fiction archive, making it easy to find whatever you're looking for even outside of triggering or sexual content, such as a specific pairing, characterization, or AU scenario. ![]() Adjustable Censorship: If you don't want to see certain content, archive warnings, ratings, or pairings as a reader, you can set the search to filter whatever you don't want to see from the results.The award was accepted by noted author Naomi Novik, a co-founder and past board member of the OTW, and herself a multiple Hugo nominee. The Hugo Award is considered by many to be the premier honor in science-fiction, so just being nominated was an impressive feat for a website built and staffed mostly by volunteers. So devoted that, in 2019, the entire website was first nominated and then awarded the Hugo award for Best Related Work. ![]() The impressive usability and lack of censorship on AO3 has led to a massive and devoted coterie of users. Other than that, there are also some comment moderation settings: authors may accept all comments by default, only allow them to be shown publicly after approval, or simply turn them off altogether.Īlso notable is the "Kudos" system, which allows someone to say that they like the work without going to the trouble of a comment, but still better than another tick on the view count. ![]() It also has a much less restrictive Review system than -like LiveJournal or Reddit, it uses comments which may be edited and stacked on at your leisure, rather than having a single use for each chapter that can never be edited, replied to only privately. AO3 is very popular because it allows users to view fics as one single document instead of the separated chapters and even download stories as HTML, EPUB, MOBI, and PDF files, making it great for people who want stories on the go. It also gained popularity when had a crackdown on Mature Content Fics in June 2013 (the last time that website did such a crackdown was back in 2002). The rise in popularity has been helped along by the rise of Tumblr as both sites share a similar fandom mentality and outlook, as well as by AO3 being the official hosting site or encouraged posting site for a few popular fanfic fests and events such as Yuletide. The Harry Potter fandom on FFN had roughly 674,000 on its own as of the same day. To give an indication of how young it is compared to the existing behemoth FanFiction.Net (which started in 1998), AO3 reached one million stories in total on February 15, 2014. AO3 as a project of the Organization for Transformative Works was a response to this, and the goal of the ' archive of our own' is to ensure a safe archive that would not purge fanworks due to pressure either from Moral Guardians or aggressive copyright enforcers. The inception of the Archive started after the decline of LiveJournal as a fanfic hosting platform, especially the notorious Strikethrough '07 incident, where LiveJournal responded to threats from a group of trolls purporting to be To Catch a Predator-esque online vigilantes by deleting a large number of allegedly "objectionable", but in most cases entirely innocent, journals and communities without warning, which resulted in many fans losing the contents of their journals. Archive of Our Own (most commonly abbreviated as AO3) has been running since late 2008, gaining widespread popularity from 2011 onward.
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