DemonGoddess

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.

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

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.

Forward me the mails from your stories where you were notified please. I'll need those.

Are you leaving the troll type stuff up? You need to, if you haven't.

One of us (staff) should email him. From what I can tell, this user has been here for a long, long time. Used to be, to add a new chapter, you posted a story. Hasn't been that way for years, but there you are. Just as with anything else, considering my oh so lengthy and ever growing to do list, I'll get to the merge when I get to it. No promises on completion time.

I'm correcting the information on the ratings. First of all, the function does not work as it should, and is useless, in point of fact. You cannot go back and "vote" if you just did, as your IP will be the last the db sees. However, if someone comes in after you and "votes", THEIR IP is recorded. You can then go back to it. I have been more than a little pressed for time for the last few months, so before even asking can I disable it, sure, can do...but I have to FIND it first. So, that will go on my very very lengthy to do list.

I just tried to duplicate the problem and am unable to. You did remember to select the chapter from the drop down provided? I know, obvious, but sometimes it's an obvious thing.

Road Trip review#3000034922 flamish

As we're really not set up for what you folks have in mind, I'll move this to The Great Wall so the link is still available to you.

For the AN chapters, one of the mods (or I) will email her, and she'll either remove them, or all those stories will be hidden. She'll also be added to our "sweep" sheet (where we document everything we find as we go through the archive). For your other question, only under very special circumstances, is someone allowed to take over another account. In that for instance, they don't actually take over the account, they create their own. I then require proof that permission is given to take over the stories, and will transfer them over to the other user. That is the ONLY way it's allowable.

NP, it's nuked. Teaser chapters are not allowed. As it was ONLY the one chapter, I nuked the entire story. If it were an additional chapter on top of more, then the user would've been told to remove it. And, if the user didn't...then the same thing as happens with bad disclaimers applies.

...and they're gone

The big splits are DC and Marvel as they have the largest 'verses. All the OTHER publishers will remain where they're at.

Deleted the duplicate

The mods check these all the time, and if you look at the date(s), the user(s) will be getting something from one of 'em saying that the disclaimer is not correct. Also, with the current stories, if the user does not CORRECT the disclaimer within a specified period of time, it gets hidden. If they don't correct it after it's been hidden 30ish days, it's DELETED. I appreciate the looking at this, but the moderators already do this.

Because I was at work, and this is something that I have to get approved. I doubt it'll happen, but I will ask. Before I do that, however, give me examples of what you would like to SEE and mean exactly, for a roleplay board.

Okay. Please read this FAQ. You'll see EXACTLY what needs to be done. The disclaimer field is for disclaimers, not song citations. Citing songs, or quotations, or anything of that nature, is done within the CHAPTER. It doesn't count as an AN, or anything else like that. So, what I'm going to do, is unhide it, for now. Please do be sure to go through and get your citations in your story properly.

That's easy. I was just starting to check the hidden stuff as it is. So, I'll check yours first.

Check your pm box

explain what you mean by Super Junior please?

Yeah some things do take some getting used to. Old software, many quirks.

Okay, last I checked, all the codes were still there. As to how to edit the summary, you edit your story, select edit details, and ADD that to the summary. You can use the content code drop down only when doing the first posting.

That's a direct result of the big crash in 2004. There is loads of this sort of thing throughout the archive.

I appreciate you finding 'em, but I'm not even working in that subdomain yet. So, it's going to be quite awhile before I even get to these.