Anon · 4mo
I’m not sure if you already share it, but could you explain please how you did so your works can’t be copy (at least from my iphone/Safari). Sometimes I quote phrases into the comments I leave, but with ‘The things he’ll do…’ I couldn’t. I’m a writer too so it interesting me!
This is a very late reply, I'm sorry, I just usually reply on my phone and I needed to be on a computer to reply to this so I never got around to it 😭 Perhaps you don't even need this reply anymore, but anyway:
Ao3 has something called "skins". It's basically using html to tweak your page or your posted works. The reason why you can't copy my fics is because I'm using a no-copy skin. I started using it mostly to stop my works from being scraped, but then that huge phishing scam where over 600k fics were scraped happened, and even the ones with the no-copy skin got copied, so clearly it didn't work 😅 They do make it trickier for people to copy and maybe feed the fics into shit like ChatGPT, but it doesn't make it impossible, either.
I really love the types of comments you are talking about, so I will remove the no-copy skins. If they can't protect me and only stop people from commenting, they aren't worth it 😅 However, if it's of interest, here's the HTML code:
workskin * {
user-select: none !important;
-webkit-user-select: none;
-moz-user-select: none;
-ms-user-select: none;
}
Just go to "Skins" on your Ao3 account, create a new work skin, and paste this in, and it'll at least be a little harder for people to mess with your fics.
