BronxWench

I did forward your email to TheChemist, and if I get a response, I’ll post it here for you, with emails blanked out to keep the spambots at bay.

If the name is ambiguous, using the character’s name is also a way around things.

I started playing D&D in college, when there were no editions. We “borrowed” probability dice from the math department, and we had legal pads and pencils. There was no Internet, no pdfs of rulebooks, nothing. I swear the DM was making it up as he went along, but it was insanely fun, and as a bonus, if you died, you could wander down the hall in the student center and see if the vets had any wine.

I still get mentally stuck back in Edition 3.5 myself. Elderspawn plays regularly and I’m just as lost with what Wizards of the Coast has done to my beloved Seldarine...

We don’t give out email addresses of our members, unless of course the member has made the email public on their profile. What we can do is forward an email from you to us. You can reach us at tos_team@adult-fanfiction.org, and we can forward that email to TheChemist in hopes that you’ll get a response.

Oh, D&D definitely wouldn’t need smartphones, I agree. A complete waste of time for the gnomes who’d have designed them, and the followers of Oghma and Shaundakul who would design many of the apps for the devices. Nope. Wizards are faster and much more efficient. (Then again, in the webcomic Rusty & Co., someone did have a smartphone. It used Andruid...)

As far as I can determine, the stories were removed by the author. I can find no record of any staff action taken recently which would account for stories being removed or hidden.

That’s possible… phones could be a form of communications portal… I like it!

I can’t remember if Diablo has the equivalent of the D&D mephits—wee demons that use various elemental attacks like fire, acid, electricity… I know Diablo 3 has those desert serpents that possess an electrical attack. Maybe they could be harvested to recharge things? Phones are just damned puzzling, though. I can’t really thing of an equivalent method of long-distance communication that works in a Diablo-like setting.

If we believe the plagiarism was a deliberate act of theft, we would delete the account entirely and ban the user. We take it quite seriously here, since it is theft of intellectual property, and illegal. In this case, I do believe there was a genuine confusion as to the definition of what constitutes a work in the public domain, which is why I’m not calling for account deletion and a ban. The member profile has been edited by me to remove any mention of sending in stories to be posted here on AFF. Other sites may allow members to post work written by other people, but we do not, as we clearly state in our Terms of Service. While we do allow stories based on works in the public domain, I rely on the standards discussed more in depth here to determine whether or not a work is indeed in that category.

Exactly. I’ll need to fix that as well, but not today!

Honestly, I’ve never understood why people think it’s okay to post someone else’s work to begin with, whether or not they thought it was free to use. I mean, the point of writing is to actually write something.

The plagiarized story and the misplaced story are gone. The Non-Fic tag has been removed from the first story since it’s placed in a fiction category.

Dear gods. Those are gone as well.

I’ve removed the stories listed above. If you find any more, please post them and I’ll be happy to remove them as well.

Both have been moved, and thank you!

The story, An Unwilling Submissive, along with all others by someonenotme was removed from the Internet.

That’s a good question. In this case, it was mostly a misunderstanding of what it means for a work to be in the public domain. There are a few criteria which need to be met, and these stories didn’t even come close to being in the public domain. With that in mind, I wouldn’t recommend the Hall of Shame just yet. But in cases where someone is deliberately stealing work and passing it off as their very own, I still recommend the HoS. It’s up to DemonGoddess, though, to enroll them.

Any stories which can be verified as having been taken from another author or which are not in compliance with our Terms of Service have been removed.

The links are not always reliable, but I’ve been able to parse out most of them. I have looking into this.

Thank you! I am always happy to help our members, really. That’s the best part of this job, in my opinion.

We do not give out contact information for our authors, but if you send an email to me at tos_team@adult-fanfiction.org, mentioning in the subject or body that you are trying to reach out to this author, I can forward the email to them. This way, they would have your contact information to reply directly, and spambots won’t read anything off this page.

If this is about a story you are reading, the author has used repeating characters, which cause text to fail to wrap around to the screen’s size frame. The author would need to remove those repeating characters (a letter or symbol to denote a break in the story is usually the culprit) to stop the text overflow. If you’re the author, open the chapter with the issue, and look for any instance of a repeated character, punctuation, or other symbol. Remove it and use (perhaps) the Rich Text Editor’s horizontal rule option to mark the break between scenes.

You can always edit the content of those fields from your Control Panel. Go to the subdomain, and you’ll see your story listed. Next to the title should be a grey click button that reads “Edit Story Info” which will take you to a new page with all the fields you filled in when posting the story. The content should be shown for each field within the field box, so you should be able to find what needs editing. Once you’ve made the changes you need to make, at the very bottom is another click button reading “Edit Story.” Click that to save your changes.