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⌈ Secret Post #6295 ⌋

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Comments

How do you feel about ao3 authors sharing your comments?

[(Anonymous)]

I recently was browsing an ao3 community and a common theme for posts was authors screencapping comments and sharing them. Sometimes to share joy about a comment that made them happy, sometimes to share what they thought were trolls, sometimes confusion.

My reaction was horror and it makes the anxiety around commenting on fic triple with the idea of the possibility of my comment being shared. But I am fully aware I have weird anxiety issues with every aspect of commenting, so it made me curious how others see this practice.

Re: How do you feel about ao3 authors sharing your comments?

[(Anonymous)]

If the usernames are blurred I wouldn’t see an issue with it. I honestly don’t see much issue with it even the names aren’t blurred; assume anything you post anywhere will be shared outside of your control. But I never log into AO3 unless I’m posting fic so all my comments and kudos are anon. Just like all my FS comments.

Where was the comm?

Re: How do you feel about ao3 authors sharing your comments?

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT - yeah anon or signed in, anxiety levels are the same. Its dumb.

It was on reddit.

Re: How do you feel about ao3 authors sharing your comments?

[(Anonymous)]

I feel nothing at all, honestly. If the fics are public and the comments are public, there's literally no difference between someone just linking their public fic and people scrolling down to see the public comment on it.

If you're sharing something in public, it's public, nothing about that changed.

Re: How do you feel about ao3 authors sharing your comments?

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt - honestly that's what I figure most people probably think. To me its more like the vague psuedo-anonymous feeling of being in a crowd but in public and then having your face shown on the jumbotron or something. But like I said, I am fully aware of my own irrational level of anxiety on the topic.

Re: How do you feel about ao3 authors sharing your comments?

[(Anonymous)]

Agreed.

Re: How do you feel about ao3 authors sharing your comments?

[(Anonymous)]

I agree

Re: How do you feel about ao3 authors sharing your comments?

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I accept that anything I post there is out on the open internet and I can't control what happens to it. I might be slightly miffed if the comment was taken from a locked fic that only logged-in AO3 users could see, but still, all anyone's got is my AO3 username. /shrug

Re: How do you feel about ao3 authors sharing your comments?

[(Anonymous)]

I mean... if the story's public, the comment's public. So just the act of sharing my comment wouldn't bother me. Plus if it's being posted to an AO3 comm? Yeah, totally fine.

Now if they were sharing it out of context, or were presenting it to make me out to be some kind of villain when that absolutely wasn't the case, then that's another story. That would not be great.

Re: How do you feel about ao3 authors sharing your comments?

[(Anonymous)]

If you left a public comment then it can be shared in public. Plus, let us not forget, the AO3 founding directive is once you wrote it, everyone owns it.

Re: How do you feel about ao3 authors sharing your comments?

[(Anonymous)]

*side eyes*

Re: How do you feel about ao3 authors sharing your comments?

[(Anonymous)]

You had me in the beginning

Re: How do you feel about ao3 authors sharing your comments?

[(Anonymous)]

Everyone owns it huh.

Re: How do you feel about ao3 authors sharing your comments?

[(Anonymous)]

Well, that's now one more thing I miss about the pre-AO3 era. The fact that it was less 'public' by comparison...
Of course its great for the many advantages as a reader. But as a writer, you're suppose to deal with the fact that you're just a content producer for people who 'don't owe you a comment' because fandom communities are becoming less of a thing and your work is apparently not yours any more so shut up and just give out the stories like a machine.

Re: How do you feel about ao3 authors sharing your comments?

[(Anonymous)]

I'm a little confused by this comment and not sure what you're trying to say here in regards to sharing comments?

Re: How do you feel about ao3 authors sharing your comments?

[(Anonymous)]

Are you ok?

Re: How do you feel about ao3 authors sharing your comments?

[(Anonymous)]

You don’t have to post your work to AO3 but you can. And AO3/OTW aren’t going to delete it on a whim without notice; in fact they have fought to ensure fanworks are allowed to continue existing.

I feel like a lot of fans have either forgotten about the hoops they had to jump through to post fic and how large swathes of fandom would disappear overnight. Or maybe they found fandom on LJ in communities that at most had a short moderation time for fic posting, or even after AO3 was established.

Re: How do you feel about ao3 authors sharing your comments?

[(Anonymous)]

Sounds like fandom doesn't bring you joy anymore. You don't need to post to enjoy writing. Worrying about how many comments you do or do not get is not going to make you happier.

Re: How do you feel about ao3 authors sharing your comments?

[(Anonymous)]

I personally am sick of both readers and writers having freak outs when they find out that people do things with content they pay publically that they did not expect or did not want.

People post screenshots of your comments on a different website? Boohoo. Post as a guest or not at all, or accept that being part of a community means being seen.

Someone downloads your fic using the download button that's built into the website? FFS, what did you expect when you uploaded it? Delete your fic if you don't want that to happen. But if someone has already saved it and chooses to share it, well, that comes down to personal ethics not TOS. You can't unskin that cat. So think about whether you want to skin the cat in the first place before you post.

I just, the internet has been around for 40 years! A lot of its users have never known life without it! HOW IS 'don't post something ANYWHERE you don't want to lose control of' NOT INTERNET 101? Aaaaaaaah

Re: How do you feel about ao3 authors sharing your comments?

[(Anonymous)]

Ugh you are a very unpleasant commenter that adds nothing to the table but anger and whining.

Re: How do you feel about ao3 authors sharing your comments?

[(Anonymous)]

Well, I suppose that's tangentially related.

Re: How do you feel about ao3 authors sharing your comments?

[(Anonymous)]

You're going to be the happiest at of all of us when people stop writing fanfiction. But that's OK, at least you'll have ai to generate fanfic for you - because at least a computer can't complain.

Re: How do you feel about ao3 authors sharing your comments?

[(Anonymous)]

It would hurt my feelings if I saw a comment of mine getting trashed for a typo or being weird.

But otherwise i have no opinion on this.

Re: How do you feel about ao3 authors sharing your comments?

[(Anonymous)]

DA

Same.

Re: How do you feel about ao3 authors sharing your comments?

[(Anonymous)]

If it's a positive comment and the author screencapped it to share the joy, I'd think it's sweet.

If it was a negative comment and the author shared it to rage about it/call it a troll, there are two ways this can go: Either the comment is actually true, then the author more likely than not makes an ass of themselves by publicly whining about it. If it's a dumb anti/troll comment, the author has just as much right to mock the comment publicly as the commenter had to post a shitty comment publicly. Don't post insulting comments if you can't deal with potential backlash.

And if it's confusion... idk. Don't see the issue. Might help the author clear up what the commenter meant.