Nocopy

Nocopy is basically the state of a website that doesn't allow the copying and pasting of text. While the Pit had copyable text for a long time, it gained nocopy in October 2013. The newcomer badfic source, the Circle of Lemmings, also disables copy-pasting by anyone but the user who created that particular post.

Because PPC missions (not to mention MSTs, and any other review or spork that wants to quote the original story) need to quote a badfic by necessity, this makes a PPCer's work difficult.

Or rather, would have made our work difficult, if not for some intrepid Boarders who developed work-arounds.

Source Code Method
On her blog, Lily Winterwood shares a way to find a copyable copy of a story by accessing the source code. The password is "circleoflemmings" (no quotation marks):


 * The instructions.

This has been tested specifically with Google Chrome, but other browsers with a "view source" option should work as well.

JavaScript Add-On
Ellipsis Flood created a bit of coding magic to cancel out a page's nocopy status with a press of a button in the favorites bar.


 * The code: javascript:%20(function%20{$('.nocopy').removeClass('nocopy').parent.css({'-moz-user-select':'auto','-webkit-user-select':'auto','user-select':'auto'})})


 * The instructions.

This one is designed specifically for Firefox, but may potentially work on other browsers.