Did the site change

One thing I've noticed is that the word "kind" is removed. I know it's banned because of the translation from German, but if it's possible to check what language a story is in for the auto-edits, it'd be nice to have it back in the English ones.

Edit: Actually, thinking about it, I've noticed things like "death" are also banned. Does that mean that German stories have to get by without the word "the" (Translated: die)?

Thanks for your feedback! I changed the filter accordingly.

"The" or "die" aren't flagged words.
 
Glad you're still tinkering with things. I guess were all just a little skittish because no one really fully understands what is going on. We have a vague idea but some of the changes seem completely arbitrary (like why was the word drink filtered in the first place.) It just makes us feel very uncertain about the future and if we should continue writing the stories we want to if there's only going to be more problems down the road.

I assure you that I'm trying to find a solution that's in the interest of all users. CHYOA is very close to my heart.
 
Not sure if there's still a purpose or not, but I'd like to get access if possible. Long-time lurker who made an account since I couldn't keep up with stories anymore after losing access to the "Recent Activity" tab on author's profile pages. Clicking through 200+ chapters every time I wanted to get to a newly uploaded chapter was far too onerous. Also not enjoying playing a game of "Which word was removed?" every time I see a sentence that doesn't make sense. Thanks.
 
Hi. I would love to continue to support CHYOA and for CHYOA to continue support my writing by connecting it to a community. For this reason, until the rules are clarified and the situation is stabilised I will abstain from posting. I want to make sure my ongoing work follows the rules. I know a lot of this is in a gray area.

I understand the difficulty of the situation yet would really appreciate an announcement/explanation when possible so I know what I should be doing, whether my writing is welcome here, and what I can change about it to make it compliant.

Good luck to the administrators.

PS maybe a new thread that isn’t hammered by requests to enable their account would be good.
 
At this rate, looks like there's going to need to be a totally unaffiliated 3rd party fansite for aggregating direct links to hidden stories, categories, and tags, as well as info on what's banned and filtered and such.
 
Does requesting access actually work? I’ll request it but it seems like there’s no confirmation of it actually working. Also it’d be good to have some sort of heads up to newcomers to let them know certain categories aren’t available right now. I was pretty confused why certain categories seemingly vanished overnight, not saying you’d need to give information as to why, obviously there are some legality issues preventing that.
 
Not an insect lover myself, more a geologist that specializes in the Northern Continents, of Non conts if you will. As far as I can tell ol bean the administration has had to restrict and hide certain avenues of research that apparently offend the depository supplements. I believe the knowledge we seek is hidden in a secret library and atrium, but while the keys to view this should be available to anyone of long standing with the organization it seems to me that the access to this taboo information has not been given our automatically to those already with a certain level of tenure. Likely meaning that until this is fixed we will have to wait a ghastly month for our accounts to 'age' to the appropriate months age, or get manual access added to our profiles.

The good dean Friedman is likely extremely busy with this situation as since his last responses on here his activity has been pretty silent. I would suggest giving the good chap a bit of time as he works on this.

TLDR: As best I can tell when Friedman made the changes to hide the 'offending' categories and tags, the intention was to make them only viewable when logged in with an account that is over a month old. But it might be the case that that month old status is as of the change as a lot of people seem to be having this issue. I have reached out to Friedman in private but he seems to be busy, likely trying to fix this.

Again all I mention here is to the best of my understanding from what I have read and seen, so I may be wrong.
Well and scholarly reasoned. Thank you.

I’m curious if tenure is calculated from: hiring; the first paper published to the public consumption; or the first lecture before the Forum.
 
My main account was made in 2016 and I use it all the time. But I don't have full access, nor can I log into the forums! Could I have a moderator DM me to fix my account issue?

I had to create a smurf account just to try to get account help :(
 
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