more thoughts on that fanfic site

[clocketpatch]

Aka the place of plagarism this will be reposted at.

While a complaint function is availlable on the website I recommend against using it except with a throwaway account since there is the possibility that this individual is collecting emails for resale. I would also recommend against browsing the site without a good ad block. I believe that most ads only give profit for click throughs, but some pay based on page views, and we're kind of shooting ourselves in the foot if we increase this guy's profit.

Granted, there is still the possibility that this individual is doing this not for profit, but out of a desire to archive all the fic on lj. Which is a noble cause, except they're doing it wrong.

I honestly don't think anything we do will make this person stop, but hopefully it serves as a fandom wake-up call to how unprivate the internet is. I also think that there are more serious things in the world to get worked up over. I'm not particualary bothered or surprised by this person. It is more fun than it ought to be spammng their scraping feed though. Play safe everyone.

Comments

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

I saw that!! I was all O_o...and then 'so that makes two wrongs then, asshat, wtf!' At least with fanficcers we use disclaimers. And list who did what. This ass doesn't even have that courtesy. And then to call people out for the fic they are scraping?! Srsly? *facepalm* Think the real problem though isn't even the fiction anymore. They are grabbing personal posts. That is NOT on. And one commenter even said it is against LJ and WP TOS what they are doing. Hope they get yanked soon. This is horseshit.

Right?! Tis terrible, but I'm enjoying watching the fallout. Never thought I'd say that...