Forum: Author Hangout

Web Master

This title has some overtones like a BDSM "master" or Spider-man, originally a comic book character (spiders have webs). Moderator is much more moderate.

I read somewhere, probably one of these forums, that the sex content tag was not part of the original configuration of the site and that when it was introduced all stories were given the Much Sex tag as a default.

Perhaps the story Keet mentioned was caught in this default tagging after publication.

That would explain the many stories with the Much Sex tag. I haven't seen the same problem with Stroke or Some Sex, only with Much Sex. And now I think about it, it does happen with older stories.
I will take this into account when determining if it's a story I want to start reading. In some cases, like the example I mentioned, I will take the description more seriously than the Sex Contents tag. Thank you for providing this enlightenment.

I'm pretty sure you have that from me, although it would have been better if Laz had weighed in on this one.
I believe the tag was introduced some time around late May 2006. Most authors who were active at the time updated that tag although - checking names at random - Lazlong mostly left things alone and Lazlo Zalezac ignored many of his older stories.

(edited to fix the date estimate, keet got a moving target)

I believe the tag was introduced some time around 2007, it was certainly after late May 2006. Most authors who were active at the time updated that tag although - checking a name at random - Lazlong mostly left things alone.

My example was a Don Lockwood story from 2003. His last story was dated 2005, so your 2006/2007 time would make that story a candidate for the automatic Much Sex tag and the reason why it was never updated by the author.

I reported my example story as coded wrong. I will report other stories too if the code is clearly wrong.

Thanks for the clarification.

Some time around the last week of May 2006. I remember that someone had just posted a drugged-stream-of-consciousness masquerading as a story and it got the code "Much Sex". Looking around a couple of other authors today made it clear that the current system was in place by early June that year.
There was an announcement made at the time.

If the author is active (recent story and/or blog updates) you might try to send them a note asking why a story is coded a certain way.

Assuming late May 2006 is correct, there are not many authors still active. I think Argon fixed his codes and I'm not sure we are going to get the chance to speak to Lazlo Zalezac again.

I agree that for older stories many of the authors may no longer be active for various reasons.

On the other hand, it could be that you disagree with how a relatively recent story (last three or four years) was coded.

On the other hand, it could be that you disagree with how a relatively recent story (last three or four years) was coded.

I'm only offering an explanation as to why most stories posted at/before the end of May 2006 have the "Much Sex" tag. If some more recent stories have it, that is down to the author.