ooh, i like this way of looking at it, i hadn't thought of it this way!
i guess part of me is worried about the 'harrassment' side of it like you mentioned when it comes to these folders, i've only had a small experience with it but i think that is what's started to make me a little uncomfortable with the concept of them as it was not nice to deal with and made me private/hide the characters for a while.
so far though it's not been too bad and most people have just silently added my characters to the folders and i've only really stumbled upon them randomly in the folders when i see UFT/S posts and they want to show what kind of designs they like/would be interested in. i thought that might cause harassment of people trying to obtain my designs as 'fodder' i suppose to get the designs they were interested in from the journals, but i've yet to experience that luckily.
i was just curious on others people's thoughts, so tysm for sharing yours!! this makes me see it in more of a positive way ; v ;