DemonGoddess

If all your stories are missing, and it happened all at once, I'd say it was a safe bet we found out that you were underage at time of posting. However, without knowing who you are, what subdomains the stories are in, and the titles, I can't really tell you for sure what happened.

You have to wait to post anything at all until you've finished validating. That can take up to 24 hours.

Here's the link

Progress to date Books complete Buffy date/time stamp repair - complete chapter, story and review data repair - in progress Cartoon initial sort-complete in sub domain story moving - complete out of sub domain story moving - in progress Celeb initial sort-in progress

8/30/2011 16:30 Underage Users in queue for age check/processing - 1 Deleted for the first time - 427 Deleted, turned 18 and allowed to return - 460 Confirmed 18 or older - 589 Inconclusive results - 429 Deleted for posting for a minor - 23 OLD minors in queue to process - 3 OLD minors processing complete - 1556 Accounts taken over - chronic returning minors - 6 Accounts taken over - posting for chronic returning minors - 2 Total accounts looked at - 3496 Trolls/Flamers/Spammers monitoring behavior in archive - 5 accounts processed for this - 242 accounts taken over - 9 Total accounts looked at - 256 Plagiarism Monitoring for arrival to this archive (known plagiarists offsite) - 12 in queue while checking - 6 resolved - 136 permissions given - 51 unsubstantiated - 49 co-authored, verified - 29 uncited sources (not yet corrected) - 16 uncited sources, corrected - 108 accounts taken over - 29 Total instances looked at - 436 Other TOS Violations in queue - 0 resolved - 337 Total instances looked at - 337 Duplicate Users in the archive in queue - 1 merged/processed - 776 Shared and duplicate accounts allowed/documented - 38 *Total instances - 815 Orphan and Duplicate stories repaired/processed in queue - 3 processed - 125 Total stories looked at - 128 Invalid Email in queue - 2 processed -274 Total accounts looked at - 276 *This number does NOT include the total accounts per user merged. Number is also subject to change depending upon age verification. If they are minors, they're not merged, they're deleted. This will also apply in other areas where it turns out the member in question isn't so much what they were being reported as (i.e. troll), but actually underage.

Aw man, great article! ROFL

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As Xanzpet has a link in her profile, that may help you in your search.

Vocaloid stories have a category in the games section. As it was added to the wrong subdomain, it would've been deleted. PLEASE read the info before posting, as this is not tech support for the forum

Have bunches to look at here.. Set in AtS, also AU Set in BtVS, also AU I'd look at Claudia6913, Cas, Spikes_Evilbint, jameschick, fareys delight, Josie_h to start with

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There's also a sub sub category for these

Stay safe!

Looking at the context of the email, I'd say it's probably some kid who wants what he or she wants, and simply refuses to see what it is you have to say. Because they want they want. Gotta love it. ugh.

As to the missing story, that one is easy. You started posting before you were 18. Anything posted pre 18 by a user (for old users and very old minors) is deleted when we find it. Definitely not "randomly missing". You initially registered in 2003, several months before your 18th birthday. You've been in this archive since you were 17. This means you were around for the crash which garbled everything in 2004/2005. That's something that is slowly but surely being repaired. As to the rich text editor issues you're having, depending on what word programmer software you use, is how you go about posting in the first place. If you were posting html inserts where Word exported the html, many of those stories had issues. This is because Word exports much in the way of extra unnecessary garbage code. To fix those, you open the chapter and resave. That fixes it. The wall of text thing often happens when a user goes in to a chapter, where they had originally input the data from Works, and with Wordpad when the rich text editor was first installed. The rte simply doesn't parse Works formatting as it is proprietary. The Wordpad issue was fixed, so anything added from it now will not "wall of text", but you WILL have to go through and apply text format. Several versions back did support Works, but as it's been end of life for quite a few years, it appears it no longer does. (Still trying to find a workaround for that though). All of this information, whether changes that are being made to old code, how to fix things if there are issues, and etc; are all posted. Changes are posted long before they even take affect to give users a heads up. This has all been covered in the news postings.

Love it how they can't read what you responded, ya know?

You very likely saw them in the misc categories.

If you've not found it, we don't have one. I don't recall ever seeing one, myself.

As a guest, you vote by responding to the topic, not clicking a selection. Name your selections in your response, so the author can add to her tally

For tech support, add your topic to the tech support forum. Normally, I delete these if they're anywhere but where they belong. However, what you need to do is be sure to use your jump menu, select original from the drop down, and click go. This is in your user cp.

With the upgrade, this is no longer an issue

General rule of thumb, regardless of OS, if a character set has multiple options, always choose the ISO version. It's cross platform

I checked all three direct in the database. I'm seeing nothing at all with the data like what you are describing. Not in the raw form in the database, nor in the archive. Which version of FF are you using? Do you have addons you're using? One of them may be at issue. One other thing to check is the default character set. Try switching to Western (ISO) from Western (Mac).