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Hello! Welcome back to Tech Tuesdays! Starting today, we are planning on bringing this feature back for you every Tuesday. Most of them will be short but will highlight either existing features or coming features. Today, we will be going over the use of the spoiler tags. These are built right into the editor and should be used to hide information that would otherwise spoil someone's enjoyment. This often applies to the big twists you see in books, movies, tv shows, games, etc. It is considered rude and obnoxious by many to let out a big secret before others have had a chance to get to it themselves. On GA, you can hide text in many places like Stories, Forums, or Clubs. It's a good way to hide sensitive material such as reader reviews as well as large blocks of text that you want to share but don't want always visible, such as a story or chapter sample for feedback. It is especially important for Gay Authors to use Spoiler tags because the activity stream shows content out of context. For example, the latest reviews and latest story/chapter comments can be seen in the stream, and it's very easy for someone to read a comment on a story they haven't had a chance to read yet. The information inside Spoiler tags is NOT shown in that stream. How to use: Click the "eye" icon on the toolbar. Type your spoiler information inside the box that appears. Type the rest of your comment. Submit your comment. and you get this: Also, here is a video that walks you through it:

Typoman is an inexpensive platformer game... that ties in with words. This is on all systems.

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I think between @Cia and @jamessavik this topic is well answered. @Carlos Hazday also touched on it as well. Didn't Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land help kick off the Hippy 60's? (and isn't fascinating how VERY different Stranger in a Strange Land is from Starship Troopers?) Yet both are Sci-Fi.

Happy Thanksgiving! (Cia just posted this on our Facebook page...) A great time to read some stories if you're stuck waiting...

They should be working again.

Somebody would have to title it that way. The default title for images is the file name...

Invision created a bug with their last update. They are aware of the issue and have not issued a patch yet.

It is until there is a fix for the issue. No idea when they'll get the issue fixed though.

Anonymous sign in has been removed due to issues it was causing in the system.

Wow. EA is really stepping all over themselves on the loot crate stuff. They've been rated as "do not buy" by some big sources. The Belgium government is investigating for illegal gambling. Yikes. Game plays well though. A lot of stuff is being overshadowed by this money grab BS. They need to stick to making content people are willing to pay for and not stupid random boxes.

Yup. That's about right.

Why thank you

Thanks! I really appreciate that!

This game is definitely doing better than the beta. It was very freezy then. I'm not sure people are going to tolerate the loot crate stuff. There is a lot of complaining about that.

This is a great game... but it, unfortunately, fell into a zone with a lot of other hot games coming out. And it is extremely stingy with achievements too. I tend to play a game until I hit a couple of achievements and switch. With Shadow of War, it's so long between achievements (hours), I spend more time wondering "are there achievements in this game?" instead of enjoying the story.

Assassin's Creed "the Enzio collection" is a great bargain for people wanting to jump into the series on Xbox One/PS4 generation hardware.

The subscription drives me crazy. I paid it for far longer than I care to admin on SWTOR, if for no other reason that I really enjoyed the game when I dropped into it. But I'm not a single game playing kind of gamer. I'll switch between 5 or 6 at any given time, so games that require dedication (Subscription games, multiplayer shoot fests, etc) tend to fall by the wayside.

Please note, I'm going to provide two responses to this thread. The first one is official and the second is personal. Admin response: Story Comments are provided for at all stages of a story's posting. Reviews are provided for when a story is complete. Would it be nice for a review to be in depth? Hell yes. the "Was this useful?" is a subtle way to encourage that. I find reviews that are more detailed of pluses and minuses more helpful and mark them accordingly. As an author though, as covered elsewhere, a star rating and I liked it is still better than nothing. Beta Readers and Editors should be providing these critical reviews to the author... or they aren't really a beta reader or an editor. My personal response: In the fifteen years of running this site, I have tried pretty much everything to get more reader engagement with the authors. This has built the community well enough, but we still lack much in the way of comments and reviews. I've said this in various places... but only about 2% of the site traffic can even do so. Most people reading on Gay Authors are not members at all. Forcing a format does not work. The most it will do is stop people from reviewing at all. If you want more than you are getting, then engage your readers. Ask them in the chapter end note or in the story note to give a detailed response. Tell them you want to know what works and what doesn't. If they like what they are reading enough, they just might do as you ask. Some people certainly aren't going to say something if they are afraid they are going to melt a snowflake. @William King In the interest in providing feedback that you crave, I'm going to say this: you attract more flies with honey than with vinegar. Your suggestion that we promote a story a month... we already do this and the amount of effort that goes into it doesn't leave much room for more without more active volunteers. It is still linked on the bottom of the main forum page and in ads running on the site:

Thanks. I am working slowly on it.

"Gay" authors because 15 years ago when we started "Gay" authors, "gaystories.com/.net/.org" were all taken. And "gay" was pretty much what everything was. Then something called GBLT came along... then LBGT... then today's alphabet soup. All stories are welcome. I just don't think straight ones will have much of an audience here. It is true that our audience skews towards gay teen male stories... but I'm not sure if that is a chicken and egg problem or not.

Star Wars: The Old Republic. Fantastic Story. but it's been too long since I've played.

Meh. Half-Life 2 is ancient. Halo has more plot than most FPS's.. but you need the novels to decode it. lol.

All of them. (well, not Nintendo, but they don't do non-kiddie games)