User blog comment:Gideoncrawle/TEN THOUSAND/@comment-1886055-20120521010129/@comment-1874924-20120521033307

That's quite all right. You wouldn't necessarily have been expected to know that.

One way I hunt for dead fics is by noting who uploaded the old image files that I delete. When I see a username that I don't recognize, or one who I know hasn't been around in a long time, I go to that user's Contributions Log and check out all their story pages to see if they're finished. I've seen cases where users who were only here a few months left over a dozen barely-started stories in their wake.