Melrick

Welcome all!

The first thing you should know is that this forum is for promoting your own story that you’ve uploaded to the AFF archive only. That is, no stories that you’ve uploaded to other websites not connected to AdultFanFiction.

With that established, the first thing you need to do is to click on the ‘Start New Topic’ button. In the ‘Topic Title’ area, the simplest thing to put is just the name of your story.

The main body of your post could begin with a brief intro, telling people you’ve posted a new story, or a brand new chapter of your story. That isn’t required, but the following information is:

Author:
Title:
Summary:
Feedback:
Fandom:
Pairing:
Warnings:
Solo story or chaptered story:
URL:
Review Reply thread:

An example of what it should look like is below:

Author: Melrick
Title: An Interesting Story
Summary: A really interesting thing happens, and then something else even more interesting happens! (Here you can write as detailed a blurb as you want to. A catchy summary to entice the reader.) 
Feedback: Feedback and constructive criticism much appreciated.
Fandom: Original
Pairing: N/A
Warnings: M/F, Oral, Anal
Solo story or chaptered story: Solo story
URL: http://original.adul...ion.net/FakeURL
Review Reply thread: Link to review reply thread in the appropriate forum, if and when you make one.

You could, if you like, finish your post by thanking people for reading, or that you hope they enjoy it. And you really should make sure that your spelling and grammar is good, otherwise it won’t exactly leave a good impression about your writing skills!

And that’s all there is to it!

How do I edit my story info?
Do you want to rewrite a story summary? Fix up the disclaimer? Perhaps add some more content tags? There's an easy way to do it. Just follow these steps:
Ensure you're logged in to the archive.  Then click the three bars at the upper left corner of the home page.  A drop-down menu will appear.  Click the link for ARCHIVES.  Another drop-down menu will appear.  
Find the subdomain that contains your story and click on the green icon to the right of the subdomain name.  For example, if your story is a Harry Potter story then find “Harry Potter Story Manager” and click on that green icon.
A new screen will load showing you all the stories you've uploaded to that category. Find the story that you wish to edit.
 
You'll see a few buttons for each story, including one that says “Edit Story Info”. Click on that button. From there, you'll be able to edit all the info you wish. When you're done, click the “Edit Story” button down the bottom and you're done! NOTE: Let's say you upload a story to the "Original" category, and placed it in the "Erotica > General" subdomain, but as the story has progressed, you realise that it's actually more of a horror, then you can also change the subdomain for your story here. Where it says "Category", click on the drop-down box and select the most appropriate subdomain for your story. Remember, though, if you uploaded your story into the incorrect category (for example, a Harry Potter story into the Original category) then you'll need to contact an admin to get that sorted out; you can't change that yourself.

Thanks for reporting.  The archive crew will get onto it as soon as they can.

Thanks for reporting.  The archive crew will get onto it as soon as they can.

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.

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.

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.

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.

15 September 2016
With much help from Nexcess, things are now resolved.  Apparently, someone was attempting either a DDoS or a hack, neither of which was ultimately successful.  Nexcess will be monitoring for unusual activity, and manta2g is adding further security layers to the code.
I'm 90% complete with data restore in the comics subdomain.
For stories where the chapters didn't quite convert right (it's a long and involved process as to why, so I'll not bore you), you'll see black diamonds with question marks in them instead of punctuation.  To temporarily fix this, set the encoding in your browser to Windows-1252.  This will make the punctuation display.  We are manually going through and fixing all these chapters, so that the conversion to utf8 is finally completed.

Hi all!

Just letting you know we're getting a new dedicated server, so we can upgrade the net OS, and the scripting languages. In order to update the scripting languages, the net OS has to be upgraded as well. This means we had to have a new server built to install the new OS to.



Keep an eye on the site news, and our FB, Twitter, and Tumblr for when this is complete.

The data has been migrated as of this morning, so please refrain from posting until the new server is made live later tonight.

I'm going to defend Bronx here, because what she did was in no way, shape or form 'mean'. What she did was to correct someone on their incorrect usage of a word. If more people are using that word incorrectly then that's an even better reason to correct them, because that definition is always going to be incorrect. And now this topic is closed since it's gone way off course.

33899 (ABBA! I like ABBA lol)

Nice one, good idea.

I now do the "find paragraph marks and replace them with manual line breaks" thing so often that I decided to make a macro for it. In case any folks here would like to have it, here's the code:
Sub ParaToLineBr()
'
' ParaToLineBr Macro
'
'
Selection.Find.ClearFormatting
Selection.Find.Replacement.ClearFormatting
With Selection.Find
.Text = "^p"
.Replacement.Text = "^l"
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
.Format = False
.MatchCase = False
.MatchWholeWord = False
.MatchWildcards = False
.MatchSoundsLike = False
.MatchAllWordForms = False
End With
Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
End Sub
And here's a webpage with instructions for installing macros: http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

I will ask that users not make reference to archival services which may host stories without the author's approval or consent. The author holds the ultimate decision regarding the story in question, and we will not aid and abet in dissemination outside the author's wishes.

It's a splendid rant, but unless you give me something more to go on, I can't tell you why a particular story was deleted.
I will tell you that we wrote our Terms of Service in plain English, rather than in the legal gibberish most sites use. Go read there Terms of Service, and then read ours. We're not trying to be obtuse about what we require. We also try to make our review board warnings and email warnings very clear. We want people to understand HOW to fix an issue, because you're right about one thing. We're a fiction archive and we want to host fiction.
But we don't censor here. I've defended the right of authors to post things that I personally find utterly repugnant, as long as that story abides by the site's rules. I've had to review stories during my weekly sweeps that are so poorly written as to make my brain ache, but those stories remain on the site as long as they abide by the site's rules.
Do you see the common theme here? It's not about what I like, or what any moderator likes. It's about following the rules. If you're having an issue with following rules, then you are going to have a very unhappy life, because being an adult means following rules.
Now, if you;re ready to be an adult, please let me know what story is deleted, and we'll act like adults and discuss it rationally.

As to story deletions, the only one who does that is actually ME. I only delete if the story has been hidden for over 30 days, and author refuses to comply with the site rules. Note that word again. RULES. Specifically, I delete stories for the following reasons:
The author is under age The author is posting someone else's work. You know, plagiarism The author refuses to comply with the Terms of Service, and/or the Content Guidelines (which are a subset of the ToS, and this is clearly stated as well). When you decide to grow up and act like an adult on an adult site, then sure, we can discuss things. Yet, you will still find that this site has rules which are enforced. This site is MODERATED. By the way, that is also clearly stated.

So, original posting numbnut, just which stories are being deleted willy nilly for no good reason? I can 100% guarantee you that it would be NONE. We delete stories if the person that posted them are under age. Why do we do that? Because we can go to JAIL. Yes, actual jail, with bars. And yes, it has happened before elsewhere. Stories can also be hidden from public if a person fails to abide by our ToS, but are unhidden when they comply, again only to protect ourselves, as well as YOU. Stories AREN'T deleted simply because someone doesn't like it. Don't believe it? I'm sure people could guide you to some stories that many would find utterly repulsive, but they're still there.
But as others have pointed out, if you don't like our rules - the rules of a site totally free for you to use, but expensive for us to run - then you can kindly fuck off and not come back.

So, original posting numbnut, just which stories are being deleted willy nilly for no good reason? I can 100% guarantee you that it would be NONE. We delete stories if the person that posted them are under age. Why do we do that? Because we can go to JAIL. Yes, actual jail, with bars. And yes, it has happened before elsewhere. Stories can also be hidden from public if a person fails to abide by our ToS, but are unhidden when they comply, again only to protect ourselves, as well as YOU. Stories AREN'T deleted simply because someone doesn't like it. Don't believe it? I'm sure people could guide you to some stories that many would find utterly repulsive, but they're still there.
But as others have pointed out, if you don't like our rules - the rules of a site totally free for you to use, but expensive for us to run - then you can kindly fuck off and not come back.

So, original posting numbnut, just which stories are being deleted willy nilly for no good reason? I can 100% guarantee you that it would be NONE. We delete stories if the person that posted them are under age. Why do we do that? Because we can go to JAIL. Yes, actual jail, with bars. And yes, it has happened before elsewhere. Stories can also be hidden from public if a person fails to abide by our ToS, but are unhidden when they comply, again only to protect ourselves, as well as YOU. Stories AREN'T deleted simply because someone doesn't like it. Don't believe it? I'm sure people could guide you to some stories that many would find utterly repulsive, but they're still there.
But as others have pointed out, if you don't like our rules - the rules of a site totally free for you to use, but expensive for us to run - then you can kindly fuck off and not come back.

Wonderful author, and a wonderful human being. You will be missed.

There's a Fallout and Fallout 3 category already there so I'm thinking DG might consolidate them into one Fallout Series category instead, like we do with other series.

No, no, it's not a waste of time at all! Actually, we do get a great deal of help from our members, which since we're a small staff, we appreciate enormously. So please, never think that you can't post something up, or ask about anything. Personally, I have no trouble checking comething out or answering questions, because in the long run, it keeps our site running smoothly.