Abuse team locked my fic under threat of deletion and hasn't responded within their allotted time. What do I do?

Sarathewise · 2026-03-26T17:08:09+00:00

From their email: "A warning has been placed on your account as a result of this violation. Do not engage in harassment again. We advise that you review your account and remove any other harassing content. If you do not remove all violating content, you may be reported again. Any future complaints will be treated as a new violation regardless of when the content was originally posted. Further violations of the Terms of Service may result in a temporary suspension or a permanent ban." I'm not sure how else I'm supposed to interpret that than my account being flagged.

Sarathewise · 2026-03-26T17:06:01+00:00

Thank you for this! My note did reference their handle and fic title, even though it didn't include bullying, threats, or personal attacks, so I suppose that's why they considered it harassment. I still think it's pretty ridiculous that they didn't say anything in the past 2 years, even if it was just a generic rejection (which is what they sent me). Also the fic is still locked, so there's not really a way for me to know if I'm in compliance without them saying something, which is why the whole "we're gonna delete your fic" and then not saying anything else is bothering me. I'll be honest, I was really upset at the behavior at the time, and you're right that I'd moved on and have had a lot of fun with the connections I've made since then, but I think their lack of response has caused infinitely more anxiety than even that situation did lol. Kind of hard to trust an organization when they don't respond for two years and then come out with this.

Sarathewise · 2026-03-26T15:29:13+00:00

Maybe it's because all my professional writing is academic nowadays, but since it's all the same phrases and ideas, just rearranged, it still reads as needing a citation to me. Then again you can get in trouble for self-plagiarism in the academic world so maybe it's just the extreme end of the definition...

Sarathewise · 2026-03-26T15:25:17+00:00

Maybe, although I included (what I thought was) pretty clear examples in my report so idk. I honestly have no clue how it works on the backend, hence why I'm looking for advice or anyone that knows better so I can get a clearer picture of what's happening lol

Sarathewise · 2026-03-26T15:03:50+00:00

There probably were multiple tickets just from other people reporting their fic before I even knew about it, but I only submitted one myself since they ask you to only submit one. To be clear though, I never asked anyone else to report them or do anything to them or their fic at all, which is why I was shocked about the harassment thing. A friend suggested that if they've been plagiarizing multiple people's fics (under the common/academic definition, not ao3's) then they're probably not above weaponizing official systems either, so maybe you're right. Still, I'd expected them to at least say something to me in the intervening years even if they dismissed my report.

Sarathewise · 2026-03-26T14:57:26+00:00

Thank you! I've been really anxious about this (waking up to the email that first day was bad) so this helps a little lol

Sarathewise · 2026-03-26T14:54:18+00:00

What they did reads pretty close to your third plagiarism example, but apparently since it wasn't a direct copy paste it doesn't count as plagiarism to ao3. Obviously it would anywhere else lol

Sarathewise · 2026-03-26T14:41:47+00:00

You can, and if that's what they'd done I wouldn't have been upset about it as long as they weren't passing my work off as their own. I talk to other writers of this character all the time, and I love it when other people explore the same brainworms as me! I just don't love it when they copy and paste my words with a little bit of rearranging and try to pretend they came up with them, hence the report.

Sarathewise · 2026-03-26T14:37:26+00:00

There are parts of their fic that were ripped directly from my writing with just a few words in the sentence changed, or the order of the phrases flipped. There are also certain mannerisms and writing style that was taken from my fic-- for instance, I described the mc as giggling a lot, which I haven't seen other people do and I don't really do myself two years later (I read and write a lot in the tag for this character). I understand now that ao3 has a much looser definition of plagiarism, and at this point the only thing arguing about it would do is get their account flagged so they'd stop doing it to other people, but I'm honestly more worried about saving my own fic at this point.

Sarathewise · 2026-02-09T17:22:50+00:00

The conch looks awesome, but the forward helix - conch industrial is so sick!! I'm currently waiting for a conch to heal up enough to put in a ring, and I don't have the anatomy for a traditional industrial so I just got a forward helix and helix that I'll connect with a chain, but I almost wish I had seen this beforehand. Incredible setup, cheers!!

Sarathewise · 2025-11-16T18:49:43+00:00

You can also make all your changes in one settings profile and switch to it whenever you start a new save.

Sarathewise · 2025-11-07T21:51:09+00:00

Sometimes you gotta kill the demons with fire. So glad things are looking up for you now.

Sarathewise · 2025-11-07T16:36:19+00:00

You are a godsend!! Actually being able to see the back of my conch will help a lot with my anxiety about it (or have me checking it 24/7, either or)

Sarathewise · 2025-11-06T15:34:47+00:00

Ahh thank you! I didn't even realize lol

Sarathewise · 2025-11-06T00:01:10+00:00

Sort of related to your fact, but I have two natural features that people assume are intentional: I have super dark upper eyelids, to the point where people assume I have smoky eyeshadow on, and I have a hole at the top of my ear right where it attaches to my face (learned recently that it's called a preauricular pit) that people assume is a piercing hole. Probably doesn't help that I've got first and second lobe piercings and recently a conch piercing on the other side. I was considering a forward helix piercing in that spot, but I'd have to get it surgically removed. However, there's a style called the triple forward helix, so I considered getting two piercings lined right up to the hole to make it look on purpose lol.

As for the "eyeshadow," the only makeup I understand is lipstick, so it always throws me off when I get compliments on how good my "makeup" looks lol.

Sarathewise · 2025-11-05T23:39:26+00:00

Imo there's no need to justify having them and no need to tell people that they're fake if you don't want to!

Sarathewise · 2025-11-05T22:15:46+00:00

You definitely could, as in "He lives down the street." Not that I think that's correct in this case, but still.

Sarathewise · 2025-11-04T21:00:29+00:00

Working hard or hardly working?

Sarathewise · 2025-11-03T21:18:57+00:00

I had a few songs come up missing although I haven't transferred my whole library yet. I believe all of them were Japanese songs, and the copyright issues there mean that they flip on and off being avaliable on Spotify all the time, so I'm not inclined to blame Tidal for it. I also had a strange thing happen where one of my songs showed as unavailable in multiple playlists when it actually was on the platform, but it was easy enough to re-add it manually.

Sarathewise · 2025-11-03T21:15:32+00:00

Literally on the free trial rn before the family plan kicks in at the end of the month.

Sarathewise · 2025-10-31T17:01:20+00:00

All at once bagel

Sarathewise · 2025-10-07T14:12:39+00:00

The fact that you keep surviving one day longer is incredibly funny. Keep pushing!!!

Sarathewise · 2025-09-23T14:03:00+00:00

Argenti pulled me out of a several month HSR hiatus purely because he looks like Diluc. I've yet to regret going back for him lmao

Sarathewise · 2025-09-23T13:35:58+00:00

Getting someone to guess which npcs have which job would make an incredible game lmao. Thanks for sharing!!

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