DemonGoddess

Firstly, I'd like to welcome all the new users we're seeing daily! Glad to have you here! Please do familiarize yourself with the Terms of Service and Content Guidelines. This IS a moderated archive. Moderation Status (2013) Updated monthly. September report is here. Dribs, Drabs and Doggy Tales Current bi-monthly prompt is here Current monthly prompt is here Newly published authors From time to time, we come across in the archive where one of the users is picked up by a publisher. Congratulations! +sniffles+ We didn't see any this time around. Proof of age On occasion, when checking age on a user, staff will come across wildly conflicting information. When this happens, I will email that user, and ask for proof of age. Please understand that if there is no response to this, the user in question will be deleted. This is something I have to do, as this site is, and always has been restricted in use to users aged 18 and over. Instructions on how to provide proof of age are here. Story rewrites As has been stated previously, duplicates of the same story are not allowed. However, we do understand that at times an author looks at something old, and opts to rewrite it. When this is what you want to do, the procedure for it is outlined here. We all understand that authors would love to keep their original reviews, hit counts and the like as well. By my merging the old to the new, you can. Category requests and creation There are a few ways where I'll create a new subcategory, upon request. First (and quickest), request it in the forum. Directions for that are here. You don't need a forum login to make this request. Request via email, at technicalsupport@adult-fanfiction.org?subject=New Category. The above rules apply to an email request as well. Name the fandom in your story itself, by disclaiming it properly. I go through the misc. categories about once a week and create categories for stories where there isn't one. Please note this does NOT apply to pair specific type categories. For those, I need to see links to 5 pre-existing stories, with the pair that you want the category for. Access bans, and why they happen Banning a user is not something done on a whim, or whenever. There are certain conditions which make it so this will happen: User is underage The user will be added to the ban filters, with the ban to expire on his or her 18th birthday. Should an underage user opt to return multiple times, on the 4th return, I will ban you permanently. By continuing to create profiles while underage, you're showing a blatant disregard for a rule which I cannot override, in that users MUST be 18 or older. User is a plagiarist When plagiarism is proven, whether or not that user ends up Hall of Shamed, that user is banned permanently. User is a troll We've all seen the trollfic, where someone posts something just to aggravate the users in a particular fandom. When a user has been determined a troll, that user is deleted and banned. Spamming On occasion, there will be users who create a login to spam the archives with the same story, over and over and over again; or the same review. Those users are deleted and banned. None of us needs to see that crap. The archives and review tables don't need glutted with that nonsense. Continued disregard of the ToS and CG, for the same type of infraction. Users such as this are warned several times. If necessary, the next step would be a suspension. If the suspension of use doesn't cure the behavior, the user is removed and banned. After all, when the bulk of the users can read and abide by the ToS and CG without issue, we can't allow just a few to flout the same. Minor deletions, and why they affect some review counts Current minors - This means users who were underage at time of registration, from 1/1/2009 forward. It doesn't matter when we catch you, you're still deleted. When that happens, if the user has left behind review data, that is ALSO deleted. Old minors - This means users who were underage at time of registration, from 12-31-08 and before. When these are found, the processing is a bit different, in that I've allowed for the inadequacies from before. There were a few staff who did their jobs, but they were often ignored, which is why there are so many of these. With an OM, if there are stories attached, all data posted AFTER the 18th birthday is allowed to stay. Rather than just outright deleting all content such a user has added, I go through the review tables as well, and allow the post 18 reviews to stay too. In all honesty, it's much easier to delete these outright, but that means that many reviews that don't need to be deleted, will be. It takes much longer to process something like this, rather than a standard minor deletion. Funding Status As always, we appreciate and thank everyone who can donate. It's certainly not required of the users, but every little bit helps! Tech Bits Internet Explorer- I've done everything I can to try and make the old code compatible to the browser. As nothing has worked, the best bet is for users to use something different for adding stories, such as Chrome or Firefox. The archive works in EVERY other browser I've tried, just not IE. At least not easily for IE. I have managed to make it so that IE 10 and up should work with no issue, and that with IE 9 you still have to use the workaround. Anything less, my guinea pigs informed me that sometimes they experience their computers locking up at worst, and at best it loads only the chapter title and still no text box, with no way to get to it. There is a workaround, but it only seems to work for Win Vista and up computers, and IE 9 and up. Thing is, if I make it so that everything works with Internet Explorer, then everything BREAKS for all the other browsers. To me, that's not a viable option. Domain change- Due to personnel changes over the years, somehow, the site managed to lose control of the original domain. If you think about it, last year from 9-14 through 9-16, we were effectively down, until the domain was renewed (and not by the site). This is why the domain has been changed. The new domain is attached to the site account, and renewable via the hosting account as well. As the person who has the old domain refuses to transfer it back to the site, there was no other choice. Unless of course we wanted to go through absolute and utter hell every year, waiting for it to be renewed. I've gotten everything permanently redirected, in all subdomains. What this means, is if you click an old link, it'll take you to the new one. Technical support- As stated previously, please allow up to 48 hours for initial response. I do try to (and usually manage to) answer much sooner than that, but depending upon my real life obligations, usually work stuff, is how long it actually takes me to be able to get to things. It is CRITICAL that when asking for technical support, you provide as much detail as you can. The more details you give me, the better able I will be to find an answer for you. When given response, please make sure you follow the directions exactly as given. If one takes the time to read the directions, and follows them step by step, the problem being experienced is usually resolved at that point. Our FAQ section has much useful information. Having said that, if you're still having trouble, you can either email tech support, or post in the tech support forum. It can take me up to 48 hours to respond, due to real life obligations. Please be patient, I WILL get to you as soon as I can. Please remember that the authors you read do like to hear from you! Leave them a review or two, and let them know how they're doing! DemonGoddess061

September Age Verification/Underagers (Current) Confirmed as 18 or older – 166 Now 18, but underage when registered – 30 accounts, 24 actual users Currently underage, deleted once – 38 accounts, 35 actual users Inconclusive data found – 191 users Users posting for minors – 1 users Returning minors – 9 accounts, 9 actual users Total users age checked - 426 Year to Date - 4269 Old Underage Users (by registration year) 2002 – 0 accounts, 0 users deleted, 0 users modified; total of 0 actual users 2003 – 4 accounts, 1 users deleted, 3 users modified; total of 4 actual users 2004 – 8 accounts, 3 users deleted, 4 users modified; total of 7 actual users 2005 – 19 accounts, 11 users deleted, 4 users modified; total of 15 actual users 2006 – 29 accounts, 20 users deleted, 1 users modified; total of 21 actual users 2007 – 16 accounts, 9 users deleted, 4 users modified; total of 13 actual users 2008 – 19 accounts, 12 users deleted, 3 users modified; total of 15 actual users Grand total – 95 accounts, 56 users deleted, 19 users modified; total of 75 actual users Year to Date – 2261 accounts, 1619 users deleted, 298 users modified; total of 1911 actual users Plagiarism Stories deleted (co-author information not provided) – 0, YTD - 4 Stories deleted (permissions not provided) – 1, YTD – 13 Story adoption confirmed – 1, YTD 2 Co – authors verified – 1, YTD – 9 Permissions provided – 4, YTD 22 Unsubstantiated claims of plagiarism – 0, YTD – 9 Users deleted – 1, YTD - 9 Added to the monitor list (for arrival to the archive) – 0, YTD - 4 Posting for another/posting others' work – 1, YTD 7 Added to the Hall of Shame – 0, YTD 3 Trolls/Flamers/Spammers users and content deleted (trolls) – 1, YTD 30 unfounded (trolls) – 0, YTD 2 flaming (instances found) – 0, YTD 9 spam registrations – 0, YTD 25 Other ToS Violations 29 violations resolved Year to Date – 329 The bulk of the violations this month was insufficient/improper story tags. Orphan and Duplicate stories Total orphan stories found and deleted – 0, YTD 0 Stories to merge – 0, YTD 71 Total stories left after merge – 0, YTD 33 Total stories looked at – 0, YTD 71 Shared Accounts and allowed alternate accounts Allowed additional accout – 0, YTD - 1 Found and allowed shared/joint accounts - 1, YTD - 10 Invalid and/or disposable email accounts No issues found with email address – 0, YTD - 0 Users registered with false or disposable mail addresses (deleted when found) – 2, YTD - 16 Users - deleted for non correction bad email address – 110, YTD - 842 Users - corrected email address issue - 4, YTD - 23 Duplicate Users Processed Users with no duplicates found - 0,YTD - 1 Users merged - 29, YTD - 454 Users where duplicate had no data, and was deleted - 72, YTD - 812 Total extra accounts deleted after processing - 120, YTD - 1509 Total accounts looked at - 218, YTD - 2786 Actual user amount - 101, YTD – 1271

It was deleted because it was in the wrong subdomain entirely. You want to add DBZ stories to anime 2, as that's where they are.

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Y'see, my point with this is that were I to review such a story, I can PROMISE you that whatever I had to say would be very blunt, and certainly construed as hurtful at the least. Hence the not leaving them at all for me in such a for instance. Not even on another site where I'm not staff.

No idea, I answered based on what you said the content is. I can find no record of it anywhere, so it could just as easily been pulled by the author him or herself.

If the story contained content about a real underage person, we would have had to delete it. We are OBLIGATED to not allow ANY content about real people under 18.

Prompts obsequiousness obmutescent oriflamme Rules Happy Writing! This topic will autolock at 11:59 pm EDT 10-12

I'll just say that with my directness, should I happen upon a story that I honestly can't go further than a paragraph or two in to, I absolutely will not review, nor rate. I click the back arrow. I'm not willing to further waste my time.

Are you in your control panel? If so, look to your left, under the profile edit options. There is a listing of each subdomain, with add/edit/delete under each one.

I'm going to put in my twenty cents here (inflation you know). As a reader, if a story is bad, and has no redeeming qualities that I can see, I absolutely will not leave a review for it. The reason for that, is that regardless of the author maybe, possibly being willing to listen, if it's that bad, I'm too blunt to say anything at all that resembles positive concrit. Were I to actually review something like that, yes, I'd manage to keep it from being a flame, but as blunt as I am, I promise my review to that kind of story would be very much LESS than kind. While I wouldn't intend to hurt someone's feelings, I know that I would. So, it's better that I say nothing at all on such a story.

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thank you!

Only other option I can think of, to see if I can duplicate the issue, is for you to attach the file you're trying to add to this topic, and let me try it.

Again, I was unable to duplicate the issue. I've tried in several subdomains now and am still not getting that issue. Have you cleared your cache? More importantly, after clearing cache, have you closed and restarted the browser? You can clear cache all day long, but if you don't close and restart the browser, it means nothing. Some browsers even require a reset of the computer.

I just tested and was unable to duplicate the error. When selecting .txt upload, are you using a .txt file? If not, then it won't work. That's the only file type allowed for actual upload. Unless you know html and have formatted your text document so that it has text containers, I would NOT use that feature. Select text area, and use the rich text editor instead.

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added. That was an awesome series opener!

If you're not requesting a specific category, but instead issuing a challenge, there is another part to the forum to do that, not here please.

Agents of Shield will go to the xmen subdomain, I'll end up creating a tv category I expect. So you're saying you want this added?

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First of all, the login. The login is done via the centralized location for it. Yes, there are issues with the CENTER boxes, but using the ones located at the upper right there are no problems. Sure, we could let users reply in the review boards rather than lengthy ANs and what not, but then again, I'm the one who is going THROUGH all that and fixing the data from the multiple crashes this site has suffered over the years. For my sanity, we use the forum for responses. I am the ONLY one with DB access, so you can see what I mean. I have 8.6GB of data to go through record by record, and fix where needed. I'm hoping we have a function for the actual replies once the storyboarding is rewritten. (I've asked for it, we'll see how that goes). In the meantime, the forum options works just as well. For lost passwords, with the hashing in place to prevent users from being hacked, the login retrieval is done via a password RESET. It's simple enough and there are directions in the email sent to do this. Underneath the login boxes themselves, it's clearly stated that users must me mindful of password entry being CASE sensitive. As to difficulties, many of them are directly Internet Explorer related. That particular browser creates issues not just here, but at most sites. In fact, to make something like this IE compatible, the coding often BREAKS in all the other browsers. So, no, not going there. EVER. As to what the abovementioned site uses for software, eFiction has its own set of issues, including many security vulnerabilities, the inability to work with a dataset this size, and some other things I won't bore you with on a tech end. When looking to revamp all the old code here (which where it's not yet been rewritten is over ten years old and iffy) I did experiment with an import (offsite of course), and managed to crash the program rather quickly. So it's clearly NOT an option for us. Given that writing a new code base takes time, there are many functions which are planned and not yet in place. Such as clicking a link to set a story in the recommended reading, clicking an author name for the same. The big thing right now, is to make sure that the new code WORKS, which is does quite nicely. We'll add the little extras (and they are tiny in comparison to the big picture) AFTER making sure all the base code is in place and working correctly.

If you're using word, and click paste from word in the rte, it'll preserve your bold, italics, all of that.