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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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She said people just treated him like anyone else, and that was apparently exactly how he liked it. I've always been of the opinion that it's the exceedingly normal types that bear watching, actually, so that sort of cinched it for me. But, having grown up reading a great many of the authors he claims were strong influences on him, I'm not surprised that I like his books. He's also refreshingly blunt on the topic of writing.

Apropos of nothing, I've always enjoyed King's work, and preferred the books to the adaptions in general, with the exception of the movie adaptation of "Misery" simply to see Jimmy Caan. I did know someone who lived down the road from the Kings in Bangor, He was apparently a rather nice fellow.

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