Line #3 YMMV/FanFictionDotNet


1	* FandomRivalry: With Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn. While many writers do cross-post on both sites, there's a strong rivalry between the two because they're the two most popular fanfiction archives and have differing aims (FFN is dependent on ad revenue and as such has more content restrictions, while [=AO3=] is a nonprofit organization with much looser content guidelines). Notably, some fandoms seem to lean towards one site over the other (for example, [=AO3=] has a bigger ''Anime/YuriOnIce'' section while [=FFN=] has a bigger ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' section), and {{Crossover}} fics tend to be more heavy leaning towards FFN, despite it being more limited than [=AO3=] (FFN only lets users categorize a crossover between two series, while [=AO3=] allows users to tag as many series as they like).
2	* MemeticMutation:
3	** "There are no FFN Mods." [[labelnote:Explanation]]The site's moderators are almost non-existent, and there's no real way to contact a specific one directly. Even if somebody does contact one, they rarely respond to what the other person's contacting them about. As a result of this incredibly lax moderation, most of FFN rules (such as no {{Alternate Reality Game}}s, {{MST}}s, {{Lemon Fic}}s, or fics with real people in them) are pretty much ''never'' enforced, and the rule-breaking fics can stay up for years without issue.[[/labelnote]]
4	** Korean adbots. [[labelnote:Explanation]]For some ''bizarre'' reason, FFN Forums tend to get flooded with the adbots, with the worst cases resulting in the front pages of Forums reading like a Korean website. It's so infamous that the site admins had to remove links from Forums... and that seemed to do absolutely nothing for the situation. To this day, you can ''still'' see adbots flooding the Forums.[[/labelnote]]
5	* ScrappyMechanic:
6	** In June 2015, a measure was implemented that prevented outside links from showing up in forum posts, and any outside links that were on a profile page and didn't link to Fictionpress (FFN's sister site) link back to the original profile page. While this was done to help curb the Korean adbot situation, to say site-goers weren't pleased would be a definite understatement.
7	** The site uses the robots exclusion standard (robots.txt) in its programming, which prevented archival sites like the Website/WaybackMachine from working with the site for a long time.[[note]]The Internet Archive no longer follows the standard unless they are specifically requested by a site's webmaster to continue doing so for their site.[[/note]] As a result, this rendered a ''lot'' of forums, {{fanfic}}s, and [=RPs=] {{Missing Episode}}s. This is especially infamous because FFN's higher-ups like to periodically purge forums, threads, and fics that haven't been touched after a certain point to save on space, even if said threads were unable to be reactivated or the fanfic was already completed. Naturally, bringing up robots.txt is a good way to ignite a bonfire that can be seen from space.

Context YMMV / FanFictionDotNet