Yugithecutie cost this site literally dozens of authors by her borrowing/linking/plagiarising stories.
When I pointed that out in another post/section demongoddess061 says
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"The user in question was asked to please remove the content from her site, by not only the members affected, but by some of the staff members as well. She did, in fact, do that. However, it was and is still plagiarism, which is why this user was deleted.
What happened, ultimately, is that yugithecutie was deleted from the archive. She is NOT welcome to return. Ever."
Thing is, we do not have ANY control over what a web hosting service allows on their servers. We (a couple of the mods) advised the one member to REPORT this person to her hosting company, as that's the best that can be done from this end for someone else's domain. No one here has any control whatsoever over what content is or is not allowed on someone else's web server. To expect that we could, or in fact would be able to do anything about it, is foolish, at best. After all, it's not like this site owns yahoo.com, which is (or was when this happened) yugithecutie's hosting company."
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To correct that - YTC didn't remove any content until AFTER Maggiemay contacted Yahoo and told them of the age explicit content of the material and threatened to report the site to the feds. It was removed within half an hour by YAHOO, not YTC.
See - there IS something that you could have done beyod a mealy-mouthed 'please.' And it was not foolish to expect some kind of action. You were entrusted with the work and you breached that trust.
To prevent linking a simple block (Denial of service from IP address )of redirects from her site would have been effective as well - again failure to act in the best interest of the people who use this site. That is WHY you lost so many authors.
But the EPIC untruth in the Demongoddess061's statement is that Yugithecutie is unwelcome here. She has a profile and posted stuff since that time. Is it hers? Who knows? Link: http://ygo.adult-fanfiction.org/authors.php?no=1296870612 (please note that it is an AFF address. So much for her being banned/deleted.)
Easy enough to create a list of names and email addresses, ip addresses, MAC addresses etc., that are banned and integrate it with your login daemon. Yet you fail to do so.
So - who do I report the failure of the mods to? Or wait, do I hang my head and close my mouth?
It infuriates me to see the mods claiming to work in best interest of the writers when just a few simple things that take no more effort than point and click, could save people so much heartache and themselves work.
Puppys_seahorse.