Not offended at all, actually! It was just a suggestion, of course there are things that won't be a good idea.
I didn't mean to exlude the "not-beta'd enough fic" - I'm talking about good fic, in the way of, um, Elizabeth Barr's There Is No Such Place versus a plotless fanfic where Harry's a vampire and Voldemort his father. The way we differentiate good books from bad books, if that's how you want to describe it. A "bad" novel usually doesn't get published, because it lacks a good storyline, or realistic characters, or consistent characterisations/plots/writing.
The way I'm picturing it, it'd be like this: the readers rate the fics on the archive, and the fics that got the highest ratings in a particular amount of time will be put in another section, but in the proces of putting it in that section a team of boardmembers will beta/nitpick it again, and if needed check the canon (McG is 27, not 26 years old in 1994, for example - the little details). Also, because not all good fics get "popular", maybe there'd be a way of recommending fics to others/that board?
Re: Quality control & Locking adult content
I didn't mean to exlude the "not-beta'd enough fic" - I'm talking about good fic, in the way of, um, Elizabeth Barr's There Is No Such Place versus a plotless fanfic where Harry's a vampire and Voldemort his father. The way we differentiate good books from bad books, if that's how you want to describe it. A "bad" novel usually doesn't get published, because it lacks a good storyline, or realistic characters, or consistent characterisations/plots/writing.
The way I'm picturing it, it'd be like this: the readers rate the fics on the archive, and the fics that got the highest ratings in a particular amount of time will be put in another section, but in the proces of putting it in that section a team of boardmembers will beta/nitpick it again, and if needed check the canon (McG is 27, not 26 years old in 1994, for example - the little details). Also, because not all good fics get "popular", maybe there'd be a way of recommending fics to others/that board?
It still needs to be worked out, of course.