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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[sara_lakali]

Thanks for the heads-up. I just submitted my deletion request for my FF-dot-net pen name.

[__marcelo]

Best of luck.

[__marcelo]

Thanks! I'd rather not interact with Fanhistory at all, if I could...

[outlawpoet]

I'm afraid I don't even know what it is, or what it's history is. A google shows an ordinary looking wiki. What's the scoop, Mr. Kent?

[__marcelo]

A short description at Fandom Wank, and why it's so 'interesting' (begin with the post at the bottom).

[derryderrydown]

So, you know how FH is planning to use a bot to scoop information from people's LJ profiles? I'm very tempted to put something in my profile specifically saying that FH is using my work without my permission, and quite possibly linking to all the exposes...

[__marcelo]

Yes, I heard about that. Supposedly the bot doesn't farm profiles from journals set not to be mined by search engines, so in theory I should be somewhat safe, at least for now.

Adding something like that to the profile seems like a good idea, although it'll only be useful -after- the both has already set up your page at FH.

[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

[__marcelo]

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