Reply To: A recent and disturbing trend.

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For me, posting a story, and giving a patreon (or whatever) link at the end seesm fine. Putting the link *before* the story seems a bit in-your-face and irritataing, but I don’t really have a problem with it.

Posting *half* a story and saying ‘come read the other half, but you have to pay’ feels to me like exploiting this site.

I realise that this isn’t as hard and fast as it might be, there’s a slightly blurry line between what’s the second half of a story, and what’s a follow up / separate story, but I guess Admin(/mods) would just have to make that call.

As for the author name linking off the site, that is (I think) just how wordpress works – if you go to set up your wordpress profile, then there’s a box for your website address. If you fill that in, then it links your name to that web address instead of the story list here. (At least, that’s what I think – I did it accidentally a long time ago!)

I don’t particularly like that behaviour either, and it may be that HSN can change it.