Ugh

[__marcelo]

Just submitted a deletion request for "my article" (bot-generated from Fanfiction.net) on FanHistory. Like the stupid idiot that I am, my FanFiction.net account had my real name... (note to self: change my real name). I'm not averse to letting people know I'm fannish, gods know, but I'd like to have some sort of control over that

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[ratcreature]

Heh, I'm starting to wonder whether I should feel left out in that so far none of her scraper bot projects ever harvested my profiles afaik, despite me always picking to be included in search engines and such. In a way it's kind of depressing to have not even enough presence in fandom to be auto-harvested...

I find the FH practices about as annoying as the scraper bots from spam blogs which do copy my content sometimes, mostly because her wiki is equally useless, with it including so much bot generated pages coupled with her weird ideas about edititng a wiki and her tacky and rather doomed ideas about generating profit.

I'm not actually pseudonymous in fandom, because anyone interested can just do a "whois" lookup for my website, which doesn't have any of these extra registrar privacy things enabled, so it lists me as a contact and nobody needs any detective skills. Mostly I started to use a pseud because my first name (with slight international spelling variances) was common in my first online fandom and already used by better known fans which had caused some confusion on lists for me (as in people never really thought of me first with my name), so no reason to continue that with my webpage, or to make my site harder to find because my name is fairly common in general. In a way I guess I picked a pseud for getting more exposure or at least name recognition rather than less.

Anyway, I'm sure the climate researcher sharing my full RL name and who is the person you get the most hits for when you google it, is probably thankful that I didn't decide to blog about my porn preferences under my full name, and the easy search results for our shared RL name now aren't slash recs, comic rants, fan art, and posts about kinks... *G*

[__marcelo]

That seems like a viable online strategy; hopefully one day search engines will learn to distinguish between different people with the same name :).