Comment on OTW Board Approves Meta Hosting on the AO3

  1. TinnyThoughts (Guest) Mon 18 Feb 2013 04:20AM UTC

    Thanks for the reply.

    I am curious how exactly AO3 and OTW gauged how many users cared about this issue, if there wasn't actually any user input? I am unsure how somplaints and submissions of meta to archive is the sum of people caring about the issue, specially given the promises of transparency and user-input the board has made in the past. It seems like a case of punishing those who decide to wait for official channels of input, in all good faith, doesn't it?

    How exactly is AO3 planning to get the user input "to direct us in determining how meta should be defined"?

    Just as art, podfic and video can currently be found on the AO3, so can meta.
    Yes, and that is exactly the concern here, tbh. That AO3 is already been moving in people it can't yet lodge and giving us more and more re-assurance that those rooms will materialize soon, but that AO3's next action is to allow yet another lodger and still no more rooms. I don't believe adding meta means technical limitations of the Ao3 are the point here, it's the fact that adding this over user opposition is being prioritized over getting rid of the technical limitations that are fueling almost all opposition to the idea at the moment in the first place.

    Meanwhile OTW is still not accepting what technically knowledgeable volunteers it hasn't yet already burned and burned out.

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