Sunday, January 29, 2006

   Oh, I am SO mad.
Major rant about to happen, just so you know.

I got THIS email last night(and haven't slept since and it's fricking 7:30 AM):"Shinigami Akumu,

Title: "What's a Few Years?"
Summary: "[humor romance angst] After spending more time with Ed,
Russell starts to feel strangely towards him. Could it be love? Roy’s liked
the little alchemist for quite some time now, but how can he compete
with a guy like that?"
Rating: "Fiction Rated: M"

Main reason for removal: "Not the property of uploading writer Please
note we do not allow users to post lyrics to songs they did not write.
Exception being works in the US public domain."

The above story has been removed because it violated the guideline
detailed on the upload page.

This infraction has been recorded and once you reach a certain limit,
your account be automatically banned. Moreover, as a result of this
infraction, you will not have upload access for a period of time.


FanFiction.Net has a set of guidelines for the uploading of stories and
chapters.
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http://www.fanfiction.net/guidelines/
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What kind of shit is THAT?! So, I wrote them this message:"It may seem a little odd, but I'm not reporting a user's abuse-but what I believe to be an error from an admin. I received this email:

"Shinigami Akumu,

Title: "What's a Few Years?"
Summary: "[humor romance angst] After spending more time with Ed,
Russell starts to feel strangely towards him. Could it be love? Roy’s liked
the little alchemist for quite some time now, but how can he compete
with a guy like that?"
Rating: "Fiction Rated: M"

Main reason for removal: "Not the property of uploading writer Please
note we do not allow users to post lyrics to songs they did not write.
Exception being works in the US public domain."

The above story has been removed because it violated the guideline
detailed on the upload page.

This infraction has been recorded and once you reach a certain limit,
your account be automatically banned. Moreover, as a result of this
infraction, you will not have upload access for a period of time.


FanFiction.Net has a set of guidelines for the uploading of stories and
chapters.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
http://www.fanfiction.net/guidelines/
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------"

First and foremost, that story was last edited by me in Microsoft Works on 10-03-05 and probably completed and put up even before that. That change was made to your guidelines on 11-03-05, which is a month later. I had other stories going on at the time, as well. And so you're implying...that I'm supposed to remember every detail of every work I publish on here and keep going back over and over to change it each time you add something new to the guidelines? Moreover, why could I not have received a warning of some type telling me I have a certain amount of time to edit out the lyrics before you delete the story? Wouldn't that be the practical thing to do? Why remove my story for somthing so small? Also, I'd like you to elaborate on this specific guideline, if you would. Why is it there when most people's one-shots revolve around a favorite or fitting song? Does this mean you're going to delete everyone's one-shots? That could make you end up banning a lot of people if they've written several of them-considering we only get so many stories deleted before we're banned. That, in turn, would cause a lot of controversy. Note also that, in the guidelines, you don't give a link to this list of songs in the "public domain", nor do you explain what you mean by it. Again, that guideline wasn't there when I posted that story, so i don't see how it is fair to give me trouble for it. I believe I may also have lyrics in another story, which, again, was probably posted before this guideline came to be. I was planning to remove the lyrics from the story you deleted anyway, as they didn't sit well with me, when I had more time to mess with it. AdultFanFiction net is a pretty big site as well, and I don't believe they have any such guideline. From day one on here I was nervous about the rules and thus, have followed them to the best of my ability-I'm only human. I find the action taken against me ridiculous for such a petty mistake. If we cannot come to some kind of understanding(be it you proving me wrong and showing this guideline's catastrophic importance or allowing me to put the story back and just remove the lyrics) then I will take my writing somewhere else, because this is an outrage.

I sincerely apologize if I have offended anyone in any way with this message, but this offends me greatly, and I can guarantee the same reaction for the hundreds of people who have told me they enjoy my work so much.

Thank you for your time and cooperation,
Shinigami Akumu"

THIS is what's written in their guidelines:
“Version: 11-03-2005
Actions not allowed:
1.Multiple entries of the same material. There can only be one copy of any unique story on the entire site. No exceptions.
2.Rewriting names of characters/locations of one story in order to upload to multiple categories.
3.Copying from a previously published work (including musical lyrics) not in the public domain.”

So, seeing as that message may just piss them off further, because people have this ugly tendency to think they're always right, I have posted that all up on my profile for FFN(and they won't let me upload chapter to any stories until freaking 2-4-06!)...because if I get banned, not only do I want people to know and get mad about it(they should be mad a story they liked so much was removed)but I want them to be able to contact me, so they'll know where I'll be putting my work. So for hours I've been gathering email addressed and writing PMs...and that's all done, thankfully. i couldn't get it to everyone, I was too tired. Cause damn FFN doesn't let you copy/paste of click emails...you have to type them for yourself. So it took forever.

This is...just what I need, isn't it? One of the few things that I really enjoy that I seem to be really good at(well, mostly people have only said good things...not to mention it requires less uh...whatever than piano and singing and stuff, really...)...and someone just has to go and fuck with ti, you know? Well, i suppose that's the story of my freaking life. It seems like everytime this family FINALLY gets something going for them...something bad happens. I'm so sick of it. and god damn it my mom and I were supposed to go out and have fun today!!! We were going to go grocery shopping and then stop at the bookstore, just to look like we often do, and then come home and play Bust a Move 2(the ONE video game she likes)or whatever other games and stuff...I mean, it was just supposed to be a nice day. We'd get out of the house for a bit and enjoy ourselves. But this kinda killed it because it really upsets me...and then my mom woke up at 6:30 AM and asked why i was still awake, so I told her the story...she wasn't happy either. She figures some admin just happened to have a bug up their ass at the moment-or someone would have had to report it. But she agrees that just deleting my story was pretty rude...for something so stupid, too. anyway, she went back to bed...don't know if I can sleep now. I'm tired, but...I know she'll let me sleep a while since she knows and then our fun day goes down the toilet...*sigh* fuck this shit-I hate my life.
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"Life fucking sucks, and then you die."

-Lyss
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