Yeah, unless I'm misreading, then I think the official position of the mod team here is pretty clearly "No, you cannot post links to deleted stories/fics nor can you shamelessly tell people where to find them, as that would be a dick move and therefore against Rule 1."
Not exactly hard to understand, to be honest.
To be clear, for your benefit and others', I didn't have the slightest idea before making this thread that my scheme might be considered in violation of Rule 1, which is why I didn't put it in the title.
Again, it comes back to the paradigm I'm working from. The way I think about this, right down to intuition, is that authors wiping their fics is itself aggression against the entire forum, different only in degree (and legality) from mounting a cyberattack - and thus an extreme violation of Rule 1 that I'd be correcting. It didn't actually occur to me, until pointed out, that people might consider
me to be the aggressor here.
I guess this is a lesson in how tricky it is to see the world through another lens than one's own. "One screen, two movies", indeed! Or as Chesterton put it, "a man cannot argue
from principles not his own".
And when a reader starts stomping his foot on the ground, demanding QQ to also start filming what happens inside those four walls, because he wants a permanent record of his favorite movie (or favorite orgy)...
Well, QQ "has" the "legal" right to do it, technicaly.
But the complainer is just horny.
1) You draw a distinction between writers and readers, and place me among the latter. I am, in fact, both, as has come up previously in this thread.
2) I did not demand that QQ start "filming" everything typed into the forum. I merely noted that it
already does. The ability to for-reals delete content, rather than just hide it from normal users, is not a permission normal users have on XenForo. Not sure if even mods have it, or just admins (it does exist, though; the obvious case in which it's necessary is if some fuckwit posts RLCP). And I actually specifically stopped short of
requesting, let alone demanding, that the staff use their mod powers to unhide/revert all burned story posts. Among other reasons, I'm most certainly not entitled to the significant amount of effort on their part that would be required to do that.
3) As has also come up previously in this thread, I was asking permission to link to working copies of burned fics; this would give
other people access to them, not me (I already know working links for them; if I didn't, I wouldn't be capable of giving them out).
the point of archiving is not because of the sake of archiving, but because the first-poster was upset over why they were removed on the first place.
dude finds out that authors are deleting some of their stories for a very specific reasons
For the record (since you've apparently left), these are not true, though it's a reasonable error.
I'm not upset over why they were removed; I'm upset
that they were removed. I talked about authors burning work due to "wanting to sell it" or "wanting to distance themselves from porn" because those are the reasons I almost always see given, not because I consider those reasons more culpable than any other. It's the burning of works that earns my spite, and yes, I thought it'd be very appropriate to act on that spite by making them easily available again - undoing the damage, so to speak.
