DemonGoddess

The search function itself is being completely rewritten as well. Currently, it is a simply sql search. It's not capable of properly searching the archive as it sits. We do have the search engine in place to be able to search better, the search function, however, has to be written to USE that engine.

She was deleted for registering when she was SIXTEEN YEARS OLD. She KNEW that was the risk she took at time of registration. All of them do, unless they're stupid, which these kids really are not. It's very clearly stated in the ToS that you must be 18 years of age or older. There are splash pages in each subdomain which clearly state you must EIGHTEEN or older. Not SIXTEEN. The stories were all posted BEFORE her 18th birthday, not after. Because they were posted before she was 18, WE are legally obligated to remove all her data from the site that was posted before then. PERIOD. It's irrelevant what age she is now. What's relevant is what she was at REGISTRATION and time of posting. NOWHERE was this user ever told she could not create another account, since she is now of age. NOWHERE was this user ever told she could not repost her work. On that note, the reason she's not created another account, and done exactly that, is that she was careless with her data. THIS IS NOT A DATA REPOSITORY FOR BACK UP PURPOSES. Backing up one's data OFFSITE is the user's responsibility, not the site's. WE DO NOT KEEP COPIES OF IT FOR BACKUP PURPOSES FOR INDIVIDUALS. Am I yelling a bit in my response? You bet I am. You know WHY? Everything that I explained AGAIN in this post, has been explained previously, several times over. Both here and in email with the user. That people are choosing to not understand plain English, is not my problem. Further, I will not allow this argument as to whether or not this action should have been taken to continue. Users under 18 have NEVER been allowed on the site. The fact that many of 'em slipped under the radar for so many years, is a staff failure, yes. However, it is not THIS staff's failure. WE are in the process of cleaning up 3 1/2 years of no moderation of any kind. Particularly under age users. To date, I've processed 2600 old minor accounts. Those are registrations prior to December 2008, by the way. If you look at what we do on that basis, listed here and here, you'll understand a bit more. If you read those links and still choose to not understand why, it will be because you want to argue.

crap. I forgot to add the new one Sunday. We'll go ahead and leave this open then until this upcoming Sunday, and then I'll add the new prompt

It's fixed. Nope, where you post doesn't matter, lol. Click this link to resend the activation mail.

Until people learn how to read and actually do what is needed to get an account deleted, to prove that you are the requestor, I will no longer accept deletion requests via the forum.

hahaha, yes, the Evil Feline Overlords rule at my house too ^^

This type of TOS violation which could harm the site greatly, we do NOT notify the user before deletion.

Hi there, Check your email please, I've emailed instructions.

gokusgirl, check your email pls

The author was underage AGAIN at time of posting the story and registration. This would make the fourth time this particular author was deleted for being underage. Granted, she is no longer underage, but the point is, she KNOWINGLY violated one rule we cannot bend in any way, shape, or form. Regardless of what some people might think, there are real people behind the site, who, if we were to not actively go after underagers on an 18 an older site, could go to jail.

Televisions shows, movies and etc are usually VERY different from the books which spawn them. Added.

We have a section in forum devoted to asking for categories. Unless you have a story for it, or are in the process of writing one, I don't just create categories.

as the tags are in the summary, and this tag is more than 3 characters long, you can. However, using the search in yugioh, still didn't find any here tagged with b-mod

it'll get caught on the weekly sweep, if it hasn't already been

hehe odd story behind the picture...it's a reference to my ongoing battle with Lawnzilla, which has managed to eat 4 lawn mowers in the past 5 years, grows at a rate of 1/2" every 10 hours in the spring, and makes my allergies go positively ballistic! If the author points you to where she's got the story added for reading, go ahead and link to it. We have NO problem with that.

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What really sucks is why they feel the need to protect themselves like this, and why we take the extra step as well. Plagiarism. Incredible how many people will take an "old" story and copy it nearly word for word in some for instances and try and pass it off as their own. Doing a bit of additional looking, it does look like the author you linked to is the one you're looking for.

Hey Smeather, what pittwitch was pointing out was the no sending around of copies using this site. It's unfortunate that we've had to take that step, but it is to protect not only our members, but writers in general who pull their works and don't wish them distributed.

I think this feature was temporarily disabled during the code rewrite.

aw jeez Beth. sorry to hear that

Best to just leave it for sort. I have so many to move before I get to that, it's not even funny

Delicate, Delicate Blue skins are updated and now working. New skin Yellow Tea added

March 2012 Underage Users (Current) Confirmed as 18 or older – 475 Now 18, but underage when registered – 55 accounts, 33 actual users Currently underage, deleted once – 78 accounts, 75 actual users Inconclusive data found – 30 users Users posting for minors – 0 users Returning minors – 15 accounts, 15 actual users Total users age checked - 628 Year to Date - 1523 Old Underage Users (by registration year) 2002 – 1 account, 0 users deleted, 1 user modified; total of 1 actual user 2003 - 4 accounts, 3 users deleted, 1 users modified; total of 4 actual users 2004 – 15 accounts, 9 users deleted, 6 users modified; total of 15 actual users 2005 – 22 accounts, 15 users deleted, 2 users modified; total of 17 actual users 2006 – 9 accounts, 8 users deleted, 0 users modified; total of 8 actual users 2007 – 24 accounts, 17 users deleted, 5 users modified; total of 22 actual users 2008 – 11 accounts, 11 users deleted, 0 users modified; total of 11actual users Grand total – 86 accounts, 63 users deleted, 15 users modified; total of 78 actual users Year to Date – 407 accounts, 257 users deleted, 63 users modified; total of 320 actual users Plagiarism Users deleted for plagiarism – 1, YTD - 4 Total instances where permissions given were provided when asked – 7, YTD - 13 Co – authors verified – 0, YTD - 6 Unsubstantiated claims of plagiarism – 2, YTD - 8 Added to the monitor list (for arrival to the archive) - 0, YTD - 1 Posting others' work - 0, YTD 2 Added to the Hall of Shame – 1, YTD 1 Trolls/Flamers/Spammers 10 instances resolved Year to Date - 25 Other ToS Violations 24 issues resolved Year to Date - 64 Orphan and Duplicate stories Total orphan stories found and deleted – 0, YTD 103 Stories to merge – 10, YTD 30 Total stories left after merge – 5, YTD 15 Total stories looked at - 10, YTD 133 Shared Accounts and allowed alternate accounts Allowed additional accout – 0, YTD - 1 Found shared accounts - 1, YTD - 11 Invalid and/or disposable email accounts No issues found with email address – 0, YTD - 1 Users registered with false or disposable mail addresses – 24, YTD - 49 Users deleted after not correcting bad email address – 47, YTD - 72 Users who corrected email address issue - 1, YTD - 6 Duplicate Users Processed Users with no duplicates found - 4,YTD - 7 Users merged - 62, YTD - 202 Users where duplicate had no data, and was deleted - 76, YTD - 371 Total extra accounts deleted after processing - 161, YTD - 718 Total accounts looked at - 308, YTD - 1306 Actual user amount - 142, YTD - 581

Prompt: bleeding heart (lamprocapnos spectabilis) Please remember to follow the rules as outlined here Happy Writing!