Hello. One of my favorite authors was banned on lit sometime during the past month. All of his stories were subsequently deleted. Unfortunately, he has been inactive for the past couple of months, maybe even year, and will likely not fight the ban. Is there any way to salvage his stories or fight the ban for him?
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Jada59
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Why was he banned?
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I doubt it. Laurel's site, Laurel's rules. A writer gets banned for a reason, and the site owner is judge, jury, and executioner. If Lit takes down stories, that's it, as far as Lit concerned.
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How would the OP know? A ban is between Laurel and the account holder, it's not a public process.
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Also worth to note that there's a few mentions on the site about Lit not keeping any backups of stories. If it's gone, it's gone. So, unless some people copied the stories to an offline archive for example, only the author has a copy of the stories (assuming they saved their work locally). There's no way for the site to restore a story once it's deleted, and considering he was banned and isn't active anymore, there's no reason they'd want to either.
No idea
To be honest, I have no idea. He only wrote run of the mill incest/taboo stories. He hadn't been active as an author for a while, so I don't see his stories being problematic. I guess that only leaves a comment as being the reason for his ban.
To be honest, I have no idea. He only wrote run of the mill incest/taboo stories. He hadn't been active as an author for a while, so I don't see his stories being problematic. I guess that only leaves a comment as being the reason for his ban.
Very unfortunate to hear. Thanks for the info.
Through some major internet sleuthing I was able to find most of the stories off of Internet Archive. So that's a plus.
It strikes me as odd that backups are not kept. What if someone's account is banned by mistake? What if there's a rule change? Shouldn't these things be saved considering that text takes up incredibly little data?
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Banning doesn't equal stories deleted.
That's a process that has to be executed on top of the ban. It's highly unlikely that the only person capable of doing it ( Laurel ) is going to make such a mistake two levels in — especially when there are so few permanent bans ever handed down. If they happen, it's for a reason.
Considering you say this author has been inactive, are you sure it's even a ban? Sounds to me more like an author pulling their stories down. If the old story links say "awaiting moderation" instead of giving a 404 error, they may have even asked for their account to be suspended, rather than deleted.
In the latter case, the stories are still on Lit. They haven't been removed, they're just inaccessible to the public.
That's a process that has to be executed on top of the ban. It's highly unlikely that the only person capable of doing it ( Laurel ) is going to make such a mistake two levels in — especially when there are so few permanent bans ever handed down. If they happen, it's for a reason.
Considering you say this author has been inactive, are you sure it's even a ban? Sounds to me more like an author pulling their stories down. If the old story links say "awaiting moderation" instead of giving a 404 error, they may have even asked for their account to be suspended, rather than deleted.
In the latter case, the stories are still on Lit. They haven't been removed, they're just inaccessible to the public.
I considered the fact that the author pulled his own stories, but it lists his profile as banned and there is a 404 error when going to his stories' links.
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