Forum: Author Hangout

Haters gotta hate, hate, hate.

Too many people feel offended by anyone who doesn't share their own views, and feel entitled to weigh in with their opinion, even if they know they hate the story and have no desire to read it.

The worst case of this is anything "MM". It doesn't matter what it is, but the religious conservatives will go out of their way to bash it, and never even read the story blurb. They just react to the code and punish the author as a way of shutting them up and driving them away. It's typically bully tactics. It's also why there are SO few stories about blacks here. Sadly, the SOL scoring system is not very encouraging of minorities.

the religious conservatives will go out of their way to bash it,

I don't think you have many religious conservatives on SOL. They'd vote almost anything down. Well, unless they're a closet sex lover, but then it's not their religious conservatism that's causing them to score a MM story low.

Hmm, SOL should attract Catholic priests and assistant college football coaches. Then the Mm stories would be in the top ten.

It's not as apparent, but cheating stories get bombed too.

There is always an email to the webmaster option to report miscoded stories.

I've never heard of a webmaster recoding a story. Instead, you should contact the author. Even if they decided not to code it, they may relent.

Correction: Sorry, Ernest, I stand corrected. I'd never noticed a corrected code before.

however occasionally wished for a way to report miscoded stories.

use the Webmaster link and include the URL link for the story. Lazeez will email the author and see some action is taken after he investigates it.

Thanks for the feedback! I used to write hardly any rape stories, but I see I'm writing more -- at least among the ones I can post here (those lacking in little girls).

Sterling's women characters lacked reality. When faced with rape, almost none of them fought back

I believe that in the (all too common) rapes that occur in the real world, remarkably few women will fight back, especially if they know they'll lose.

I can't figure out how to quote text like the rest of you do here,

Use you mouse to highlight the text, then click on the arrow that turns left in the bottom right corner of the message and it'll automatically show it as a quote. Or you can copy and paste the text and in the line above it you type quote between the angled brackets and /quote between angle brackets under it. When you type a reply under the box Post is some of the html code it accepts, just replace the b for bold with the word quote and the / before the tag indicates it's closure point.

It also works with curly brackets. { } in fact if you look a the auto quote before clicking post it uses curly brackets.

I never realized you could use angle brackets (for quotes). That would be easier than searching for the seldom used curly brackets. I'm used to typing angle brackets for html code, so now it's almost second nature.

Angle Bracket Quote Test

Your test seems to have failed. :(

test shows the angle brackets < > don't work for the quote command but do for the rest while the curly brackets { } do work for the quote command. Wonder why he has two systems in use?

Two different systems. One (angle brackets) allows the use of basic html commands, while the other (curly brackets) offers SOL specific commands, same as when you post stories.

Guess we need to suggest that Lazeez allow cross angle/curly brackets for SOL commands. But I suspect he wants authors to focus on the SOL commands separately, rather than assuming they're extensions of html.

I updated the text handling function to allow quote in angled brackets as well as curly ones and allowed the < blockquote > tag too.

If you use the site's tags { i } and { b } and { em } etc... they'll work too. But only those tags listed as html too.

Thanks, Lazeez. It sounds like a silly fix, but it should really speed up responses, especially when using a smartphone where you can't click the 'auto reply' arrow.

Two different systems. One (angle brackets) allows the use of basic html commands, while the other (curly brackets) offers SOL specific commands, same as when you post stories.

When I post stories at SoL I use the Tagged Text commands to ensure the finished product looks like I expect it to. They all use the curly brackets { } and have limited instruction options. I wonder if they work with this.

{blue} test of tagged text colour command blue {/blue}

edit to add: looks like it doesn't.

refer to my reply above yours.

see what happens when we both work on something at the same time and one of us takes longer to post it? Thanks.

edit to add: You snuck in with a reply while I was still working on a response to CW.