I agree with all the ff.net bashing, but the fact is, I swear it used to be good. When I first got into fanfic, which has to be at least three years ago (I think it was the summer before season 6 aired) there was some really good stuff up there. When you browsed the first page you wanted to read pretty much everything, and there were only updates to it every few days.
After the NC-17 ban, howeever, a load of good authors boycotted the site, taking their vast supplies of good fic with them, making the quality a lot lower than it was. Then there was the invasion of the dross, which meant all the good readers left - meaning that it very quickly became a wasteland. The only decent stuff that survives now is the well-written versions (ie. with less plot holes, better grammar etc.) of the gloop everyone else writes, or the stuff that's sequelled from fics that were there previously.
That's my view, anyway. It could, of course, just be the nostalgia talking.
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Date: 2005-01-04 03:15 pm (UTC)After the NC-17 ban, howeever, a load of good authors boycotted the site, taking their vast supplies of good fic with them, making the quality a lot lower than it was. Then there was the invasion of the dross, which meant all the good readers left - meaning that it very quickly became a wasteland. The only decent stuff that survives now is the well-written versions (ie. with less plot holes, better grammar etc.) of the gloop everyone else writes, or the stuff that's sequelled from fics that were there previously.
That's my view, anyway. It could, of course, just be the nostalgia talking.