So, I always want to start these comments with "Well, I don't know a lot about the OTW or AO3", thinking that it's an excuse, a kind of disclaimer -- but I really think that it's part of the issue, isn't it?
I don't know much about the workings of AO3. I don't know a lot about the OTW, about the Board, about any of this -- and why not?
Because the OTW, the Board, even AO3 to a great extent: they are all fairly invisible in the corners of fandom I haunt.
They're not reaching out to me; they're not visible to me. I use AO3, not only for my own posting but for a fandom exchange that I mod - arguably the fanwork exchange for the Final Fantasy fandom, at least in the circles I know - and even with that use, the administrative side is nearly invisible.
I say nearly because I hear faint strains sometimes about wanting to attract more fans like me - video game fans, anime fans, non-AO3-represented fans - but honestly? If I didn't have friends involved in OTW work, I might not even hear that. In my fandoms? Their voice is really pretty silent.
I do want to come back and say more, because there's a lot here that you've hit on that I find interesting. Thank you, so much, for putting this somewhere, in a place where someone like me - someone who has, really, so far, been ignored by the OTW - can read it.
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I don't know much about the workings of AO3. I don't know a lot about the OTW, about the Board, about any of this -- and why not?
Because the OTW, the Board, even AO3 to a great extent: they are all fairly invisible in the corners of fandom I haunt.
They're not reaching out to me; they're not visible to me. I use AO3, not only for my own posting but for a fandom exchange that I mod - arguably the fanwork exchange for the Final Fantasy fandom, at least in the circles I know - and even with that use, the administrative side is nearly invisible.
I say nearly because I hear faint strains sometimes about wanting to attract more fans like me - video game fans, anime fans, non-AO3-represented fans - but honestly? If I didn't have friends involved in OTW work, I might not even hear that. In my fandoms? Their voice is really pretty silent.
I do want to come back and say more, because there's a lot here that you've hit on that I find interesting. Thank you, so much, for putting this somewhere, in a place where someone like me - someone who has, really, so far, been ignored by the OTW - can read it.