DemonGoddess

Feel free to start a game like this in the forum games section. While I know I'd not have anything to contribute to it, it would certainly be funny to read. Just a couple of the examples in this topic are hysterical! @greenwizard- you should just write what comes to you, never mind that a few people have problems with words. Honestly, I think most of what you're seeing as far as a rant regarding all this is more the overuse of a particular word/phrase in a paragraph.

yep, it's currently a completely useless link. Does nothing but open up a subscription option with no selections. @DarkInuLord - yeah my bills tend to make me broke (at best) 99% of the time too. Sucks, don't it?

You know, a good place to see evolution at work (in a human intervention sort of way) is by observing what animal breeders do with the breeds they work with. They pick and choose which animals to breed with each other based on certain traits. As this is something that is not selected naturally, of course many times the traits have no useful purpose other than to please some person's sense of aesthetics more often than not. Naturally, most of these encouraged mutations (the Sphinx cat comes to mind as example) are often of a nature which would actually be detrimental to the animal in the wild for survival. Hence, natural selection would then breed the trait OUT. My whole point there is that just observing something like animal breeding can show you no deity involvement whatsoever.

I've always enjoyed the fact that my little brother is so much younger than I as well. If I were facing the prospect of parenthood these days, I'd be terrified as well. As it is, there were enough extra added things that I had to deal with with mine, that was different from when my parents were raising me, that it was more than a little stressful to begin with at the time. Parenting is tough enough to begin with.

The database tables are fine, just checked them. Checked the content of them as well, all the data is intact in the tables. Please bear with us, the tech who would correct this is not at her computer at the moment. This will be resolved as soon as we can for you.

I'm sure it was neither. However, this will be looked into for you ASAP.

Anyway, as I said a long time ago, when asked about it, it's pretty useless as it sits. NORMALLY when one enables that in a forum like this, it's for user levels. Of course, we don't do that here. A good example of that would be a forum where I go to download games for the arcade. With my paid membership of $3 a year, I can get a certain amount of games daily. In order to get unlimited downloads, I have to pay. Alot more. They do that through the "purchase paid subscriptions" in the user CP (My Controls). Was going through one of the forums I frequent for modifications and such, and came across something that would let me change that from a subscription panel to a donation panel. I think that could be convenient for those members who choose to do that. Which is why I looked some more at the modification. In essence, it would work just like the paypal button or the donate link in the archive. So what I'm asking all of you for is your opinions of a modification like this, and if I should even bother doing it. NO, this wouldn't make this a mandatory thing either, to make the modification so that it works for that. That's entirely up to the USER on what to do.

In Memory of Elizabeth Reed - Allman Brothers Band

A TRUE friend will accept you how you are. Period. Bad traits, good traits, it should not ever matter. If a person cannot accept you unconditionally as the kind of person you are, then keep 'em at acquaintance distance. .

Nothing to be sorry for. After all, that was the only way you HAD to get 'em uploaded for the longest time.

My little brother is 5 years younger than my oldest kid.

thank you. they will be taken care of.

Example link? They shouldn't be posting that in the archive anyway. That's for fiction uploads.

I just tried it. How it works is that you can remove your reviews from the review panel you left it in. To use the "remove review" button requires that you be the author who's story it is, and thus removing a review from your story review board. So, no, you're not doing anything wrong on your user page.

Just a few things... Give a brief description of what you're looking for from your prospective beta. Say what fandom this is for, or if it's an original story. Let the prospective beta readers know what type of story this will be (in general). For example, if it's an erotic story then you really should point out what they can expect to find, so if it contains slash or rape, for example, and the prospective beta isn't into either of those things, they'll know not to bother enquiring. On the other hand, if it's right up their alley then they'll be more likely to enquire with you further. The prospective beta reader needs to know if what you're writing is something that will interest them. State whether you'd like to read examples of the prospective beta reader's works before you agree on anything. This is a good idea, since if a person is going to be critiquing your work, wouldn't you like to know whether they really do know what they're talking about? Very simple, and up to you guys to flesh out from that.

Put what fandom you'd like to beta for Be sure to state what you will NOT beta, as to story type and pairings When making your post, show good language usage, so the authors looking for betas have some idea as to your capabilities. Finally, tell us a little about yourself, if you like. Those are the basics of what you should post. The rest is up to you. To expand on the above a little, something else that would be a good idea is to provide a link to a profile where your stories are located, giving people a chance to read your stories to see if your writing style is appropriate for them. Some writing styles just clash too much, and would likely cause arguments over what's "right" and what's "wrong". If you don't have any stories uploaded anywhere but you have them on your hard drive then tell people that you'd be happy to send them some stories of yours for them to go over. If you don't have any stories anywhere, then... why are you offering to become a beta when you have no practical experience? Would you offer to teach someone how to fly a real plane simply because you've read a lot about them? I should certainly hope not! Being an avid reader is no substitute to being a writer. If you're offering your services as a beta then you really should be able to prove that you know what you're talking about. Finally, if you later change your mind about being a beta reader, or you feel you have enough on your plate without taking on any more, then it would be a good idea to come back here and update things to show that you're not taking on any more work. That way you save everyone's time!

yep, high school drama it is, isn't i? Unfortunately, some never grow out of the need to make that sort of drama with others. I can count on one hand how many close friends I actually have. That's quite alright with me. I've ALWAYS had the attitude that if one is not willing to accept me as I am, then that person really isn't worth wasting time on. Certainly not worth making myself feel bad over, ya know?

size restriction? I know there has to be one.

Woulda been buried if it was in the HP section

THAT part of your original post said all I ever really needed to see about your intent. Someone ending an opening post in a topic like that is WANTING a flame war. I assure you, if it goes to that, I will not be nice. I am more than a little intolerant of someone starting flame wars. I had hoped to see good discussion from this, and for the most part, there has been. So, retract the claws, and discuss this rationally. @NinjaGaijin- As far as I know, there is no intent to restrict content, as there never WAS content restriction. No reason to start it now, ya know? The only restriction I know about there is to properly tag, label, and rate the stories, so the readers have some idea of what they're looking at. As to the bad fics published, we're not here to be elitist and say someone isn't good enough to put up their stuff for public consumption. That's up to the readers to tell the author in review, if you ask me. Think about this, how else are writers going to learn how to improve, if they don't put up the bad stuff too? They gotta start SOMEWHERE, right? So, no...don't see the stories we all know to be horrid going away. I'll keep doing like I always do with those, which is to skip 'em, thanks. Don't need to punish my eyeballs

Like I said, my big thing isn't so much words as a descriptive, but words used wrongly. Or the use of "unwords". THAT really gets me.

It should be gone now.

LOTS older (in my case at least)

yes, it's because of your level.

Yes I've seen the behavior. I've been using the skin as I've been designing it. And as I said, it's the hover setting.