was that when a reader creates a manual entry they can add info about the author or the story. And this is where many fan writers are (rightfully) concerned when they find their enthusiastic reader has linked to the author's blogs or tumblr accounts etc. The good news is that this info is not auto-populated. The bad news is that it is not auto-populated. which means anything can be added.
Info on the author cannot be added to their profile page by the average user - but if you are a SuperUser (Librarian) you can edit the author's page (and again link to a blog or tumblr). The good news is that once you claim your profile you can eliminate this. The bad news is that you have to know the profile is there.
Think of all the website scrapers running right now that are pulling info from your blog and your tunblr and your twitter and your Youtube account (and yes your AO3 pages which are indexed by Google) and you can see how impossible it is to limit what gets added where. At the very least, GR will remove the info, but most of these other aggregator websites will not. The only way to limit this info is to lock access.
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was that when a reader creates a manual entry they can add info about the author or the story. And this is where many fan writers are (rightfully) concerned when they find their enthusiastic reader has linked to the author's blogs or tumblr accounts etc. The good news is that this info is not auto-populated. The bad news is that it is not auto-populated. which means anything can be added.
Info on the author cannot be added to their profile page by the average user - but if you are a SuperUser (Librarian) you can edit the author's page (and again link to a blog or tumblr). The good news is that once you claim your profile you can eliminate this. The bad news is that you have to know the profile is there.
Think of all the website scrapers running right now that are pulling info from your blog and your tunblr and your twitter and your Youtube account (and yes your AO3 pages which are indexed by Google) and you can see how impossible it is to limit what gets added where. At the very least, GR will remove the info, but most of these other aggregator websites will not. The only way to limit this info is to lock access.