Well, actually, no, I don't think it's advertising at all. Here's the thing. Those fics are available out there in the webz for anyone with the patience to find them. They always have been. Another point is, unless you know the file storage account holder, how are you going to remove them? You can't. That's just the way it is. We're doing only what we've been asked o do here. Giving out the info about our decision is for the general knowledge of the comm...and any would be people wanting to start trouble. Do it, you get banned.
That's as far as I'm willing to go for an author. If they want to go chase down where their fic is, more power to them. Our rule is simple: a writer asks us to tell people not to share their fic. That's what we do. That's it. Someone violates that, we delete the post and ban the person. Problem is, that post was up for several hours before we got it down. Do you honestly think that people didn't download the fic while the links were visible? Trust me, they did. Can I prove it? Of course not. But I've been around a long time, in many fandoms, and I know how this works.
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Well, actually, no, I don't think it's advertising at all. Here's the thing. Those fics are available out there in the webz for anyone with the patience to find them. They always have been. Another point is, unless you know the file storage account holder, how are you going to remove them? You can't. That's just the way it is. We're doing only what we've been asked o do here. Giving out the info about our decision is for the general knowledge of the comm...and any would be people wanting to start trouble. Do it, you get banned.
That's as far as I'm willing to go for an author. If they want to go chase down where their fic is, more power to them. Our rule is simple: a writer asks us to tell people not to share their fic. That's what we do. That's it. Someone violates that, we delete the post and ban the person. Problem is, that post was up for several hours before we got it down. Do you honestly think that people didn't download the fic while the links were visible? Trust me, they did. Can I prove it? Of course not. But I've been around a long time, in many fandoms, and I know how this works.