I have a very dark, smutty story that is not my usual kind of thing. Usually when I post smut, I archive-lock it so that it can't escape into the wild, because I've had a (non-smut, thankfully) story accidentally get linked into real world google searches, and the resulting comments weren't great.
So for this dark, smutty story, I initially placed it in the anon com, so that I wouldn't need to archive-lock it, so nonnies could read, but also if it escaped to google it wouldn't be linked to my name. But I kinda want to claim it and archive-lock it.
So, how common is it that people read smut while logged out of the archive, and that archive-locking it would kill it for you?
How Likely Are People to Read Smut Anon on AO3?
So for this dark, smutty story, I initially placed it in the anon com, so that I wouldn't need to archive-lock it, so nonnies could read, but also if it escaped to google it wouldn't be linked to my name. But I kinda want to claim it and archive-lock it.
So, how common is it that people read smut while logged out of the archive, and that archive-locking it would kill it for you?