Seeking Opinions, Please!
Jun. 12th, 2014 07:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
So occasionally we get someone who comes to us and asks that they have their stories removed from the Internet one one of the Archives that I host on Squidge.org - and I've always complied. But recently I found something intriguing on AO3 and wanted to try and replicate it.
Basically, if you want to abandon your stories and remove all traces of your identity from them on AO3, there's something called "Orphan Account". What that does is take all of your stories and strip them of your identifying information, and attribute them to a generic account called "Orphan Account". That way your stories stay available for people to read, but yet they are detached from your identify. Your account can be deleted, but your stories stay.
What do people think? Good idea? Bad? Thoughts?
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Date: 2014-06-13 12:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-06-13 12:20 am (UTC)One of my favorite stories is this way on AO3, originally the author pulled the work completely and then put it back under "Orphan Account", because of this I got to download and enjoy a really great story.
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Date: 2014-06-13 01:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-06-13 02:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-06-13 02:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-06-13 10:56 am (UTC)We are told that "the internet is forever" but many, many wonderful stories have been deleted by authors for varying reasons and vanished completely, which is so sad.
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Date: 2014-06-14 04:12 am (UTC)I'm all for it. I hate the idea of stories disappearing. Someone, somewhere, regards 'x' as their absolute favorite story, and will mourn if it's no longer available.
Then there's also the possibility of a story sparking an idea in someone's mind that eventually becomes another story. I hate to see the dimming of any creativity.
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Date: 2014-06-14 08:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-06-15 01:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-06-15 05:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-06-24 09:20 pm (UTC)