Harry Potter and the Unattributed Fanfic

[prillalar]

So, people are annoying. Someone is maintaining an HP site that includes many archived stories -- all het or femslash, I believe -- that are not attributed to their authors. Note that the site owner does not claim to have written these stories.

What a pain. One of my stories is up there. I'm not outraged, I'm just ticked off that now I have to take notice of this and it's sure to be a bother.

Ah well. I actually do have an open archiving policy. People can archive my stories at will without asking me. I just prefer that my name stays on my work. *g*

ETA: You know, looking around that site a little more, I wonder if it's just there to drive traffic to snitchfiction.net (deliberately not hyperlinked) which claims to have the best resources on:

• Fiction
• Fiction writing
• Deep throat
• Writing

Ah, spammers, how I loathe you. Clueless fans are one thing, but spammers make me want to get out the Unforgivables.

ETA 2: So, I hear that snitchfiction used to be a respectable archive, so maybe this is a clueless fan after all. I guess I'll have to calm down from my spammer rage. *g* But not my "look how much of my morning this wasted" annoyance.

Comments

[jacquez.livejournal.com]

Hrm. Some people might be really upset by that. I know I would be. Posted a pointer to here in hp_britglish.

[prillalar]

Ta!

[cathexys.livejournal.com]

i find it totally offensive. i mean, copying the text they purposefully took the names off. *i* feel like writing...

[prillalar]

It's annoying, to be sure.

[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

My email to the site owner bounced from hotmail.

And, Snitchfiction used to be a great archive site. It's a pity that their logo and site has been taken over by, um, possible spammers.

[prillalar]

Ah, so maybe this was a clueless fan after all. Yeah, if you have a popular site and then you let your domain lapse, just wait for the porn site to go up. I still sadly remember theschwacorporation.com and the shock I got one day when I went to visit it. (At least I still have my Planet Operator Interdimensional Travel Card.)

[jacquez.livejournal.com]

I used to run an Iggy Pop fansite, and my spam filter caught my renewal notices, and then....sigh.

:(

[the-star-fish.livejournal.com]

I clicked the link to check it out and it added a search column before all the f^cking popups froze my browser. Angelfire gives me hives.

Aside from that, it sounds like a really sleazy kind of thing. Some people need a forceful application of the CLue Bat.

[prillalar]

I had no idea there were so many pop-ups! Mmm...Firefox.

Unattributed Fanfic

[sgt-majorette.livejournal.com]

Don't sweat it. It's on Angelfire, which is pop-up hell. Personally, I don't care how promising a site might be, I won't go there...

Re: Unattributed Fanfic

[prillalar]

I'm not all that worried about it -- just mildly annoyed. But I figured I'd better post to get the word out.

[prillalar]

Yeah, you're probably right. It's just ... why remove the names? Bizarre.

[prillalar]

Ah, good news. :)