I'm sure that many of you have heard of the recent changes to FanFiction(dot)net (FFN). For those of you haven't, FFN has decided to begin removing any and all stories that have "excessive violence" or lemons. Many have, of late, logged onto FFN and found their stories gone with no prior warnings and/or notices. Such blatant censorship and the seeming desire to cover it up or at least refusal to acknowledge it on the part of FFN has me worried for the future of the site. As such, at the risk of having my own story/stories removed for such an action, I am posting this notice/petition.

The notice is as follows. The next chapter of The Revenge of Raijinn will not be posted on FFN so long as the site insists on following their current policies. I have been working on this chapter for a while now, constantly fixing and changing it. This chapter has, since the prior was posted, been planned to finally earn that M rating. As such, it contains scenes of gratuitous torture, both physical and mental. I had been waffling between keeping the torture in and changing it, but eventually decided that the scenes were integral to both character and relation development. Since I have finally graduated high school (and gotten a full ride to an Ivy League College :D!) I had decided to finish the last few scenes and post it within the next week or so. Due to FFN's policies, however, I feel uncomfortable doing so.

Should FFN's policies not change, I will be moving to The Writer's Coffee Shop (TWCS), along with what seems to be the majority of the FFN populace.

My penname there is the same as it is on FFN, namely Pokepikachu1.

I desperately want to give FFN the chance to redeem itself, so my stories and I will remain here until July 2 (or whenever my story/stories are removed by FFN staff), at which point I will be officially moving to TWCS. As such, I plead that everyone read and sign it so that FFN staff will hopefully realize what a foolish decision they have made and reconsider their policies.

The petition is below, and I again strongly urge everyone to sign and post it, whether on profiles or stories.

Greetings to the fine folk that moderate our site.

Myself, along with many, have been writing and posting on your fine site for years now, some of the better examples of up and coming writers out there are now suddenly finding some of the stories we've come to love at risk of being removed without the chance to even rectify our errors.

For some, that means the permanent loss of a story. While I don't have anything that I believe violates your terms of use, there are those out there that are never able to recover a story in its original form, this is something I find to be almost worthy of a legal action, as while we cannot claim ownership of a character, the stories are OURS and simply destroying them is something that is inexcusable.

It's quite easy to simply add an MA rating, additional filters or even a simple requirement for a free membership to read the stories presented here, and would cut down on hateful anonymous reviews and posts at the same time, so I have to question as to why such a thing, in all this time, simply wasn't added.

If you're worried about falsification of a registration then have an appropriate disclaimer and then there can be no dispute, you took your steps and the PARENTS didn't monitor their children, if that is even your concern. If it is more of a personal view or desire then please at least let people know and give them a chance to remove a story that you and yours find offensive, most people on the site are actually rather cordial when it comes to such requests.

While I cannot say for sure if this letter will even reach those that may be willing to listen, of if it's more akin to a wide spectrum purge in preparation for something bigger, please understand that you are going to be losing a LARGE number of your writers, and thus your income from a lack of readers if there is not some level of action taken to help with this situation.

For those that may agree with this, please feel free to sign on and send this to the support server, maybe we can get some movement on this.

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