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We were recently contacted by a well respected British publication about appearing in an article supporting Fan Fiction since we are one of the largest Fan Fiction communities out there. The following is his email to us: I would love to have some of our more established, long term, articulate Fan Fiction Authors who are currently active (Perhaps even an Originals author as we don't JUST do fan fic) speak with him. If this is something you are interested in, please let me know via a forum PM. Alternatively, if you have not signed up for the forums, you can always send me an email at admin@adult-fanfiction.org with your pen name/link to your profile and contact information that you would like to be provided. I'd appreciate, but not require, a brief statement as to why you would like to represent the site. I'm expecting a large response (I mean who doesn't want to be quoted in an article!) so please understand that so he is not overwhelmed, I'll be sorting through the responses and sending only a handful on to him. I will be looking for someone who, as I mentioned above, is currently active in the archive, well versed and well spoken and has been with the site for a decent amount of time. I don't know about you guys, but I'm so excited for the recent popularity and acceptance of fan fiction! If you have a chance, make sure you check out PBS's Idea Channel episode on YouTube talking about it! They'd love for our users to sound off in the comments! Edit: Okay! So, I've got the short list created ... of 18... I still gotta whittle down, but at least I'm getting somewhere! Please understand that due to the sheer volume of applications, it is just not a possibility for me to respond to each of you individually. It's been a pleasure getting to understand a bit of why you do what you do and I can't even begin to express how blessed I feel to have such a supportive group of people!

I will admit that both DG and myself are extremely blunt in handling things, though I tend to be the more temperate of personalities. I do remember the interaction as well as your response to it. Was it blunt? Yes. It was, and she did also mention that she read it first thing and was trying not respond with at the same level the complaint was sent in. Not saying it is an excuse, but Rogue did copy and paste pretty much what you had sent, though the one we received was much harsher in tone. Could she have waited to send a response until she'd taken more than a moment to calm down from the tone of the 'request'? Of course but hindsight is always 20/20. We are constantly having to defend ourselves against unfounded accusations of bias, removal, etc. We have multiple layers of staff to ensure that our policies are enforced fairly. I do random spot checks, as does DG to ensure that it is unbiased. Everything is documented in a secure portion of our forum, including screenshots as well as in a secure database on our server. Any actions we take can be backed up. However, because we administrate the site, we are constantly questioned and berated. Now, I'm not saying that we are always 100% right, but when we are wrong we don't have an issue admitting it. It has happened. I'll give you an example: A long time author of the site was fairly friendly with the staff my former head admin Jaxxy had in place and made a decent connection with DG as well. The previous staff didn't moderate well, there were documented incidents of favoritism. I hate to admit that it happened in my absence, but it did, I can't change that. Due to a combination of the lack of proper moderation and favoritism, my staff has had the unfortunate burden of correcting those issues. This author felt that due to her seniority on the site and her online friendship with DG that she should continue to receive a free pass when she messed up. We had to issue numerous warnings through out the tenure of the new staff and her responses became more vitriolic to the point that if there was an issue with the story they wouldn't even handle it. When we instituted our RTE for uploading stories, she threw a hissy fit. Now, did this cause issues with some old uploads? Yes, we knew that and we were working hard on a fix, but we had a choice - Improve our posting abilities and work to fix the glitches it caused or stay in the stone age. We decided the best way to go was to move forward and work to fix the old stories. Authors had a choice to correct it on their own or wait for us to manually resolve the issue. Unfortunately, as this author was not the most tech savvy, instead of asking for assistance, she would continuously bash us for the same ease of posting system that you enjoy, both in her stories, on her personal site as well as in our Shoutbox. Time progressed as it does and after one too many warnings, I made a decision after consulting with DG that we would institute a 2 week ban. We do not have a hard and fast rule for removing anything other than stolen stories, minors or ToS violations not corrected in a 5 week time period and this was our first incident of having to take action against someone who was an adult and even old enough to be my mother. We reviewed the history, we reviewed the conversations, and after a lengthy deliberation we decided that since our normal process had not affected a change in behavior, we would put in the temporary ban. A polite email was drafted, explaining why and detailing the infractions that lead to this point, however we were then bashed across her page and encouraged her fans to come after us. The ban was lifted at the end of the period and she was allowed to continue posting with the understanding that the next infraction would be her last. She managed to follow the rules for almost a year before she decided that she was leaving and decided that it no longer mattered if she broke the rules. The funny thing was, we weren't even the ones to catch her - one of our users did and reported it to us before we had found it in our sweeps. As she had already been warned about the consequences, we confirmed the issue and removed her immediately. This brought down more lies, more vitriol with out even a way to defend ourselves. Her readers berated us, harassed us, etc. While this is certainly the extreme of what we deal with, it's also an excellent example. A large majority of our users do follow the rules, for which we are immensely thankful, but there are always that entitled few that cause issues. Thankfully, it's lessened, though we deal with in in waves. You had the misfortune, for which I do apologize, of coming in at a time period where my staff was extremely overloaded with the incoming authors from FF.Net. We were all over worked, and DG the most as she is the main source of technical support for the site. When approached in the manner in which we were, it is very easy to take it personal and point out what she did. I've said it many a time, and I'm sure many have heard it from various influences, you catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar. A simple, "I thought I had corrected my disclaimer after the warning, but I awoke to find the story hidden today. Is there something I still need to correct?" would have garnered a completely different response. The other side of things as well is that in a text based environment, things can easily be taken out of context as you do not have facial expressions or tone to help convey the meaning behind them. You may not have meant to come across as you did initially, she may not have meant to come across that way, etc etc. We tend to overlay our current emotion to text and make assumptions that with body language and inflection we may not normally make. We truly are friendly people, always willing to help, but we also appreciate it when we are treated with basic human courtesy and people are willing to help themselves with the numerous self help tools we have provided. When reading staff interaction with other users, please make sure you are looking at it from both sides. It's always easy to side with the person not in authority because you can share a camaraderie of little people standing up for themselves, but not as easy to take a step back and view it from the opposite side. We aren't trained/paid customer service reps (well, I am in real life, but that is beside the point) - We are living, breathing, emotional people too that do this for free out of the passion we feel for the site. And yes, this is extremely rambling, but hopefully it conveys what I mean it to convey. Welcome to the site!

If it sound like an autopsy... it too clinical and not sexy, still some slang word are vulgar or sexist, I rather use a discription of what the body part does or how it reacts, in place of slang or anatomical terms, to me it's whatever makes the story flow and evokes the right sexy mood. Angry Cursing is another story, it calls for different guide lines, it need to shock! I positively hate the word cunt it is totally sexist,...I wont use it for any reason what- so- ever, not even as a curse...and pussy is silly I can't take it seriously. I'd rather use wet folds, or moist petals. For Female insults I'd rather use slut or horny bitch. As for men I perfer Cock, shaft, manhood over dick, but will use dick in cursing, even though it could have two different meanings in that context. For what it's worth my 2 cents It would be nice it they would come up with more cleverily discriptive words for sexual functions! Even thought it probably considered anatomical or clincal...I'm sort of like the word ejaculate, it has its own funky class.LOL Cal