I'm not 100% sure where you fall on that. I'm of the opinion that asking permission is polite but not necessary, much for the same reasons as you. However, just because I feel that way doesn't mean that the rest of fandom does and I really don't want to get into a wanky situation over it.
OTOH, I wasn't planning on reading the fics, I'm hoping to talk my lurker cousin into so maybe he'd be ok with taking the heat... but that feels kind of like a cop out.
Maybe what I'll do is just leave a comment to each story that it's been podficed and if the original author has an objection to that, they can contact me and I'll remove it. Wait about a week then just go post it. Or, as you said, go to the mods and see about them making a top level post about it....
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I'm of the opinion that asking permission is polite but not necessary, much for the same reasons as you. However, just because I feel that way doesn't mean that the rest of fandom does and I really don't want to get into a wanky situation over it.
OTOH, I wasn't planning on reading the fics, I'm hoping to talk my lurker cousin into so maybe he'd be ok with taking the heat... but that feels kind of like a cop out.
Maybe what I'll do is just leave a comment to each story that it's been podficed and if the original author has an objection to that, they can contact me and I'll remove it. Wait about a week then just go post it. Or, as you said, go to the mods and see about them making a top level post about it....