I’m starting to notice an awful lot of fan fiction coming in on a seemingly semi-regular basis. I can’t speak for everyone but I personally think fan fiction should be categorized as such for easy filtering for those that both want to see it and those that would rather not have to scroll all of them. I feel it’s an inherently different type of story than an original one, regardless of the fetish.
And while I’m here I’ll just say on my wish-list would be a separate category for Superhero stories (fan fiction or original) as well. I think a story about costumed superheroes is a different genre of story than simply “Powers and Magic”. The ability to choose two potential categories for a story instead of one might also be useful.
I don’t mind a new tag for that, like #fanfiction. There is already a #superhero tag by the way.
You could actually add that tag yourself to all the stories you think should be tagged with it.
A separate category is not such a good idea, though, since the categories are used to categorize the means of mind control or kink, like “hypnosis”, “tranformation” or “reality change”. A fanfic story or superhero story could fit in any of these categories!
The tag feature is meant to tag a story with many aspects, as the category has a different purpose.
If you don’t want to see superhero stories, you can always block that tag, I guess that should serve the purpose you’re looking for, doesn’t it?
Pardon my ignorance and delay, but we’re allowed to post fan-fiction now? I just assumed the stuff that was up was a few errant stories getting past the review process by accident, but if that’s not the case, that’d be awesome!
The rule that “real life” persons cannot be used in stories has been dropped a couple of weeks ago. And fictional characters were ok for a long time already. So there’s no explicit rule against fan-fiction left!