OMG LIEK FREE SPEACH

[cuddlefish]

ravenwoodiii reminded me of the "ura" sites I get so frustrated about. It's a separate site attached to an otherwise more legitamate fanart site, and it's where the artist puts anything they're nervous about. It's handy for the artist, because by putting their stuff on an ura, they're automatically slapping a generalized warning on all of it. Okay, it's kind of too bad that they have to break up their art into pieces to hide their shame, but it's a formula I use, too, and I kind of like it. Once you decide something is going on an ura, that's all the excuse you need to put whatever the hell you want in it, and if your visitors don't like it, well, they don't have any business clicking on a link that's covered in warnings, do they?

My problem with it is that too often it stops being just a warning that I can follow with my own brain, and more like an arbitrary boundary the webmaster is inflicting on me. It's just like Emily says here---after spending so much time and effort finding a tiny link or answering some twinky little quiz, you might as well just not bother reading the story itself. I'm too busy thinking about getting to the work to actually appreciate or value it. It sucks, and I'm sick of it.

Yes, this was a comment. Once upon a time. Then I decided I needed to show come common decency and keep the whining to my own diary.