DemonGoddess

Sorry to hear about this Melrick.

Sometimes things take a little more time than one might think they should, be that as it may, she is indeed working on this.

Do I have that linked to somewhere? I know it's an outdated mod and no longer ported in.

The Silver Snitch's owner is working on getting things back up. Please be patient.

I can (and do) adjust the posting date in the database. I have to, as the review dates would be before publication. This is why when someone re-adds for me, rather than me moving the stories; I tell them to leave the original loads alone. I need the date data (which is not displayed except in the db). As to the mythological stuff, if you base it on actual mythological characters, it should go to where those stories are in books.

The author and all her content were deleted as she was underage both at time of sign up and posting

It's actually in books. If you re-add them to books, and then tell me when you have, I can merge over hits, reviews and rates from the other table. Once you do the new add, let me know and LEAVE the original stories. I'll delete them when I've finished.

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I can't find a reference where it was a staff removal, which means the author removed it. I see that often enough where an author takes something down to rework it. As the story was in originals, if the author is also published, and converted it in to work for publication, that's actually one of the more common reasons I've seen FOR an original fiction to be removed by an author, in those circumstance.

Hell, time permitting I still prefer to hang out my clothes to dry.

Nope, still no chapter search. With a database that's 8GB, and that mostly chapter data, that would be too much of a strain on the database itself, and slow things down tremendously. You'll be able to search members, story summaries and titles. The reason search with google does not work is because of the age verification form. What we've done for now, is relocated it, so when you first visit, it shows up when you click a chapter. That way, this should hopefully open things up for the indexers to work more effectively within the archive. Given that the database and archive is split, when wanting to search an original story, you need to be in the original subdomain for that search. Same for any other of them.

Wow! Lovely to hear from one of the earliest site members! Thank you!

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If we still allowed the html upload, that would be handy. But, we've got CKEditor integrated and it imports the word files via copy/paste in a popup and parses out the garbage while retaining the formatting.

That applies to only if we ask you for it. When we ask someone to provide proof of age, we also give them a time frame to work within, and go from there.

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StarLight Massacre has also posted a companion story to Rise of the Drackens

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ssl=secure server link. References any of the "https" addresses you may see

My apologies, real life bit me in the ass the last six weeks, and I've been unable to do a damn thing with this.

Update 31 December 2011, 13:44 EST Underage Users In queue - 0 First time deleted - 544 Deleted underage, now 18 and allowed to return - 633 Users determined to be of age, initial age check - 618 Inconclusive - 462 Users posting for minors - 24 Old minors in queue - 2 Old minors processed - 2273 Underage accounts taken over - 8 Users posting for minors, accounts taken over - 2 Total accounts looked at - 4565 Trolls/Flamers/Spammers In queue - 1 Monitor - 4 Accounts processed - 271 Accounts taken over - 9 Total accounts looked at - 281 Plagiarism Known, OFFSITE, monitor for arrival to this archive - 15 In queue - 1 Resolved - 156 Unsubstantiated - 61 Permissions given and confirmed - 58 Verified co-authors - 45 Uncited sources, not yet corrected - 6 Uncited sources, resolved - 163 Accounts taken over - 34 Total instances looked at - 524 (the offsite are not included in this number) Other Terms of Service Violations In queue - 5 Monitor for recurrence - 4 Resolved - 409 Total instances looked at - 418 Duplicate Users in the Archive In queue - 0 Monitor for continued duplicate account creation - 2 Merged and/or processed - 1351 Shared and/or duplicate accounts allowed - 46 Total users looked at - 1399 Orphan and Duplicate Stories (not associated with clean up project) In queue - 2 Processed - 130 Total users looked at - 132 Invalid and/or disposable email addresses In queue - 2 monitor for further bounces - 1 Processed - 319 Total users looked at - 322

The redirect is to the central index. Sounds like you need to clear your browser to reset the cookies, as this page is a cookie setter, without the form.

ty, I will merge over the data as I told you I would in an earlier post, and then delete the books versions

In preparing for the eventuality of discontinuing the birthdate verifier, which interferes with the search engine crawlers, this is something I added late Wednesday. We do still have to have something at point of entry, but this was done so that the crawlers can actually access things in the archive itself, instead of just seeing the form. You only have to set the cookie once every 30 days, per subdomain. If you only visit 2 subdomains, that's 2 cookies set, as an example.

I expect we'll be addressing that particular deficiency of the current script in the upcoming months. I'm hesitant to tinker with it to allow for the ssl link, as I'm unsure how the old protocols will deal with that and whether or not it'll parse correctly. I suspect that is very likely why it's not set to allow for ssl linking at the present time.