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AO3 already IS moderated!!!!!

It’s moderated based on what is LEGAL. They also moderate stuff that is trying to garner profit or donations, and stuff that is explicitly stolen/plagiarized. They also require that the works posted be transformational in some way (though the metric for that is very broad). IT IS MODERATED ALREDY, RIGHT NOW!

You just don’t like the terms of the moderation. Which is fine, but then, DON’T USE THE ARCHIVE IF THAT’S HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT IT. jfc. you aren’t entitled to everything on AO3 living up to your personal moral standards because fans have different moral standards, which is exactly the issue. And AO3 has opted to stay out of those types of fights by allowing users to post anything that is legal under US law and meets their other posting criteria (nothing for pay, nothing plagiarized) and letting people manage their own experience beyond that point. if you don’t like that, DON’T GO ON AO3. be responsible for your own damn experience.

People seem to not know how old writers are when they make their stories.

Stephanie Meyer wrote Twilight in 2003, at age 29

Cassandra Clare started writing Mortal Instruments in 2004, at age 31

Rick Riordan published Percy Jackson & the Olympians, the book about 12yrolds, at age 41

George R. R. Martin published A Game of Thrones, at age 48

You can't even use the "but fanfiction isn't real writing" argument because of how many fanfiction turn movies there is. They are clearly enough of a story to be made into published books.

Anna Renee Todd's After series was a Harry Styles fanfiction, which was published in 2014, when she was 25

E.L. James Fifty Shades of Grey series was a Twilight fanfiction, which was published in 2011, when she was 48

Mortal Instruments was a Harry Potter fanfiction.

I have read so many fics about middle-aged people that were clearly written by fucking high schoolers in their AP Bio class that I can backbutton out after about four paragraphs. Because it's painfully obvious.

They are in love

in some universe for eternity

Boyfriends who think we don’t notice their corner interactions.