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DemonGoddess

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  1. This one is toasted (I killed it), I'll get the others probably tomorrow, as I go direct in the db for individual chapters.
  2. Okay, first of all, no one said you stole the verses. Just that they were not properly cited. Had they belonged to someone else, whether song lyric or poem, then you would have to CITE that. Inline citations are not difficult, people do 'em all the time. This is very different from a disclaimer, in that it works for when one is quoting from someone else's work and showing where it comes FROM. Because they are your own, you still need to add that (as you did), and we thank you for it.
  3. Actually there is a DC character called Black Canary. She was in Justice League. @JayDee, as to what she's doing for me, which is sorting and eyeballing the glitches that have been in the archive since 2004; she's also taking in to account to where the DC stuff is being moved entirely to comics in the FIRST place, as the Marvel stuff will be moved to the xmen subdomain. None of this will even BE in cartoons (either 'verse) by the time I'm done moving everything around unless it's a crossover with something like TMNT, or some other cartoon that is NOT Marvel or DC 'verse.
  4. People often will take a plotline from a movie (Titanic comes to mind, I've seen that often) and make an AU of their fandom. I'll look at it a bit more closely though, and see if that's the only thing done. If so, then no, not plagiarism if they've not lifted the lines from the movie script and such.
  5. Something to keep in mind, is that this is something you need to do with each and every story you add. As you now are aware of it, by making sure that your disclaimer is correct when you first add the story, chances would be slim of you getting a warn of this nature again. Unless, of course, you forgot. This page has a listing of things which will cause warnings and/or deletions. Hope that helps too.
  6. I'll get to this, but no promises for today. More likely the next day or two.
  7. When your data starts to load not quite right, that's the storage device telling you it needs reformatted. I remember that very well from my floppy days . With the floppies, usually 2 or 3 reformats, and the thing was toast. Thankfully, key drives are much more durable and that's not an issue. As with any removable storage, it does apply to the key drives as well, as I said. Just not as often.
  8. Which program do you want to change your password for? In the archive, it's simple enough. go to your user panel select "Profile Options" type in your new password click the button "alter profile" In the forum Click "My Controls" in the second menu at the top Go to the box titled "Options" Click "Change Password" Follow the rest of the prompts to save your changes.
  9. I can add a tag for abortion, if needed. If you all want something like that, put it in the fiction archive suggestion forum, or I'll forget to do it.
  10. You do need to keep an eye on data integrity, and occasionally reformat the keydrive. Not very often, to be sure, but something that's a necessary maintenance. Just like we used to have to do in the "old days" with floppy discs.
  11. It's not possible with the current software. The best interaction I've been able to come up with is to have you guys make a topic in forum and have discussions. I'm sure you noticed when this started, that I said the db was 6.6GB. It was, at the time. Damn thing is now 7.5GB, inching towards 7.6GB. That is primarily story and chapter data. Having said that, there is still a significant amount of data in the review tables themselves. I've tinkered off and on with bridging the two applications (off site) and have yet to be able to come up with a way to bridge them without crashing the archive app. Again, due to the age of the archive software. There are a few things I've also been tinkering with to help speed up the archive itself, but they have nothing to do with the storyboard stuff. It's something for in the background, primarily, but will help ease the load. If I can get it to work the way I want. Good for other stuff, but no good for this particular issue.
  12. Actually, I tend to ignore these, or outright delete them from here. They have not a thing to do with the clean up. However, I do know the issue with this one. You need to fix your disclaimer, more than likely. It's not deleted, but hidden. Now, if you give me the subdomain, I can actually tell you what the problem is exactly.
  13. As memory serves, when adding a story, that field is a required field. Of course, the user often puts whatever in there, and then erases it entirely to leave it blank. Or, they put whatever they like without following the requirements that are stated for it.
  14. That was a helluva giant leap, from contraception options to an abortion
  15. It's no problem. If you need any help, add my IM, and if I'm on I'll gladly assist you. AIM - demongoddess061 YIM - demongoddess2000 MSN - seawitch@sealordsvf.org Googletalk - seawitch061@gmail.com
  16. First of all, this belongs in tech support, and is being moved there. Secondly, if you read the agreement for signing up for the forum, you would have seen it takes up to 24 hours to get passed through the admin queue, as the registration is two step, user validation and then admin validation. How to edit your chapter- First, be certain you're in the correct subdomain before starting. As you posted it to the original subdomain, you need to use the jump menu, select original and then click go. Second, on the left, you'll see a menu which says "Story Functions". Select - Edit Story Select the story (by title), then select the action you wish to make (Edit Chapter). Click the edit button. Next, choose the chapter. As there is only one chapter, you select it from the dropdown menu, which defaults to "Choose Chapter" and comes up showing a white text area before you select the chapter itself. Once you select the chapter (if there is not title, the program will assign it a number), it will then appear in the edit box. Once you've completed the edits you wish to make, click "edit chapter" at the bottom, so your changes are saved.
  17. Like I said, those get added to the spreadsheet the mods work from. As soon as I have the one I'm updating done and uploaded; whoever the poor sod is who gets stuck in harry hell will see this one and warn it accordingly.
  18. The stories that are hidden for bad disclaimers and the like are CURRENT adds/edits. These are not abandoned stories. As to fixing a disclaimer in a story, only I have the ability to do that. That has to be done directly IN the database itself. As I have many, many things I do on any given day, there is no way it would be possible for me to go behind these people who don't fix their stuff, and do it for them. I tried it for awhile, and spent HOURS every day fixing disclaimers for people, where they'd been given a warn to do it, had been hidden, and the story was going to be deleted. Turns out doing this task is something that left me NO time whatsoever to do anything else. Which in turn put me very much behind on other things that I need to do here, daily. Needless to say, I will not be doing that again. As I also have a full time job, house and family; I'll be damned if I'm going to be spending any free time that I have doing that kind of clean up for people who don't feel it necessary to follow rules here. When you have the majority of the users doing exactly that, fixing what needs fixing when it's brought to their attention.
  19. Link to the abandoned fic? Here's the thing, whether or not it's abandoned, does not mean another author can just come in and take the damn thing WITHOUT permission of the person who posted it initially. This is really getting old
  20. As many of you experienced, the site had an outage from approximately 6:30 pm (EDT) to 8:07 pm. The cause was a hardware failure at the hosting company. They had to buy a new UPS to replace the faulty one, which was downing everything. As with any kind of hardware replacement, that does take a bit of time, often. Had it been one of the RAID arrays, a simple hot swap would've fixed it. As it was something else entirely, it created a longer down time than the hosting company wanted to have. As always, when such a thing occurs here, I do monitor the hosting company's page for progress, and post those updates to my LiveJournal.
  21. Forward me the mails from your stories where you were notified please. I'll need those.
  22. Are you leaving the troll type stuff up? You need to, if you haven't.
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