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Opendoors - OTW - Preservation of archive?

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RokofAges75:
Glad you were able to get in, Dee!  Thanks for sharing your thoughts and volunteering to help when you can!

Tracy:
I'm back in. took a while but I just made a new account so I can post.

I think archiving to AO3 is great. I already had moved my sfuff there years ago. and I have my work on wattpad as well for a back up. I would be happy to be able to still read the stories if they were moved.

RokofAges75:
Sorry you had such a hard time getting in, Tracy.  What a hassle!  Thanks for chiming in.  It will be nice to be able to get and receive comments on AC stories again.

Selfishly, I love that someone else is going to be doing the work of importing Broken and BMS for me LOL.  Those are the main two I still haven't moved to AO3 because of how many chapters they are and how much editing they need.  I will probably still want to edit them there at some point, but that's a project for the future.  Hopefully Open Doors has an easy way of importing all these stories without them looking like a hot mess with all the weird symbols we sometimes see on AC stories that were originally written in MS Word.  Like this: https://absolutechaos.net/viewstory.php?sid=5354&chapter=1 🤦‍♀️

mare:
I know most of mine showed up with all those symbols. For every single punctuation mark of any kind.

Sakabelle:
Hi, it's been a while. I was directed to the tweet that links to this thread by a friend.

While I understand and sympathize with the desire to archive old works so they aren't lost to the Internet sands of time, I cannot support this auto opt-in policy. Personally, I do not want my works (under the same author name as my forum name here, Sakabelle) imported to AO3 on my behalf.

Further, I do not agree with doing this in bulk. There are many authors and stories on here that have long been on the archive, and to pick them up and move them elsewhere feels disrespectful to them. These authors should have a choice in the matter, they still own their words and still should have a say in what is done with them and where they are posted.

AC's own terms of service states "Disclaimers (i.e. covering legal butts): All fiction is copyright to the individual writers. Do not copy in whole or in part." So I'm not sure why that would not extend to the moderators of this site who have access to the database to pull the information in a raw format. If anything, moderators have more of an obligation to uphold this given they have access to the data in trust.

I am aware I'm coming of as combative and I'm also aware that other discussions and opinions that some of us disagree on probably do not make it easy to want to understand what I'm saying. I debated with myself posting this here at all, but given I was a part of this community for many years I would be remiss if I didn't say something.

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