No longer able to highlight text in fics

[twitchy-bunnies.livejournal.com]

Not just me, right? If this is permanent, my best guess is that it was done to deter plagiarism by putting an end to people being able to just right-click copy whole stories.

10/11/2013 update: "Basic copy protection of story content within modern browsers. Currently it is enabled for all but authors will be able to disable/enable this feature in a coming update."

http://blog.fictionpress.com/2013/10/11/languages-for-navigation/#comments

No clue why they're just now telling us this, but hallelujah at it being optional \o/

Comments

[deeplyshalllow.livejournal.com]

As someone who has been a victim of copy and paste plagerism I still think this change is still more of a hinderance than a help. I like being able to copy and paste passages of stories for multiple reasons - the most important of which is the copy and paste reviews (which are in many ways my favourites) which this will pretty much kill, we also run annual fanfic awards on our section where the titles of the award categories (and later the nominations) are put on a fanfic - not being able to copy and paste these into reviews is going to seriously slow everyone nominating and voting down.