[ SECRET POST #2960 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2960 ⌋

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Notes:

Better early than late!

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Why?

How do you know the first reason a person takes a fic down? Maybe they feel the quality isn't something their readers deserve. Maybe they don't want to leave an unfinished WIP up and upset someone when they realize the fic will never be finished.

I think you're jumping to an awful lot of conclusions here.

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Ayrt

That's a fair point. But just to clarify where I'm coming from, from what I've seen people who take down fics tend to do what they feel is best for them regardless what people think, whereas people who don't believe in taking them down are a lot more concerned with what people think. And both can be taken too far, but neither is wrong.

[(Anonymous)]

Well of course some people are going to criticize and say "No!" when an author suggests taking work down. If they do that regardless, then yes they're ignoring those people but that does not instantly equate with them doing it out of disregard for their readers, which is what you seem to be implying.

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Ayrt

Well, they're disregarding those people, but that's not necessarily wrong.

I was replying to someone downthread and something occurred to me, and I think it might be worthwhile to say it again and go into more detail. I think part of the problem is thinking that doing something for yourself is inherently selfish, and that doesn't something for other people is inherently selfless. But that's not true at all. There's nothing wrong with doing something for yourself and sometimes you should disregard what other people think. Also, doing things for other people can be done for selfish reasons, like making yourself look good or puffing yourself or even manipulating someone. And it's also possible to focus so much on making other people happy that you wind up making yourself unhealthy.