Read 25 stories in under an hour?

[Member389]

So I'm under the suspicion my stories are getting scraped or just copied. I logged in today to find 25 stories added to favorites by the same user, listed as an author who joined last month.
Has anyone else run into this? I mean I love the fact that somebody likes my work, but there's no way they speed read their way through all of my long-winded stuff that fast. I noticed they've added over 60 users to their favorite authors list, but I'm not sure it's a scam and I'm going to find my stuff somewhere on a different site with my name conveniently missing. Am I being paranoid?

 

[ElectricBlue]

So I'm under the suspicion my stories are getting scraped or just copied. I logged in today to find 25 stories added to favorites by the same user, listed as an author who joined last month.
Has anyone else run into this? I mean I love the fact that somebody likes my work, but there's no way they speed read their way through all of my long-winded stuff that fast. I noticed they've added over 60 users to their favorite authors list, but I'm not sure it's a scam and I'm going to find my stuff somewhere on a different site with my name conveniently missing. Am I being paranoid?

There's a guy who says he's been a long time Lit reader who for some reason is faving entire catalogues, every story. I think he's more a compulsive list maker, I don't think it's nefarious. I also suspect he doesn't know how to favorite an author - he just lists the stories.

Don't worry about it, would be my advice.

 

[Member389]

There's a guy who says he's been a long time Lit reader who for some reason is faving entire catalogues, every story. I think he's more a compulsive list maker, I don't think it's nefarious. I also suspect he doesn't know how to favorite an author - he just lists the stories.

Don't worry about it, would be my advice.

I guess that would make sense if the person had been a user more than a month. They did favorite me as an author too.
You're right though, I've got plenty of other things to worry about at the moment.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I guess that would make sense if the person had been a user more than a month. They did favorite me as an author too.
You're right though, I've got plenty of other things to worry about at the moment.

He only set up the account recently. He'd been anon, previously.

 

[NotWise]

I've seen that a couple times recently, and every once-in-a-while before. It's hard to guess at their motivation, but to me the most likely possibilities is that it's a way for them to save stories to read later. I don't see it as a way to scrape stories, and I haven't seen mass bombing raids from it.

 

[SimonDoom]

I've had this happen a few times. A reader favorites a whole bunch of my stories in immediate succession. I think they're just marking them to be read later. People used to do this all the time before reading lists existed.

 

[Member389]

I've seen that a couple times recently, and every once-in-a-while before. It's hard to guess at their motivation, but to me the most likely possibilities is that it's a way for them to save stories to read later. I don't see it as a way to scrape stories, and I haven't seen mass bombing raids from it.

Most of the stories I've had stolen were solo adventures. That's one reason I started doing multipart stories, it seemed like they were less likely to be stolen. Hopefully it's nothing and I'm being paranoid.

 

[RejectReality]

They could very well be adding them to a private reading list. The dashboard doesn't distinguish between favorites and adding to a list.

There are also folks out there looking to become influencers, for lack of a less nauseating word, by creating curated lists. They're hoping to get their fifteen minutes of Lit fame by putting together lists that others will use as a directory.

Multi-part stories are no less likely to be horked by a thief than one-shots. If anything, they're more attractive to the people stealing them to publish for cash.