Missing on list of purges is a place known as "Freedom of Speech Fanfiction (FOS-FF)", a place founded to supposedly be more free and tolerant than FFnet after they banned script format fanfic. I was a member from its inception to when the admins grew power hungry and employed a sitewide purge in 2007, to eliminate whatever fanfiction they personally felt was low quality or not to their personal standards. Their backup tool didn't work well, and the admins claimed "we gave you time" (1/2)
After the results of the purge, their fanfiction database was wiped down a lot, and the admins ruled that if you wanted to submit a story, it had to be personally approved by every single one of them. This lead many stories to be rejected arbitrarily just because one admin wouldn’t like them. It’s become “Ghosts of the Vanguard” but I don’t know if they still have the whole draconian ways. (2/2)
Interesting! I’d heard of that archive, but I didn’t know anything about it. There used to be a lot more archives and coms where the mods had a minimum “quality” standard to let things in. It always leads to the archive/com getting less popular and writers leaving.