Was never clear on the policy, but what you state above does explain a lot. It may also explain why I found the board easier to navigate - fanfic when it's posted takes up lots of board space - the Rescue - being evidence of that.
My first introduction to fandom was well the fanfic, found the essays later. Fanfic websites were easier to locate. Essays or commentary were often weeded amongst the fic. It wasn't until a friend suggested Spoilerslayer and I hit those links that I found Buffy Cross and Stake, and it wasn't until Yoda at BC&S asked to take an essay I wrote to ATPO, which was considered on BC&S at that time as the essay non-spoiler board that all essayists aspired to, that I found ATPO. (I'm not joking on that last bit - ATPO had a mysterious rep on BC&S back in 2002 - partly because it had a link to slayage.tv as well. Whenever anyone wrote an essay that BC&S considered amazing, someone would take it to ATPO - it was like getting an award or something.) Very different communities fanfic and essay.
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Date: 2006-01-29 06:19 pm (UTC)My first introduction to fandom was well the fanfic, found the essays later. Fanfic websites were easier to locate. Essays or commentary were often weeded amongst the fic. It wasn't until a friend suggested Spoilerslayer and I hit those links that I found Buffy Cross and Stake, and it wasn't until Yoda at BC&S asked to take an essay I wrote to ATPO, which was considered on BC&S at that time as the essay non-spoiler board that all essayists aspired to, that I found ATPO. (I'm not joking on that last bit - ATPO had a mysterious rep on BC&S back in 2002 - partly because it had a link to slayage.tv as well. Whenever anyone wrote an essay that BC&S considered amazing, someone would take it to ATPO - it was like getting an award or something.) Very different communities fanfic and essay.