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Changing the timezone itself is already an option. On the forum, Method 1: Hover your cursor over your username on the top right of any forum page (do not select it). Select "Preferences." Select your timezone. Select "Save Changes." On the forum, Method 2: Select your username on the top...

Non-human races also create a massive gray area, but being an animated human is not enough. Any animated character under 18, even if fully developed, is still illegal under The PROTECT Act. If I can run an image search and prove that animated human is under 18, we have a problem. Non-human...

Well, that is part of the problem. Most underage pornographers are significantly more careful than that, but there's always that one doofus I suppose. The major problem is unknowingly posting underage pornography. Most of us just pluck images from around the internet, but this means we have no...

I'm inclined to side with lizisbest on this one. The message on the front page is more of a generalization than an actual rule, and even then is more obsolete legal boilerplate that we still adhere to due to allowing images more than it is anything practical. I think seeing and laughing are...

Pretty much. After I finish playing the game my way, I want to see what else the writer(s) set in the story, so I reset my game progress and play again. In order to help me get a different ending, I view the map to see where branches reconverge via linked threads and remind myself which choices...

And this serves as a reminder that I need to take my game mode story off of hiatus so I can play around with game mode. This still generates the same problems surrounding linked threads I've previously outlined. However, it also achieves the same goals this "simple game mode" sought to achieve...

dingsdongs already worked that one out under the default game mode proposal. What if the conditions of the thread require numeric values instead of simple Yes/No checks? It means a writer now has decide which version of the thread they want to be default and set the value of the variable in...

A pop-up warning or a full warning page isn't a bad idea, and it would nullify my objections since it preserves users' progress. I instead say it should appear when we open the thread, rather than when we open the story map. Besides making it applicable from the search function and a user's...

So the simplest way to phrase it would be, "A game mode story should default to 'on' upon startup." Meaning that if we simply want to view a specific thread by a certain author (for whatever reason we can come up with) and had not yet opened the story or simply forgot to turn off game mode...

While there is no site-wide standard, there are users who only accept threads if they meet a certain word or character count. Whether or not it's a good idea is debatable - and I can cite one former user whose efforts to meet these standards demonstrated a most miserable backfire of the practice...

Calling right now that you're not British. Nothing wrong with that, but this is something only a British manual of style cannot even begin to accommodate (which none do, by the way). The British formatting reserves single quotation marks for speech, and double quotation marks for inner speech...

No one's adverse to this much. A little more dynamicity in what we promote on the front page would be dynamite. The question is how do we apply this to Top Chapters, and the minor tangent was the question of "What's the point of top chapters?" For the rest of your post, I'm inclined to side...

I'm not sure if I should applaud your ability to read or question if you read more than one sentence. All you did was repeat one specific part of my own post as if I had no knowledge this even existed, and completely omitted every other element that comments on why Top Chapters have their flaws...

The top chapter designation isn't as much for leisure reading as it is for improving one's writing ability. Since these additions garnered so many votes, it's likely well written and would be a good example of what to strive towards. That said, we have many people who like chapters for call-outs...

It would also be a waste of an effort. Even if we take comments off the stories, all that does is create incentive to post on the forums. Then we'd really have some censorship issues: If ignoring stops additions, VMs, PMs, and e-mail, it does enough. Anything else, we're just exposing weakness...

Even that's not always how it's been done. I know one site moderator confessed back in the days of CHYOO to simply rubber stamping stories, which explains why blatant rule violations had been approved. And I don't mean the little things that can be fixed with simple edits (like an underage but...

Actually, if you keep derailing threads into off-topics like this, I personally do in fact have the authority to stop you. I looked past it in "The no-underage character rule" since, as you've stated, you think writing about immoral activities in a manner that does not represent them as such is...

And the point sails clear over your head while you simultaneously manage to prove it for me. I reiterate: those sources that denounce second person insist on using only three words to mark dialogue. It's not a matter of them lacking creativity. On the contrary, this demand of theirs comes from...

Dialogue presents a multitude of ways to get around perpetually using "you" as a reference pronoun due to dialogue inherently being fluid enough to encompass all three perspectives. Mind you, this requires skillful writing so the dialogue doesn't come off as forced and a clear alternative to...

First of all, that would increase the number of reader tags being submitted. If it doesn't go through until the writer or editor enables it, there's no point of reference for other users to know the tag they're proposing has already been supplied for judging. Now the writer and editor have more...