I gotta admit part of me thinks it would be meanly HILARIOUS to let loose a moderation bot on AO3 but then again I'm a Scorpio.
It sounds like AO3 volunteers are terminally overwhelmed just trying to keep the site going as it is and they're saying that's one big reason change re racism is not happening. I dunno. It seems like a volunteer workforce is not the right approach for what it's become, but that's also such a huge part of the ethos? Idk.
It sounds like a lot of ppl are way less happy with the "we're overwhelmed, we're having committees about it, we're radically inclusive, we can't grandfather millions of fics in to a new category" excuses when it comes to botfic. As opposed to racism.
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Date: 2023-05-23 01:57 am (UTC)It sounds like AO3 volunteers are terminally overwhelmed just trying to keep the site going as it is and they're saying that's one big reason change re racism is not happening. I dunno. It seems like a volunteer workforce is not the right approach for what it's become, but that's also such a huge part of the ethos? Idk.
It sounds like a lot of ppl are way less happy with the "we're overwhelmed, we're having committees about it, we're radically inclusive, we can't grandfather millions of fics in to a new category" excuses when it comes to botfic. As opposed to racism.