BronxWench

Hi, It’s actually fine to mention updates here, or on your Review Reply thread, or even in both places. Some readers will check the review reply thread, and others might look here, but if they’re registered forum users, they can follow either thread. That way, they get an email notification whenever you post. So it comes down to what you prefer to do.

A very interesting survey! I enjoyed completing it.

I’ve moved this to a more appropriate area of the forum, since the tech support threads are really only for AFF-related tech support.

I’d go with the mostly-set-in fandom myself, to be honest. The Misc>Crossover category is mostly for stories which don’t have a proper category to begin with, and when a crossover is set in one of those, well, the archive dragons get peevish. And you know, peevish dragons and all that…

I think you might find this FAQ helpful.

I’m not seeing any record of staff action in deleting the stories, although it was noted back in 2010 that his stories were reposts at that time. It’s quite possible the author took them down again and hasn’t reposted them again.

I’ve resent the email to the new email address.

The issue with the story is that it’s missing the required story content tags. We ask that you properly tag stories so readers aren’t caught unawares by something they prefer not to read about. You should have received an email advising you of which tags were missing. If you didn’t see it, check your Junk or Spam folder. If it’s not there either, let me know and I’ll resend it.

Is this a challenge, or a story search request?

Please refrain from asking for copies of stories which have been removed from the site and/or the Internet.

You might want to ask on that site, rather than here, since all we ever had was the one dodgy link Melrick removed, and we’re not going to be happy about more dodgy links being posted here. We try to keep our forums free from that sort of thing.

Either DemonGoddess061 or I will let you know when the accounts have been merged. We’re happy to help!

Not a problem at all. I’ll write this up for my tech admin, and we’ll get them merged, with the new account as the surviving account, and all the stories and associated data merged.

Hi, I think I have both your accounts: Poem (original) Poem (new) The email accounts are different, so I need to ask which account you want as the surviving account. We can then merge them for you, so all the data from the original account will remain intact.

MistressMalfoy has only a few stories here. That is sadly not one of them.

I believe this thread is applicable.

The author is PervertedHamster, who seems to have removed the story. There had been a correction requested by staff back in January of this year, but the story was properly corrected, and I see no further staff actions with respect to the story.

We’re sorry to see you go, but we hope your readers will continue to enjoy your stories on your blog, and elsewhere! We’re still happy to have you come and read stories here, review your favorite authors, and chat with us on the forums.

Jeff, I’ve emailed you back, and let’s see if we can fix this now.

Honestly, I get angry when friends of mine are subjected to cyber-abuse. I’m much more likely to pursue options to see them blocked or banned entirely in that circumstance. For myself, I’m much more prone to snubbing the trivial wretches.

As I said, it’s not always helpful advice, because it’s hard to let go of the negativity in those words. But at the end of the day, the person leveling those harsh words at you doesn’t know you. They are simply lashing out in a tantrum, and the why of it is largely not relevant. What is relevant is not giving them the power over you that they seek.

I think we’ve all been on the end of advice which makes us feel uncertain about our work, and often ourselves. As writers, we invest a great deal of ourselves in what we write, and while most of us understand we’re not perfect, we’d rather not be berated or scoffed at in the guise of helpful advice. I keep in mind the relative anonymity of the Internet, and the way it can bring out the baser sides of people who are otherwise probably quite decent. It’s astonishingly easy to level invective at someone you will never meet face to face, someone whose reality is still abstract at best. I reverse that for myself, and remind myself that this person doesn’t know me, or my life, and if they are projecting something from their own life onto me, it’s not something I need to own. I am responsible at the end of the day for the people around me, who I love, and who make my life worth living. The words leveled at me or at my work across the ether of the electronic universe are only as valid as I allow them to be. If they contain sincere and constructive criticism, I’ll embrace them. I might not incorporate all of the critique, but I will welcome it in the spirit of wanting to grow as a writer. If they are mean-spirited, and designed to make me doubt myself, I’m sufficiently thick-skinned enough to let them slide past. That’s not always a helpful bit of advice, since words have a great deal of power to wound. We’re writers, after all, and we understand that. But words leveled at me which are designed to hurt my confidence rarely have that effect if they come from a relative stranger. I just write that person off as trivial, and move on.