Anyone who's even vaguely acquainted with the literature community these days knows that by far and large the single issue most lacking, and with grave results, is the possibility to prevent search engines such as Google to take a glimpse at a particular piece of writing, and from them on keeping a copy indefinitely through their so-called /caches/. This is a problem. Many editors accept only original work, and if a piece turns out on Google chances are they won't be willing to have lost first publication rights, and reject it outright. Writers, on the other hand, quite naturally are not fond to give away their work forever upon posting it on dA.

This had been a problem which has seemed to be hard to solve for technological issues, but in a recent conversation with `AbCat and a few others it was brought to attention that deviations tagged as Mature do not show up on cache. This is because they need an age-approved verification, obviously associated with an account, before they can be viewed. In what concerns search-engines, only the title is kept. What arose from that conversation was the question of whether deviantART could employ a parallel system, reliant on deviations being hidden from the eyes of guests, to resolve the problem of cached literature.

Thank you for reading.