I share links to fanwork so sporadically that I've never really worked out my lines for doing so. This was a fascinating read!
As a personal data point, as of a couple years go, I've got all of my Explicit fic on AO3 restricted to archive members solely because there was a reasonable chance that people would be looking me up online for very non-fannish reasons and it's incredibly easy to find my fic that way. (I didn't extend that to tracking down and limited access to my E-rated fic here or on my long-neglected personal fic site, though.) So in my case, I have no problem at all with anyone mentioning or linking to the fic I've got locked down, since it'd presumably be in a fannish context, not some random person stumbling over it.
I'd be interested to know other people's reasons for locking fic down, and I suspect I'm in the minority with mine, since most people don't have their wallet name so closely associated with their fannish stuff.
I'm also curious about why people choose to switch off the Share option on AO3, which simply isn't something I'd ever thought about before. I'm not actually sure I'd previously noticed that that was an option.
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As a personal data point, as of a couple years go, I've got all of my Explicit fic on AO3 restricted to archive members solely because there was a reasonable chance that people would be looking me up online for very non-fannish reasons and it's incredibly easy to find my fic that way. (I didn't extend that to tracking down and limited access to my E-rated fic here or on my long-neglected personal fic site, though.) So in my case, I have no problem at all with anyone mentioning or linking to the fic I've got locked down, since it'd presumably be in a fannish context, not some random person stumbling over it.
I'd be interested to know other people's reasons for locking fic down, and I suspect I'm in the minority with mine, since most people don't have their wallet name so closely associated with their fannish stuff.
I'm also curious about why people choose to switch off the Share option on AO3, which simply isn't something I'd ever thought about before. I'm not actually sure I'd previously noticed that that was an option.