Because this is going around Tumblr, I thought I would address the issue.
An assertion by an individual on Tumblr is going around calling me/Squidge/SquidgeWorld a fascist organization that deletes works with no cares or such. That we’re power hungry, etc..
Is there truth in this? If you know BOTH sides and not just the individual that’s accusing us of this, you’ll understand. I’ve gotten half a dozen trouble-tickets asking me to clarify, and so that’s the impetus of posting this. Please make YOUR OWN INFORMED DECISION.
I’ve taken down exactly 2 works (works, not comments. Comments get deleted if they are commission spammers.). And the reasons are:1) Person imported a work into SqWA from AO3. They didn’t bother to clean it up at all – they left in all of the icons, kudos from AO3, etc. The formatting was a complete mess, and I got a couple of trouble tickets on it. I hid the work and was in the process of contacting the author when they emailed me, cussing me out, etc. At that point, I deleted the work because they decided “YOU’RE A FASCIST” and other lovely comments about my personage.2) Person created one fandom work, and then the next day left 4 comments in 38 seconds (the Tumblr post I made for SqWA spam) saying they really connected with the 4 works they read in under a second. They attempted to commission spam, and as a result, we deleted their account. Including the one story that they posted.
Two works. With compelling reasons to have said works deleted, or at least hidden – but that is my opinion. And if you agree, that’s fine. If you don’t agree and want to call our organization a fascist organization for being respectful of archive users, well that’s something for you to decide. All I know is, the “hair on fire” screamers out there are really making it hard to want to continue giving to the community.
EDIT: About 18 months back or so, we had a transphobe who shit on trans people and wanted to force christianity on everyone – including SqWA users – and took every chance they could to stir up shit for the sake of drama. After 3 warnings and approval from the Squidge Board, they were banned, and all of their works were deleted. So it’s actually more than 2 works if you could this douchebag that was banned.
Questions? Comment on this post or log a ticket.
ugh, I hate people like that! They poison the well for everyone.
I feel like these are people finally being made to come to terms with the fact that there are consequences to one’s actions (imo ban hammers are good character-building devices). Still, that statistically seems like an incredibly low amount of troublemakers – insofar as I can tell, most people on the SW are pretty well-behaved.
keep being an awesome admin, man. so appreciate the work you do 💚
All clear chief, you keep doing your work.
No complaints from this corner. If they’re going to behave like that then it’s their own fault when they get kicked out. Thanks for all the work you do to keep Squidgeworld running; sorry you have to deal with so many aggressive and/or whiny people.
I think you acted completely above board. ❤️
(Whyyyy does this blog not like VPNs)
You’re kind enough to clarify what actually happened. Perhaps it’s because times have changed, and now personal fanfic archives are very rare, but back then when fanfic archives popped around like mushrooms, any owner could reject a fic in their archive for any reason, because they were putting money and effort into maintaining it and if they don’t want to host any fanfic, for any reason at all, that was valid. And maybe thats also why I don’t pay attention to anyone screeching that so-and-so is a fascist in the internet. But that’s Tumblr in a nutshell.