Comment on Proposed Changes to the Archive of Our Own's Terms of Service and Frequently Asked Questions

  1. AO3_Policy_and_Abuse (Official) Wed 27 Jan 2016 01:52AM UTC

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    Hi the_dragongirl,

    Moderators have always had access to participants' emails. Since the Archive's inception, we have had no reports of abuse. However, since this fact was not clear we are editing the Terms of Service to make this more transparent and to ensure that moderators understand they can and will be held responsible for abusing this feature.

    There are no immediate plans to change this functionality. If we introduce something like private messaging we may reevaluate and add that as an option, however that is dependent on several variables and it may not be feasible.

    Matty
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    Last Edited Wed 27 Jan 2016 01:54AM UTC

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    1. Ryo Hoshi (Hoshi_Ryo) Fri 29 Jan 2016 02:10AM UTC

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      Private messaging would actually be ideal for this, especially since sometimes there are comments I'd like to leave on fics but feel would not be best done publicly, if nothing else because it may be a gaff I feel is unintended and thus would like to give the person the option of silently fixing it without a comment thread others might (have) see(n).

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