DemonGoddess

Sorry for the delay, I've been horribly ill (damn flu bug) so I will be getting to this and many others in the next couple of days.

When the site news is updated, we generally use the broadcast email function to send a copy of it via the forum database as well.

Okay, the current software does not and will not ever really be able to support review replies. IF we ported that in, it could easily make other parts of the old script not function right. So, what we've opted for is to have that as an option for the new software in development.

It's simple, really. I've been very sick, and wasn't even online for the better part of a week. Kind of hard to work on stuff on my machine when I'm vomiting.... but aside from that, what I'm going to do is this, for all the subdomains, over the next day or so, I am going to be doing nothing but run the query to correct each and every disclaimer with the exception of crossovers. Those have to be disclaimed with each fandom involved, and I simply don't have the time at the moment to go through each and every individual crossover story and correct them myself. Before I get started, since I am correcting the disclaimers with a query for the largest part of you, all the stories currently hidden will be unhidden as well. Then, from this point forward, any of you who choose not to disclaim properly, and ignore any warnings given, will have them hidden again. This is a bit of a time consuming task, so it won't be done instantaneously. I have 21 subdomains to go through to do this. It will take roughly the next day or so.

no problem, I'll take care of it again for you. Sorry I've been away, have had the flu for over a week. Even called in sick to work because of it.

You have to bear in mind there aren't that many of us, for one, and for another most all of us work full time besides doing this. So, as we're a bit backlogged at the moment, it may take a couple days. However, it most certainly WILL be taken care of. I absolutely loathe plagiarists.

Working on this one and several others as we speak

Original story upload date uploaded date for plagiarism Original story content stolen story content As you can see, this user copied the original author's work WORD FOR WORD, other than changing the story title itself.

for Original Fiction for Original Non Fiction for Original Poetry

This does not apply to crossovers, as one needs to disclaim all the worlds involved as well.

Because there are more than a couple people doing this, it's easier if we just make it so we approach each disclaimer in the same manner, regardless of subdomain and fandom. So, if you read the FAQ for disclaimers, it's really quite clear as to what needs to be in any given disclaimer, as to the core of the disclaimer. That is, in fact, what we all look for.

AU/AR-Alternate Universe, Alternate Reality

with the age of the archive software, I'm rather limited in how exactly I can track these kinds of people, unlike the forum software which affords me much better options. However, I have something in mind which will hopefully stop most of this.

The avatar upload thing is being reworked. If I'm remembering the conversation correctly, the users will be linking to them offsite, rather than uploading them. Alternatively, I SHOULD be able to sort the avatars into subdirectories for the fandoms, and make an avatar gallery of some sort, like what we can do with the forum. Dunno for sure, we'll have to look in to that.

scheduled for tomorrow I think (provided time works out for it anyway) Two, actually. One is to bring the board current, the other is a fix for the guest posting to hopefully avoid the spam we've been getting lately. An enhancement to it. Before I do the version upgrade though, I will be making sure that any modifications in place, are not affected. That will affect how long the version upgrade will take. To combat the spam, I'll putting all guest forums on posting moderation. What this means, is that when you post, the topic won't automatically appear, it'll have to be approved. A pain for all of you who are supposed to be able to use the forum, but it'll kill the spam. So, don't freak if the post or topic doesn't appear immediately, there will be someone going through all the queues fairly regularly, several times a day. Also, Invisionboard has announced that 3.0 is going to be ready for beta turn of the year. So, I'll be putting up a test forum to have a look at what it's got, and then prepping the forum for the full release after beta is over. There are significant changes in code, which means that the modifications may or may not carry over properly. So, until the mod developers catch up to it, we may have to do without some of the toys at first. But, that is a few months away at least, so not a problem at the moment.

The problem is the archive code you know. BECAUSE it's so old, it doesn't allow for certain things. We are trying to port something in to help track these cretins, but again, due to the script's age, it's not playing very nice yet. If we can get that ported in without it causing problems everywhere else, it'll be a relatively simple fix in the future.