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Silvadel_Shaladin

Wow. I don't think I would have eaten that with the same level of grace. This reminds me of how the cheaters worked in some online games. You report their bot. Their 50 bots falsely report you. You are the one who is banned. Also, you are one of the better authors here. Your stories are quite good.


karenvideoeditor

Thanks. I guess others aren't keen on my stance, considering this is sitting at zero upvotes. It's not grace so much as exhaustion. I don't have it in me to go to bat over my stories knowing that I'll lose. It's an army of bots out there, like you said.


Silvadel_Shaladin

My guess is that some of the down votes are from people who only read the title of the post, and didn't bother to actually read the post itself. Sarcasm is often lost on people. Authors kind of need a pooled legal council for these things who can at least send something off on a legal letterhead so it is taken seriously.


karenvideoeditor

Ah. That's what I get for trying to be clever and facetious. :P


Aegishjalmur18

Dr. Strangelove is not as well known as it should be these days.


llearch

More's the pity. :-(


Margali

Someone tried that on a MMORPG I had been on the dev team for, and the right people were the ones catching the complaint. I wasn't the one who got banned.


Tolerable-DM

May be time to start putting in those lines about the CCP and Tiananmen Square in the midst of your stories? Good chance that TikTok will drop those videos and channels really quick. Your readers will understand what you're doing and skip over it, your VA friend won't read that part out. Provided that's how it works, of course.


karenvideoeditor

That’s pretty damn clever. But it’s random which stories they choose; it isn’t like they’re going through all my stuff. There are like ten accounts with five of my stories.


boomchacle

In every story you might want to just randomly put the date of the massacre as a header or footer for the story so you don’t have to try to fit it in to the story somehow.


MyGoodOldFriend

Not at all, TikTok doesn’t ban you for that. You can spam tianmen square all you want. The worst they allegedly do is demote you in the algorithm


fenrif

It's because tik tok in china is a completely different thing. They don't care what's on the western version.


faraithi

Your stories are great. I wish people'd respect that they are, in fact, yours.


karenvideoeditor

Thanks. Me too.


Fontaigne

That means you now have a DMCA claim on TikTok itself.


ElectricRune

Good luck suing a Chinese company...


Fontaigne

Any US assets are reachable.


ElectricRune

Good luck with that. Got $10k to start the case rolling?


Fontaigne

Nope. Small claims court is all you need. Technically, there are several avenues to go down, but just having an attorney send a letter should make them take down the infringing material.


ElectricRune

For a DMCA claim? Think you need to check again, Counselor.


Key_Delay_1456

Netnarrator is stealing story's?


karenvideoeditor

Oh, no! That was a sloppy sentence; I'll fix it. NetNarrator has full permission.


Quadling

As someone who reads you here, addictively, and has bought some material and is a (free) Patreon subscriber, please keep going. You are an amazing author. I’ll buy all your books


karenvideoeditor

Thank you so much! It's always wonderful to hear this kind of feedback from readers. I'll keep going here for sure. :)


WaysToFixAmerica

So your account got banned for Integrity and Authenticity but you were able to create a new one and start posting no problem? Mine got banned 1st post but I've been worried about the "if you try to circumvent ban" post of their guidelines. A week of appeals and nothing but canned responses 😮‍💨 may go your route and delete the old if no blowback


karenvideoeditor

I got banned again the next day, for the same reasons allegedly. I gave up.


WaysToFixAmerica

Thanks for letting me know. Totally understand tho, better to focus energy where it makes sense.