Advice on posting Chaptered Fics to DW?

[haunted_cherries]

Heylo everyone, and happy Friday Eve!! I've been posting fic and screeching around on DW for a while now, so much so that I've made the decision to transfer most (if not all) of the fic I've posted on AO3 to here!!

The snag I've run into is that I DO have quite a few chaptered fics that I've written, and I was wondering if anyone had any advice on some ways that folks have posted chaptered fics to DW? I did a search and couldn't find much of anything for this specific scenario, so figured I'd ask here just in case! Thanks in advance!! ^ o^)/ 💕

EDIT: Thanks so much for all the input thus far, everyone!! abyssal_sylph shared this post from amiserablepileofwords , so I'm linking it here just in case it can help others who stumble upon this post!! Cheers! ^ __^)b

Comments

Re: Thank you!

[haunted_cherries]

I DO know they had a weird influx of spammers comments randomly on peoples works to promote genAI writing tools, saying stuff like "you wrote this slop? [genAI tool] can do so much better" and they made it where it auto-locked comments to registered user only as a default option, but the author could go and turn it off manually if they so chose!!

The of course there's the whole AI scraping where, I can definitely see where you're coming from given your situation, though I can't say I blame folks for being uncomfortable with it considering how much work, time, and love we all put into our writing. That aside, I can definitely understand not wanting to punish your readers due to the acts of an outside party.

Re: Thank you!

[drinksglue]

The spam is definitely a huge problem. Not just "AI could do this better" but also fake accusations of "Grok detected, a shame this work was written with AI!" and since it's usually guest accounts, the best you can do is delete them when you get them.

My whole thing is that my works have probably already been scraped. I hate that. But locking them isn't going to un-scrape them. Some people might have a different outlook and decide that locking is the right choice for them and I get it. I wish something would be done about it.

Re: Thank you!

[haunted_cherries]

OH GOD YEAH, I'd seen a few folks get that and with already having knowledge of how much work they put into their writing, it felt like the equivalent of spitting in someone's favorite drink xD

And agreed, it sucks b/c it's not much that can be done after it's been scraped, and I honestly wish something could've been done about out it sooner. orz My only silver lining is that the AI that scraped all that fic get short circuited by all the crazier works xD

Re: Thank you!

[ysabetwordsmith]

>> OH GOD YEAH, I'd seen a few folks get that and with already having knowledge of how much work they put into their writing, it felt like the equivalent of spitting in someone's favorite drink xD <<

I agree, that's cruel. But it's really just a minor variation of previous iterations in which people who can't write get their thrills by picking on people who have written, or bigots bashing all the gay romance novels where the queers don't die at the end. Haters gonna hate, just ignore them.

>> And agreed, it sucks b/c it's not much that can be done after it's been scraped, and I honestly wish something could've been done about out it sooner.<<

Locking your work does make it marginally harder to scrape in the future, but realistically, nothing electronic is ever secure. It is only easier or harder to access.

>> orz My only silver lining is that the AI that scraped all that fic get short circuited by all the crazier works xD <<

Imagine you're trying to write a research paper for Psychology about alpha personalities, and the chatbot spews out 10 pages of ABO pr0n with sniffing, biting, gallons of cum, knotting, and assbabies.

... that would make a hilarious story.

This is why my blanket statement includes an admonition not to use my work to train AI, a warning that I fry technology, and a declaration that if anyone uses my work and it causes problems then that is entirely their responsibility.