My rants.
Fanfiction.net
Oh great and wise fanfiction.net seems to have decided to move toward the future, although I can't tell you what the future holds, I can tell you this.
Fanfiction.net has some strange ideas about style. Earlier this year, I tried to upload Kibou No Hikari to ffnet, only to find that my paragraphs didn't exist as they used to, meaning that ffnet really messed up on the formating.
That's not all, though. Later, (February 20th, or there abouts), I find out that certain characters aren't allowed on ffnet anymore. For example, those who've read my works know that I use < and > to indicate thought. Or, ~, which is used in many an url. Including mine. They also include @ in the list, because it eats e-mail addresses too. (Or rather, it eats any word containing the forbiddon @ sign. I'm not sure if it's ~ or if they also ban the usage of /. They've also banned the usage of [ and ], or at least their poor excuse for a document converter rejects those symbols.
Oh, it gets better. In response to my initial querry, they said "You can correct paragraphing problem with QuickEdit. FanFiction.Net does not support non-language relevant characters."
I guess they've never read Xanth before? (In the the ninth volume of the first trilogy, Golem In The Gears, Piers has characters using the SAME MARKS that I have the greatest complaint about FFNET deleting. Namely my pointy brackets and square brackets. Although I'm not too fond of their deletion of urls and e-mail addresses either.
If they're going to ban characters like those, why don't they ban `, !, #, &, (, ), -, ", ', ?, ., and ,, while they're at it?
In fact, why not ban 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 0 too?
Not far enough? Ban all upper-case letters while you're at it.
Hell, why not ban the entire English language?
They should also take a look at an English language dictionary. A good loooooonnnnnnngggg look at an English language dictionary.
THEN, they should have their brains washed out with soap. (Or maybe before they look through said dictionary?)
Update: They don't allow $, %, or * either.
Also, I did a test with their document manager. I sent in a file, the original is here, and contained a number of characters I felt like testing, the result was this.
Updated: 03/15/2005
