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[frelling_tralk]

I don't get this trend of leaving icon posts open for two/three days, then flocking them, making public fic posts, then flocking them. It's so frustrating when I have fic saved in my LJ memories, only to find it's been flocked since when I want to reread it (this seems to happen particularly with Supernatural fandom for some reason).

What happened to the days of people locking personal posts only, and leaving fandom-related posts public. I miss them *sighs*

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[duskwillow.livejournal.com]

Guh, I hate that.
Or even more annoying "the post will be locked in 24 hours". Excuse you, why don't you put a countdown as well?!
I still think the main reason behind that is to get more members in their communities. Bandwidth is usually used as an excuse, because "people hotlinked and now I *have* to do this!!11!", but most of the people who say that don't even seem to understand how so-called hotlinking works, and that they're the ones hotlinking when they crosspost all over (especially if they have a huuuge icon post + gazillion animations). *sigh*
Anyways, yes, it's a big pet peeve of mine. :)
That is why I added "no linking to locked posts", or at least leave them open for a week, as a rule in every com I maintain. It's nice to delete offenders if they don't unlock it after the warning. >:)

I haven't seen any locked fic yet. *knocks on wood*
It only happened with fic posted to one com, but they lock everything R/NC-17, so I just joined and solved the problem. :D What's the excuse behind locking that?

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

Suddenly locking all of your fic seems more prevalent with SPN fandom, I've come across it a few times now, and I don't remember that ever being an issue in Clex fandom. Maybe it's because people feel more dodgy about writing SPN fic as it often involves RPF or wincest, but so long as you're not putting your actual name on it then I don't get the big deal