Comment on September 2025 Newsletter, Volume 204

  1. CouldntBeDamned Sun 05 Oct 2025 09:37PM UTC

    Policy & Abuse received 3,863 tickets

    I’m curious if these tickets are from users/guests objecting to works they find objectionable but aren’t against TOS. I’ve seen a lot of pro-censorship rhetoric on other online spaces.

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    1. neeku Mon 06 Oct 2025 02:04AM UTC

      Bitey the Gorg from Star Wars Resistance. a small, round purple and yellow reptilian creature. He has a large fanged mouth that cuts all the way across the middle of his bodies and big teal eyes with black vertcal pupils.

      https://www.transformativeworks.org/committees/policy-abuse-committee/

      web.archive.org/web/20240510185934/https://www.transformativeworks.org/committees/policy-abuse-committee/

      In 2024 about 15% of tickets were rejected complaints about offensive content and in 2023 it was 18%. Maybe they will share 2025 stats after the year’s end.

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    2. MalcontentCatboy Mon 06 Oct 2025 04:37AM UTC

      No need to go to other online spaces to see that, unfortunately.

      To add to neeku's post, the statistics do not include if the report was acted on, only the nature of the report. So the 15%/18% is likely a low-ball and I would expect at least some of "Insufficient Ratings or Warnings" and "Non-Fanworks" to cover complaints about offensive content as well.

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    3. Forested_Woodlands Mon 06 Oct 2025 04:48AM UTC

      Emo_furry_photo_that_refused_to_load

      Rant works are very common. A lrge amount of Ao3's userbase is teens, and teens, well, they suffer. A simple search could find hundreds, if not thousands, or such works, all of which goes against the TOS

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      1. SarkyLittleMonster Tue 07 Oct 2025 08:10AM UTC

        Wait, what is a rant work? And why are they against the TOS? /gen /nf

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        1. Forested_Woodlands Tue 07 Oct 2025 02:07PM UTC

          Emo_furry_photo_that_refused_to_load

          A rant work is against the tos because this site is made fanfic, and writngg fics to complain isnt fanfic

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        2. p0ppys33dmuff1n Tue 07 Oct 2025 02:32PM UTC

          The "lethal injection" frame of Kagamine Len in Ego Renegade Boy

          Elaborating a bit on Forested_Woodlands' comment, AO3 is an archive for transformative fan content, which can also allow original works since it's up to the author to decide if their original work is transformative. But by posting a rant work (or anything other type of non-fanwork the teens on here upload), you are not transforming anything, you're just talking about real-life events.

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          1. SarkyLittleMonster Tue 07 Oct 2025 06:02PM UTC

            Ohh, I see. I confused rant work with meta, which I've seen people archive here. Ty ^-^

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