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Prompt: Sweltering Please remember to follow the rules as outlined here: Rules Happy Writing!

Once again, guest who won't identify yourself, do you honestly expect the real people behind the site to have to face LEGAL REPERCUSSIONS because we don't actively pursue and delete underage accounts which DO NOT belong on and 18 and over site?

The problem was this user's age at the time of account creation. He couldn't wait until he was 18 to create an account and post. Yes, he is no longer under age, but I gotta say, you have to be blind not to see the age policy which is plastered all over the site. Users who login underage know full well we look for them, and no matter how long it may take, when they're found, they're deleted. It's unfortunate when they're talented young writers as well, but you know, WAITING until you're old enough to use an 18 or older site means you don't get deleted when caught.

You're going to find where someone has been victimized in this manner before, that they will most likely be AGAINST any such an option. I'm not a writer, so I've not suffered plagiarism of my written stuff; but I have been victimized on the art end. Not pleasant, and yes, still testy about it. Like most artists, I'll share my stuff, if asked. Was I asked? Nope. I'm glad we don't offer that as an option, personally. If it helps even in a small way to prevent someone's work being lifted, it's worth it to NOT allow downloads.

I expect politicians to lie, and lie often. What scares me is that so many will BELIEVE it, facts not withstanding.

Not familiar with it, but the category here is small, only 14 stories.

Erasmuss was deleted from here for being underage

As DrkDreamer is a published author, that wouldn't be a surprise.

Right end of the title bar is s toggle for collapse/not collapse any given section. Depending on the skin is what'll be there. It should be a +/-, as that's default with almost every skin I've ever seen. What skin are you using?

That's be awesome! Of course, most of of 'em are that write for the movies have NO idea how much is involved with the books....

Read and discuss

Yep, AFF started life as a buffy archive

I can get in to more detail here as to why the outright deletions for minors. It is ILLEGAL for them to be on site. It is illegal for their CONTENT to be on site. So, I am obligated to remove ALL of it where a minor is concerned, and the content is posted underage. There are remnants of where the story was left and modified, and author deleted from the archive yonks ago, but as we find those, I delete those too. With plagiarists, I take over the profile most of the time. I don't leave the stories, as they take up space unnecessarily. With the database at 8.3GB and growing daily, I don't leave the stories in these affected profiles.

I don't write, but I can tell you from what I see when I read (as I have time for that, not so much anymore ). Fandom is honestly very important as to how many reviews a story will get. It's a pity, but there it is. The 'verse which started this archive gets less reviews than just about any other subdomain. Why? Because it's old. Same for my OTHER fave to haunt (LotR). Yet, IMO some of the best writers I've had the pleasure to read started in Buffy 'verse or writing elf slash. In fact, a good many of 'em have gone on to be picked up by publishers, and published. So, when I actually DO make the time to read, I make a point of leaving a review. Particularly seeing as what I tend to read doesn't get much in the way of reviews at all, due to being in old fandoms.

yes it will. As the posting author who has control of the story, the other thing is, if someone submits to your round robin without following what you want, you can always delete that chapter

Users can easily collapse the categories themselves, and leave open the ones they want to have to open. There's an icon in the line with the category name which allows you to do so. Click the "-" and the categories you DON'T want to see are collapsed. As to disliking the forum in general, that is your choice. The "Please Read" section encompasses far more than site announcements. The search bar is already in the logo header space. The user bar takes up very little space at the top of the page, above the logo bar. This SINGLE LINE has the messenger, profile, and login/out options Below that, you have the links bar to the archive, other modules of the forum. Directly below THAT is the shoutbox. Yes, it is turned on globally by default. Again, something the user can collapse with a click. As long as you're logged in, the changes a user makes to appearance in that manner stay in place until the user changes them again. It all revolves around whether one wants to use the simple tools in place to affect appearance of the thing for themselves. As to not reading the responses, why would you bother to make a post if not to get response?

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I deleted the last comment, please do not post it again, guest who won't name him or herself. This site is restricted in age to users aged 18 and above. That fact is PLASTERED all over the site. Users who come here underage and create accounts know that when they're caught, we delete them. If we did NOT take that action, nor actively work to eliminate underage users, this site would get in to some serious trouble, as well as the potential for the same for the people behind the site. If you can't understand that, it's fairly plain to me then that you also do not belong here for quite likely the same reason.

I deleted an author who used the pen name "Erasmuss" a while back, was a minor at time of registration.

For real person fiction, our requirements are strict and we have NO wiggle room on 'em. People are their own intellectual property. This is why it's so critically important that it's clearly stated you don't know the person, you make no money from the story, and that it is completely fictional. Even then, if the person in question wanted the stories downed, they'd end up being removed.

Hi there BlackMaiden, As I stated in my other post, the new parts of the software are heavily reliant on CSS, for menuing and etc. As you can't use CSS for database functions, I'm afraid that using it for that won't work...

The new parts of the software are heavily reliant on css

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added. It's also an American comic. That's where it started life

If your story is for the TV series, then that's where the category would go. Let me know whether it's based on the anime, the movie, the tv show, or the manga so I can add it to the proper place.