Ezriee

No problem!  I read a lot of Sesshoumaru/Kagome stuff among other pairings.  Sorry Bronx!  I forget about the link since I get it out of my folder.  I’ll remember next time

Is it okay to request/ask/demand for reviews or ratings in order for me to continue my story or post a new chapter?
NO.
This practice is also known as 'review whoring'. It is not something that we've come up with, but a common term used in the fanfiction and original writing communities. Because of the large number of complaints that we receive about this practice, as of November of 2009, it is no longer allowed on adult-fanfiction.org. They are usually found in the author's notes of stories or sometimes, on an writer's author page or even in the summaries at times.
Examples of review whoring:
- Did you like this chapter? Do you want to see more? Well, you'll need to review in order to see what happens next!
- You review, you'll get the next chapter faster!
- I will not update this story unless I receive _ reviews.
- U guys suck! I'm gonna delete the story if I don't get reviews!
These are just a few, but as you can see, these phrases are used to persuade or influence a reader to leave a comment in order to see more. Many of the moderators and admins are authors on the site so we do definitely understand that getting that criticism to improve the story, hearing what the reader likes about it or even getting that little kudos for the hard work that you put into a story is gratifying. However, when looking from the readers' side, it is a way of making them do something that they may not wish to do, with the punishment being that they don't get to see what happens next.
Examples of what is NOT considered review whoring:
- Please rate and review!
- I'd love to see your comments and appreciate any constructive criticism.
- Thanks in advance for the review!
- If you have a few seconds, feel free to review! I'd appreciate it.
- Your comments help me improve my writing.
We do a visual check every story added to the archive several times a week. If you are found to be demanding reviews for your stories, we discreetly ask you in an email to remove the demand for reviews and if you have any questions, you are free to respond to the email and one of the staff members of adult-fanfiction.org will get back to you.
In the instance that demand for reviews remains, your story can be hidden after having already given you several days to edit your work. Your story can then be hidden for up to approximately thirty (30) days and after that time, the story in question is deleted from the archive. If your story is hidden, you will have to contact us at afftosteam@gmail.com with the name of your story, your penname, and the subdomain that your story is in. After that is received, we will review the story and if the issue is fixed, then we will make your story visible once again.

Can I withhold a chapter in order to get my readers opinion on where to take my story?

NO.

Polls that demand or request for the opinion of readers in order to continue a story are not allowed. If you want the opinions of the reader as to pairings, different scenarios you are considering or other things such which name is best for the child or children of a character from a list that you've created, you do have options.

In the adult-fanfiction.org forums, you CAN create polls where your readers can vote and leave suggestions. Below the link to review the story is a second link that says 'Discuss this story' and create the poll, then post the link into the story so your readers can voice their opinion and vote. This is beneficial because you will be able to freely converse with your readers and you can also set the topic so that it notifies you when you receive replies to your topic.

If you have a question, you can contact one of the moderators through the forum, or send an email to tos_team@adult-fanfiction.org

You Darkness by Vyncent.  One of the best stories that I’ve ever read.  All of her stories are amazing...too bad she doesn’t write anymore.

http://inu.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=544170673

 

This is just the way I found to fix the way my chapters are appearing. I just thought I'd share it because it may be easy for some...maybe not so much for others if you're not in a happy place with Microsoft Word. This will help with removing italic/bold/underline tags if you have them in your word file:
Since my stories are older, all of my stories are just a MASSIVE wall of text that kill my eyes to even look at them as they appear on the site. I too have those tags to make them italic, bold or underlined but at this time, I don't feel like going through and doing a major glance to correct any of the small errors I might have. It took me about five minutes to fix this in a 4500 word chapter. All I did (in word) is do a control+f to find the < i > tag (in my case), highlight the line or paragraph and hit control+i which, of course, will make it italic. Don’t worry about removing the tag. When I made the parts that needed to be italic, including the tags, I just hit control+H. This brings up the find and replace box. Put the tag in the FIND WHAT box, Example < i >. In the REPLACE WITH box, just leave it blank. It will replace the tag with NOTHING, removing it from the file.
When you're done with that, copy/paste into the text box on aff and edit chapter. PERSONALLY, I WOULD NOT SAVE THE CORRECTED FILE UNTIL YOU MAKE SURE IT POSTED CORRECTLY BY VIEWING YOUR CHAPTER ON THE SITE AS IF YOU WERE A READER. Just have an extra tab open in firefox or IE so you can just refresh the chapter to see the change. If all is good, then you can save it to your computer.
For those of you who just wanna remove the tags and don't care about keeping your formatting, just use the control+h and remove the tags.
DG, Apollo, Manta…I gotta say, I love the new abilities we have with everything! It will take me some time to fix all the stories but I will enjoy uploading any new stories/chapters and sharing my faves.
Amazing job all!!

This is just the way I found to fix the way my chapters are appearing. I just thought I'd share it because it may be easy for some...maybe not so much for others if you're not in a happy place with Microsoft Word. This will help with removing italic/bold/underline tags if you have them in your word file:
Since my stories are older, all of my stories are just a MASSIVE wall of text that kill my eyes to even look at them as they appear on the site. I too have those tags to make them italic, bold or underlined but at this time, I don't feel like going through and doing a major glance to correct any of the small errors I might have. It took me about five minutes to fix this in a 4500 word chapter. All I did (in word) is do a control+f to find the < i > tag (in my case), highlight the line or paragraph and hit control+i which, of course, will make it italic. Don’t worry about removing the tag. When I made the parts that needed to be italic, including the tags, I just hit control+H. This brings up the find and replace box. Put the tag in the FIND WHAT box, Example < i >. In the REPLACE WITH box, just leave it blank. It will replace the tag with NOTHING, removing it from the file.
When you're done with that, copy/paste into the text box on aff and edit chapter. PERSONALLY, I WOULD NOT SAVE THE CORRECTED FILE UNTIL YOU MAKE SURE IT POSTED CORRECTLY BY VIEWING YOUR CHAPTER ON THE SITE AS IF YOU WERE A READER. Just have an extra tab open in firefox or IE so you can just refresh the chapter to see the change. If all is good, then you can save it to your computer.
For those of you who just wanna remove the tags and don't care about keeping your formatting, just use the control+h and remove the tags.
DG, Apollo, Manta…I gotta say, I love the new abilities we have with everything! It will take me some time to fix all the stories but I will enjoy uploading any new stories/chapters and sharing my faves.
Amazing job all!!