OK, It's Gripe Time Again...

[Paolo]

Now that I'm back in the so-called saddle, albeit with IE's help when he has time to look into the holding bin for stories, I want to reiterate some things that will cause me to trash a submission.

1. Grammatical nightmares. When so many words are spelled wrong that I have a hard time reading it. Capitalization is also important. Continued errors like "i was there," or "dr smith came in," or "tommy and i said 'no'." Also, things like "I Said We Were Going To Go." It also goes without saying that a story in ALL CAPS will be trashed. The rare typo is fine; no spell check is perfect.

2. Tags - use them. That's why they're there. Fill out the form and tags fully when you submit the story. Use the WARNING tag if it gets gross. If there's things like bestiality or scat in it, add that with the "other" tag box. If I puke when I read it, it gets trashed. It's also annoying to find a story with no tag, then open it, then see the "S" or "G" tag in the header.

3. Don't even THINK about flashy HTML. If my script blocker goes off when I open a story, or I find links in it outside of EA, it's gone.

4. A reminder about snuff - a story revolving solely around murder. Put that in the warning, please. In fact, I'd rather you put that story on another site...

5. Paragraph breaks. I can't stress enough to use them. One huge block of text is a nightmare to fix, since the format editor is hit/and/miss on this, bigtime.

6. Foreign languages - fine with me, so long as Google can give me something. I could use a French helper, though. Hint hint hint...

7. And finally, the main theme - genital amputation/abuse/etc. We all know the theme of the Eunuch Archive, right? I don't wanna see stories about happy fluffy bunnies in the tank. Someone needs to get something cut off, or at least, threatened with it for the next chapter, OK?

Now, if these rules are too much to ask, go over to Nifty and see what a b*tch they can be about submissions. I did it once, I'll never do it again.

Thank you.

Paolo

[Unregistered (imported)]

Think the new story listing format sucks. I do not want to open stories dealing with Minors and there is no longer a brief description of each story and no information as to the age of the characters in the story. PLEASE CORRECT THIS OVERSIGHT. Thank you.

[Batman (imported)]

Think the new story listing format sucks. I do not want to open stories dealing with Minors and there is no longer a brief description of each story and no information as to the age of the characters in the story. PLEASE CORRECT THIS OVERSIGHT. Thank you.

Awfully demanding of you...it is a FREE site run by volunteers. Maybe it's me but asking is nicer than ordering..they're the Admins, not "the help"

Batman

[BossTamsin (imported)]

Think the new story listing format sucks. I do not want to open stories dealing with Minors and there is no longer a brief description of each story and no information as to the age of the characters in the story. PLEASE CORRECT THIS OVERSIGHT. Thank you.

Actually, the descriptions are still there. If you click on the +, the description will appear beneath the story in question. If it does not, may I suggest upgrading your browser. That feature was tested on pretty much every current browser I could get my hands on, including two different versions of IE, and worked in all of them.

As to including things like the story tags themselves, while that is something I would deeply love to do, they actually aren't stored in the database at present. The only place they are stored is within the story itself. This means that there is no feasible way currently to display those codes in the new story section. (Yes, while there may be a way to use PHP to scan every story as the new stories page is loaded, I'm worried about what kind of load that would place on the server.)

Believe me, this is something I'm looking at and attempting to work out. However as I'm an amateur at PHP/SQL, this will take some time and even then will only include new stories, and not the entire collection. Even at that, there will be a wait while I work out how exactly to make the change without risking the entire database.

Please try to remember that this is a volunteer site. Unlike EVERY other free site on the net, there are no ads, no paid memberships, and no huge banners soliciting donations. So, just as you don't pay anything to use it, I don't get paid anything to run it. I'm doing what I can, as I can, in what time I can find to do it.

[Batman (imported)]

Please try to remember that this is a volunteer site. Unlike EVERY other free site on the net, there are no ads, no paid memberships, and no huge banners soliciting donations. So, just as you don't pay anything to use it, I don't get paid anything to run it. I'm doing what I can, as I can, in what time I can find to do it.

And if I may suck up...you guys are doing a DAMN GOOD JOB of it too...which is what prompted my 1st post on this thread...I take offense when people take sites like this for granted and don't seem to understand that without you guys, it could be gone tomorrow.

Okay, suck up mode off...

Batman

[MacTheWolf (imported)]

Don't just suck up, send money. The EA is NOT a profit making operation. It could always use a donation.

[kennath7 (imported)]

Don't just suck up, send money. The EA is NOT a profit making operation. It could always use a donation.

I have not found a place that say’s where or how to donate to the E. A.

I do have a BME suescription

[Ernie of Maine (imported)]

I agree with Batman:)

[kristoff]

I have not found a place that say’s where or how to donate to the E. A.

I do have a BME suescription

If we need money for something like a new box or some new software or whatever, we'll ask. Until then, hold onto your money.

[Batman (imported)]

If we need money for something like a new box or some new software or whatever, we'll ask. Until then, hold onto your money.

Glad you don't need it right now, I'm in the process of being foreclosed upon and getting divorced...happier about one than the other...

Batman