Regarding Ao2: Part 2
Added 2021-07-03 06:38:16 +0000 UTCHello everyone.
So as we discussed a while ago, Ao3's TOS disallows any paid promotion, be it directly paying for a story in particular or just general donations to a writer unaffiliated with a particular work like how we run things here. In response, I decided to play ball with them after everyone's feedback and go and delete any references to my Patreon. I went through each chapter and wiped the notes out, but apparently, I forgot to do so on a single chapter. Rather than email me about the issue, Ao3 decided to... well. Have a look
The initial email from them came from a real person and she was plenty pleasant. The subsequent email came from a bot that my Gmail sent to spam, and if I didn't check Ao3 in preparation of updating the story, then I would have never known BoC was deleted.
I sent them an email regarding this and I'm currently awaiting a reply back. Whether or not I keep using Ao3 will depend largely on how they reply. If they're at least halfway courteous and restore the story, then I'll be content to just sweep this under the rug and call it a day. If not? We'll see. I admit that I'm rather disappointed with Ao3's staff.
Thankee much.
Comments
Honestly I would personally just cut the link at this point, as much as a shame that It is. If they are going to be this vague or non-communicative over something as stupid as not allowing thanks for people on this Patreon, then I would just leave.
Planetace
2021-07-03 21:02:25 +0000 UTC
