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    Regarding Rules 3/7, and turncoat authors who burned their work

    To be clear, for your benefit and others', I didn't have the slightest idea before making this thread that my scheme might be considered in violation of Rule 1, which is why I didn't put it in the title. Again, it comes back to the paradigm I'm working from. The way I think about this, right...
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    Regarding Rules 3/7, and turncoat authors who burned their work

    If I cared about laws, do you think I'd have written and published a fanfic that's arguably CP in my country? Do you think I'd have pirated a dozen VNs that are definitely CP in my country*? I subscribe to the philosophy of Paul Anka: "For what is a man; what has he got? If not himself, then he...
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    Regarding Rules 3/7, and turncoat authors who burned their work

    Which is good, because you're badly mistaken in a few areas. 1) Plagiarism is a different thing from copyright infringement and is not against the law. Plagiarism is passing someone else's work off as your own. Copyright infringement is copying someone else's work without permission (outside of...
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    Regarding Rules 3/7, and turncoat authors who burned their work

    It appears we agree on the factual question of why they do it. Yeah, I get that, but I also get that somebody (not necessarily you) would assuredly have accused me, had I omitted it, of holding a convenient position that only causes problems for other people, and it seemed prudent to head that...
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    Regarding Rules 3/7, and turncoat authors who burned their work

    Okay, I think this dialogue has run its course. I tried my best to convey where I'm coming from, and you're still suffering from misinterpretation and blank incomprehension. Not your fault - if anything, it's mine, for not being able to explain better - but I don't see what else there is to do...
  6. magic9mushroom

    Regarding Rules 3/7, and turncoat authors who burned their work

    So, you've got a couple of things right and a few things wrong; my read is that you're casting around basically blindly for my motive, because the paradigm I'm working from is unknown to you*. Reasonable! It's rarely fully and explicitly held nowadays, even in places like this forum, and I...
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    Regarding Rules 3/7, and turncoat authors who burned their work

    Actually, I forgot about this, but QQ actually has an explicit immunity in the case of works that have been published on QQ: That's from QQ's TOS; anyone who published a work on QQ can't revoke QQ's licence to display that work. I also forgot that mods do actually have version control, so you...
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    Regarding Rules 3/7, and turncoat authors who burned their work

    Certain porn authors burn their freely-released work as part of an attempt to become a professional writer, sometimes in an attempt to start selling that work and other times due to wanting a public image "untainted" by porn. We have quite a few threads here that have had their story posts...
  9. magic9mushroom

    Seeing the Post You Were Warned For

    It's a lot less than half. You need it for spoilers and similar interactive elements, you need it to see ads (:V), and that's about it. When I go looking on SV for old stuff, I have to turn on cookies (search doesn't work without them), but rarely JavaScript.
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    Seeing the Post You Were Warned For

    I will note that (at least as I've experienced it on SB/SV), if you have JavaScript turned off, the result is "site breaks indefinitely for no visible reason" (because the popup is JavaScript, but the lockout until you've interacted with the popup is not, and the lockout itself has no clues as...
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    Life Weaver (ASOIAF / WORM-OC SI)

    I notice rampant emdashes, a new account, a rapid update rate and a Patreon advertisement attempt. Did an AI write this?
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    100% foolproof way to avoid being subject to nonconsensual sexual activity: consent to everything.

    100% foolproof way to avoid being subject to nonconsensual sexual activity: consent to everything.
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    Is the title referencing "Consider Phlebas"?

    Is the title referencing "Consider Phlebas"?
  14. magic9mushroom

    Forum is messing up what day (of the week) it is

    So, you know how the forum lists posts as being "X minutes ago", then "Today at X", then "Yesterday at X", then "[day of the week] at X" for the past week, then by date? Well, the "[day of the week] at X" stage is fucked up at the moment. Specifically, it's calculating the day of the week by...
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    Question - Is there any way of disabling the quote/reply popup when highlighting text

    I mean, I think the only way to do it internal to QQ is to trick the site into thinking you're on a mobile (I recall that having a touch-screen active can do it). External to QQ, though... well, the popups are JavaScript, so killing JavaScript in your browser will get rid of them (QQ still...
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