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Why Finestories.com?

2010/08/02 at 9:54 pm Lazeez 7 comments

I’ve been receiving this question since I started the new site’s beta stage. I guess I should address those questions once and for all.

Why Finestories.com?

It’s simple, while storiesonline.net is very successful, it’s adults only and quite frankly it has some contents that even adults can’t handle. I’ve been asked by many authors and readers if I can do a no-sex storiesonline. Well Finestories.com is the answer.

What’s the difference between SOL and FS?

If a story has sex, then it doesn’t belong on FS. Simple rule of thumb is that if you can’t allow a 10 year old to read the story because of its sexual contents, then don’t post it on FS. It belongs on SOL.

Of course, many people may argue that it’s silly to disallow sex and yet have stories for adults due to violence and other contents, but it’s irrelevant. I’m not the one that created the current sexual contents policies that are prevalent in societies around the world.

I’m working to make Finestories.com the site that I can recommend to anybody without hesitation.

I added an ‘About’ page to Finestories, you can read it by clicking the site’s logo.

Will it be one charge for a premier membership on both site?

No. They’re independent sites. However, I will probably give good discount to those who purchase premier memberships for both sites.

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#1 | Written by Alexander Cherry on 2010/08/12.

Will a mechanism ever be put in place so that it’ll be more facile to submit to both places at once?
#2 | Written by Victor Paul on 2010/08/18.

Any chance of a combined site?
#3 | Written by Lazeez on 2010/08/19.

What would that serve? I created a new site to target the audience that can’t/shouldn’t visit SOL.
#4 | Written by Lazeez on 2010/08/19.

That’s a possibility. I thought about it, and may implement it.
#5 | Written by John Walker on 2010/09/06.

Is there an explanation of how scoring working on this site? (Just as an aside, I clicked on 3 stars for a story and then saw that, with 22 votes, the score was 5.0?)
#6 | Written by Lazeez on 2010/09/07.

The system ignores the top 5% and the bottom 5% of the votes and averages the rest. So a single vote of 3 and 20 votes of 5 would result in a score of 5.
#7 | Written by withheld on 2010/10/10.

I was stunned to see “Dance of a Lifetime” in SOL’s “All Time Long Classics” list when the entry WASN’T referring to Frank Downey’s story. I’m guessing that Frank’s story was removed from SOL and some kind of glitch associated all his stats with this other story having the same name.

As supporting evedence, while the description doesn’t sound anything like Frank’s story, there’s a tag at the end that states “Winner of two Golden Clitorides (Best Serial, Best Long Story by a New Author) in 2001.” Visiting the list of Frank’s stories awards on ASTRS confirms these awards were, in fact, won by his story of that name.

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