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.

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[clocketpatch]

Apparently they're using wordpress.org software, which is something different, but, in any case, I doubt the company will be impressed with having their name linked with this individual.

Watching them troll and come up with nonsensical excuses is hilarious though. I'm on night shifts this week, and this has been my main entertainment source. Currently, they're trying to argue that, "text isn't real"

Their lj name is metapodik if you want to per-emptively block them. They've been showing up on the journals of people who have complained trying to continue their ridiculous arguments.

[thisbluespirit]

Ah, thanks for the username - I did that. And I can see that their LJ has dodgy nude pictures on it, so we'll declare them a troll of some kind, whatever kind it be. From now on I'll be making cryptic tags, I think, because trolls are very rarely alone in their trollery.