{"id":280621,"date":"2018-10-17T01:02:41","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T01:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/10\/17\/quietnighty-anarfea-people-keep-asking-how\/"},"modified":"2018-10-17T01:02:41","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T01:02:41","slug":"quietnighty-anarfea-people-keep-asking-how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/10\/17\/quietnighty-anarfea-people-keep-asking-how\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

quietnighty<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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anarfea<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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People keep asking\u00a0\u201cHow can anyone have a problem with AO3 doing fundraising!\u201d<\/p>\n

And I\u2019m just like\u2026. Have people not noticed all the virulent anti-AO3 hate on tumblr propagated by the anti shipping community? Antis have a problem with AO3 raising money because they hate the fact that AO3 won\u2019t allow them to censor content they don\u2019t like and doesn\u2019t tolerate bullying. That\u2019s who is putting out these posts like,\u00a0\u201chow can this nasty site raise so much money?\u201d Read between the lines.<\/p>\n

And for all the people who are just like, \u201cIf they don\u2019t want AO3 to to raise money why don\u2019t they just not donate?\u201d<\/p>\n

Because antis are incapable of saying\u00a0\u201cthis isn\u2019t for me so I won\u2019t support it but I don\u2019t care if other people support it. They have to actively discourage other people from supporting the thing. At the same time, they also won\u2019t stop using AO3 because 1) they\u2019re a bunch of fucking hypocrites who want readership and that\u2019s where the readers are and 2) they\u2019re too lazy to put together their own archive using AO3\u2032s open source code because that would require doing coding and buying servers and doing all the moderating they want, which is hard, and they just want to engage in empty virtue signalling, which is easy<\/p>\n

Anyway, my point is, people need to be aware that these people are out there and they hate AO3 and they want it to go away even though they\u2019re actively using the platform<\/i>. They\u2019ve even said they want AO3 to fail so something\u00a0\u201cbetter\u201d (re, something they control) can take its place. Some of them are blatant about it, calling AO3 a cesspit of pedophilia, and some of them are subtle about it, saying more innocuous things like\u00a0\u2018Does AO3 really<\/i> need 130K a year?\u201d\u00a0\u201cShouldn\u2019t you give your money to individual needy people doing gofundmes for stuff that\u2019s more more important?\u201d<\/p>\n

But all of these people have the same end goal, which is the destruction of the archive, and the way they\u2019re going about it right now is to try to discourage people from donating.<\/p>\n

So instead of asking,\u00a0\u201cWhy do people object to AO3 raising money?\u201d start telling people\u00a0\u201cHey there are people out there who hate AO3 and want to destroy it and we have to protect the archive from them.\u201d And donate, if you can, and signal boost, if you can\u2019t.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u00a0HERE THAT CHA-CHING SOUND THAT\u2019S MORE OF MY MONEY GOING INTO THE MONSTROUS COFFERS OF THE OTW EVERYTIME ONE OF YOU IGNORANT SHITS SENDS AO3 NEGATIVITY ACROSS MY DASH<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

quietnighty: anarfea: People keep asking\u00a0\u201cHow can anyone have a problem with AO3 doing fundraising!\u201d And I\u2019m just like\u2026. Have people not noticed all the virulent anti-AO3 hate on tumblr propagated by the anti shipping community? Antis have a problem with AO3 raising money because they hate the fact that AO3 won\u2019t allow them to censor … <\/p>\n

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