DemonGoddess

Another thing to keep in mind is that the archive DEFAULTS to anime. You have to use the jump menu when in your user cp to navigate to the correct subdomain to upload your story. If you add it to the wrong subdomain, we delete it.

We have a ton of vampire stories in the original subdomain, also an entire subdomain of Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel the Series; in books, there is Southern Vampire fanfiction, and in tv, there is True Blood.

Post it this category

If this was the fic that one of the mods asked me about earlier, where it was a new add, and clearly stated it was based on the cartoon from 2003, it would have been deleted. That particular story (I'm not sure it's the one you're talking about) should have been placed in the cartoons subdomain, not comics.

Books ALL stories that didn't belong in books are now moved to the subcategories they belong in There are some last minute repairs I'm having to do in the subdomain, having to do with the addition of the rich text editor, and, for the most part, bloated word exports. That's also almost done. Buffy How it will work from this point- First, I'm moving ALL AtS stories from the tv subdomain to the buffy subdomain. Be aware that not all the people working on this project are all that familiar with BtVS OR AtS, so some of these stories may, in fact, be in the wrong subcategory. If so, I'll move them once they're in the buffy subdomain, once I get to that part of it. Because I'm moving stories from one subdomain to another, how this is done, is with an import command. Given that sql sees punctuation as illegal code commands, this is a two step process. First, I import in to the btvs tables, all but the chapter content and review content. Then, I go BACK in to the db and copy from one set of tables to the other. Once I recheck to ensure I've transferred all data successfully, the story will then be deleted from the tv subdomain. As I clear a subcategory/subsubcategory, it will be deleted. As a reminder, please don't add new stories to AtS in tv, but to AtS in buffy. Second, I will then go through from where I started before, and recheck for additional repair work, directly related to the addition of the rte, as well as continue the repair throughout the subdomain. The sort for the subdomain was done months ago, and stories moved around at that point in time. Cartoons The initial sort is almost complete. The crew is going through the rest of the top levels in the subdomain (Avatar and etc). From there, they will sort in anime, for Avatar and Transformer stories which are actually CARTOON based, not anime based. Those need to be sorted so that I have a structure in place to move them from and to. From there, once they've finished that sort, Apollo and I will be moving the stories around in to the subcategories that they belong in (in cartoons), and in to equivalent subcategories in anime for moving. Once the crew has finished sorting cartoons, while Apollo is moving stories around within subdomains, I'll be fixing stuff yet in Buffy, as well as moving from tv to buffy, and then anime to cartoons. The tasks are run concurrently, as you can tell. From that point, the next step is the celeb subdomain.

Post your topic here. This does not qualify as a tech support issue

from the naruto subdomain I'm going to refer you to a number of topics, as we've covered this extensively over the last couple weeks. First, is the initial announcement. Second, would be this very topic you're reading, there are some issues covered here as well. Finally, if you have a tech support issue, first, check this forum, and see if your issue has already been asked about and answered. If it hasn't, then post a req for support.

If it's any form of a poll, it needs to be done in the forum, and not your story. To create a poll, first you have to register to post a topic here. Your READERS do not have to register to participate in your poll, you have to register to post the topic.

Chapter 1 issue Polls are not allowed in the archive. You create a poll here in the forum, LINK them to it, so they can vote. In the fanfiction category, the whole thing is open to guests, so registration isn't necessary there. Chapter 2 issues Chapter 3 issue It's the polls in each and every chapter which have your story hidden

Searching by the titles you gave in the originals subdomain gave me these- Home Intrusion Only You Sweetheart

However, if you KNOW some of these people, and contact them, that'd be fine too and VERY helpful

IE, like many other Microsoft programs is bloated with much in the way of unnecessary program instructions. Not only that, you have ActiveX which tends to play hell with Java to begin with. It always HAS.

That's the point Keith. If a work is copyrighted ANYWHERE, we cannot move it to this top level.

I've run the query for the new top level, and changed all disclaimers accordingly.

What I need from you, is what is your operating system, browser, and is your java up to date? Also, when you added chapters before, did you add them as an exported from word processor html, a text upload, or how did you do it? Without knowing a few things, it makes it harder for me to be able to address stuff for you. The issue we've been running in to most often where the scripts are bogging down like what you're describing, have to do with bloated file uploads for chapter adds in the past. We're in the process of REMOVING some of that bloat throughout the database, but that does take some time. Particularly as we can't just run a script to do it, or it could adversely affect the OLDEST db record inserts of this nature, where data was scrambled and we're finding text where it shouldn't be. Like in head statements and what not.

At this point, that's what you'd use the recommended reading links for. Or at least that's how I do it. I link to authors I like to read, or stories I'm following. That way I don't have to hunt. Honestly, being able to add a favorite is low on my list of priorities. There are other things, that are far more pressing that need to happen first. It's been suggested many times, and while I'd love to be able to add such a feature at the drop of a hat, the fact is, I can't. So it has to wait, while other things are done first.

Okay, we've now touched on one of my to-do's for the weekend. I JUST created this top level last week. In the course of creating a top level, that is directly related to clean up, I run a query to correct each story's disclaimer, according to which subcat it happens to be in. I've not yet gotten to this step. The ONLY time I don't do this, is for crossover stuff, until we''re done sorting and MOVING the crossover stuff around. And that, only where I've gotten sub sub cats based on the specific crossovers. Frankly, I haven't the TIME to edit each individual story like that, and fix it site wide UNLESS I use a query to do it, based on criteria which allows me to correct multiple stories at one time. Having said that, I did just that, a couple years ago, throughout the site. After that, it fell back on the user to see to it that the field is properly filled out, once again. By the way, running that site wide, and tailoring the query to each and every different area, took me a little over a week, as I did this after work, when I got home. That was a one time thing. Just as, when I run this query where categories have been moved to this new top level, that correction is ALSO a one time thing. I'll push up my timetable a bit, and go ahead and do this for the new top level when I get home today, rather than waiting a couple days for when I have it scheduled. Yes, I do schedule my activities, as I have many, many things that I'm the only one doing, because they require direct db access to do them. There can be only one person working in the database directly at any given time, so I can't apportion the tasks out. Not without kicking whoever else (me) happens to be working in it, out. As I'm in the database off and on near continually when I AM home, you can all see why that would not be a good thing. It'd make me right testy it would, since I'm always in the middle of doing SOMETHING. As to moving the Bible to this new top level, that I can't do. The King James version is copyrighted in perpetuity, everywhere. What this means, is that if I or anyone else finds ANY instance of existing copyright to a published work, unless and until that copyright expires, it cannot be moved to this top level. Finally, while we all agree having to state the obvious is an annoyance, it's something we have to do regardless. Going back to Apollo's example of hot coffee having to be labeled, we all remember the McDonald's lawsuit which made that a necessity, don't we? Think about it. Any person realizes hot liquid will scald, if it spills on to you. Yet, because, at the time, they did not label their cups (no one did) with Caution: Hot Liquid, this person who scalded herself AFTER buying a fresh cup of HOT coffee and spilling it on herself while still in the drive thru, was able to sue and win a settlement. So now, as a result, all vendors who sell take out of hot liquids, have to have cups which are labeled Caution: Hot Liquid. Much the same thing applies to the disclaimer thing. Yes, we all KNOW this is primarily a fanfiction site. However, we also have our originals section, and real person fiction section. With having true stories able to be published in originals, and the real person thing, we HAVE to state 'this is fiction'. Look in the front of any book you buy, and you'll see the same sort of language. Look at the end of a movie or tv show when the credits roll. Again, there is always a disclaimer. As Apollo mentioned earlier, the disclaimer thing is not new. It's something that's had to be done for a number of years, since late 2004 I believe (Apollo can tell you for certain). With this being early 2011, that's six plus years that this has been in place.

The only consolation I have for ya on the vagaries of recaptcha, is that ANY site that uses it, has the oddball text combos.

What you do, is click stop, when it asks. It'll then allow you to continue editing. What happens, is with many of the enormous file inserts that were allowed before, now, when they're loaded up, it takes awhile FOR them to load in the first place. Once they load and you resave it, the chapter then opens easily.

If you want tech support, please post it to the tech support forum. That's where I look for tech support requests. As to the issue, it's fixed now, so you should be good to go on your chapter edits.

Try now, it's fixed

The jump menu is working fine. We're working on the edit story link now

Tesgura at some point opted to remove her stories there for a bit. By the way, do not use this forum to send copies of an author's work around, without permission of that author.

You need to select WHICH paste option to use and click it before copying your text. Your options are paste from clipboard, paste as plain text, and paste from word. If you paste as plain text, you have to add the formatting AFTER you paste in the text. If you choose the other options, your formatting should be preserved. You also need to make sure your java is up to date. That you allow 3rd party scripts in your browser as well. And, if it happens to kick that error window, instead of clicking wait, click stop, continue with what you're doing. It won't affect it.

You should have gotten your login information and whatnot yesterday. Let me know if you did not.