Yet, for what it's worth, I might briefly summarize my own understanding for you in this way:
A couple of years ago, the board of directors of the Organization for Transformative Works (OTW), which is the non-profit organization that maintains the AO3, agreed to implement certain measures, including anti-discrimination measures, within a certain time period, and has not done so. Accusations of racism against volunteers, of mishandling materials that could be connected to harming children, and of other problems, have continued to arise and, I'm told, are well documented.
Because I donate money to support the archive through the OTW, I am eligible to vote for the board of directors.
Some people are so fed up with the poor behavior of the current and past OTW board members that they are ceasing to use the AO3 and advocating for a return to individual, fandom-specific archives, though of course modern ones where people can put up and take down their own stories at will, not the old kind that put you at the mercy of an archivist who may not honor your request to take things down.
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Yet, for what it's worth, I might briefly summarize my own understanding for you in this way:
A couple of years ago, the board of directors of the Organization for Transformative Works (OTW), which is the non-profit organization that maintains the AO3, agreed to implement certain measures, including anti-discrimination measures, within a certain time period, and has not done so. Accusations of racism against volunteers, of mishandling materials that could be connected to harming children, and of other problems, have continued to arise and, I'm told, are well documented.
Because I donate money to support the archive through the OTW, I am eligible to vote for the board of directors.
Some people are so fed up with the poor behavior of the current and past OTW board members that they are ceasing to use the AO3 and advocating for a return to individual, fandom-specific archives, though of course modern ones where people can put up and take down their own stories at will, not the old kind that put you at the mercy of an archivist who may not honor your request to take things down.