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For those of you wish to see everyone’s status updates but is unsure how to do that with this new software version, I’ve created a new FAQ here to show you how to do that.

With the previous versions of the forum software, you were able to see everyone’s status updates quite easily, but now with the new version, they’ve done a fine job of burying this information. Yes, I know it was better the way it was. No, I don’t know why they thought this was an improvement. No, we can’t go back to the previous version. And with that out of the way, I’m here to tell you how you can still see everyone’s status updates. The first step is to mouse over the “Activity” tab up the top. Click “My Activity Streams” just below it. A drop-down menu will appear. Go down to the list until you see “Create New Stream”. Click that. On the page that loads next, enter a name where it says “Stream Title”. My recommendation would be “Status Updates” but you can name it whatever you wish. Just make sure you understand what it is. Take a look at the picture below to see what options you need to select. The critical one is the “Content Types” options. Make sure you tick the “Status Updates” option. Once that’s done, click the “Save Changes” button. From here on, when you want to view everyone’s status updates, mouse over the “Activity” tab up the top, click “My Activity Streams”, go down until you see “Custom Streams”. Below that will be “Status Updates” or whatever you named it. And there you have it!

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I’d like to offer paid commission for stories here. Is that allowed? No. That’s the short answer. And now a more detailed answered for those of you who don’t have the attention span of a hyperactive 2 year old. Firstly, let’s be clear what we mean by ‘paid commission’. Basically, you want someone to pay you money to write a certain kind of story. The commissioner might have the exact details in mind, or they might only supply you with the very basics and leave the rest up to you. We don’t allow these. There’s an extremely good reason why we don’t allow paid commission on fan fiction: It’s illegal! Always has been, always will be. You can’t profit from someone else’s copy-written works; that’s just simple legal facts 101. Doing so could land you in a lot of trouble for doing it in the first place, and us for hosting it. But what about commission on original works? The answer is still no, I’m afraid. There’s no law against that, it’s true, but it’s still against our Terms of Service. Adult Fan Fiction isn’t an indie publishing house; it’s nothing more than a story archive. Work written on paid commission becomes the property of the person for whom it was written. Given that you accepted payment, our Terms of Service would prohibit your posting that work under your account. Similarly, the person who commissioned the work could not post it, because it is not their work, any more than a novel I purchased for my Kindle would be mine for the purposes of posting it online. We just don’t want to go down that particular road. Everything here is free and we want to keep it that way. There are other story archive sites out there that couldn’t care less about this, so if this is important to you then I’d recommend trying one of them (and crossing your fingers, if you’re offering commission on fan fiction). But for us, it’s not allowed and will be shut down the moment we see anyone advertising paid commission services.

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35772 We don’t have an emoticon for how the other end goes, sorry.