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The afternoon in Ron’s attic room passed quietly. Colin and Dennis eventually fell asleep, although Dennis had climbed into the cot with Colin. Harry slept deeply the whole time, having used far more energy than he was accustomed to using. Ron drifted in and out of sleep, listening to the other boys in the room whenever he was awake. Ron was the only one truly awake when George appeared in the doorway. His red head popped into the room from around the door and looked right at Ron. “Mu

Thanks for the review. I wrote this as a bit of experimentation. I figured I'd work on that thin line between love and hate thing...

Actually, the post you just made is the definition of trolling. The topic was off the first page and your reply brought back to the top so we can continue to rehash it. I'm not sure why you like poking sleeping dogs, but the administration teams would appreciate if you didn't. Topic Closed.

Daffy, I think most people, including myself, are objecting to your subject title choices and provocative manner of describing your issues. The suggestion that we're not making continuous improvements is well, 'daffy' at best. The members can't see this because it is an administrator forum, but I have a forum titled "Continuous Improvement Projects". It has projects for short term and long term. There are projects spread out going forward for as long as the eye can see. Just a deplorable dearth of those able to do it or the funds to do it with. GA.Stories was a tremendous investment in time and resources and is the only major project we're doing in 2011.

I have no idea what that means. However, I can say that there will be no change here as it would be too resource intensive to track what people read and store for if/when they may return. It's not realistic to expect it. (See FanFiction.net which is a MUCH larger site than us. They don't do it either for the same reason) Members are limited to the number of reputations points they can give a day. (more + than -) It depends on their user group what those numbers are. Also, reputation is more an indication of how active the author is in the community than quality of works, per se. The story Publish dates are all in Dec 2010-Feb 2011 because... that's when all the stories were put in the system. Since the website before that show no indication of when a story was posted, that's a rather silly complaint. If a story was not updating at the time of entry, it's status was entered as "On Hold" not "In Progress". Now that we have a couple of months in the system, just look at the Last Updated date. If it is the same as the Publish date on an In Progress story, then that author isn't updating very fast... Reputation in the new system is being used as an automated sorting process. If the reputation is below 50, then moderator review the stories prior to posting to check for copyright issues, etc. "Like" is simply the Facebook established term of the day. You can "like" something anonymously if you'd like to track it without adding your name to the thing as a favorite of yours. They don't use 'track' or 'follow' because the forum programmers are chasing the buzzword of the day, which in this case, is Like. Thanks Facebook.

Great advice! Thanks Sharon!

In the interest of full disclosure, this is the PM that Cia sent this morning. (Posted with her permission)

Yes. The point has been made.

Wow. I started checking into IP records since Danny's grammar is consistent with the grammar from Jacob's PM. And I'd like to say hello to: joshhern76, BrandonHern, carloshern04, daniellehern04, dannydanny77, DaddyRick, and JacobMillerTex. That must be some rocking house to have ALL these members living there. Wouldn't you say? Oh, and Jacob's posts and Danny's posts have come from the same IP address today. Just saying... This One Site Admin

There are two sides to everything, of course. We had an author come here and start posting into the new story system while we were in the middle of transitioning. He requested Hosted Author, a rather complicated proposition insomuch as it requires a significant investment of time and manpower to develop sites and do all the legwork of setting up. This, of course, presumes that the applicant meets the qualifications for hosting established by the Writer Support Team. Now, we happen to have three new Hosted Authors waiting to be announced because we don't have enough resources right now to set them all up. JSmith is on a hiatus due to an accident at work. CJames has been out for weeks because of illness, Steph is a skinner with very limited time, and that leaves me as the only one doing tech work right now. I have spent at least 50-60 hours per week working on GA.Stories development and transfer since November. (nevermind that I work 50 hours a week for my job where I actually get paid.) So, back to Jacob. He requested Hosting and CJames informed him we were busy and that he would consider and it we would get back to him. After this was said, CJames pretty much dropped off the Internet for 3 weeks because of illness. Sorry. We are guilty for not getting back to him with an update on this. It was during this time that all of the availible staff and several additional volunteers were moving Hosted Authors stories into the system, along with Promising Authors and eFiction authors. It was a bit hectic around here, to say the least. We're still in a big mess with the Hosted Authors. The only two with updated sites are me (because I eat the dogfood first here) and Comicality. With any luck, I'll be able to get a lot of the other Hosted Authors sites updated tomorrow. But the truth is, there is only me right now that can do it. We are busy as hell. In addition to all this, my main computer's motherboard is on the fritz so, I have had to build a replacement computer. All well and good, except the freaky winter weather has cause multiple delays in parts shipments. Just background information to the PM I got the other day... Instead of sending a PM to me or another admin or any mod including Lugh, Jacob just sends a message, "Please delete all my stories." So, one of the criteria of being a Hosted Author at Gay Authors is to help support the site. Jacob's first inclination when there is a problem is to delete his stories? Now, it so happens that now that just prior to his PM, I had been looking over the Prolific Author list and had instructed the team to review the authors on it for Promising/Hosted including Jacob. On the fast track. I had anticipated being complete with the other Hosted Author sites by this point and would have been except for the computer failures. Now, I'm sorry that it takes a long time to evaluate authors for Hosted, but a lot of that falls down to limited resources to build an author's site. It does us no good to accept someone as Hosted and not be able to build their site. GA.Stories and our Content Management System were put in to relieve that problem. Several PMs were exchanged with Jacob in which he made it clear that if Gay Authors wasn't going to commit to Hosting him right now, then he was going to leave. We sent a PM back saying that he appeared to lack any commitment to the site and that severely reduces the chance of getting approval, which most assuredly wouldn't be happening RIGHT NOW. He told us to delete his stories. We did. Please note that since Jacob couldn't have the highest recognition offered by this site immediately upon his asking, he wanted nothing to do with the site. In essence, he took his toys and left. People were asking all over the place and I made a statement to that effect. As I had already heard that he was making different statements as to why he left. Truth win out. So, Mr. Concerned Reader, if you don't like how we handle things here, I'm sorry. Perhaps this is not the place for you? To Authors: If you are posting in GA.Stories and making an effort to involve yourself here at all to build your readership, you're going to end up getting reviewed for Promising or Hosted Authors as appropriate. This is done by a dedicated staff of volunteers. It takes time. Not demonstrating commitment and throwing a tantrum because you posted a whole story here and now want Hosted Author is a good way to make sure you never get hosted, even if you're the second coming of Tom Clancy, J.K Rowling and J.D Robb combined. This site is not about popularity, contrary to wagging tongues. It is about good stories. Those hosted here are here because people think they have good stories and those authors have demonstrated commitment to the site. Some have moved on. Some have passed on. But there work remains. Does being popular help? Sure. DomLuka has a command audience that well sell their soul for his next chapter. But there are plenty of authors here that have great writing, but are not celebrities. We're all human here. We're all volunteers. And there are far too many people that think that just because Gay Authors is here, they are entitled to the best of everything. Sorry. You need to adjust your expectations. Myr Site Admin

Final Chapter up!

Hi all! Comicality is having a rough time right now. I was thinking that it might be helpful in cheering him up if everyone takes a moment to send him a short note in email to tell him what he means to you or how's he's help you out of a rough spot or how much his stories speak to you. his email is comicality@webtv.net Just jot him a quick note and let him know that he's not alone in his time of trouble. Myr

Simple enough... because GA.Stories is part of the forums, when people are reading stories, it counts as being online. (Or has no one noticed that you can view what people are reading?)

new chapter up.

The carriage rocked violently from side to side as it took the corner inside the main gate. Professor McGonagall felt the carriage accelerate again as it rapidly crossed the causeway leading to the main doors of the castle. McGonagall and Sprout were barely able to brace themselves in time for the sudden stop of the carriage, as the thestrals’ hooves dug in. The squealing stop of the carriage attracted the attention of Severus Snape, who was passing by the main door at that very moment.

Gone From Daylight: Blood Ties 22 is up on GA.Stories. You can find it here: https://www.gayauthors.org/story/comicality/gfdbloodties/22

New Kid In School 45 is up on GA.Stories You can find it here: https://www.gayauthors.org/story/comicality/newkidinschool/46

You can find it here: https://www.gayauthors.org/story/comicality/kissofanangel/8

The Wreckers is on Amazon as a Kindle Book. http://www.amazon.com/Shapers-Chronicles-The-Wreckers-ebook/dp/B002PAQAYI/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1295214742&sr=8-3

Picture Me and You 4 is up on GA.Stories here: https://www.gayauthors.org/story/Comicality/picturemeandyou/4 It is also on the site here: http://comicality.gayauthors.org/picture/picture-4.php

Don't forget to review stories you like in GA.Stories!

new chapter up.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Thanks!

Harry Potter and the Parliament of Dreams is a novelization of an alternate universe Harry Potter's fifth year of Hogwarts. It has multiple pairings and focuses on the gay ones. The primary couple is Harry and Draco.