Guys just nuke their entire collection of add ons for games or whatever because a handful of dicks were especially dickish to them. You see this kind of tantrum seppuku in all sorts of online communities. I imagine it's partly because the stakes are so low - nobody's livelihood is riding on these stories, so there's no point in making compromises or behaving rationally. TV Tropes' admins told him they wouldn't take the page down so long as the story was online and so he promptly committed authorial seppuku to make it happen. But of all the ways to hypocritically hound an author off your site that was about the most hypocriticalist I can think of.Īnother time an author nuked his own story and scoured every copy off of the Internet because someone had created a TV Tropes page about it and he hated TV Tropes. Of course, that rule forbidding "unauthorized" referencing to other fanfics only gets enforced when the site admins don't like the author they're enforcing it against to begin with, and in fact they only added the rule right then so they could use it against the guy, so it's clear what the real deal was. The author that got "plagarized" only found out about the problem after the other author had had his story taken down, and said he was fine with it being referenced like that, but apparently retroactive permission wasn't good enough. ![]() On a fanfic site, which is by definition all about referencing source material without permission. I've tried to just enjoy reading fanfics without getting involved in the behind-the-scenes drama, but it jumps out and punches you at the oddest times.Ī while back one of my favorite fanfic authors got hounded off a site because he referenced elements of another author's fanfic without getting explicit permission first. Example: Hello.Įxplanation of our link flairs Join our /r/bookclub Don't forget /new! Filter by Flair AMA Weekly Thread Mod PostĪma Check out this week's Thread Calendar Spoiler tags cover spoilers with black bars that reveal spoilers when a cursor hovers over them They are written as: >!spoiler! ![]()
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