BronxWench

I’ve resent the email. It failed again, unfortunately. For some reason, my email to you is being blocked, and I cannot put a password reset link in an open forum.

I’ve emailed you a password reset link that should allow you to reset your password. Keep in mind passwords must be between 8-12 letters and/or numbers long, and are case sensitive. No punctuation, spaces, or special characters are allowed. EDIT: The email address bounced my message. It is an sbcglobal.net address that I have on record. If that is correct, you might need to add our email address to your address book: tos_team@adult-fanfiction.org.

Thank you for your report. We will look into this and take the appropriate action, and we appreciate your vigilance. As far as Wattpad’s content guidelines, it would be up to their moderation staff to take action there.

Bear with us, since at the moment we are mid-migration to our new server. Once I can access the archive again, I’ll be able to check your account for you.

Our Forum admin, @Melrick, needs to approve all forum registrations. He’s actually in Australia, so his active times at AFF are almost the opposite of mine here in the US. Hopefully, he’ll be able to take a look and let you know what’s going on.

The account should be good to go now. Let us know if there’s still any issues.

As you might have seen in an earlier post, we are going to be moving the archive to new server hardware, scheduled at the moment for July 1. Because this is a physical change, there will likely be some unavoidable downtime for the archive. So please, if the archive does become inaccessible, bear with us and we promise, we'll be right back! One of the advantages of our new server will be stronger security measures, and we expect the recent spate of missing validation emails to go away once we've completed the transition. Right now, the registration problem is confined to anyone using a gmail address to register. (Our wonderful coder, manta2g, managed to fix the issues we were having with Microsoft email clients.) For the moment, new registrations are being manually updated, to bypass the need for the validation link. It can take 24 hours or so to process the manual updates, and we thank you for your continued patience.

Haunted bodegas? It’s been done to death. Now, sin eaters… I can work with that, I think. *rubs hands together and ponders*

As long as it’s a fictional character, and the story is tagged, we do allow it. We have one author who uses fictional characters under the age of 6, and he tags appropriately. It is unpleasant for most readers, honestly, but it’s not illegal. I’ll quote the policy set by the site’s owner: So, there you have it. That’s what I go by, until site policy changes.

If they were, you’d have heard about it, so if I haven’t poked you, you're fine. We wrote our Terms and Conditions in plain English, unlike the nearly incomprehensible mess of legalese and general obfuscation that most sites use. (I’m looking at YOU, AO3. It’s sad when I have to explain to the Legal Department the meaning of what they wrote, or copied from somewhere else, more likely.) So, what we expect isn’t a mystery. When it comes to Minor1 content, you tag if there’s even an offstage mention of sexual activity involving a character under 13. Period. And you can never, ever, under any circumstances, write anything about real persons under the age of 18 in the Celebrity subdomain. Aside from that, we are fairly tolerant, and we’ll support the author if a reader complains about content that was properly tagged. And @Desiderius Price? If anything on this site starts blinking like a New York City bodega, I am going to offer someone’s liver on the altar to the Morrigan. NO BLINKING!

*peeks, shudders, and debates fleeing* Some days, there is just not enough brain bleach on the damned planet. But since we’ve decided to necro this dead thread, I’m going to take a moment to thank @Desiderius Price for his diligent application of the Minor1 tag. This prevents a great many upset emails from reaching the site’s email address, and it saves me having to answer, over and over again, accusations that we’re running some sort of fiction archive equivalent of a pedophilia ring. Whether or not you enjoy a certain sexual practice, as authors or as readers, tags are there to alert people who don’t share your tastes to avoid the content. Tags for trigger content, such as Minor1/Minor2, or Rape, are not optional. Your personal take on Minor1 content isn’t going to do a damned thing to help when someone who was abused as a child stumbles across an untagged Minor1 work. That harm is real, even if your character is a cartoon.

This might be a better area if you want to use German: http://www2.adult-fanfiction.org/forum/forum/450-german/

You would need to reactive your account first, since the archive code has been updated since you last logged in. You can find the FAQ on hos to do that here: http://www2.adult-fanfiction.org/forum/topic/29595-existing-users-logging-in-for-the-1st-time-in-the-new-system/

Passwords are stored in a part of the database with strictly limited access. I don’t have access to that information. I also can’t change your email address, as I said earlier. I’ve notified my tech admin about that issue, but have not heard back yet. I’m going to assume you no longer have access to that old email address?

We do not permit any mention of Patreon accounts, or allow authors to solicit Patreon contributions on AFF. Fan fiction exists in a grey area of the Fair Use provisions of copyright law, and one of the requirements is that the author makes no money from material copyrighted by someone else. Should the owner of the copyright choose to do so, the author could be sued for monetary damages, and the site would be required to at the very least remove the author and all works, or could be served with a cease and desist order preventing ANY fan fiction involving that copyrighted material entirely, or could be sued along with the author for copyright violation. You can read the relevant discussion of fair use here: http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter9/9-a.html So, while we all want to support authors, we cannot allow any Patreon or other funding sites to be mentioned here, or for authors to offer to write fan fiction for commissions.

Can you give me a link to the story or stories in question? It would help if I could see them, since we did make changes to the archive code to make it mobile friendly. It might be an issue that also repeats on other devices, in which case I’d have more to show our coder. Thanks!

I don’t know your password. I can’t see your password. What I can do is send you a password reset link, but it will expire in about 30 minutes, so unless you get to it quickly, it’s not going to work, and I have to send it to the email address we have on record.

If anything, it would be the Hentai Foundry member who would have either posted there under another name, which is not likely looking at both profiles, or it was the HF member who plagiarized the AFF member. The AFF member posted the story in 2011, whereas the HF member did not post it until 2013. We always appreciate vigilant readers. However, this does not appear to be an instance of an AFF member committing plagiarism. I will, however, reach out to our member and alert them to the post on HF, should our member wish to pursue it with HF.

I am unable to update your email address. The address of record is laurathomas086@gmail.com. Please use that to log in, and you should then be able to change the email address yourself in the control panel.

Just as a reminder, any exchange of money for the writing of fan fiction is illegal. This seems to bear repeating, but AFF will not permit any works of fan fiction that have been written for compensation to be posted on our site. Anyone posting work that has been written for compensation can face removal of the story at the very least, and their account if we deem it necessary to keep our site in compliance with legal restrictions on the fair use of copyrighted materials.

There is no update that affects your ability to log on to the archive, although you DO need to use the email address that’s linked to your archive profile, and that address is NOT what you have listed above. (I won’t post an email address to an open forum, where any passing spambot could see it.)

The story on AFF was posted here over 2 years earlier than the story posted to Hentai Foundry. As much as I dislike plagiarism in any form, I can’t see any reason to suspect that the AFF member has done anything improper.

I can’t tell you what your forum email address is because I can’t find a forum profile for you, but your archive mail address is a gmail account, although not the same one you’ve indicated above.

Our coder is looking into the problem. For the moment, it seems to be gmail registrations that aren’t getting the activation emails. We’re really sorry about the hiccup, because usually it’s gamil accounts that have no problems, and Microsoft email clients that have issues. I’m thoroughly confused myself. And yes, if there’s no activated archive account, the forum registration is going to fail as well.

When we upgraded the archive to PHP 7, it might have reset the notifications. Try turning them off, saving that choice, and then turning them on again via your Control Panel. That should reset the function, but if it doesn’t let us know and I’ll pass it along as a bug report.