iSapiens

My posts are not locked. As you note, it wouldn't prevent the theft and it would be a barrier to people using the community as I'd originally intended. I want to stay open to the LJ community. On a purely practical point, I imagine locking my stuff down would just annoy those who feel entitled to archive my work for me and that's never a good thing on the internet.

I have yet to receive a single comment on any post saying, "Hey, great stuff. Am uploading to Fanpop," or whatever which makes me wonder if the people doing it are unaware of LJ culture or if they know it's a violation of unwritten LJ fandom rules. Speculating on it is pointless but I like to know why people act as they do.

It does feel like a violation because we're not used to people taking entire posts. I try to keep in mind what a pain it was for someone to right-click every icon (I use LJ Scrapbook which defies my download managers; if they have a way to scrape pics easily then I'd like to know so I can use it too. Snagging caps for contests is tedious.) and that it's a sign of thinking my work is worth that effort.

Still, I'd rather that they didn't do it.