LilithTheFallen

If you’re coming from Wattpad to AO3 and you’re shocked by the kind of content that exists there, that’s fine.... B U T if you start mass reporting people simply because you don’t like or agree with the content, you’re essentially playing the role of the people who run Wattpad. Wattpad’s owners decided they didn’t like the amount of NSFW content on their platform, so they mass banned that material. Now, if you come over to AO3 and start trying to get certain NSFW content banned there because you personally don’t like it, you’re doing the exact same thing. You’re taking a platform that was built to allow a much wider range of content regardless of content and trying to force it to follow the rules you wanted to escape from in the first place. AO3 has a tagging system for a reason. If you’re writing, be sure to tag your content properly. If you’re reading: PAY ATTENTION TO THE TAGS. Generally, you can see what kind of content a fic contains before you even click into the story. The tags are there so you can decide whether or not something is for you. You don’t have to read something that makes you uncomfortable. You can simply back out and find something else. If you left Wattpad because you wanted a platform with fewer restrictions, then don’t turn around and try to impose those same restrictions on AO3 users. Otherwise, you’re essentially becoming the very people whose decisions drove you to leave Wattpad in the first place. #archiveofourown #wattpad #nsfw #fanfiction