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Norton flagging Storiesonline as malicious (false positive)
Today, the 18th of March, 2019, Norton Anti-virus package started flagging Storiesonline as a malicious site with phishing problem. Of course, it’s a false positive. The page that Norton is reporting as malicious doesn’t request any info, so there is no possibility of phishing; how does their system flag something as possible fishing when there…
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Storiesonline service disruption
The registrar transfer we announced last week did not go very smoothly at some ISPs. So the parked-domain ads page from the new registrar propagated a bit between the time I got the message that the registry has been transferred and the time I created the new record at the new registrar. If you’re not…
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Halloween 2017 Story Writing Contest
We’re having our annual halloween story writing contest. Check it out: https://storiesonline.net/contest/halloween-2017 Our monetary prizes have been increased. 1st Place now wins $500. Have fun everybody.
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Poll for the Clitorides Awards
As I work on the moderation end of the Clitorides Awards site, I’ve become aware of something. Many of the nominated stories are no-sex stories. As in not a bit of sex in them. The clitorides awards were created to promote the erotica writing community; even the name ‘clitorides’ is a reminder of that. So…
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Story Delivery Changes
I’ve implemented some important changes in the story delivery mechanism today. The new system has the ability to deliver long stories or long chapters in multiple pages. Explanation: Storiesonline is a busy site. Very busy site. In order to keep the site running smoothly and responding as fast as possible to readers’ requests, the reply…
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Scoring Changes Implementation Follow Up
It’s been ten days since the implementation of the new voting system, so I thought I would keep everybody up-to-date with how things are shaping up. First thing to report is that voting is up. The number of basic votes cast per day added to the number of TPA votes cast per day is about…
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Scoring System Changes Implemented
Well, it’s done. Today, I implemented the display changes to show the new system in action. You can read the previous entries in this blog to see how these changes came about. First change is the voting forms. The old form has been redesigned with the new look and the wording has changed. It’s very…
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Expanded Voting Form: Wording and Value distibution
I’m working on implementing the new optional expanded voting form referenced in my previous blog entry Final Decisions. I need some feedback about the wording of the voting form. The form will have three separate criteria for the reader to select values for and I want it to be clear enough about the meaning of…
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Derailed
Well, it has been an interesting experience to say the least. If you haven’t read my two most recent entries about changes to the scoring system on the site, you should read them. The gist of this blog entry is to tell you that ALL changes to the scoring system have been canceled and reverted.…