Does FanHistory have any regard for fandom at all? Of course not.

[icarus]

Oh, brother. From ithiliana: FanHistory is at it again.

Partly Bouncy, a.k.a. Laura Hale, has created a bot that is scraping info from people's LJs.

You either have to contact them to have the page created deleted (note, if you have already asked that a page about you be deleted, you will have to ask again if a new one appears), or mark the option on your LJ Viewing Options to "minimize inclusion" on search engines and bots.

My dislike for FanHistory had subsided to a mere trickle until now. A passing glance of disdain perhaps. Now I am again wholly disgusted with them.

They don't even have the excuse of ignorance. They know people will hate this. Their reputation is crap after they outed a popular fanfic author and refused to delete her real name from her page (the act which earned my never-ending loathing).

FanHistory can't get willing participation so they've decided to mug fandom.


ETA: Given Laura Hale's long history of trying to make a buck off our unpaid efforts (gee, thanks, Laura, f*** you), she's probably just trying to drive up hits again. As she's put it herself... "Ideas how to plug [FanHistory]: Generate wank."

Comments

[rike-tikki-tavi.livejournal.com]

This might be a very stupid question, but could a wiki itself be scraped with bots?

Cause if yes, I would not be surprised if she tried to get articles from Fanlore next.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

That's... a very good question.

[spirit-dog.livejournal.com]

Well anything posted verbatim from another site without proper permission and attribution is a violation of copyright..

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Oh yes. But she's already getting away with scraping. How far will she go?