After reading everyone's concerns I'm torn. On the one hand I doubt we're in any danger at all from Square -- they seem to support fans a LOT and probably just chuckle at the slash -- and on the other hand, the argument that making a big for-profit site for fanfic might attract a more aggressive corporate response against fanfic makes sense to me. It's like the old argument about gays not marching for gay rights and making a stink because of the backlash it generates. With gays, well, it's a little different because they're trying to fix current problems. But with fanfic, right now, we're doing just fine thank you, and the last thing we need is for fanlib to attract tighter corporate scrutiny and legal action against fan sites.

I don't care that much about the money-making issue, because I know how much work it is to maintain a big site. (although, on the other hand, the admin team of LOTRplaza is volunteer... worked 16 hours a day sometimes, but we were donating money for server upkeep, not getting any).

But the "don't rouse the dragon" issue matters to me.

*Deletes most of the stuff I'd archived, debates deleting all of it, including one that for some odd reason they threw onto the front page as a "featured story"*