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This is a subject that comes up from time to time and is inherit in any place that has more or less open posting of content. For me personally, I can forgive a whole hell of a lot of issues in a story if it has interesting characters and interesting events in an interesting setting. I'll take 100 grammar disaster stories that have those elements than a grammar perfect story that can be summarized as "The paint dried. Slowly." @Cia is at the opposite end and will chase you with a red pencil until every participle stops dangling. So everyone has different tastes and different priorities. And those change depending on mood, time, and your age as you grow and change as a person. Your favorite story at age 10 is probably not your favorite story at age 20. There are two sides of quality control on stories as I see it. Grammar and Content. You have to be at least coherent grammatically to get out of the Moderation Queue. We also require you to build up story reputation through reactions before an author is cleared from our moderation queue. You would be shocked and dismayed at some of the stuff that never makes it up on site. *shudders* Content. This is the story part of the story. Stories are meant to be entertaining or to provoke thought or both, typically. Psychologically speaking, humans are hard-wired for stories. It's how we learn, grow and pass information to each other. When reading, some people like to read and reread old favorites. Comfort stories. Others like exploring new grounds and new things. Still others, want to explore difficult topics from different directions. Stories are what allow this to occur. Exploring "what ifs", even the uncomfortable ones. This brings us to the restricted or limited content and taboos. Outside of some hard limits imposed upon us by the hypocrites at Google, which our site rules are based on, my personal approach is "as long as it is properly labeled and rated" we should minimize interference and allow it to exist. And if you don't like it, don't read it. Site surveys and read data do show sex is quite popular in stories. We require some semblance of plot instead of allowing straight out dedicated erotica. If you want that, Nifty.org is an excellent resource. Other subjects are "taboo" and explore, through story, difficult topics. There are stories on the site that push all sorts of rules and boundaries. But that is rather the point of the thought provoking stories. Whether or not you wish to be provoked on said subject is down to personal taste. We do ask that authors properly label their stories with appropriate notes and trigger warnings where appropriate. And we ask that readers respect those notes or alert staff to the need for more notes if they are lacking. The report feature can be used for this. What you should most certainly NOT do is report a story after interpreting the rules for the site staff by saying "This story violates the rules and needs to be removed." It's not your business. We do not tolerate the book burners here. Whether they are the Christian Fundamentalists of my youth blocking gay books from stores and libraries or the blue haired vagina equipped males with a birth name of Karen doing some Twitter Warrior bullshit, the answer is the same. "If you don't like it, don't read it!" And again, if you walked into some content that wasn't properly labeled that does genuinely disturb you, it is appropriate to report the story politely so that staff can add the additional information to the story.

They did It wasn't bad. it certainly had the stars in it. They made the series better and a bit more grounded. I do have it on DVD.

The patch is in place and all stories that I'm aware that weren't showing, including two of mine, are now showing again. So far as I know, this odd bug has been patched for the immediate while a long term fix is in process.

All stories are still in the system. There is a bug where they are not all listing when you click on the author. It has been reported to our programmer and will be corrected as soon as we can.

Ah. I am tied up today, so I do not have time to reply in detail. If you had Reading History working previously, it is most likely that you deleted it, or the system might have when you maxed out your collections. So just read stories for now and stop attempting to do anything with collections until someone on staff is able to address this.

The upgrade to our latest version of our Story Archive software is complete. This is a pretty big change under the hood on how we handle Genres. First thing first. Definitions. Primary Genre - This is the top level genre and consists mostly the old genres we used along with some new ones. Sub-Genre - These are more narrowly scoped genre under a primary genre. For example Comic Fantasy is a sub-genre of Comedy. Why the change? With the advent of epublishing, the number of genres and micro-genres has exploded since you are no longer tied to the physical space limitations of a bookstore. This means you can get pretty detailed in the space you write in. In the survey we ran earlier this year, there was a lot of questions that sounded something like "what's with all the werewolves?" The answer is that the market for ebooks is pretty hot for Paranormal Romance, especially shifters/werewolves. It's fine if this stuff is not your thing. Just click on the top level genres you are used to. The only big change there is that "Drama" is a sub-genre to "General Fiction". The Genre and Tags page has the full definition of all the genres and sub-genres. https://gayauthors.org/stories/browse/genre-tag/ For right now, you'll see a lot of 0's in the sub-genres, as most authors haven't had a chance to do anything with the updates at the point in time this is posted. That will change as authors update things and staff make updates based on genres and tags on stories. Looking at a Genre, you'll see the definition of that Genre and any sub-genres that are under it. On the sub-genre, you'll see the Primary Genre and the Sub-genre definition will display: There are two changes to the Story Filters for Genre as well. You Select "Any genres selected", meaning if you select "Adventure" and "Comedy Modern" you will find stories with EITHER "Adventure" or " Comedy Modern" or both. Select "ALL genres selected", meaning if you select "Adventure" and "Comedy Modern" you will find stories that have at least "Adventure" AND "Comedy Modern". (they can have additional. You can add genres to the "Without" category. For example, if you have the above and put "Romance" in the Without filter, it will remove all stories that have any Romance genres tagged to them. This is very powerful in letting you drill down to exactly what you want. At least when authors/staff get all the stories updated fully to use more in-depth genres. For Authors, When you add new stories, Step 3 is still the same, you just have to select the sub-genres you want. There is a generic sub-genre in each major primary genre. (Drama is under General Fiction). There is a link on the story entry screen to the Genre and Tag page linked above to help you select which genre best fits your story. We recommend no more than 4 or 5 sub-genres at most for a story. If you have more than that, go to General Fiction and choose "Experimental" for your sub-genre. Genres are open for use. We are open to adding more and adding more definition as needed.

Reading History is Automatic once you turn it on. It is limited to a set number of stories for a set number of days. Those values are displayed when you click "My Reading History" on the main story pages. (A maximum of 50 stories for 30 days as of this post) Story Collections are a way to create a group of stories and hold them for as long as you have an active account. It does not track what you have read, as of this posting. Such as "My Favorite Stories" or "My Favorite Fantasy Stories". The image shown above shows collections, but without any stories in them and named after stories. "Following" content from a software perspective is subscribing to notifications for a story. Followed Content can be managed from the menu on the upper right of the page under your username under "Manage Followed Content" https://gayauthors.org/followed/ There are tabs along the left side of the screen on desktop size devices that allow you to select type of content you want to manage. Stories or Story Authors being the most common. More details on collections, such as adding stories to them, can be found in the Help/FAQ: https://gayauthors.org/faq/stories-archive/reader-questions/

@bottomguy The system is working normally so far as I can tell. However, I have no earthly idea whatsoever as to what you are doing here. Can you please explain what it is you are attempting to do by adding a large number of empty story collections?

Ah. I installed Firefox on Android and can now repeat the issue. Since it is the only browser with the issue, it sounds like a FireFox bug. I'll report the issue to our programmer. Simple fix though. Don't use Firefox on Android.

I am still not able to reproduce the issue on any of my Android devices, on either Chrome or Edge. Can't reproduce on any windows computer on Firefox, Edge, Chrome, or Opera. It appears to be you, not us. You will need to provide exact details on operating system and browser including version so that we can try to match conditions because we are not seeing the issue.