BronxWench

Hm. I can’t reset mine, either. Let’s hope either @DemonGoddess or @manta2g have a solution for that, since they have the level of database access required to see why that function isn’t working as intended. (I’m not a coder, so I can’t poke at it myself.)

The account and story have been deleted. Take care, and all the best!

Just to confirm, is this the account? http://members.adult-fanfiction.org/profile.php?no=11549 You have one story posted under the account. Once the account is deleted, that story will be gone for good, so please let me know if you need to copy that story first.

Only original work can be copyrighted, of course. Fan fiction, due to the very nature of the beast, is not something you can copyright since the copyright belongs to the actual owner of the fandom for which you’ve written. I recall reading somewhere (and buggered if I can remember where) that the copyright on an original work is not necessarily preserved simply by mailing yourself a copy of the work in question, even if you never open the postmarked envelope. As @Desiderius Price points out, filing for copyright registration for an original work is actually quite inexpensive.

The review button isn’t broken, but for some reason, most readers seem reluctant to review. We’ve never had anything comparable to the kudos you find on other archives, although we do have the dragon prints, which is the hit counter, showing how many times your story was accessed. We did away with the old ratings of 1-5 +’s because we found it was being abused. Readers were targeting stories that didn’t have their OTP, or because the story was getting more hits than a friend’s story, or because the author’s posting of a story or update bumped them off the “front” page. We’re all still pretty wary after that, and I doubt we’ll have anything like kudos or likes or thumbs-up anytime soon in the archive. As far as whether or not to keep posting, I have some stories with no reviews. I have others that garner reviews. After an unfortunate incident which resulted in all my stories being deleted, I’m slowly editing and reposting, but all the previous reviews are gone. So… I post anyway because I’m not writing just to squirrel it away on my hard drive. Maybe people are reading, and not reviewing. That’s fine. When I read for pleasure (and not as part of my moderator duties), I try to review because I know I like getting a comment, or even some good constructive criticism. (The key word is constructive here… just saying.) But that’s my choice, to post anyway, even if no one drops a line to comment.

I’m shaking my fist at George R R Martin.

@Desiderius Price was actually correct. It’s the tag for Work In Progress, i.e, a story which is not yet complete. We do have readers who won’t read an unfinished story, and they do appreciate the tag, although it’s not one the moderation staff will insist appear in the story tags. Like the “COMPLETE” tag, we view it as a discretionary tag.

AFF link: To revel with a Veela by Baron

Any archive profiles have been removed.

For the time being, you can put the story in Comics > Misc > General, with a notation in brackets such as [Webcomics – Falling Upright] so we know where to move the story once the category is created.

If you can tell me your pen name, I can check for you. Even better, you could email us at tos_team@adult-fanfiction.org and let me know which email addresses you think might be linked to your account. (I don’t recommend posting email addresses on a public forum, because spambots love finding those.)

Okay, who spilled to @GeorgeGlass about the thirteenth Zodiac sign???

The account is deleted. All the best, and stay safe!

Okay, I’ve located the account: http://members.adult-fanfiction.org/profile.php?no=1296878249 If that’s the one, I can delete it for you.

I’m not finding any accounts associated with either email address you’ve provided, nor can I find an account for any variation of the pen name Redhot that is old enough to match. Do you have a link to the account?

And now it looks like you’re registered. Glad it was cleared up, and welcome!

I’m seeing two registrations pending, from two slightly different email accounts. That could be creating some confusion in the system. Please let me know which email address is correct: the one with numbers or the one without. I can delete the other account for you. Once that’s done, you can try requesting a resend: http://members.adult-fanfiction.org/rsa.php

Hi, I’ve deleted the account and all associated stories for you. All the best, and stay safe!

Miraculous Ladybug is here: http://cartoon.adult-fanfiction.org/index.php?cat=2045 Noir is here: http://anime.adult-fanfiction.org/index.php?cat=1678

Exactly, @Thundercloud. We always try to remind members not to post email addresses or other personal information publicly, either on archive bios or here on the forum. Additionally, it’s just good sense to either use a password manager, or to change your passwords regularly. I also take the precaution of paying for better antivirus and malware protection, rather than rely on what comes with the computer, especially after Microsoft’s recent data breach. Ultimately, I see it as my responsibility to safeguard my computer and my data, because the big players, Google/Chrome included, don’t really care about me. Hopefully, DG will have time soon to look into the matter, if her RL work schedule ever lightens up.

I’m going to quote our Tech Administrator @DemonGoddess on the subject of the site’s SSL, back in April 2018: “We actually have a certificate, which I can get to work for about ten minutes, and then it doesn’t again. I have Nexcess looking at that for me, again. We don’t actually process any financial stuff through the site, so unless you’re putting your private information out there for all to see, you’re safe. Personal information asked for at registration, for example, is HIDDEN and only seen by mods and admins, and not searchable. We set it up that way, so that it isn’t. What gets around that, just like anywhere else, is where people will put personal information in the public profiles.” I’ve been a staff member for over ten years, and I’m very security conscious when it comes to being online. I can tell you that I have been getting the same “Not secure” label from Chrome, and while many other sites have sent Malwarebytes Premium into absolute tizzies, I have never once gotten a malware warning for AFF.

The author was someonenotme, and all stories were taken down by the author pursuant to the explanation on the profile. I will ask that anyone reading this please respect the author’s decision, and not pass around copies of any stories.

You might want to try Google for a search on the pen name. However, it is the policy at AFF not to allow links to sites hosting content not posted by the original author, so please, no Wayback Archive links, or links to someone’s personal saved files. We respect the wishes of our members, present and former, with respect to content they created, and ask that anyone using our site exercise the same constraint.

Link: In the Darkness in Which We Are Made by corvusdraconis

All yours, @JayDee Have fun playing with the been around since 2013 under far too many names to list (whoops) “new” meat.