Being in the QAF fandom and seneig authors in the fandom take their stories, change the names and publish the stories, has always bothered me. Not only do those writers take stories away from the fandom, but they use characters they didn't create as a base for their end product and I don't think that it's fair to other writers that hone and craft their characters from scratch. I also feel that those writers have the advantage of many viewers and many comments that help them craft the story even further. How often does a writer outside of the world of fandom get 100 comments about a chapter and have the ability to go back and edit chapters based on potential buyer comments?Many people might argue that they wrote the story and should be able to do with it as they please, but the stories aren't theirs 100%, and I don't know how they would feel comfortable profiting from characters they didn't create. A name change isn't creating a character to me. I think the real sadness for me over this is when an author decides to take away all her/his stories from the fandom, because they decided they can make a buck by doing a find and replace job on a story and selling it. Considering how many new people find fandom every day, they are missing some great stories when an author does this.