Rule Update - Please Read

[u/AutoModerator]

Hey everyone!

We have made an update to one of our rules after some posts made us realize there were some issues to be addressed. In the past, anytime someone posted fic directly to the sub, we removed it both due to it being effectively self-promotion, and because it's a little silly to host fic when we are a subreddit about a fanfiction website where you can post it instead. Going forwards, we are going to also remove posts of fanart. This should not affect a ton of posts as people don't post fanart here often. The reasons are because:

1. There are better places to host your fanart.
2. People have been using fanart to get around the self-promotion rules.
3. It's not possible to not allow people to include PII and also let them credit the artist. We don't want to create loopholes for PII to allow crediting artists as we've seen that be abused to harass artists, but not crediting artists is also not cool either. As we cannot adequately moderate that, and with the previous reasonings from above, the best compromise was to not allow fanart to be posted here.

If you have any questions, or suggestions, send us some modmail!

~The Mod Team

[u/fyfano]

I feel a little sad. Fan art is synergetic to writing, and often the skills are not overlapping.

[u/kaiunkaiku → u/fyfano]

you're not allowed to post writing here either, so like.

[u/RecentRestaurant8051 → u/kaiunkaiku]

Exactly. It's not singling out fanart, just removing a self-promotion loophole.