FF.net story deletion

Small problem with that theory. I have a fic with 1085 reviews and six hundred thousand hits. And that's just one fic. Unless you're promising to round up all those readers to make them re-review a reposted copy if something gets deleted? I ain't sticking my neck out for shit.

You can't save your reviews?

If what you care about is the numbers rather than the content, see if you can beg the AOOO people or whatever other site to artificially increment your numbers by how much you had on FFN.

You're either missing the very simple point or being intentionally obtuse; hopefully the latter because the former is always sad. "Hey, you can always repost it" doesn't bring back what you've accumulated over years and years on the site. Hits, reviews, favorites, people having it in communities, people having it on story alert, et cetera. Unless you can guarantee that you have a method to restore all of these things for me, I'm not sticking my neck out for you. No how, no way.

I'm quoting Joe, because he has a damned good point here.

I do have them occasionally. Strange as it may seem.

Well.....

Guys if any of you have lost the fics on FF.net purely for the title then email them ask for it to be put back and change the title to something that they wont get pissy about, Raab had it, I changed the name, made sure it was a higher classification and that was it problem solved.

Just curious, but if the 'title' doesn't match the rating, why change both?

Couldn't you have just kept the 'bitch' is you made it an M rating, or was remove the title overall.

Titles have to be PG rated.

huh.
Alrighty then.

Personally I think a tag system would be the best granted that the tags are moderated and not simply left to the incompetent majority.

Maybe I'm just old-fashioned, but it seems to me that a boolean search function works better than a haphazard tag system.

The thing is if you have a tag system it's pretty easy to have highly customizable searches. One of the things that annoy me on ff.net is all the crap ass boys love stuff there is. Seriously, look up Prototype crossovers and you'll see that the majority of those are Assassin's Creed with Alex/Desmond slash. I they had a tag system you could exclude stuff like that.
I love reading crossovers so another thing that annoys me/makes it hard to find stuff is that you can't specify more than two of the origins if you make a 3+ cross as earlier mentioned.

A moderated tag system would make it easier to actually find the stuff you want rather than having to slodge through page after page of badly written synopsizes that consist of weird paring tags "M!Pregg" and shit like that.

You can't really get 'more customizable searches' than an actually boolean search... Tag searches requires that said tag be created (and vetted) and then *used* by the author, rather than an author actually writing a proper summary that you can search.

Look here is the link: http://www.yourfanfiction.com/ it's pretty much fanfiction.net version 2.0, most of the bad stuff is gone and many of the things you would like to have is there, you don't even have to search by tags if you don't want to you know you can search by category, warnings or just summary, penname and title.

I would categorize it is "wannabe ff.net".

...so you like not being able to exclude slash from your searches good to know.

No, I would rather be able to search for -slash (ie. remove from my search anything that mentions slash).

Wait wouldn't that include things like "no slash" and similar statements in the summary?

This is one thing I'd like changed about AO3. In general, it's a pretty good archive, very easy to use, and you can edit older stories on the fly, but the tags are very haphazard due to being user-generated. There's a lot of overlap for similar genre terms, which fragments search results if you're not careful.

Possibly. Any definer medium *has* some problems. Tags don't seem to work and I can always do two quick searches (or, you know, just skip over the ones that look like slash.) Searching seems superior because it doesn't depend upon people hoping to agree on which tags to create and use.

Require all authors posting anything outside the Twilight section to click "I agree" on a statement disparaging that pile of ersatz-literary excrement in excruciating and insulting detail. If they don't, they get permabanned from posting in any section that isn't Twilight.

There, I just got rid of 99% of the shitty slashfic writers without losing anything of value.

But then you'd lose Twilight masterpieces such as Can't give you up.

Somehow I doubt that the author of that work of literary genius would fail my litmus test.

I assumed it was a Rickroll, so I had to read it.
Was not disappointed. The true genius of this fic, however, is the summary.