Comment on TOS Spotlight: Non-fanworks

  1. TheDragonQueen1998 Sat 17 May 2025 08:28PM UTC

    Oh, this is a very nice series. It's always lovely to see multiple and well explained examples of rule violations. Are you gonna do a spotlight on works that are marked complete, but actually aren't?

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    1. AO3_Policy_and_Abuse (Official) Sat 17 May 2025 10:47PM UTC

      a stylized AO3 cat

      The TOS spotlight series is meant to provide information on common types of violations. When it comes to work blurb information, only the mandatory tag fields (fandom, language, rating, and Archive warnings) are within the scope of the TOS. PAC does not enforce character, relationship, category, or additional tags, nor any other metadata, including whether a work is marked as complete.

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      1. TheDragonQueen1998 Sat 17 May 2025 11:28PM UTC

        Ah, i see. Thank you for clarifying. 💜

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    3. gwyllion Sun 18 May 2025 02:37AM UTC

      I wish!

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    4. MalcontentCatboy Sun 18 May 2025 05:19AM UTC

      I think it would be pretty hard to police that. Real literature is full of works that are as complete as a work could get (writer dead hundreds of years), but really don't feel complete. I guess they could make it impossible to add more to a complete work, but I'm not sure that would help the problem.

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      1. catladywriter Tue 20 May 2025 06:55AM UTC

        I had a fic that was completed a couple of years ago but I added a chapter recently because I wanted to add an accompanying illustration that wasn't available at the time when I actually completed the fic. There are also writers who may feel like adding a bonus chapter or even an alternate ending chapter some time later after finishing the main story.

        Inaccurately marking incomplete fics is annoying for sure but hard to police, and over-policing it will penalise other users who have been using the platform responsibly imo.

        I think rather than expecting the mods to do something about this, one could call out the writer for inaccurately marking the fic in the comments (maybe give them the benefit of doubt, with something polite eg "Love the fic so far but I noticed you marked your fic complete when it's not. Just wanted to give a heads up if it was a mistake!). Also, there is always the option to block them if they're doing it often enough to be annoying.

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