manta2g

I wouldn't think so, they'd be daft if they did. As for expiriences, My parents and grand parents never really cencored anything, i saw heavy metal when I was eight, and despite all the violence, gore, sex, nudity and bad language the only thing that came of it was a love for animation and understanding that it was all like the stuff on saturday morning cartoons. for thing I wanted to see but the theater wouldn't let mom take me in she userally gave me the book to read wich tended to be even more graphic, side effect from that? nothing except a love of books. Censorship is bunk, parents should be honest with thier kids and not talk down, The only thing that ever bugged me about my parents was there was no pint in doing the rellious teen things because everytime I tryed my mom would insist on helping me . But that's just my two cents.

As a customer I try to avoid doing theese things, as a retail clerk there isn't a day that gose by without 5 out of the 7 happening, it's a really bad day when they all happen more then once. So What I am wondering is why do they do it? What makes people think that they can get away with such behavior? I'd love other peoples insite on this. Manta2g

Curently all the queries for the curent archive script are in php2 and 3 not to mention most of the source code, we are in progress of rewriting it, Though because of the size of the archives reducing the character limit even with the new code would truly overload the database. You may be a programmer but aparetly you need tp re-read the instructions and get some database expirience.

*sighs* I'm not ashamed of what I said, it was true, demanding those ofc catergories back any sooner then we can accomodate is unreasonable. I do have more important things to do, such as the reprogramming that can add an extra level of sub categories more then what we curently can. Demongoddess has been a world of help by doing the reorganizing of the categories and database cleanup because it's setting it all up to make the coding changes go smoother. I'm a harsh person, but i've seen too much of whiners getting thier way and everyone suffering for it. the 2003 crash was the worst, but we had also had a 2005 and 2006 crash, wich prompted the subdivide, politics for the site happened mid 2006 and most of 2007 and what should had been done as stage two was never done, and when I came back in september, we were headed even with subdivide a 2007 crash. We manage to stabilize it enough to prevent the crash. So what you see now is a well planned stage 2, clean up and reorganizing, stage 3 is the first round of reprograming, and stage 4 is the final rework, after stage 3 or 4 deeper subcatlevels will be available. Till then any demands will be viewed as unreasonable. Manta2g

1) if you don't like it we can always swap to the dewy decimal system for the archive. 2) we have been trying to balance the best of both sides to keep the archive from crashing, I'm sure you don't want to get your extra cats and then have the database implode... right? 3) As both a programmer and a bookworm I'm sure I'm not being unreasonable, unreasonable would be getting rid of the harry potter zone entierly. Now if you do not mind, there are more important things that need doing, and apeasing unreasonable demands is not one of them. Manta2g

*snickers to no end* Even if it was petitioned I doupt AFF would ever remove the bible section, after all the word bible means collection of books. It has every right to be in the books zone. As for being christianity being forced on people.... All i can say is i'm acosted by moremen and johova's witnesses at least 3 -4 times a week on my way to my day job (that dose not include the menonites, algicains, protestants(calvinist/lutherin/orangemen/ect), that give me no end of grief at work). On the flip side catholics arent too bad, they leave me alone, never give me holier then though attitude. My only annoyance with hindu's an islamics is thier tendancy to not read the signs, and attempts to haggle. My family is more zen buddist, and i pratice a bit of shinto. Principle of energy: it never ceases to be, simply changes form, humans produce -5 to +5 volts of extra energy a second, more when active. come to your own conclusions if you want, but it is all i have to say of the exsistance of souls and the posility to life after death. live your life to the fullest, after all no one gets out of living alive

*ponders* I have to agree, fixing problems in ones own backyard shlould go before fixing someone elses in another country. The major cause of people being homeless up here iloosing thier job and not being able to pay the bills, the bugger of it is that in order to get a jnou need a valid address. not there are places that will provide room and board (and a valid address) as long as you are willing to look for a job to support ones self. Just not many people know of those places. And it's not like there is a lack of jobs, there never seems to be enough people to fill them. The problem up here is that we are under populated, a good 300,000 or more short of people to actually hit echonomic stability. Either way, i agree with rant 1. No gender is better then the other, people who do not listen come from every walk of life. though the worst has to be christian church ladies (please dont take this the wrong way). Everyday on my way to my day job, i an acost y a johova's witness (not sure on the spelling) wanting to tell me about god on the city streets, no matter how many times I tell them to leave me alone, it's the same thing the next day. tehn there are the church ladies that come into mwork looking for fabic to recover thier 'very special book' ahem bible and they expect to be aed on hand and foot, and if they have chosen a fabic that actuall wontdthe job and you tell them, the complain to the manager. to add insult to injury they then figure it out later and then complain you sold them faulty stuff. These sorts of people I find the world can do better without. as for rant 3 eat meat, just dony kill them for fun or sport....

Febuary will be seeing two sets of updates for the archive, the first of the two major updates is that members are now able to upload thier own avatars into the archive. 15kb max file size though.

SHHHH!!!!!!!!! Next year means a quarter century, Then i'll really start feeling old. Well there is always the comfort that both of you are older then me.

Luck? Luck has nothing to do with it, when it comes to fixing the mess that is the coding in the archives. It takes a good bit of elbow grease, knowledge of the inner workings, and a good deal of patience. Now I'm not sure how long you have been with AFF but I can definitely say that I've encountered most of the admins from just after Ayla left. In fact I was originally brought on to staff before the 3rd year anniversary when the domain name was recovered form yahoo. There was an administration fiasco just after that and another owner took charge and the committee thing began, as well as the original hard coder left, so core coding was left on my plate. The forums are finally being used for what I had intended them for (yes I was the person who originally installed the forums.) The subdivide was my own call as a coder to help stabilize the site since the crashes were caused by a database too large to run stably. I know it caused downtime, though what had extended it was another administration change, and a few admins that didn't like how things were going and I was forced to leave the administration though certain technical things off the server were still in my care. The admin who took over from me was green at best when it came to hard code (I know this because when she was first brought on she needed help in editing her own sites css, and configing of php files). So as I have been going though the hard code I am finding a lot of bad code syntax that had been causing load problems or some features not working like they should. Since none of these things were commented they take a while to find but when we do we fix them, though not always publicly visible. As things stand, considering from when Jaxxy first became owner till the standoff back in September, Jaxxy became owner with the committees from the prior still around and they did not pay much heed to the owners authority, in fact had taken as much as the could away. The September fiasco was decided on more then he said she said, since there are two main items that pinpoints ownership and it can't be changed because some one thinks they should be owner and that is the paperwork (domain registration & Hosting account info). The server contract was illegally changed from Jaxxy's name since her consent was not given and nexcess did have her full contact information. The other was the domain name registration which was in my own care approved by the owners before Jaxxy had ever took over, and the owner prior to Jaxxy had given consent to have it changed over to her. When my successor had e-mailed me demanding the registration to be handed over to her early September, Which is when I got back in contact with Jaxxy to find out that no such authorization was given, and she checked in with nexcess to find out they had changed the account info without her authorization. As per procedure the domain registration information was forwarded to nexcess and the matter was settled fairly quickly. Though after helping Jaxxy re-secure the site, the committees were dropped, and domain registration transferred into her care without a 3rd party. *looks up at post* it's a bit long but it's from my end.... on a lighter note, I've got two new features coming up in February, a few bug fixes, and in the long run the archive software is being rewritten to serve members better. Manta 2nd Gen. Sorry Jaxxy, I know the September fiasco stresses you out, but I really wanted to give my two cents.

*snickers* It may be a nightmare, but its better then in the past when it was one person coding and a comittee who they had to get things spoved before they could do it. now there is no comittee and 3 good coders. Big improvement.

Naughty Admins Tentivly Integrating Various Ideal Toy Yoyo's H Y D R O P H O B I A

The only written content banned by the site for written fiction regarding explicit acts with children, is in celeberty fiction since it is in regards to a real person / people.

I am amused by this thread. I am dreading rewriting the archive back bone code. I am look forward to the holidays. I am not looking forward to inventory I am going to go to bed now.

To quote my own mother, " Be it acident or illness, if they have to put me on life support indefinately to keep me alive, pull the plug or I'll come back and haunt you." I think it's a matter settled amoung family, bit I have to agree with my mother, if the only way to be kept alive is bt life support machines and no chance of living wihtout them, it's really no way to live and best just to let nature take it's course. It's different if it's an emegency matter and the life support is only temperary in order to do repairs/segery to the body so it can function on it's own again once healed up. Just my two cents. It wouldn't surprise me though that if time and nature could be charged with murder for people dying, they would be.

I for one welcome chirtmas music since the rest of the year my boos had bad opera on and it drives me batty. other then that the two big holdays that get celebrated in my household is hte lunar new year (also referd to as chinese new years) abd good old July fist, the day all the smooth talking got us independent of the Brits. A little over 100 years as a dominion, the last 25 as a contry (indipendent contry status gained in 1982).

I have to agree with the bad idea bit, server load is pretty heavy as it is, allowing images would push it futher then I think it can go.

*blinks* what are you talking about?

remove the dash from x-men in the archive tag. x-men should be typed as xmen. this should fix your linking problem.

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There was some issues earlier in the month with formatting in originals.... while fixing it an older version of latest was put in so that latest stories would still show... it's all fixed now. you can fo to next page and previous page.

It was the < pre > tags that were mucking with your formatting.