Desiderius Price

🧨 (we need a mushroom-cloud emoji...) My way is different because… well, I have a tendency to turn problems into software projects as well. That’s why I write my stories as text files, annotating with a simple format what’s what (ie styles, version). When I want to post, I run the software, telling it what which version I want (clean vs explicit for my potter story), which archive I’m posting to (FFN, AO3, or AFF), and it’ll generate HTML files suitable for posting. Being a programming geek, I use a “makefile” to remember the command line options to be lazy/consistent. Bit more complex than most, but I do like the results.

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I’d like to get more proactive, but I don’t have diplomatic immunity.

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Too late, I’ve already lost my mind 🤣

Had this issue when I decided to go and rework my potter story. First task, collecting them all, then I started purging the obvious duplicates. But hey, at least I didn’t lose much. (The *first* draft was, unfortunately, mostly lost—shame because that was the smuttiest too.)

Hang ‘em by their entrails!

Second @WillowDarkling to not rely on AFF or any other archive to retain your stories w/o incident. Keep in mind most archives, even google drive/dropbox/onedrive retain the right to *DELETE* your postings/files in their terms of service. OTOH, I’ll make copies of copies and I’m stuck wondering “which one of these is current?”

My guess is those reviews are lost to the ether, as the database is in read-only mode. IF my suggestion’s easy/fast to implement, it’s to put a spanner into the works, so to speak, do basically disable the review.php script so the user gets a 403/404 error instead of being led into thinking their hard crafted review actually made it to the author. (Of course, that’ll change this tech support topic to “why is reviewing busted”?) If it helps, @GeorgeGlass I’ll lie and claim that it was a beautiful and glorious review…. or that it was a flame and this empty review is better

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Like everybody else, I’m frustrated as heck by the arrogance/entitlement of the perpetrator, cause it’s infringing on OUR server and curtailing OUR ability to speak/publish in a place that’ll tolerate our eccentricities. </end-rant>

Suggest reducing the problem… quarter the perpetrator, skip the hanging part, go straight to quartering them. Slow blade and bleach, plenty of bleach for cleaning up. Trouble is, the legal paperwork.

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They say debut novels for publishing should be 100k or less… that’s a short story! I had a similar issue with wanting to write the smut while also wanting to have a plot-centric story when I returned to my potter story. I’ve ended up making two versions… one I consider “explicit” and the other “cleaner”, so think Unrated vs R MPAA movie ratings. This has been a success IMO, because I’ve also written a bit of software that lets me write the two versions in the same file, where I annotate what’s “clean” and what’s “explicit” – it filters it out and I post the results. Thus certain descriptions, scenes, themes, and characters (& implications) are in that explicit side only. Of course, this has now resulted in the explicit side being about three times the size of the clean…

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