IMPORTANT PSA FOR ALL H/D WRITERS!!

[lauren3210]

Someone has made a collection on AO3 and has kept them 'unrevealed' without telling the authors.

I received a comment on another fic of mine, letting me know that my story for last year's dracotops_harry fest had been added to a collection entitled 'Drarry', and that they could no longer view it, even though they had previously commented and bookmarked it. When

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[felixfvlicis]

I've been wanting to read that unrevealed story for months, FYI.
*scurries off*

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[lauren3210]

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[gracerene]

So annoying!

I actually changed my user preferences so that nobody can add my works to any collections without my permission for just that reason. I believe it defaults to not sending you an email, but if you go to "My Preferences" you can uncheck the box that says "Automatically agree to your work being collected by others in the Archive." towards the bottom of the page. Which will hopefully prevent that from happening again!

[lauren3210]

This is awesome advice and something I knew absolutely nothing about, but when I did as you suggested I found the box already unchecked? So how it still managed to be collected I have no idea, LOL! I clicked it a couple of times, so maybe that will reset it (can you tell I have no idea how computer stuff works?). ♥

[nia_kantorka]

That's strange. Shouldn't happen after you ticked that box off. Maybe it's easier to ask ao3 how to prevent further misuse of your works. They are very helpful when problems arise, especially when it comes to your copyright.

[lauren3210]

Yeah, to be honest, I'm not sure whether the box is supposed to be ticked or not; the wording is a little confusing. But I've sent the staff a message about what happened, so hopefully it won't happen again. ♥

[digthewriter]

I'm here bc you tagged DTH.

I got the same notification.

If you have a link to your fic, you can edit it and remove the collection.

[lauren3210]

Sorry, I forgot tagging comms brought it to the attention to the mods too. I just wanted to bring attention to it in case other authors from that fest had been included in the collection.

And thanks yeah, I did that before I wrote this post :)

[sassy_cissa]

How frustrating. I'm going to go check my settings there, but to my knowledge, no one's ever swiped my stuff.

Do you have a link to the collection? Just curious.

Thanks again for the heads-up

[lauren3210]

I've looked and looked, but I can't find the collection (although to be honest, I'm not very good at navigating stuff online so I'm probably doing something wrong). Hopefully you'll be fine, though!