The New System (GA Stories)

[Mark Arbour]

Most of you are aware that there's a new system for posting stories (GA Stories). You've seen changes in the announcement threads, you've seen endless announcements of the posting of old chapters on the announcement board, and you may even have read some of the threads that include bitching and moaning.

 

I've been working to move my stories over to the new system, and have found there's a lot to like about it. :wub:Special thanks to Cia for helping me move them over and doing the yeoman's work on that, and to Lugh for his Freqently Asked Questions and his behind-the-scenes help as I navigated my way through the screens. The biggest advantage to me is that it gives me control over when I post my chapters, and it makes it easy for me to edit any mistakes I may find after they're published. I'm not quite sure what the system is going to look like when it's finished, and I'm sure there will be some additional bumps and starts along the way, but I'm going to ask you to be patient. I'm hoping you'll give Myr and his team time to get the system up and running and to work out some of the bugs before deciding whether you like it or not.

 

If you want to stay up-to-date on story postings, you might try the notification system. Go to this link and you'll see a button called "Like" under my reputation. Click on that, and it will prompt you for parameters. You can tell it when to notify you when new stories are posted. I will still post notifications in the meantime, either in the announcement thread, or on this forum.

 

By the way, you may notice that my reputation is down about 100 points or so. Apparently someone joined GA with the express intention of driving that number down, and went into the forums here and made an effort to neg me the max possible each day. It's flattering and a bit scary to know that some people hate me that much to make a concerted and planned effort to impact a largely irrelevant number.:king: You can tell how important it was since I didn't notice it until West pointed it out to me.

[methodwriter85]

I noticed it as well. That was kinda creepy.

 

Does this affect your regular site? I love the orange background and easy navigability of your site.

[Nephylim]

I can't say I noticed... there are a lot of things I don't notice but that's a terrible thing to do. I mean whether reps are important to you or not then to have someone deliberately drive it down must hurt. I mean, if it was ten or twenty then it's creepy and annoying but you shrug it off... but 100 - that's totally out of order.

 

If you find out who did it I'l join the queue to kick his (or her (have to be PC here)) ass

[Westie]

By the way, you may notice that my reputation is down about 100 points or so.  Apparently someone joined GA with the express intention of driving that number down, and went into the forums here and made an effort to neg me the max possible each day.  It's flattering and a bit scary to know that some people hate me that much to make a concerted and planned effort to impact a largely irrelevant number.:king:  You can tell how important it was since I didn't notice it until West pointed it out to me.  

Can't help it if i'm a details man

 

 

let's start the campaign to get Arbour's rep back up in the 300's

 

 

[Johnathan Colourfield]

Glad you agree mark. They have done an awesome job.

 

I gave you one rep point to help!

[Daisy139]

I think I noticed the neg'ging and I was confused everytime I saw a post of yours that he overlooked to neg. I guess nobody's perfect

But he won't succeed.

[PrivateTim]

When I was catching up in the Millennium series (all 40 some pages) I saw that you were negged like on every post you posted.... I just figured you and your friends were messing with each other... but it is possible you ticked someone off, but that would be a lot of work to neg you that much if you only get 5 a day.... I think you should be flattered you an touch someone so deeply! 0)

[Canuk]

Apparently someone joined GA with the express intention of driving that number down, and went into the forums here and made an effort to neg me the max possible each day. It's flattering and a bit scary to know that some people hate me that much to make a concerted and planned effort to impact a largely irrelevant number.:king: You can tell how important it was since I didn't notice it until West pointed it out to me.

 

this is worthy of one of your story-lines. who would be so small minded as to sign up to GA specifically to drive down a completely artificial ranking. The person(s) concerned need real help really soon. I just hope they get it.

[Mark Arbour]

When I was catching up in the Millennium series (all 40 some pages) I saw that you were negged like on every post you posted.... I just figured you and your friends were messing with each other... but it is possible you ticked someone off, but that would be a lot of work to neg you that much if you only get 5 a day.... I think you should be flattered you an touch someone so deeply! 0)

 

 

this is worthy of one of your story-lines. who would be so small minded as to sign up to GA specifically to drive down a completely artificial ranking. The person(s) concerned need real help really soon. I just hope they get it.

 

You two pretty much summed up how I felt. Flattered, in a twisted way, that someone would go to such efforts to neg a nice guy like me while simultaneously concerned for their sanity.

[methodwriter85]

Mark, you didn't happen to turn down a nice guy in high school with a cute little ass so you could date a hunky football player instead, did you?

[colinian]

By the way, you may notice that my reputation is down about 100 points or so. Apparently someone joined GA with the express intention of driving that number down, and went into the forums here and made an effort to neg me the max possible each day. It's flattering and a bit scary to know that some people hate me that much to make a concerted and planned effort to impact a largely irrelevant number.:king: You can tell how important it was since I didn't notice it until West pointed it out to me.

I've been clicking that little + icon on each of your posts I visit and each of your stories/chapters I read. I checked a few minutes ago and you were up to 231 points. Personally, I don't see the need for negative rep points. If someone doesn't care for a story or is pissed by a post, not clicking the + should be enough.

 

Colin

[Mark Arbour]

I've been clicking that little + icon on each of your posts I visit and each of your stories/chapters I read. I checked a few minutes ago and you were up to 231 points. Personally, I don't see the need for negative rep points. If someone doesn't care for a story or is pissed by a post, not clicking the + should be enough.

 

Colin

 

Why thank you. Don't worry about me and my rep though. What you guys think (my readers) is what's important anyway.

[Canuk]

Mark, you didn't happen to turn down a nice guy in high school with a cute little ass so you could date a hunky football player instead, did you?

 

Method.... your fantasies are priceless!!!

[DragonFire]

I notice they've been 1 starring your chapters as well, I've added a few 5 stars here and there to help out! lol

 

Kinda creepy though..... did you kill their puppy?

[methodwriter85]

Method.... your fantasies are priceless!!!

 

That's a reference to Dan Church from Be Rad and Millenium. It'd be funny if this poster turned out to be someone that Mark spurned in high school or something.

[Mark M]

Hmmm Well i won't lie it was me....like COMON you have way to many points for Sanity as it is!!! Hahahahaha just kidding. Not cool. But you have way more points then me and it kinda makes me sad. But hey You write Awesome and that's what counts

[mmike1969]

Mark, you didn't happen to turn down a nice guy in high school with a cute little ass so you could date a hunky football player instead, did you?

 

And notice that Mark is completely IGNORING this simple question