I saw a post a long time ago saying it was vanishing due to rise of smartphones but now it has VANISHED. Authors of both art/fanfiction,books,etc generally can't handle beyond 'Cool' or 'Thanks' this has caused realistic authors to sometimes ask why they CAN'T get any lengthly reviews and I can tell you why if your one who seeks feedback:
THEY DON'T WANT TO GET THEIR HEADS BIT OFF!!! Simple as that. A02 is worse at this as it's all designed for authors to have full control so people are NOT going to give a detailed review knowing their comments can be deleted at a whim over something minor.
Hell I deleted my account as I wanted to do a short story but since it's mostly women and when they reveal where they are from the majority are Canadian and don't give a crap about how you feel if their character is a total dick. The character 'clashes' often seem forced to promote dividing like the author is trying super hard to force a debate instead of letting events play out naturally.
Because people can't take criticism anymore, which is why so much of writing is total garbage now. Also, you don't have to really anymore because you can just blame "hate groups" if someone doesn't like the trash job you do.
After racially abusing or discrimination against all the customers. Simply Send yourself a fake threatening email and the lamestream media will run to your protection
Writing has a low bar for entry given the large literacy rate and proliferation of computers and smartphones in the modern world. So you're going to have a large number of people who will attempt their own fanfiction, short stories, books, ect., and think that they can do it well given they've been writing for years in school. But creative writing is a different beast from regular writing and good creative writing is far above that.
The safe space/participation trophy/there are no wrong answers culture in school is another factor. When people jumping into something like creative writing only get told how good they are and how they can do anything if they put their mind to it hit the real world they flounder. They may have it in them to succeed but they were never told there was going to be a lot of hard work and missteps along the way. So those people default back to just wanting praise for their work and just consider everyone offering valid criticism as trolls or 'haters' or fallback to 'It's just not for you.'
Good writers, or people who want to become good writers, will need to group up and make their own writing groups where they offer valuable and effective criticism. I've heard it's tough to find a good group of writers for that and maybe some enterprising individual can come along and make a website for that one day. Then, hopefully, control of it can be retained from the leftists that'll want to take it over and turn it into another safe space.
Also, by AO2 do you mean Archive of Our Own?
Yup! Archive of our Own is worse I THINK then FF.net has for as many rude authors I have also gotten some that are interested.
I think it's because of the hyperpolarization and fear of confrontation. Let's say I wrote a horror story, and the big bad rapes a victim before killing her. The entire point is to make this a villain. But the fear of being told you must be the villain is taken too seriously.
On the other hand, some minor misspelling is all the reviewer sees, and never comments about the story or characters makes it impossible to properly edit.
A03 just about every story in a fandom is a smut fic. If you call it out or call out on characters doing bang your head on your desk moments you'll be promptly blocked. You can't dare raise ONE critical voice.
Then I can't search under the fandom I like.
Pretty much. I like The Legend of Zelda and it's mostly romantic or at best novelizations instead of original adventure stories.
I think it comes from growing up in a world of participation trophies and hug boxes. It leads to the idea that the only way to valid way to respond to a work is praise.
Reminds me of the tale of the Hugo Awards and the Sad Puppies. Publishing has largely been captured, at this point feedback is no longer required or wanted.
Women generally want to be validated, not criticized, even with the intent of improving something.
Women haaaate criticism. The hardest thing for a woman to do is admit that she’s wrong.
Do you think most of AO2 is the ultra socialist women?
I don't know what AO2 is, but I think ultra socialist women is an oxymoron. Women are by nature ultra socialist.
Archive of our Own. I already explained it. It's suppose to be a 'freedom' version of FF.Net when adult stories were purged. Boy oh boy is it free speech as long as you agree to their version of it!