Posted by Hikari_no_Kage

03/01/12 - 05:28AM

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Happy March, everyone~

This month's announcement will be fairly short, I think. It's just featured stories and a few reminders. Speaking of featured stories...

The theme for this month is It's Over 9000 (Words)~

A Supernatural Kind of Thing by Resurii (Supernatural, Adult)
Breaking the Fourth Wall by silver_neko_kitsune (Prince of Tennis, 13+)
Hello Heartbreaker. by Alastair (Yu-Gi-Oh!, 13+)
Italy is for Lovers by Clara de Morra (Assassin's Creed, 13+)
Lessons by Bluewaters (Devil May Cry, 17+)
Set Fire to the Rain by Pepe Le Pew (Bleach & Katekyo Hitman Reborn!, 17+)

Congratulations to the six of you~

Um, as for next month's featured nominations, please see this thread on the forums. The theme is Unhappy Endings. Make of that what you will~

With that said, here are those reminders I promised:

1. Do not submit more than one chapter of the same story to the queue before the previous chapter has been validated. Failure to comply will result in the deletion of all the chapters of that story that are in the queue.

2. Mods are not betas, nor are they editors.

3. Do not ignore our e-mails. (On that note, please make sure you have a working e-mail address listed in the Personal Info section of your settings.)

On a lighter note~ If you're wondering about the troll!round of fic trade that DG mentioned earlier... it will possibly exist later, so keep your eyes open! In any case, we'll let you know if and when it happens. :'3

Posted by crazydominodragongirl

02/01/12 - 08:06PM

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Hallo all and happy February~ Since there are quite a few things to say, we'll start with featured and then go to general reminders. Please read the reminders! Mods don't like it when they are ignored. :(

The theme this month is best of 2011! And the winners are...

Cheer Up by Invalid_Secret (Saiyuki, 13+)
Departing Letters by sheenagoesRAWR (Naruto, 13+)
Diary of a Square Survival by Knightsnipe (Minecraft, Youth)
Restart, With Love by Mrs_Anonymous (Harry Potter, Adult+)
Refusal by Wingtip Sparrow (Bleach, Adult)
Scene by Scene by Jemmers (Katekyo Hitman Reborn!, 13+)

Congratulations to you~

Nominations for next month's featured are open over here on the forums. The theme is It's Over 9000 (Words). Go forth and nominate~

And now for your semi-regular reminder of rules!!!1one Once again, do not submit more than one chapter of the same story to the queue before the previous chapter has been validated. If you do, all chapters of that story in the queue will be deleted, often without even glancing at the story. Save us and yourself time and just submit one chapter, please. Slightly related, but please listen when the mods say things! We don't like repeating ourselves.

Another thing, since this seems to, er, be a common misconception lately. The mods do not act as betas for your stories. If we send a no letter with a list of errors, they will not be all of the errors. It is up to you to find everything and fix it. We are not going to hunt down every mistake for your convenience, so don't limit yourself to what we pointed out. We really shouldn't be denying the same chapter three or four times. It is also up to you to edit when asked to edit, not submit the same chapter unchanged or ignore e-mails sent about stories already on the archive. Being ignored makes us sad. :(

That's all for this month. Questions/comments/concerns/praise for finally getting the queue down to zero! go here.

Posted by Kerrigan Sheehan

01/17/12 - 09:57PM

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I know that a lot of people have really missed the site in the month or so it's been down. I know I have several thousand words to post myself. The mods have missed you too. Seriously, with no queue, we don't know who to send yes and no letters to. (Landlords don't like it when you point out that they used the wrong homophone in their Christmas letter.) But I'm sure you're all eager to get posting, so I'll try to keep this brief, or as brief as someone who tends to write terribly long novels can make it.

1. Featured Stories. As DG mentioned on the forums, by mod consensus, or the consensus of the mods she could reach immediately at the time, there are no featured stories in this announcement. Suggestions for the theme "Best of 2011" can be submitted on the forums until the end of January and will be featured in February's announcments. The links are in the post below this one, but in case you don't feel like scrolling, the submission thread is here.

2. Queue Delays As some of you might have guessed, it could take a bit longer than normal to get things through the queue right now. This is because the site has been down for about a month, including a few major holidays, and that means that a lot of people probably have massive amounts of things to post. (As always, the one chapter at a time rule applies to unvalidated authors.) Please be patient. The queue is bound to get very long, and it could take up to about a month to return to its normal length.

3. Valentine Fic Trade. I am running a Valentine fic trade. The signup thread is here. I'm leaving it up to the majority of participants as to whether this will be an anon round or an open round.

Let the chapterdumping begin! (Seriously, what else is everybody going to do while Cheezburger Network and Wikipedia are blacked out to protest PIPA/SOPA?)

Edit by Kerrigan Sheehan: A couple of users have reported bugs since the site came back online, so there are a couple additions to the announcements. Please read them.

4. Categories. A few categories were reported as showing up in the archive but not in the dropdown list. If you run across a category that doesn't show up in the dropdown, let a mod know about it or post it in the forums in the category request thread or bug report thread so it can be fixed. Thank you, DestinedXDreams, for reporting this.

5. Story Ratings. It seems that a small number of stories have had their ratings reverted to "All" recently. Please check through the list of stories on your profile and fix any ratings that need fixing. If you find something in the archive that seems to be rated "All" when it shouldn't be, either contact the author directly and ask them to fix it or contact a mod so we can do this for them. Thank you, Zesty, for bringing this to my attention.