DemonGoddess

The link I removed did NOT belong to the author. It was one of those download site things, which is definitely not allowed, unless the author him or herself posts to such places, which is normally NOT the case.

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March Age Verification/Underagers (Current)Confirmed as 18 or older - 29 Now 18, but underage when registered – 3 accounts, 1 actual users Currently underage, deleted once – 5 accounts, 4 actual users Inconclusive data found – 70 users Users posting for minors – 0 users Returning minors – 2 accounts, 1 actual users Total users age checked - 105 Year to Date - 356 Old Underage Users (by registration year)2002 – 0 accounts, 0 users deleted, 0 users modified; total of 0 actual users 2003 – 1 accounts, 0 users deleted, 1 users modified; total of 1 actual users 2004 – 0 accounts, 0 users deleted, 0 users modified; total of 0 actual users 2005 – 4 accounts, 3 users deleted, 0 users modified; total of 3 actual users 2006 – 0 accounts, 0 users deleted, 0 users modified; total of 0 actual users 2007 – 9 accounts, 4 users deleted, 1 users modified; total of 5 actual users 2008 – 0 accounts, 0 users deleted, 0 users modified; total of 0 actual users Grand total – 14 accounts, 7 users deleted, 2 users modified; total of 9 actual users Year to Date – 51 accounts, 30 users deleted, 5 users modified; total of 35 actual users PlagiarismStories deleted (co-author information not provided) – 1, YTD - 1 Stories deleted (permissions not provided) – 0, YTD – 4 Story adoption confirmed – 0, YTD 1 Co-authors verified – 0, YTD – 3 Permissions provided – 0, YTD 2 Unsubstantiated claims of plagiarism – 3, YTD – 3 Users deleted – 0, YTD - 1 Added to the monitor list (for arrival to the archive) – 0, YTD - 0 Posting for another/posting others' work – 0, YTD 0 Fan Make/Read the Book (these stories are deleted) – 1, YTD 3 Added to the Hall of Shame – 0, YTD 0 Trolls/Flamers/SpammersUsers and content deleted (trolls) – 0, YTD 1 unfounded (trolls) – 0, YTD 0 flaming (instances found) – 0, YTD 0 spam registrations – 0, YTD 17 Other ToS Violations21 violations resolved Year to Date – 80 Orphan and Duplicate storiesTotal orphan stories found and deleted – 0, YTD 0 Stories to merge – 0, YTD 0 Total stories left after merge – 0, YTD 0 Total stories looked at – 0, YTD 0 Shared Accounts and allowed alternate accountsAllowed additional accout – 0, YTD - 0 Found and allowed shared/joint accounts - 0, YTD - 0 Invalid and/or disposable email accountsNo issues found with email address – 0, YTD - 0 Users registered with false or disposable mail addresses (deleted when found) – 0, YTD - 1 Users deleted for non correction bad email address – 0, YTD - 51 Users corrected email address - 0, YTD - 1 Duplicate Users ProcessedUsers with no duplicates found – 0, YTD - 0 Users merged – 6, YTD - 48 Users where duplicate had no data, and was deleted – 33, YTD - 87 Total extra accounts deleted after processing – 47, YTD - 165 Total accounts looked at – 86, YTD - 303 Actual user amount - 39, YTD – 133 I'm not entirely sure that I've managed to regather all the data for the month. Sorry, suffered a catastrophic hard drive failure (head crash)

The author removed all the content, leaving an AN chapter only.

Naw, it was quite helpful! Especially since I was at work, and this person would've had to wait 'til I got home to be told EXACTLY what you said.

New thing, I'm including definitions after the word cabriolet - 2 wheeled carriage cancriform - shaped like a crab carnifex - executioner rules

The petition now shows as expired. Glad I signed it before then

do you have stories for these?

Nope, we won't be resorting to the no copy scripts. As I said before, it doesn't actually stop people. All it does is make it more difficult on users who DON'T have the intent to steal.

did that too, all the webcomics are now in their own top level

added, and I really need to make Web Comics a top level don't I?

Very happy to hear your results!

As someone who obviously has no clue WHATSOEVER as to what actually happens here, I would just leave it as a suggestion. Calling people lazy is absolutely not acceptable. YOU have no clue what kinds of man hours any one of us actually contribute

wtf do you mean about being lazy? Do you have ANY idea of what is entailed with rewriting this monster?

It's definitely a legacy code issue, as the intention is for rec reading, authors, current reading and the like to be added with a click once everything is finished

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Everything this author published before her 18th birthday was removed

Of course they are

Not a problem. I will say this though, even though we also disallow author note chapters, we at least give the users ample time to fix the issue, rather than deleting outright when we find 'em.

B&N will act quickly if approached as well, I'm thinking. The takedown notice is the key.