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I wanna address some common concerns real quick!

How do you define NSFW? Explicit sexual content. Kissing, implied sexual content, and gore are fine. We're mostly banning NSFW because of issues with moderation- most of our mods don't feel comfortable handling nsfw content and we don't want to just have one mod handle all the NSFW content on the platform. AO3 still exists for the smut writers out there. (As an aside, we don't look down upon smut writers, we just feel uncomfortable handling that content.*)

How is MCYT defined? The term "MCYT" is used broadly in terms of scope for this archive. This includes any content creator who has created Minecraft content or has been associated with those who do. This also covers things outside this general scope but still in the same area of content such as original fiction based on people's own SMPs, MCYT fandom-created characters like Penis SMP, Podcasts and Web Series not tied to Minecraft but tied to MCYT CCs (or adjacent CCs), and non-Minecraft roleplays with creator overlap such as SBI Rust and Just Roll With It.

What are "common triggers?" Abuse, graphic descriptions of violence, major character death, bigotry, self-harm, suicide, torture, and alcohol/drug use. Note that this tagging system is also set to change at any point.

Who will be paying for the server space? We're gonna be paying for it out of pocket. If it ever becomes too big and we need more space, we would ask for donations, though I don't see that becoming an issue. AO3's entire database approximately takes up 100gb-1tb, and that's 8,000,000+ works, 40,000+ fandoms, etc. I've already figured stuff out to allow us to have 50gb of space, which should be more than enough.

Other notes:

We will be leaving in "Author Chose Not to Use Archive Warnings." The reason we first decided to take it out (along with No Rating) was because of how it's often abused on AO3 (instead of properly tagging content they'll use that tag) but the responses to the form made us realize how not having it could also be abused.

% will be used to tag queerplatonic relationships

The currently-outlined rules are very unspecific as of right now. They will get more specific as time goes on. We're just trying to get a general idea for what we want the rules to be at the moment.

Anxiety over the project crashing and burning is absolutely fair. I can't fully assuage those worries until it gets off its feet, but I hope the transparency will help. This isn't a huge project, either- moderated fanfiction archives for specific fandoms used to be very popular, and most (from what I've seen) didn't experience much conflict, or the conflict that they did experience was resolved quickly. I can't see this archive being much different. The issues surrounding LiveJournal and FF.net was corporatization, which meant having to censor LGBTQ+ content in order to be more appealing to advertisers. Since this isn't a business model, we have no need to appeal to advertisers.

We aren't trying to replace AO3 in the slightest. All of us have a lot of appreciation for what AO3 does, and we're even using AO3's source code as a base. We're simply trying to provide a place for a niche that doesn't currently have one.

*Assuming you are writing NSFW of legal, consenting adults. "Poppytwt" and anyone writing NSFW of minors or people who aren't comfortable with it are not tolerated anywhere near our site.