Comment on Further Changes to Support and Policy & Abuse Responsibilities

  1. LordiTheRailgun Fri 13 Jan 2023 01:05PM UTC

    Or even better, maybe some info blurb on collections because I think a lot of people don't know the effects of a private collection

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    1. babs Fri 13 Jan 2023 09:26PM UTC

      I think this is true. I don't have any collections but when I first read about private collections, my thought was that it was simply a way for a person to put the fics they loved into different categories or something. I never had any idea that it would lock those fics away from other readers.

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      1. LordiTheRailgun Sat 14 Jan 2023 07:51AM UTC

        Precisely! I only learned that it hid a work the other day. I don't uzs collections but information like that is legit important to spread so people at least know what collections do.

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        1. Acorn_Squash Sat 21 Jan 2023 04:44AM UTC

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          Oh yeah I definitely agree that info about this needs to be more clearly stated! And in the spirit of that: You can remove your work from a collection. You can't add a work that isn't yours to a collection that's anon and/or unrevealed.

          The reason why collections can be private is that they are intended to be used by people participating in a challenge where works are gradually revealed, such as Holmestice. This allows participants to submit works whenever they want with the knowledge that they'll stay private until the correct date. It also allows mods greater control over which works get posted and when, which helps them catch abusive works early & lets them stagger posting so that each work gets its own time to shine. This is a good thing for challenges, and I wouldn't want to see it go away.

          I've also seen people add their own works to private collections so that they can keep the works to view for themselves but stop other people from seeing them. I'm glad that people have this kind of control over their own works.

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      3. NYKevin Sun 22 Jan 2023 09:07AM UTC

        Just in case anyone is trying to find a good alternative (for when you really do want to "just" privately categorize works): Use private bookmarks. Optionally, you can then add those bookmarks to a collection, but it's probably simpler to just tag the bookmarks and use bookmark search to find them later. You can tag bookmarks with whatever you want, and it doesn't even need to pertain to the work (it's probably not a good idea to write anything really private in the tags field, because I think they might be visible to wranglers, but other than that, nobody is going to see or care about tags on private bookmarks).

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