Desiderius Price
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I’m annoyed because it feels like the only thing visiting my “clean” version of my fanfic on FF.net are bots stealing it – I post, and a half dozen bots lift it inside a day or two; at least one a day after that. Feeling like I should simply abandon the clean version, and only pursue the explicit version on AO3. That’d make writing easier, but also jerks around anybody still reading the clean.
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Honestly, if I thought it would do any good, I’d say to file daily complaints with FFN. Is it being reposted elsewhere? Perhaps you can file complaints with those sites as well.
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A google search later, some of the ghost mirrors (mostly), thinking they’re redirects for … countries with more restrictive internet policies. Plus a (small) blurb on one hacked website.
But the aggravating part is simply that it drowns out the real readership numbers, because all I now see in the stats is bot after bot after bot slurping up 700k, no humans (about 300k of new material + 400k of the old yet-to-be-revised). Until now, I had been trying to maintain “explicit” vs “clean” versions, carefully marking up my story as I rewrite it (only way, TBH), close to a 3:1 word ratio; but if few to nobody is enjoying the clean, if they’re all enjoying the explicit, then it makes sense to not bother with the clean version given the extra hassle it takes.
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