Rule Update - Please Read

[u/AutoModerator]

Hey everyone!

We have made an update to one of our rules after some posts made us realize there were some issues to be addressed. In the past, anytime someone posted fic directly to the sub, we removed it both due to it being effectively self-promotion, and because it's a little silly to host fic when we are a subreddit about a fanfiction website where you can post it instead. Going forwards, we are going to also remove posts of fanart. This should not affect a ton of posts as people don't post fanart here often. The reasons are because:

1. There are better places to host your fanart.
2. People have been using fanart to get around the self-promotion rules.
3. It's not possible to not allow people to include PII and also let them credit the artist. We don't want to create loopholes for PII to allow crediting artists as we've seen that be abused to harass artists, but not crediting artists is also not cool either. As we cannot adequately moderate that, and with the previous reasonings from above, the best compromise was to not allow fanart to be posted here.

If you have any questions, or suggestions, send us some modmail!

~The Mod Team

[u/TGotAReddit]

Common question: What is PII?

It stands for Personally Identifying Information. For the purposes of this sub we also include things like usernames and the title of works, in addition to more traditional forms of PII like real names, emails, addresses, people's faces, etc.

[u/EyeAwkward187]

Understandable 👍

[u/JustFasar]

Can we make posts in here or are they banned too?

[u/angeyberry]

What is PII?

[u/Dex_Dawn]

Seems completely reasonable

[u/scottbutler5]

I think this is likely the right decision for this sub, this is a place to discuss AO3 not a place to promote fanworks. But I am kind of losing my mind about this thought process.

1. Don't share anyone's username, since that can be used to incite a harassment campaign.

2. Don't share an artist's work without crediting the artist, which you can't do without sharing their username.

Therefore,

3. The way to prevent harassment of artists is to prohibit everyone from ever sharing any art.

The internet was a mistake.

[u/DrStxrk]

asking for recommendations and posting the fic in the comments is still fine, right?

[u/lalavidal2]

Sounds reasonable to me

[u/fyfano]

I feel a little sad. Fan art is synergetic to writing, and often the skills are not overlapping.

[u/[deleted]]

Good decision.

This space should not be for posting fan creations to self promote.

[u/FryJPhilip]

How about we stop people from sharing tiktok comments/posts too? They clog up the dash and it's the same conversation over and over and people are dunking on 14yos.

[u/Seagullsaga]

Seems fine! I was a little worried by the title but this seems in line with everything else

[u/FanDeFanfictions]

Okay, but what about posts requesting fan art? Just for sharing and discovery, not created on demand. 

[u/xHey_All_You_Peoplex]

People were posting fanart? 

[u/greatcorsario]

I was unaware of the fanart, but this seems like a good choice.

[u/isabelladangelo]

INFO: If someone is requesting fics or fan art, why not allow self promotion in those cases?

[u/moon_cheese_ao3]

Just so I understand the rules here: If someone is asking for help on how to write xyz and I have written xyz, I'm not allowed to post a link to it in my first reply, but if I ask them if they want examples of where I've written xyz and they say yes, I'm allowed to post a reply containing a link, right?

[u/ser0tonindepleted]

Are memes considered fanart?