BronxWench

I did! I finished! It was not pretty, and the draft is a MESS, but I finished!!! I'm sorry you didn't finish, but I'm delighted to hear it's gotten you writing again. That's the real goal of NaNo, after all.

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::dryly:: We're hardly a short-lived fanfiction website. We've managed to stick around for over ten years because our owner actually understands what's needed to run a site and keep it vital.

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Sometimes what you need to do is either log out and then log in again, or if that fails, clear your cache and cookies entirely.

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If I'm recalling correctly, the entire ratings system that we have now is going to be eliminated in the code rewrite once it gets to that stage. I believe it will be replaced with a recommendation option, to allow readers to recommend a fiction that they like. One of the ongoing issues we've had with the current system is that it is easy to abuse it. Authors have had stories rated down because readers objected to a pairing or to a story line, even if the story was well written, while another fiction that has a favored pairing is highly rated despite not being so much as spellchecked. It isn't a reliable indicator of a story's worth to me as a reader, and as an author, it tells me even less. I'd rather know that readers would recommend my story. I might get fewer of those, but it would mean so much more.

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Topics revive all the time, randomly or not. No worries about bumping. But you raise a valid issue, and that's whether or not it's appropriate to affix a label because someone doesn't like something. Now me, I don't seek out femmeslash stories. It's not my thing. I write and read slash and het, but femmeslash just doesn't appeal to me. Now given that my daughter identifies as bisexual (she went from bi to lesbian and back to bi), it's certainly not because I'm phobic in any way about lesbians. My best friend in high school was lesbian. It was a non-issue for me in terms of how I felt about her as a person. So, am I a homophobe or not? I'd say not, but if someone wanted to fix that label on me, and use my lack of interest in reading or writing femmeslash as a reason, well... it demonstrates their ignorance. And because I like to clarify, I don't write anime or manga based fiction, so I avoid the anime/manga-specific terminology. Just a quirk of mine.

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