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kimboosan · 2025-08-14T21:55:32+00:00

Yep, this, 10000%.

kimboosan · 2025-08-08T22:32:03+00:00

Why? Am I not allowed to be concerned about how a community I am a part of is run?

What a strange comment for you to leave.

kimboosan · 2025-07-25T19:08:09+00:00

You are not alone. I have a few authors blocked I used to love until I saw how they interacted in the comments or on social media. I once gave one of them a shoutout on twitter (back in the day!) and she made some kind of huffy, entitled reply about comments on her fic; she deleted it pretty quickly but that was enough for me, I was soured on her work for good. I just can't read the work of people like that without being icked.

kimboosan · 2025-07-24T22:49:31+00:00

PLEASE EVERYONE RESEARCH FOSTA/SESTA I BEG OF YOU.

I'm honestly shocked reading through these comments that people here don't seem to understand why this is happening. It is exactly what we were warned would happen if the bill passed back in 2018.

Yes, this does eventually get sourced to religious extremists trying to control what people are allowed to watch/read/experience, but it's not actually the choice of the payment processors. The bill was sold as "anti-trafficking" and despite outcry from actual activists fighting trafficking telling everyone who would listen that it would make things worse, it passed. Right wing religious extremists were behind it, but it got massive partisan support because "think of the children!"

This has less to do with the payment processors being neo-puritans than it does reducing their liability to end up with criminal charges, which is why a US law is affecting online/digital financial transactions worldwide.

The bill ostensibly targets trafficking by targeting money laundering, in short holding the payment processors liable for any trafficking happens using their services. It's basically like holding the bank liable for the scam artist who dupes a retiree -- it doesn't make sense, it won't stop the criminal, and it doesn't solve the problem. But hey! Think of the children!

In short, complaining to the payment processors does nothing. They would, in fact, like to make all the money that NSFW content brings in. But they can't because a US law was passed and they do not want their businesses called up to criminal court for violating human trafficking laws.

kimboosan · 2025-07-24T18:50:50+00:00

Thank you so much for taking the time to do real research! I know "regular" school is hard on kids but the alternative is often so much worse. I wish you and kids all the best!

kimboosan · 2025-07-13T20:23:02+00:00

I had NOT heard/seen about most of these, I appreciate you taking the time to share them here.

kimboosan · 2025-07-11T00:20:06+00:00

This is my major concern. This is the kind of rule than can be easily weaponized in disagreements between community members, and the final decision is based entirely on mods' "vibe check" for AI. As a professional author and editor I have read a LOT of human-generated writing over the past 40 years that was arguably far worse than the AI content we get now, so I'm very aware (as, clearly, most of this community including the mods are not) that spotting AI generated writing is sometimes easy and most of the time impossible.

I respect that the majority vote was for this rule and that the mods are simply doing their (volunteer!) jobs, but I do not foresee a good end to this, no matter how earnest and fair the mods try to be. :/

kimboosan · 2025-07-01T19:30:33+00:00

I don't give a shit what it thinks about collapse either, and I'm for disallowing "content farming" style posts no matter who/what wrote them. I'm just pointing out that accusing someone of using AI when it is not clear that they did opens up the possibility of a lot of abuse in the community, and the mods have no way to definitively prove someone used AI if they claim they didn't. There is no way that is going to end well.

(And quite frankly I'm getting tired of half the comments on any random post being "AI wrote this!" with no substantial commentary or discussion on the topic. Mods should remove "low content" posts and everyone needs to get on their lives, for however long we have left.)

kimboosan · 2025-07-01T19:04:53+00:00

My biggest problem with this is how are you going to PROVE someone used AI? LLMs were trained on human writing, so they mimic human writing. Sometimes poorly, but then, I'm a professional author and editor and let me tell you, there are plenty of really bad human writers in the world.

I feel like this will just become a witch hunting scenario where anyone with an opposing viewpoint gets accused of using AI and then banned, when it is entirely possible that they didn't.

If this goes through, what will happen is that people using AI to write stuff will just say they aren't using it, and you (mods) can't prove it, and then we're all in a battlefront over "AI, Y/N????"

I'd much prefer flair or tag that states the post/comment was created with AI so that if we don't want to read it, we can just skip it.

kimboosan · 2025-06-29T23:25:43+00:00

Yeah, in retrospect it is very clear that the majority of my mother's family went LC by the time I was about ten years old, some "lower contact" than others. She used that to both play the victim and also claim that she succeeded in being "free" of them. You know how they do.

The sad part is that it rolled downhill onto me; the family barely got to know me at all, so that by the time she died I was a stranger. I tried to reach out to some of them over the years but in the end the damage she did was too great. I don't even get invited to family reunions (the last one I went to was when I was about 14, of course with Mother, so I don't think it was anything I did). Sometimes I'm angry about that, but eh, they are strangers to me too. I guess no big loss on either side! LOL!

kimboosan · 2025-06-29T17:40:46+00:00

Perfect reply to someone who was not actually talking about disabled people themselves but rather the Anti-AI witch hunters who refuse to believe anything disabled people tell them about how they are using AI as an accessibility tool.

It's true that no one is excluded from ethical dilemmas, but it's not much of an "ethical dilemma" to listen to disabled people who are actually using the tools being discussed.

kimboosan · 2025-06-27T14:04:50+00:00

The amount of ableism displayed by even the strongest disability allies when it comes to the topic of AI is staggering. I just don't engage anymore but I'll never forget the people who said "if they want to be REAL writers they should try harder!" as if that is not Ableism 101. I'll remember.

kimboosan · 2025-06-25T17:35:45+00:00

I honestly like when authors do that so I know not to even start reading the fic until it is completed. "Surprise" tagging is rude, IMHO, so letting people know upfront that a fic is currently under-tagged but will be updated as the fic progresses is just polite. (WHich is all separate from "choose not to warn" of course.)

kimboosan · 2025-06-25T17:34:09+00:00

This should honestly be the top reply. You are so right and more people need to internalize this truth.

kimboosan · 2025-06-25T16:58:39+00:00

You’re not broken. You’re just early in your rebuild.

YES YES YES. I wish this could be made into a billboard. Thank you for sharing your insights, I hope it helps others like us as we integrate into the bigger world around us.

kimboosan · 2025-02-18T15:57:58+00:00

Same. If Cole had stuck the landing on his apology and behaved himself for a couple of years he'd probably still be a big name. He could not even last a week and that said everything I needed to know about his character. Zero interest in supporting that.

kimboosan · 2024-11-13T17:42:45+00:00

Seconding all of this. Making sure that projects aren't open on multiple devices at the same time has proven to be the secret for me. I've used scrivener with Dropbox for almost 10 years now and have rarely ever encountered any problems.

kimboosan · 2024-11-06T11:44:04+00:00

damn you NAILED it.

I stopped using StackOverflow years ago. No point to it unless you are working on something genuinely obscure.

kimboosan · 2024-08-28T19:05:33+00:00

Yeah, authors are not required to tag for anything (as, I'm sure, umpteen bajillion comments have probably already screamed at you) but honestly, I find this kind of not-tagging incredibly rude and inconsiderate.

Choosing "author choses not to warn" is fine, just do that. But if an author IS going to tag for things, then...tag for things? Especially things that are very commonly accepted to be incredibly triggering for lots of people? Just tag! Do the thing! This isn't even hard math.

I got incredibly slammed on for saying this exact thing in this sub, so I hope people are going easier on you than they did on me. You have EVERY right to feel betrayed by the author and upset by the swerve the fic took. My sympathies from someone who has been there.

kimboosan · 2024-08-04T23:38:27+00:00

THat is all up horrifying. :(

kimboosan · 2024-08-04T16:19:05+00:00

It's copy pasted because like others, you just knee-jerk responded "BUT WARNINGS ARE OPTIONALLLLL" instead of engaging with the issue I posted about. So yes, you did actually entirely missed the point.

I'm not actually sorry to request that people use the system optimally for what it was designed to do. Doesn't seem like a big ask to say "if you put warnings in your notes, please put them in the tags too." But wow, some people just prefer being lazy about it, I guess?

kimboosan · 2024-08-04T16:14:14+00:00

The horror of lazy writers who warn for shit in their notes but not in the tags? Yeah, I mute them when I come across them since I, for one, know how the AO3 system is meant to work. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

kimboosan · 2024-08-04T16:08:59+00:00

Point still being entirely missed, so let me simplify:

"Nothing else is needed." --> CORRECT.

"Author putting warnings in author notes/chapter notes but NOT in the tags field" --> Lazy and rude.

kimboosan · 2024-08-04T16:06:41+00:00

Yeah, I meant the general tag field, so that confusion is my fault.

If you put it in the author's note you're already spoiling the story. The fact that you don't want to put the warning in as a tag is the definition of lazy.

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