I think it really depends, and I think I would have a different opinion for something like dA where you have to have an account to get around an age-lock - that's not a person deliberately choosing to lock in same way to me, I guess? AO3 separates age-lock from locked-to-users so it feels different.
A lot of the fandoms on AO3 that heavily use archive lock are small fandoms where the powers that be are known to go snooping, and they lock because they don't want people involved in making the canon to know about their fic. There were some LJ comms like that too. In that case I feel like at the very least, you don't talk about specific locked fanworks where they might come up on a google search by the people involved
(Most of my limited amount of locked fic on AO3 is stuff I put up because I want it to be there if someone is looking for that specific thing, but not necessarily to ever know about it if they aren't. So I wouldn't, like, be upset if somebody rec'd it out of lock, but I wouldn't be *delighted* - but it was mostly previously posted unlocked off AO3, too, and except the stuff that came down with pornish_pixies could probably be found off AO3.)
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A lot of the fandoms on AO3 that heavily use archive lock are small fandoms where the powers that be are known to go snooping, and they lock because they don't want people involved in making the canon to know about their fic. There were some LJ comms like that too. In that case I feel like at the very least, you don't talk about specific locked fanworks where they might come up on a google search by the people involved
(Most of my limited amount of locked fic on AO3 is stuff I put up because I want it to be there if someone is looking for that specific thing, but not necessarily to ever know about it if they aren't. So I wouldn't, like, be upset if somebody rec'd it out of lock, but I wouldn't be *delighted* - but it was mostly previously posted unlocked off AO3, too, and except the stuff that came down with pornish_pixies could probably be found off AO3.)