If we don't know you, we don't know how well you write/how willing to learn you are, and if we let people write missions who don't write well and maybe even aren't willing to learn, PPC missions would be very hypocritical, wouldn't they? That's why the Permission thing is in place. Nothin' we have against ya. :)

A lot of newbies come in thinking that they can start writing PPC fic without having to get to know us and get Permission. Admittedly, it seems like that's how it was during the time of TOS (from reading the author's notes), but that's not how it is now. In order to both keep track of who all writes PPC missions (because having to get Permission makes it a lot harder for there to be missions we don't know about) and prevent any PPC badfic that's not part of the Badfic Games or any other joke event (see wiki), the Permission process was implemented at some point in time (maybe an oldbie can tell you when.) I know there are some users who have rushed in and then chilled out (i.e. me), but this can sometimes lead to unfavorable incidents stemming from impatience and/or failure to learn when they do try for Permission, on the part of the newbie. Sadly, it's even lead to some nasty things happening in the past, which further intensify our need for us to know who you are. So I also suggest that you do, in fact, relax, and see all that the Board has to offer. You won't be disappointed if you do.

-Twistey
(Note to other PPCers: Perhaps we could make the need for Permission less easy to miss on the Wiki? That might prevent some of this kind of stuff.)