DemonGoddess

From the way it reads, anything you submit, once accepted, becomes the property of Amazon. Sure, they pay you royalties, but you lose rights to any of your content that is submitted.

Even though I don't write, one of the big things I see as issue with this is that you lose rights to anything you develop once it's submitted and accepted. The publishing agreement shows exactly what it is you're willing to give up once you've submitted in this format. In fanfiction (free), when an author develops an interesting concept that may be sellable in the future, it's still all theirs. If an author opts to remove the fanfiction and submit an original work to a publisher based on their concept, the concept and worlds still remain the author's. In this format, the author loses that.

If I add anything at all to insinuate RP, it'll be taken as we allow Roleplay in the archive, which we do not.

In your control panel, click edit (this opens a new tab) Select the story you want to edit from the dropdown To the right of that is a second dropdown Select Edit Details From there you can change your title, your summary, your disclaimer, your story rating, and your story placement (in the subdomain), and tick on or off the ability of others to add chapters to your story.

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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. July report is here. Dribs, Drabs and Doggy Tales Current 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. Read-the-book and fan-make stories We do not allow these. If they're found, they will be deleted, no warning. These types of stories are verbatim copies of books and/or scripts with name changes. Sorry folks, that's plagiarism. Tagging your stories Please, PLEASE remember to tag your stories appropriately. If you have a tag which you would consider a spoiler, we're perfectly fine with your adding that as the first paragraph in the affected chapter. It would look something like this: additional warnings this chapter: futa, 3plus The point is, as the writer, you know what your story will contain. If you know that you are going to run out of room in the summary field, we also accept this in the summary: tags are added in story (or something to that effect). Then, you make the tags/warnings the very first paragraph. My point here, is that sure, this is an adult archive. But that doesn't mean that the stories aren't supposed to have tags. You can't even add a story to the archive without selecting tags. Given the wide range of content type that we have here, it's a necessity to do this. 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 The rich text editor has been upgraded. If you're in any browser EXCEPT for Internet Explorer and do not see a text box, clear your cache, and that will correct it for you, as your browser is trying to access the older cached script which no longer exists. The banner software has been replaced entirely with a new adserver package. Yes, we've used OpenX for a long time. However, it has too many vulnerabilities which make it subject to robohacking. To avoid being hacked, I had to lock that software down tremendously, to where the advertisers (as users) were unable to login at all, among other things. Our new software even displays the banners as the makers intended them to look. There's really quite a visual difference between this and the old software and how the banners display. Buffy review table - For the first time in nearly seven years, I made a typo when running a query. Unfortunately, that typo merged all but 12 reviews to ONE story. So, I had to download the entire database (30 hours to do that), then extract the table data. I'm at about 80% complete in restoring the review table. I expect it'll only take another couple days to finish that up. I greatly appreciate the understanding and patience of the users who frequent that subdomain. You guys have been awesome! There are a few things users need to be aware of, so as to not have issues. Internet Explorer 10 has this lovely little default of going to “quirk” mode. This mode plays hell with php scripts. To bypass quirk mode, press Alt+S to put the browser in to STANDARD mode. If for some reason that doesn't work, press Alt+9 to put the browser in to Internet Explorer 9 mode. This will make the edit box appear. The bug for the center login box still exists, so to not have issues with that, once you've registered, remember to logout, then BACK in, using the boxes located at the upper right corner of your browser screen. 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

I hear ya, I'm feeling that way about Microshit and their fix for IE 10 which, oh yeah, DOESN'T WORK QUITE RIGHT. Surprise, surprise...

I'll tell ya, looking at your profile, NONE of the stories are new additions. You should not have been given a disclaimer warn, as they're ALL correct. Please disregard that warning, as it was quite obviously a mistake. I'm sorry about that.

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that's what it looks like.

oh I know, damn eyeballs are starting to cross, so I'm thinking it's time to call it done for tonight and start back up again tomorrow

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Good examples! Thundercats would also be anthro, things like that.

As a reader, anthro doesn't apply to weres or humanoids. At least I don't think so.

gossamersilverglow is absolutely right in how this topic is supposed to work

@Dean_Wax, explain what you mean? For the categories, we start with genre, then we go to pairing types as subcategories.

I'm at roughly 15% percent complete with the table restore.

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July Age Verification/Underagers (Current) Confirmed as 18 or older – 219 Now 18, but underage when registered – 20 accounts, 17 actual users Currently underage, deleted once – 50 accounts, 48 actual users Inconclusive data found – 378 users Users posting for minors – 0 users Returning minors – 5 accounts, 5 actual users Total users age checked - 667 Year to Date - 3375 Old Underage Users (by registration year) 2002 – 0 accounts, 0 users deleted, 0 users modified; total of 0 actual users 2003 – 8 accounts, 6 users deleted, 1 users modified; total of 7 actual users 2004 – 15 accounts, 14 users deleted, 1 users modified; total of 15 actual users 2005 – 28 accounts, 14 users deleted, 3 users modified; total of 17 actual users 2006 – 62 accounts, 42 users deleted, 4 users modified; total of 46 actual users 2007 – 20 accounts, 10 users deleted, 8 users modified; total of 18 actual users 2008 – 16 accounts, 10 users deleted, 6 users modified; total of 16 actual users Grand total – 119 accounts, 96 users deleted, 23 users modified; total of 119 actual users Year to Date – 2102 accounts, 1515 users deleted, 269 users modified; total of 1782 actual users Plagiarism Stories deleted (co-author information not provided) – 1, YTD - 4 Stories deleted (permissions not provided) – 3, YTD – 8 Story adoption confirmed – 1, YTD 2 Co – authors verified – 0, YTD – 7 Permissions provided – 4, YTD 16 Unsubstantiated claims of plagiarism – 2, YTD – 6 Users deleted – 1, YTD - 8 Added to the monitor list (for arrival to the archive) – 2, YTD - 4 Posting for another/posting others' work – 0, YTD 5 Added to the Hall of Shame – 0, YTD 3 Trolls/Flamers/Spammers users and content deleted (trolls) – 5, YTD 21 unfounded (trolls) – 0, YTD 2 flaming (instances found) – 1, YTD 7 spam registrations – 0, YTD 22 Other ToS Violations 56 violations resolved Year to Date – 278 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 – 4, YTD 64 Total stories left after merge – 2, YTD 31 Total stories looked at – 4, YTD 64 Shared Accounts and allowed alternate accounts Allowed additional accout – 1, YTD - 1 Found and allowed shared/joint accounts - 0, YTD - 7 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) – 1, YTD - 14 Users - deleted for non correction bad email address – 50, YTD - 707 Users - corrected email address issue - 2, YTD - 17 Duplicate Users Processed Users with no duplicates found - 0,YTD - 1 Users merged - 65, YTD - 403 Users where duplicate had no data, and was deleted - 125, YTD - 693 Total extra accounts deleted after processing - 224, YTD - 1305 Total accounts looked at - 414, YTD - 2414 Actual user amount - 190, YTD – 1101

anytime! I usually read her stuff on LJ since she's not here

Manta is still testing her changes offsite, to be sure that they work before I deploy them. She expects we'll be able to complete the upgrade on Monday.

Okay, so you all know exactly what I'm doing now, which will explain why it's a tad time consuming, this task. First, I had to split the review table in to smaller chunks for import. It's too big to import in one fell swoop. Next, I have to split those smaller chunks in to a series of import queries, limiting the number of records per query to about 15 so that I don't get a time out while importing the records and then have nothing imported at all. Finally, I have to be sure each record is on its own line, and the end of the record line has the proper closing mark for the line statement. I've already got over 2500 imported back in, and am working on setting up more as we speak.

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