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

[JBukharin]

I don't see the issue regardless of the high standing I have been reading: an author has the right to delete their story if they want to do so. I most definitely deleted a few ones from my early fanfic eras out of FFN which made me feel embarrassed or because I got genuinely harassed by people that bitched about wanting some continued despite explicitly stating I was done writing about those. In fact, I am sure I did this on QQ too, so the thing that really infuriates me is what I perceive as entitlement.

The threadmaker definitely isn't a representative for all readers, so he should step down from that faux pedestal. You are doing this by your own personal reasons and trying to grasp at any viable option within the website to be given permission to host archives of removed stories.

Let me ask you this if it was allowed: how many authors would feel safe in posting in QQ knowing this is the first step for further regulations on how much of a 'right' a writer has for their stories? Because I had already been facing with people purposely ripping my active stories without permission and against the rules, I most definitely don't want these people to get a chance to use this very reasoning to push for more leeway through this supposed new rule.

I will not speak for all authors here, since I am not their representatives nor I will take some silly highstand about it, so I will say just this:

I personally object to this notion and I hope common sense buries it for good.

 

[D72]

I have disliked the way some of your stories have gone but I absolutely respect your right to remove or reformulate them at your pleasure. If you did decide a story was either embarrassing, or just shit, that's down to you, not the audience.
Thank you for helping me refine my views on this issue.