The new archive phenomenon.

[icarus]

Is this happening to other people?

I've had requests to archive my stories - which is great, I love it, I always say yes.

But lately people have been sending me these forms to fill out with all the information for the fics they want. They even want me to fill out a separate form for each fic they dictate. This is starting to seem a little lazy. When wicked_elf wanted my fics, The Elf did the work. switchknife, same deal.

Maybe this is churlish, but I'm a little pressed for time these days and haven't the patience to do this for everyone, as grateful as I am for the request. I've had three in the last week and a half. It just seems a bit rude or demanding or somesuch.

Comments

[wyomingnot.livejournal.com]

It's rude in any case, but I suppose if you didn't have your own page/site it would be slightly different.

Either way, geez.

I archive a couple different slash authors (one active archive, one inactive - she got her own page), and I have never asked either one for more than permission (well, in the case of the active archive, I ask her to send me the .txt or .doc of the story once she posts onlist). If I want to archive, it's my page, my problem.

Can't believe the nerve of some people.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I do have my own site and I'm on about seven-ten Harry Potter individual sites as well as a lot of archives. I'm a firm believer in spreading my stories around.

But it seemed to be asking a bit much and I was wondering if people are getting this these days, or if I was just turning up in some kind of general search. You know, trolling for stories.

Most people who've asked for my stories have just swiped the header information off my website and I've been more than happy to send the .doc file though only one person's ever needed it.

Hmm.

Icarus

[wyomingnot.livejournal.com]

Given that your stories are already readily available, it seems silly to me to actually archive them in yet another place.

One of these days I'm going to build a recs page on my site. And unless the author has no page of her/his own, I'm just going to be asking permission to link.

(the only reason I archived the authors I did was because they had no page of their own... that makes sense. Doesn't make sense to me to archive something that's archived several times over... and then feel the need to pester the author for more than permission)

Okay. Stopping now.