DemonGoddess

html corruption

I looked at the actual record, there's quite a bit more content. This is an html corruption (wordord variant) from the big crash

chomped

all those challenges are history...

Well, if you're really wanting to look at old challenges and post 'em up, any one of us will be happy to delete 'em no matter the age. The AN chapters and such, though, I won't be getting to until we get to that subdomain for the clean up, most likely. Those have to be killed direct in the database.

Second one was a series of challenges and is now deleted. The first is definitely an AN chapter, and I'll deal with that in a bit.

thank you, they're gone

LMAO, I understand the rivalry very, very well. That one is about as bad as the one between Army and Air Force. Have cousins still in service (2 Marines),some retired (Navy, Army), dad and uncle were in service before I was born (Army, Marines), my youngest boy is a Marine. So yeah, heard the squid jokes, the jarhead jokes, the grunt jokes....most of my life...

First of all, a few of them were added to the site before your 18th birthday. For that reason, they were deleted, as was ALL your pre 18 content. There are notices throughout the site which are very clear, in that you must be 18 to use any PART of the site. Secondly, you had stories hidden for bad disclaimers. As we notify for those via the review board, we're also very clear as to the action that will be taken should you ignore what you're being notified about. In that for instance, the user has 7 days (or a couple more, depending on how busy I am) to correct the issue, before the story is hidden. Once the story is hidden, the user has an additional 30 days to correct the issue, before it is deleted. So, in point of fact, they weren't misplaced, but deleted, for the reasons given above.

point break to use 'em?

Keith, How 'bout you put up various classes of subs, say around 5 of 'em? hehe, could do a Keith and animedevildog too, that would be FUNNY

you two figure out the point span/breaks and names for 'em, and let's see what we can do. B)

That means I have to create new weapons classes

Actually, no. None of us are required to give notice for actions taken for that sort of thing, deletion of plagiarism, deletion of minors, and etc. Personally, I'd rather have something hidden and then have the user correct it, rather than do an outright deletion to begin with. Of course, the exceptions to that are plagiarists and minors. We find them, we delete them, NO warning whatsoever.

Yes there is, and the "side comments" you mention, those get hidden too, when the time has passed for correction without that being removed. Flaming, flamebaiting, and etc are not something that is allowed here any longer. Once a story is unhidden, everything ATTACHED to it is open for view as well. Only when a story is deleted, do you lose the reviews that are attached.

Users can now access and use the archive from their mobile devices, where they were unable to before.

Well, unless you deleted it yourself, the story is simply hidden, not removed. As to why it was hidden, if you look at what you put in there, while it does indeed resemble what we ask for, the flame you added to it needs removed.

Revising the above for the weekend ONLY. Approximately every hour, it will be checked, if any utilities need run at that time, I'll run them. Otherwise, full utilities run as scheduled.

information on its way to you

Last chapter is the problem. Read the content guidelines, please. Preview chapters, author note chapters, and etc, are not allowable. You were emailed 1/10, so you'll want to check your mail as well. As with bad disclaimers, we GIVE you plenty of time to correct the situation. First step is to hide, then it's deleted 30 days after it's been hidden.

Yes, you can still do a/n's IN your chapters, we simply ask that you keep them brief. The limit imposted for a/n's within a chapter is 600 words, per chapter. Not 600 words per story. Hope that helps.

no, that's perfectly acceptable 1. With a collection of microfics, I gave each one a separate chapter with an "index" chapter listing tags and whatnot for each microfic (so they could jump to the one they wanted). Is this wrong? show me an example, and I can better answer you, for some reason I'm not seeing this 2. I am writing a parody of Macbeth adapted into 40k, am I doing it wrong by having each scene have it's own chapter? no, not at all 3. With my Sisters of Chaos story, I have an index at the front which lists tags for each part (as each of the 4 parts is drastically different and it also warns the reader as there are some fetishes in there that some would find very off putting. Is this acceptable? There's nothing wrong with extended warnings within a chapter 4. I am also currently rewriting the whole series and the number of chapters (post-rewrite) have changed. Is it okay to delete the old chapters and then upload the new ones? Absolutely 5. Also, I have an almost finished story that is meant to be read as a report and it is over 6,000 words long, breaking it up would ruin the look of it or should I just break it arbitrarily into chunks?) This change is not going to happen for quite a long time. So, it's a matter of something to be aware of for future, and then structuring stories accordingly.

Here's the thing. The whole POINT of eliminating AN chapters is to keep this database viable. Again, each chapter insert is anywhere from 256K to 2MB in size with the current software. So in order to keep the thing from having more problems like what happened last Friday, this is one of those things that have GOT to go. Further, with the new software in development expect a word limitation per chapter. We are sussing out exactly what that limit is, but at this point, a conservative estimate on the world limitation per chapter will be 5000 words.

Rather than posting each and every time I run the db utilities, here is the schedule, for every day. 6:30 am EST 4:30 pm EST 10:30 pm EST Expect slowdown for approximately 5 to 10 minutes as the utilities work their way sequentially through the tables. This is in addition to the nightly maintenance routines which are run between 4:10 am and 4:30 am EST

OOOOOO When I get some time freed up (haha, or when a day is extended to be 72 hours maybe ) I plan on maybe making some trophy graphics and stuff for things like KILL rates and whatnot. That's part of the fun of it.