Please! Post anonymously! I really want to know!

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I was YMing with a friend yesterday about this beta thing we're working on for FA, in search of people who were going to have new fics to upload in the immediately future - like, the next week.

And she said that she knew a bunch of people who *were* finishing fics, but none of them would be submitting to FA.

So it got me wondering...

If you won't submit to FA, why?

Is it the grammar and spelling requirements?
Is it because you think your fic is NC17?
Or is there some other reason that isn't occuring to me right now?

Even if you hate FA and hate me (or even if it's one of the reasons I gave above), be kind for one minute and tell me why you won't submit to FA. Post anonymously. And I'm going to turn off IP logging for the next 48 hours so you don't have to worry that I'll somehow learn who you are. I won't, and nobody else will either.

edited to add: If it's partially the complicated method of submission, would an easier submission process help? Because we'll have one next month...

Thanks for all the comments to date...

Hope more will be forthcoming.

They're all very helpful and valuable as we move towards (a) our first anniversary, and (b) our final development of revised submission guidelines which will pertain to our new submission setup. One note - it will not be an automatic system, simply because we're going to keep the grammar and spelling guidelines and there's no way to automate that, but it will be quicker.

I'm setting this for no comments, because I want all the comments to be in the same place. And I am going to ask that nobody criticise any of the criticisms posted by anyone else (although you can feel free to second or third anything) because even the harshest criticisms are most useful.

If you're looking at this on someone's friends page, please click on my name to find the post to comment on or click here. Thanks!

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I love ali for she is a kind and wonderful (ok, kind of wonderful) person. And this isn't just because I'm going to buy her a drink next month. Or possibly the month after.