I went to Fanlore to see if I'd been linked on it at all. The results were surprising, especially on the occasions where my fic was used as an example of a topic.
More importantly someone had gone through the trouble to archive and save the response I got from Patricia C. Wrede during RaceFail. Something I'm pretty sure I don't have in my email anymore. It's been 9 1/2 years afterall.
This is why I think linking and archiving public posts is important. People should be able to go back and read what came before. We really don't need to reinvent the wheel every 3 years, despite how much fandom enjoys doing that. But it's also important to remember that if something was posted a decade ago you can't respond to it like it was posted last week.
I'm also of the opinion that if I no longer agree with something I said years ago I can lock the post and go on with my life. People change and outside of sites like Tumblr we can control who can see things. But there should definitely be an understanding that you don't go on a historical post and act like an asshat.
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More importantly I'd forgotten I'd written stuff for
More importantly someone had gone through the trouble to archive and save the response I got from Patricia C. Wrede during RaceFail. Something I'm pretty sure I don't have in my email anymore. It's been 9 1/2 years afterall.
This is why I think linking and archiving public posts is important. People should be able to go back and read what came before. We really don't need to reinvent the wheel every 3 years, despite how much fandom enjoys doing that. But it's also important to remember that if something was posted a decade ago you can't respond to it like it was posted last week.
I'm also of the opinion that if I no longer agree with something I said years ago I can lock the post and go on with my life. People change and outside of sites like Tumblr we can control who can see things. But there should definitely be an understanding that you don't go on a historical post and act like an asshat.