Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-23891957-20140628050515

I'm not sure how many of you guys have visited the TAWoG Fanfiction.Net archive, but as someone who foolishly sunk three days into that place, I feel that I can safely tell those who don't know already that that archive, and almost everyone involved in it, is a nightmare. Loads of awful stories, and loads of awful people.

The biggest part of this awfulness is their vehement response to criticism- spearheaded by the author Agent BM. He is, without a doubt, the worst this fandom has to offer. His creations, if you can even call them that, are extremely poorly written, with Beige Prose in droves, awful grammar, abysmal characterization, and stupid plots that don't go anywhere no matter the length of the story. What's worse is his attitude- despite te sheer awfulness of his writing, Agent BM is under the illusion that he is the leader of the archive- and he uses his fanbase (yes, he does have one- and a rather large one at that) to bully those who dissent him into either silence or until they leave the site entirely (which has happened before).

Not to say nothing good came from my time there. I found a fantastic fic called The Loop that I recommend to all of you. I also noted some other decently good writers and some pretty nice people. Unfortunately, this is a minority- The Loop was the sole satisfactory story I found out of the 50+ I tried to read.

I fear that this archive could turn off anyone who stumbles upon that sect first- with behavior like what is exhibited there, anyone may assume the same of the rest of the fandom. That's some seriously bad publicity right there.

Does anyone have any ideas on ways to reverse or reduce the damage done over there? I don't believe that a fandom like this deserves such a terrible creative front. 