Sorry if I sound out of place, as I've been here for two and a half years, and have just recently come back from a several month long hiatus, but is it just me, or does it seem like FanFiction is losing its luster? I ask this because I've been around since the times of authors like Roaark, Holospartoi, StoryloverAlpha-01, etc. when everyone worked together, and the Rio Archive was actually a community. Now, it seems like more and more fights are occurring, and people are starting pretty squabbles over the most asinine things.
Honestly, it's really a disservice to what I once knew, and it saddens me to see that the once vibrant Rio community is in such disarray and ruins. Instead of everyone talking to one another, helping each other out, and welcoming new people, the Archive seems to have become a warzone for different factions to attack each other. This group here claiming righteousness, this other one claiming the same, both getting into petty squabbles because people can't get along. It's absolutely ridiculous.
To be honest, I'm really surprised how no one had noticed how badly things have degraded. I've made the call that unless someone actually decides to put their reputation as an author on the line to voice these concerns, nothing will be done about this. We need to stop these war games, and boost our writing style and skills. I hate to say it, but the stories that I've seen are lacking the sustenance depth that I love seeing in new authors. There's just stuff missing that I'd be more than happy to help with. But, you can call me a hater and "ban" me from writing on this archive, but honestly, as of now, you'd be doing me a favor. I've been hanging around, hoping that things would improve, but I'm just not seeing it. All the hate and animosity had just killed it for me. So if you think that I'm just another "hater", and wanna start a witch hunt on me to drive me out, so be it. You may think that about me, but the honest truth was that I wanted more than anything to see you become better authors than me.
As a legacy author, I feel that something needs to be done to correct the things that are wrong with this archive. And don't think that I'm just angry or am a hater. I have multiple other authors who agree, and we all think that something needs to be done to correct this. If something isn't done soon, this once wonderful archive will become a barren wasteland where few people want to come. So please, heed this as not a hate message, but as a call to arms to bring this archive back to what it once was. Because I firmly believe that if we all join up, we can fix this issue that has been long ignored.
So, to wrap this up, let's try our best to fix what's wrong, and find things to improve about our stories and ourselves. And if this just sounds like me being an asshole, and you get enraged at me for such, more power to me. It'll just be more reason for me to go to the Ace Combat or Dragon's Dogma archives.
