PSA: Requesting access to f-locked fic

[netlagd.livejournal.com]

With the permission of the lovely Mods for this community vlredreign and court1429, I am posting this PSA.

Pardon if this is something you already know.

When requesting an author friend you so you may read their f-locked fic, please enable *your* account email so we may write you back. Sometimes there are problems with your account which result in us not friending you - year of birth not showing, empty journal, whatever.

Thanks!

Comments

[wouldbedorothy.livejournal.com]

I don't write fanfiction and, believe me, writing about my RL would bore anybody to tears.

You say that in your bio, which is good. I tend to be a bit leery of *completely* empty journals (nothing on info page either except maybe birth year), but what you have is I think enough to show you're a real person here for genuine reasons, lol. I'd suggest just doing ONE journal entry saying something similar... you know, that you're just here to read fic and that you're not a spam robot :)

[mysid.livejournal.com]

And sometimes an empty journal is created by someone to get up to mischief. Most people who f-lock their fics do so in fear of having their LJ's deleted and purged the next time that LiveJournal decides to cave in to the morality police. An empty journal could belong to someone who created it just to seek out "porn", report it to LJ, and get the writer's account deleted. It's happened.

An occasional LJ entry, especially one that lets us know who you are and how you feel about "life, liberty, and the pursuit of smutty happiness" goes a long way to reassure the writer that you can be entrusted to read their babies.