Again, do you actually mind that people who were once your fandom buddies, people whose work you used to admire, might be very angry with you at having put them to the trouble of tracking down their archived links and having their old stories deleted again? Because some of them will, and they won't thank you for the headache.
Although it's really neither here nor there, the pieces in question weren't written by people I knew or have interacted with. They left or changed fandoms before I joined, and seem determined to be uncontactable regarding their involvement in HP. And, as far as I can tell, they aren't publishing under the same names anymore. In two of the three cases, I'm reading in-between the lines about their wishes; in the third, the people who wanted to delete their work (according to a third party) still managed to accidentally leave one of the pieces up, on the site they mod, where you can find it through the index. Thus, I find it hard to find their wishes (again, expressed through a third party) all that credible.
All the arguments for and against boil down to that this is a lot of bother for work that's competent but didn't change my life. And also that I'd prefer not to make anyone unhappy. And it is, essentially, angsty wankery.
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Date: 2007-02-03 10:22 pm (UTC)Although it's really neither here nor there, the pieces in question weren't written by people I knew or have interacted with. They left or changed fandoms before I joined, and seem determined to be uncontactable regarding their involvement in HP. And, as far as I can tell, they aren't publishing under the same names anymore. In two of the three cases, I'm reading in-between the lines about their wishes; in the third, the people who wanted to delete their work (according to a third party) still managed to accidentally leave one of the pieces up, on the site they mod, where you can find it through the index. Thus, I find it hard to find their wishes (again, expressed through a third party) all that credible.
All the arguments for and against boil down to that this is a lot of bother for work that's competent but didn't change my life. And also that I'd prefer not to make anyone unhappy. And it is, essentially, angsty wankery.
So you're right, basically. :-)