Please know that not only do lit screens not work (Google your work) -- dA knows that it is misrepresenting them. I think folks should write to the Help Desk en masse and let them know that this is simply unacceptable. Here's the interchange I had with them. Be aware.
P.S. The poem used in this example has now been put into storage, and I've requested Google delete the cached version.
realitysquared, Jan 15 01:51 pm (PST):
Thank you for contacting deviantART customer service, I will be assisting you with your support ticket today. My apologies for the delay caused by a large volume of incoming customer service tickets.
Because deviantART is intended to be a publicly viewable gallery of creative works we do not specifically disallow indexing by any internet search engine so depending on how any particular search engine gathers, caches and displays the information they index it is possible that a short preview of your written work may be available in the search results.
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Daniel Sowers Jr.
CEA Project Manager
Community Operations Division
deviantART Inc
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beeinthebottle, Jan 08 06:14 am (PST):
I've noted for quite a while that even with a lit screen ("Hide and require login"), the title AND first several lines of my poems are showing up in Google. An example: Google "Leather beeinthebottle deviantart" -- and you get the poem and the first several lines. You click on the Google link, and if you are logged out, true you don't see the full text. But as long as Google picks up that many lines, there's no "lit screen" protection of my copy. You might as well not use it, and it gives many deviants a false sense of security.
The sample poem I'm using is at
[link] . I've found this to be the case, however, with basically all of my work. Can this be fixed? There's no point of having a lit screen if the piece appears with its text in Google anyway.
I'm only asking because what you could do is stash your newest work and then put links in your journal to the stash so people can read/comment but it won't show up? Just an idea - not sure if that works or not.