Question about collections

[sketchme]

There's an option on the "New Collection" page where the wording is a bit weird. What does this mean?

"This collection is unrevealed"

That the collection is hidden from public view?

I'm wanting to make some reading lists and I'm thinking of using collections.

Comments

[noracharles]

Unrevealed means that the author names are hidden. Every fanwork in an unrevealed collection will appear to be authored by "Anonymous".

[alexseanchai]

Fanworks have to be added to a collection by an author, so I'm at a loss for how you could make a reading list using a collection.

[erinptah]

One of the big things collections were designed for is exchanges like Yuletide. So authors can submit their works before the deadline (while the collection is unrevealed), and they'll only show up as "Mystery Work" in the collection, and be unavailable from the author's page. For that particular exchange, reveals happen on December 25, so everything goes public -- but is still anonymous until (IIRC) December 31, at which point it comes off anon and all the authors' names are attached.

But yeah, collections are for author-submitted works, not reader-created link lists. If you want to make a reading list, either us the "Mark for Later" option on works, or use "Bookmark" and then tag the bookmarks with the theme of the reading list they're going on. (You can use the tag search to find out if a fitting tag already exists, and if it doesn't, you can make one up.)