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Old Owl — Wed, 14 Dec 2016 01:39:26 GMT

Old Owl: /* Removed pedo stories */

Older discussions started before 2010 have been moved to an [[Talk:Main Page/Archive1|archive page]].

==Removed pedo stories==
I created a filter for the story pedo__romp (with only 1 underscore, but used 2 underscores to get through my own filter). After a little research this content would be considered illegal as obscene even though it was only in text form.
[http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca11/13-14350/13-14350-2015-03-12.html Reference]
I don't monitor the content on the site, but this was pointed out to me by a user. If you find any content explicitly related to sex with a minor, please remove it or edit it. --[[User:RobKohr|RobKohr]] 20:00, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

Removing these pages is impossible. If the wrong word is in the page title, the page can't be moved or deleted, only edited. --[[User:Platypus|Platypus]] 21:42, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

To quote another user, who was unable to reply here for technical reasons:

"You are totally wrong about written descriptions of underage sex being illegal. The fact that the material could be considered obscene, and thus illegal (in the US) would actually apply equally to any story with any extreme sexual activity. It can be applied to rape, bestiality, and just about ANY story that contains sexual descriptions. It is based on a remnant of a struck down child protection law that was unconstitutional, which is why it is sited for material directly related to children. The law is laughable, and you may have found one of the few cases where it was actually used, and the only one that I am aware of that actually made it through successfully. The user who pointed it out to you must be a free speech hating Nazi to bring up such an unlikely and remote senario as based on such a law. If this law were actually a problem, the largest sex story site on the internet www.asstr.org would not exist. No reasonable court would rule that you are guilty of transporting obscenity for something someone else wrote on your website. I'm not trying to tell you how to run your site, but if the "no pedo stories" rule stands; I will be leaving."

This is very much a sentiment I share. '''--[[User:BakaG|BakaG]] 08:08, 27 September 2015 (UTC)'''

You realize that anyone who had said pages on their watch list is now totally hosed, right?

You mean because that renders their watch lists totally inaccessible? Yes, and it also blocks access to various index pages. I'd like to remove the pages rather than have the site littered with blockages, but that's not currently possible. I've left feedback at the main site, but we'll see if and when anything is done about it. --[[User:Platypus|Platypus]] 22:42, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

I implore you to look at Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act - I'd link to it, but keeps preventing me from posting external links.

''No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.''

Section 230 applies to intermediaries of third-party content. When content is simply hosted and not moderated by a web site then there is no liability for the provider. ---[[User:Privitude|Privitude]] 22:45, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

Here we go: https://www.eff.org/issues/cda230

''Section 230 says that "No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider" (47 U.S.C. § 230). In other words, online intermediaries that host or republish speech are protected against a range of laws that might otherwise be used to hold them legally responsible for what others say and do. The protected intermediaries include not only regular Internet Service Providers (ISPs), but also a range of "interactive computer service providers," including basically any online service that publishes third-party content. Though there are important exceptions for certain criminal and intellectual property-based claims, CDA 230 creates a broad protection that has allowed innovation and free speech online to flourish.'' --[[User:Privitude|Privitude]] 23:03, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

I'm confused here, so any content that includes pedophilia, is it allowed here or not?
[[User: Cobraworry|Cobraworry]]

To put it as simply as possible: No. Underage sex is strictly forbidden on this site. --[[User:Platypus|Platypus]] 18:54, 8 December 2016 (UTC)

You can let me know on my talk page. For the most part, I can edit or delete whatever needs editing or deleting. --[[User:Platypus|Platypus]] 22:10, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

== An Idea For A Perfect Game Of Thrones Story ==
Hello dear users of C.Y.O.A, I know how our precious site works and I would like to announce you that I am about to write a big and great story, in the Universe of A Song Of Ice And Fire book series. Anyone who would like to help me in this story, please contact me via Skype (sarp.kaya12) or [[User talk:Potato King|edit my talk page]].

== Why are there no cows in the story Furry World? ==
-- Jasper --

I hope I can find some friends and even get help with my story. Looking forward.

Edit: Check it Out! [[An Interactive Game Of Thrones Story]]

-- [[User:Potato King|Potato King]] , 05.08.2015, 15:03 (GMT+2)

== How to start my own ==
I'm new and I have no idea how to start my own story.

==HELP==
Could some people please help me write *[[time machine]]

==Rules?==
Hi, I'm fairly new here. I'm wondering, is there anything that is not allowed in stories/on site? I just don't want my stuff deleted. -Creat0r

==Just some trouble==

Hi there, I've been writing a C.Y.O.A. and I'm having the problem that I've set three options on my first page; Male, Female and Other. These redirect to different C.Y.O.A.s and it is rather irritating that when I try to chose the male option to advance it comes up with a selection of emo guys that I can use, from a different Catagory. Any help would be appreciated as I will not be able to advance in my writings until it is fixed.

Thank you in advance
--Xuan Tian Shang Ti

Xuan, I had that same problem on my new CYAO. This happens because someone else is already using this as a category name, so it will keep redirecting to their story. It helps to use your story's name in front of the choices or to put a specific phrasingthat noone has used yet.
For instance say your story is Smurfs in Ireland and you want to give people the choice of being a male or female. You could put Smurfs In Ireland: Male, or I want to be a male smurf
Hope this helps for anyone else with the same problem.

--
Above guy didn't sign.

Additionally, try using the character |.

You see, <nowiki>[[StoryName- Choice1| Choice1]]</nowiki> will show up just as
Choice1

--[[User:Snowball|Snowball]] 13:48, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

==Main Page Stories==

What constitutes a story being on the main page? It seems like people just throw theirs on there. [[User:Theotherguy|Theotherguy]] 07:10, 30 August 2012 (UTC)

We're trying to only include a small, representative sampling on the Main Page. Yes, some people are throwing theirs on there, but those stories are being thrown back off when they're spotted. --[[User:Platypus|Platypus]] 11:25, 30 August 2012 (UTC)

By my understanding, the story has to be of a quality that it can be 'considered' for a feature, not necessarily featured, but close or at the level. By the way, great to see someone took the initiative and did this, the site really needed some tidying. --[[User:Heyoeveryone|Heyoeveryone]] 13 September 2012

Maybe we should make specific guidelines? Must be this many pages, this quality of writing, etc. etc. [[User:Theotherguy|Theotherguy]] 23:14, 13 September 2012 (UTC)

Well I would suggest at least having the minimum amount of pages be set to 50, besides the 'Quizzes and Challenges' Section. I'm not sure about the quality of writing, as long as it is understandable and entertaining. --[[User:Heyoeveryone|Heyoeveryone]] September 14 2012

== Main Page and Its Length ==

I'm sure most of you here have noticed this already, but I'd like to just point out. The Main Page is ever growing in it's length. That's great news! That means more adventures, but it comes at a price. The overall size of the page. I thought I'd do a little experiment and see how long it would take me to scroll down from the top to the very bottom. It took me more than 10 seconds. That is a ridiculously long time. Only fine for social media sites such as Facebook.

What I'm suggesting is that we need to find a way to successfully organize the Main Page to which the size of it is significantly less, while not having it link off into other pages. Such as replacing the sections with say Collapsible Tables [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Collapsing], so then you can choose which sections you want to look at, perhaps even placing sub tables on top of that.

Heyoeveryone 12:02, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

It's certainly worth looking into. But bear in mind that newbies constantly screw up even the limited formatting currently on the Main Page. Any further complications to the coding will mean even more intense monitoring and reverting. --[[User:Platypus|Platypus]] 15:56, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

Ahh, true. I barely know coding myself, but new people constantly make stories, and sooner or later, mistakes will be made, and those beloved tables will be disfigured. It is possible though, and if someone were able just to implement this idea, it will do wonders for this site. I don't go on often, but when I do, I always notice how long the Main Page is.

So, '''IF''' anyone is willing to do this, then by all means, go ahead, it will do wonders for the site, I suggest you ask Platypus though.

--Heyoeveryone 06:05, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

== YouTube Idea ==

I have been a fan of this site for a while. I am an experienced actor and had the idea of adapting some of these stories to YouTube. Essentially, it would be an audiobook of the story where you click a link at the end of the video to make your choice (leading you to the next part of the story). I would like to try it with a shorter story first. If you have a short, well written CYOA story and are interested in sharing your story on YouTube, please let me know your username, the name of the story, and that I have your permission to record it and put it on YouTube (right below this post) . I would also be happy to hear any input on this idea.
-AlexCW

I know a lot about doing that kind of thing, it would be really great if it was animated or something like that. If you need any help working with Youtube CYOAs I can certainly help. I can also do (some) animation if you want. -Creat0r

I think this would be awesome! Guys I don't know how long this thread was posted but I would like to continue it. You know in the you adventure stories or something like that you flip to a page to continue? Well, maybe it should be one or two long videos that you pause at choices and the choices have the time you skip to. I might make a video like this on my YouTube! Awesome idea.
- [[KateFleet]] [[ YouTube : FleetGaming ]]

== Family-Friendly Section, Not Family-Friendly ==

I recently noticed that about 10 new stories were made, and each of them looked like they should be in the 10+ section. How is stealing a car family friendly? Or discouraging school? Seriously, If I see one more story like that being made, it's going straight to PG-13.
Note: I am 11 years old, and I don't even think that those stories are appropriate for my age!--[[User:903860|The Adenster]] 01:05, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

Adenster, family-friendly is generally a relative term. While I dont know the particular stories you speak of, discouraging school or stealing a car CAN be used in a family setting IE. one character has a Huckleberry Finn-ish tendency to skip school and the car can be used as a life lesson piece. Terms like Family-Friendly vary greatly from person to person and are entirely dependent on perception. For example some people believe in spanking their children whilst others dont. One side would consider it "Family-Friendly" whilst the other group would not. Generally if things such as car-stealing or such occur it can be acceptable if put in perspective and used in the context of the story. --[[User:BFEL|BFEL]] 12:13, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

== New Category ==
I just had a really great idea, maybe a new category can be made for just new stories, called Not Rated Yet, or whatever. Then, where the story is placed can be decided by somebody, so that sections like "Family-Friendly" are not so populated with stories that aren't appropriate.--[[User:903860|The Adenster]] 01:23, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

Your points are well taken, and this new group of writers is not writing family friendly material, but I'm somewhat averse to creating a Not Yet Rated section for ''somebody'' to rate, because there's only one sysop active on this site. My time is limited and I like to get in a little bit of time to work on my own writing. --[[User:Platypus|Platypus]] 03:02, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

I myself would be interested in assisting with this, Platypus. --[[User:TheElderOnes|TheElderOnes]] 03:28, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

Yeah, maybe ratings could be incoporated into reviews. That way unrated stories can move and get a review simultaneously.--[[User:Snowball|Snowball- The Anti-Adult-Content Resistance Leader]] 10:52, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

== About story page links ==
I'm kind of a perfectionist and it just hurts my eyes to see the story page links not formatted properly. It's either because people are too lazy or just not well enough informed on how to create proper links. Most pages have something like this:
* <nowiki>[[Story Name-Page Name]]</nowiki> = [[Story Name-Page Name]]
* <nowiki>[[Story Name/Page Name]]</nowiki> = [[Story Name/Page Name]]
* <nowiki>[[Story Name: Page Name]]</nowiki> = [[Story Name: Page Name]]
And so on. What I'd like to see is this:
* <nowiki>[[Story Name/Page Name|Display Name]]</nowiki> = [[Story Name/Page Name|Display Name]]
* <nowiki>[[Story Name/Character: Page Name|Display Name]]</nowiki> = [[Story Name/Character: Page Name|Display Name]]
The '''Display Name''' field makes the link show as that to the user, while still linking to the '''Story Name/Page Name''' page. This kind of naming makes the story pages look a lot better while still keeping the pages properly sorted out. I think this is explained on the main page, but it seems a bit unclear. Maybe it could be improved? --[[User:Dreama|Dreama]] 16:00, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

It is discussed in the [[Tutorial]], but sometimes it seems as if some of the people who want to write here aren't capable of reading.

Mostly, I like to see consistency within any given story. --[[User:Platypus|Platypus]] 21:16, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

Is there a way to get the Category page to display just the page names? In my story, I use the <nowiki>[[Story Name/Page Name|Page Name]]</nowiki> idiom, but the category page shows every page with the story prefix and they are all grouped under the same header. --[[User:Shiine|Shiine]] 8:50, 5 July 2010

I don't know a way of changing the way the page names are displayed on the Category page, but if you categorize each individual page as <nowiki>[[Category:Story Name|Page Name]] </nowiki>, then the Category page will aphabetize based on whatever you tell it the Page Name is, regardless of what the page name displays as. --[[User:Platypus|Platypus]] 19:10, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

I added a section to [[Tutorial/sleep|the tutorial]] about using the sort key in the category field. --[[User:Shiine|Shiine]] 23:40, 10 Aug 2010

== problems with the search bar ==

Hello, I just want to say that there seems to be a problem with the search, whenever I type a requist in it comes back with no results, I tried using the report a bug feature but the appears to be broken. --[[User:Tricrotic|Tricrotic]] 11:57, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

Yeah, the search bar only works when you type in the exact title of a story. Granted, there is a place where you search for pages that begin with _______, that should be the automatic search engine. I don't know much about programming, but it really shouldn't be too hard to move a program that's already been created, just to a different, more accessible place. - veri_disquo (2014)

==New Story==

If you guys remember me from way back, I used to use this site a lot, then suddenly stopped. Well, I'm back (again), and I've started a new story titled [[Cell]]. I look forward to the reviews of this CYOA story, as it goes through the process of Evolution.--[[User:blablob|blablob]]

Are you still working on it? --[[user:blamblegam]]

==Questions==
Are the stories in here copyrighted in anyway? If I want to feature one on a website, can do I need permission of the author or is it public material?

The stories here aren't copyrighted. But it might be polite to mention your intentions to the author beforehand. --[[User:Platypus|Platypus]] 22:53, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

I am pretty certain you are in error here. The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention Berne Convention], agreed to by the majority of the world, makes anything written also automatically copyrighted from the moment that it has been "fixed", and publishing online absolutely qualifies as fixed. That is why Wikipedia maintains a clearly stated policy regarding the reuse of its content under a Creative Commons license. They couldn't do that, nor would they need to, if collaborative, wiki-style writing did not result in the same copyright that other forms of writing does. It just means that as a collaborative work, copyright is vested in some degree in all the authors who participated in its creation. (To determine exactly what degree, you'd have to consult someone with more than my layman's understanding of copyright laws, especially given the inherently international nature of both intellectual property issues and internet publishing.)

Ergo, in response to the original question, yes, permission is absolutely needed to use the stories on other websites, as I have not seen anything on this site like Wikipedia's Creative Commons policy that all editors agree to be bound by as part of the editing policy, which would similarly allow free use of the stories (under the terms of said license, that is). Nor is there any sort of posted policy indicating that the collective authors of the site, by participating in the site, are surrendering any copyright they might otherwise hold in the works created, neither to the site nor to the public domain. And at this point, implementing any version of such policies would not retroactively remove copyright from all those stories already created. I suspect that primary rights would rest with the original creator of each individual story, as all additional chapters would potentially qualify as derivative works, but I don't know the full intricacies of how copyright law applies to collaborative works, online or off, and suspect that the situation is more complicated than that, especially since the exact details would vary from country to country and individual contributors to a story could very well be in many different nations.

Unfortunately, it is likely to be rather difficult to acquire permission for some of the stories, due to potentially having multiple authors, some of whom may have been known only be a pseudonym, and maybe a no longer used email address in the website's files, if those authors are no longer active on the website. But even works with unknown authors remain in copyright for 50 years after publication, in case the author is discovered or makes themself known during that time, in which case the normal life of author plus 50 years applies. (And these are just the minimums provided in the Berne Convention, some countries have enacted longer terms.) -- [[User:Cadrac|Cadrac]] 20:59, 8 March 2016 (UTC)

@Cadrac, Actually, it depends on what the Wiki is attributed under. If it is CC0, then everything placed here is automatically fair game for anyone to do anything they want, even copy and sell. The greater concern is where your content comes from, not the content posted here. Basically, I think Platypus pretty much just said editthis content is CC0, which means anyone can do anything with the stuff on here with no concern over legal recourse. Now, if I copy text from a novel and post it on here, that is a completely different issue... --[[User:DirtyMeStoryTime|Dirty Me]] 05:17, 9 March 2016 (UTC)

He may have said it, but that in no way is legally binding on any of the authors since, as far as I have been able to determine in searching the site, there is no notice which authors must agree to that their work will be under such a license if posted to the site. While every editing page warns that the work "may be edited, altered, or removed" and not to submit it if you are not okay with that, it doesn't say anything about it being copied to another site. That was my whole point. Authors did not have to agree to give up copyright in order to post, or agree that such rights are surrendered for all posting on the site by agreeing to a general TOS, ergo, they haven't. While the wiki program has a license the wiki content isn't attributed under ANY license. Platypus may have said the content was CC0, but since the authors never had to agree to that and he doesn't own the copyrights, he doesn't have the authority to make them CC0. --[[User:Cadrac|Cadrac]] 13:12, 10 March 2016 (UTC)

If the story is in the Pit, can you edit the story to be in a different category? Because, for this story that I have been editing, I wish to change the maturity since its hard to keep track of every link you put. The Lost City of Atlantice is the story i had been working on for a bit and some of the tags that were created aren't really in the category. Plus, some of my ideas fit into other categories. What should I do? --[[User:sayrppoetry/sayrppoetry]]

If you retrieve a story from the Pit, feel free to up its maturity level as needed. --[[User:Platypus|Platypus]] 22:51, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

== Status functionality? ==

The tutorial mentions status functionality as if you are able to use variables, but there was no information on how to perform operations on variables (You know, add, subtract, that sort of thing.) I looked for an article on the issue but didn't find any. Is this functionality available?

No. You can not perform operations on the variables. You have to do any adding and subtracting manually on the next page, and if you want options where you have different values for the variables, you have to create multiple paths. --[[User:Rawar|Rawar]] 19:27, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

BTW: I was wanting to experiment with status stuff, so I ended up creating a template page for the [[sandbox]]. Since you can't delete pages, and this might be useful, I replaced it with a basic status bar and left it in the sandbox. I hope others find it useful. --[[User:Shiine|Shiine]] 04:27, 19 March 2011 (UTC)

== New here, and want to know a few things about editting. ==

I joined today and want to know if it is okay for me to go through stories fixing some grammar mistakes and spelling. (not that I a grammar freak or saying I am perfect myself.) Some stories i looked at had a dozen mistakes a page and that is just bad for the site. See [[DUDE WHERES MY CAR]], I fixed the main page, leaving in the repitive sentence structure because I was unsure if I should change that. The next pages I looked at were equally plagued. Is there a way to catergorize stories as "being a pain to read because of mistakes"? I did not mean chnaging content, simplly fixing sloppy mistakes. To be sure, I am not planning on reading every story on here to be an English jainitor. I just wondered whose job these things were, Thanks. ~[[User:RandyRift|RandyRift]]

I’m not an admin or anything but…

There is no real problem or rule against editing pages, especially grammar correction. If you want to fix stories then that’s alright. Hell, even adding new stuff to the story is fine in most cases.
The problem with this site is that there are some users who create crappy stories with five pages that have no real plot or proper grammar. People work on their story for a day then leave resulting in many poor stories with no real purpose. So if you want to fix stories then go for it.

--[[User:Fletcher Peninsula|Fletcher Peninsula]]

Unfortunately, there are far too many ungrammatical writers out there for me to repair all the things they post. I am the only active sysop here, and I don't object to anyone trying fix grammar around the site. We were recently invaded by a Canadian school whose students wanted the thrill of posting on the web despite the fact that many of them had a poor grasp of English. Their teacher's help made many things worse, not better. But since they seem to have left, many of their stories are going to be getting moved to the Pit of Abandonned Stories soon. --[[User:Platypus|Platypus]] 01:21, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

I have another question, why is it that on the category page, (for my story) when I am logged in I see 90 pages, but when not logged in I see 78? (the page lists only that many.) ~[[User:RandyRift|RR]] 3 April 2010

== Pictures and Copyrights ==
I'm not very familiar with finding out what kind of copyrights some picture has on the web and what pictures are free to be posted here, for example, and what pictures may be freely copied and even uploaded here to be displayed. So far I've only been directly linking to pictures on Wikipedia (in very rare occasions anyway), but that's very limited. Anyone know better? --[[User:Dreama|Dreama]] 22:56, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

The safest thing is to upload your own pictures to photobucket or something. However, there are several free stock photo and picture sites out there. My favorite is http://www.sxc.hu/ . However, make sure you read the licenses for the photos before using them or linking to them! --[[User:Rawar|Rawar]] 00:42, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

There's thousands of free stock photos on [http://www.dreamstime.com/free-photos Dreamstime.com]. Just resize them to a width of 800 for web use. -- [[User:ImmortalDreams|ImmortalDreams]]

== A portrait of an American Girl Named Myra. ==

If you like the story idea, please help create a scenario for Myra. Remember, do not edit or add onto anyone else's scenario. Create a small one of your own. It doesn't have to be deep! Thank you for contributing!

She ought to wear a funky fruit hat. She's 12, was living with her mother in Maine, dad's a deadbeat, moves to Oklahoma for no apparent reason, uncovers alien conspiracy there. Turns out her mother's been replaced by an evil space automaton. She must team up with her drunken embarassment of a father to rescue her from a Dick Dastardly-esque villain who brought the aliens here with a magical voodoo portal, and then find a way to close said portal. Along the way, she learns important lessons regarding metaphysical idealism and beef Wellington. --[[User:Nalanhata|Nalanhata]], June 18

== Moving a page ==

Is there a way to move pages? I've looking over a story with terrible spelling problems and [[Tour_the_town|this page]] links to [[A little Tatoo paurlor]] which should be fixed. -- [[User:TheRick|TheRick]] 05:26, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

The page-moving function had to be disabled due to malicious vandals. However, what you can do is copy the text in the mis-named page, blank that page, edit the page with the mis-named link, and paste the text onto a new page with the correctly spelled name. Then I'll delete the blanked page. I'm the only one who can do deletions. And I do appreciate anyone who actually wants to do some work tidying up the place. --[[User:Platypus|Platypus]] 11:56, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

== Old Geezer ==

I'm still having problems with editing Lady Helsing as it says Permission error" when l try to
edit it.

First of all make sure you are logged in... next... if you have been on a single page writing for too long it will automatically log you out so right click copy anything you have if you need to re-log in --[[User:Mezzo|Mezzo]] 17:12, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

== Tags? ==
What are the tags supposed to do? Because the ones that are for this one are 'porn or death'. --[[User:Heyoeveryone]]

== Severe lag of site? ==

Anybody else getting loadtimes of upwards of 5 minutes (multiple refreshes included) for even the shortest of pages?

If so, I think I know why. Remember, this is only a guess (although it's one with backup). I noticed my browser (Chrome) seems to hang on loading the info from TagNimbus, so I tried to visit the TagNimbus site. It seems to be down or dead, and a look at www.IsUp.me told me the whole site seemed to be down for others, too.

If it's down, any chance of getting in touch with the owner to restore it? Otherwise, if TagNimbus is finall- I mean unfortunately dead, can we just remove the thing anyways? It didn't seem to change anything and was abused to tag pages with irrelevant tags...

But hey, this is all the rambling of one author who just hopes to get the site working so he can get back to writing the gore story he was in the middle of... --[[User:TheElderOnes|TheElderOnes]] 06:27, 23 April 2011 (UTC)

==Hello==

Hello. Just wanted to say this site looks really cool and interesting, I really look forward to helping stories along or even starting some once I get the hang of it.

I should know though, are there any particular rules or anything that aren't immediately obvious or that are mentioned? And where should I start? Any advice for a newbie would be very appreciated. The site is a little unnecessarily complicated.

Heyo whoever you are! Best thing you should start on is probably continuing on stories that have been started, but after 10 pages, the author has quit. If you really want to begin a new story, i suggest planning it before you actually type it all out. In your plan you should have: the main storyline, the seperate endings, and of course the characters who are going to be in the story.
-- [[User:Heyoeveryone]] 3 September 2011

You should try mind mapping. It's a great way to make branching plot lines. -- [[User:ImmortalDreams|ImmortalDreams]]

It's bad to add to the number of all the carcasses you can see on the Main Page. Save those, or if you prefer, get the more severely rotting ones that we lumped in the Pit to decompose. Unfortunately, stories are hard to get rid of, so save them from non-authorship before it's too late. It also makes it easier, since you'd agree with the storyline from the beginning, whereas others end up left behind because there's a lock on the whole thing. For Example, everything might lead to a standstill after everything directs to a page. The rest of the plot is a mystery and starts rotting. Simply because the author him/her self doesn't know how it ends.--[[User:Snowball|Snowball- The Anti-Adult-Content Resistance Leader]] 14:58, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

== Template Appearance Problem ==

The templates for my story [[War Pigs]] are coming out all wrong in IE 9, but they look fine in Firefox. Can anybody explain why? It would be greatly appreciated. --[[User:AgentVincent|AgentVincent]] 03:55, 7 July 2011 (UTC)

The problem is probably that it's IE9. IE9 enjoys shitting all over everything nice looking on the internet. --[[User:TheElderOnes|TheElderOnes]] 15:47, 31 July 2011 (UTC)

== The whole "Anon" thing. ==

Anyone else amused by this? Three brief little "attacks" (if you even want to call them that) with an empty threat? I dunno, I guess it just struck me as pathetic and funny. --[[User:TheElderOnes|TheElderOnes]] 06:26, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

Yea a real dumbass, but thank God he didn´t write any pages, those would have been real '''attacks''' on the site! :)

[[User:Fletcher Peninsula|Fletcher Peninsula]]

== Pictures ==

I noticed that there was an embedded image button. Being a photo editor, such as myself, I jumped at the idea of adding a picture where they could be used. Unfortunately it says that file adding is disabled. I looked through the General Discussion and i realize that you have had "attacks" in the past but is there a chance that they could be re-added?

--[[User:Aegisofawakening|Aegisofawakening]] 01:58, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

Actually, file adding was disabled due to server-size limitations, not due to attacks. But images can still be displayed on pages, even if the file itself cannot become part of this site. --[[User:Platypus|Platypus]] 04:09, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

== Thanks! ==

I'd just like to say thank you so much!!! Why? Well, a few years back i wrote a few tales ([[Girlngirl High]], [[All Alone]] and [[Teehee!]]). I thought, no way were these stories would ever become hits, all of them are less than 100 pages! And i never finished any of them. So i decided to quit the site for 2 years. Today, i decided to go on and look at my stories, see how they've turned out.

I looked down to find out that '''every story i've made has gotten over 1000 views on the first page, with the most being 20 000!!!''' I was just amazed at how my stories were this popular. So i'd just like to say THANK YOU!! I've given the job of continuing the stories to my friend [[User:Heyoeveryone|Heyoeveryone]]. He's a very good friend of mine and he said he'd love to take over. So once again, thank you so much for your support throughout these past 2 years. Also thanks to those people who added pages onto my stories. If you'd like to work on these stories, just ask Heyo for permission and he should promptly allow you.

Am i coming back? Nah. Well maybe. --[[User:Unkowhero23]]

Actually, you don't need my permission. Just make sure that you don't have many grammatical and spelling errors, and that the pages aren't just one or two sentences. Those are terrible, and with the load times of the site sometimes, you want something more than just that.

--[[User:Heyoeveryone|Heyoeveryone]] 5th September, 2011

== Spam ==

What's with all the random advertisements lately? It's actually more of a nuisance than those Anon people a little while back. Is this site really such a big deal that people need to go around and post all these ads? - [[User:Jamesparker|Jamesparker]], September 23, 2011

Ad's? Where? Link them here. It's best if you name and shame them, and so that their account will be quickly deleted off the site. And I guess it is such a big deal. --[[User:Heyoeveryone|Heyoeveryone]] 9 October 2011

== Mature, Adult, Bad Taste ==

A suggestion, if you will. Maybe the mature, adult and bad taste story listings should be collectively put on a sub-page separate from the main page? On reflection, maybe only the Adult and Bad Taste ones. Those wishing to see those stories wouldn't have any trouble finding them by following the link (from the main page), and it'd render the main page free of offensive language and titles. Everybody wins? What'd'y'all think? [[User:JackalRobot|JackalRobot]] 21:12, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

I have been giving the idea consideration, especially as some people would prefer not to be exposed to even the titles of some of the Adult stories. And it would help reduce the sheer size of the Main Page. --[[User:Platypus|Platypus]] 00:41, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

Despite my own story preferences, I agree. I always thought it odd (and not a little family-unfriendly) to give almost equal weight to kiddie stories as well as possibly very kinky adult stuff. As long as you can always go directly to any given page (through a browser bookmark perhaps) I actually suggest adult stories are kept behind a disclaimer screen of some sort.
[[User:Anedwcan|Anedwcan]] 19:48, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Also, it can broaden the areas for the Adult Stories and free the titles. Then there could be another sub-group for the mild content.--[[User:Snowball|Snowball- The Anti-Adult-Content Resistance Leader]] 14:52, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

That is a great idea you have there, and it would be nice to see this happen. However there is a huge flaw I see in this. Recent Changes would still show everything be it a kids story about a kitten, or an adult story about bestiality.--[[User:Yihman1|Yihman1]] 07:04, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

I have a "Mature" (R rated) story I am writing. I am considering adding a storyline in which the character gets raped offscreen. Is that too intense for "Mature"? Should I post the beginning of the storyline, and the page that links to it, here to be vetted? --[[User:LaedyRose|LaedyRose]]

I don't think an offscreen rape would necessarily need to be put in the Adult section. At least the Mature section, certainly. It depends on how much detail you put in. You might want to put a warning at the beginning of the storyline, simply because rape is a special kind of evil and will break (or make) the story for some readers. --[[User:Platypus|Platypus]] 01:34, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

== Feedback For My Stories ==

Hi! I'm new here, and I'm starting my first story, [[Transformers: War Between Two Worlds]]. I wasn't sure if it should go in the Family Friendly Section or the PG13 Section, so I put it in Family Friendly. If you have any feedback, read what I have so far and post it here. This story will take me a while, but as soon as I'm done, I'll get started on another one. Also, would anyone like to team up with me on a story? I'm guessing most of you will think I'm crazy, but it's good to check. TEAMWORK RULES! I'm not that smart when it comes to wiki editing, so if there's a place where this page would better fit, then please tell me here.

Feedback:

New Ideas (for my future stories):

Edit Requests (If you would like permission to edit one of my stories, put your username here):

-[[User:AwesomeSauce2233475]]

Sorry about putting my page in the wrong place, Platypus. How do you reach the user page?

== Finding A Story ==

Hi everyone.

Just a quickie.

1) Is there a story that focuses on something like a haunted house/mansion/what-have-you somewhere? I've skimmed the titles but nothing popped out at me and I've been reading here and there but even though most stories seem to only be like 5-10 pages the sheer number of them means I haven't had a chance to check them all and was hoping someone who'd been around longer knew of one and could point me in the right direction?

-- [[User:Captain.Devonin|Cpt. Devonin]]

: I don't know of such a story, but this brings up an issue I've been meaning to: it's awfully hard for someone to find anything they might be looking for, if they haven't seen it already. I'm wondering if the allowance of short synopses has been discussed before, or perhaps if we might create categories like [[:Category:Stories that feature supernatural characters|stories that feature supernatural characters]] or [[:Category:Stories that take place in haunted houses|stories that take place in haunted houses]].

: --[[User:KC Riley|KC Riley]] 03:39, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

Well, [[Madman's Mansion]] isn't haunted but its the best one I know of that involves a proper what-have-you-somewhere and decent story length and grammar and punctustion and so on.

--[[User:Snowball|Snowball- The Anti-Adult-Content Resistance Leader]] 14:49, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

Also, how about this: when you enter the main page, there is a link to each level of the stories, then, you can continue on into sub-groups of Ghost, Sci-Fi, Quest, Tragedy, or something like that.--[[User:Snowball|Snowball- The Anti-Adult-Content Resistance Leader]] 13:55, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

== How to know people are watching? ==

I'm new here, and recently finished a short story.

But how do I tell if anyone is seeing it? Is there a place on this website to get feedback on the stories?

Thanks

You can see at the bottom of each page how many times the page has been accessed. --[[User:Platypus|Platypus]] 07:16, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

Platypus, is this still true? I have looked at my page, and do not see a number for how many times it has been accessed. Or was this removed? --[[User:DirtyMeStoryTime|Dirty Me]] 12:20, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

Yes, unfortunately, this isn't currently active. It was always nice to know how often a page has been accessed. --[[User:Platypus|Platypus]] 15:38, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

== Something wrong? ==

Hi, I'm new here. Saw this site and thought it was pretty interesting, and gave it a try. It's fun and I'm currently working on a story. However, I'm getting a feeling I am doing something wrong with creating stories and editing them. If I am doing anything wrong so far, which I am sure I am, please tell me, okays?

-Bluedragon

So far, so good. I see nothing wrong with what you're doing. --[[User:Platypus|Platypus]] 14:25, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

== A page making/organizing resource ==

First of all, I don't want to sound like a spammer or advertiser, but since I can code, I thought I'd make a resource for everyone who's interested.
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I've noticed when making games on here, that it's difficult to keep track of all your pages, and it's still hard to make them even with a mind map. So I made a rather unconventional, very small piece of software using Game Maker. Despite its not too standard interface. It provides an easy and efficient way to organize your pages. You can type and paste your page content into it and then automatically generate the pages in the correct format for this site.
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I in no way claim that I have ownership rights to the site. I only want to provide a resource for its users in order to make the creating process easier.
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The file is only 2.3MB.
Here's the download link(vs1) - http://www.4shared.com/file/g5M6PSP2/CYOA_-_Page_Organizer.html
--[[User:ImmortalDreams|ImmortalDreams]]
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'''New Features:'''
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Made page recognition easier by showing the link names instead of the page names for the disabled parallel fields of each choice.
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Added a ''Clear'' button to the description area.
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Added a feature where the active field is always highlighted.
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Added tab key support for faster navigation between fields.
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'''Bug Fixes:'''
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All of the proper link names show up in the generated code files. Before, all link names had been choice1's.
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The disabled child name(now link) fields no longer show a value of 0 when going to one page and back again.
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New download link(vs1.1) - [http://www.4shared.com/file/KF270foj/CYOA_-_Page_Organizer11.html]
--[[User:ImmortalDreams|ImmortalDreams]]

== Interaction ==

How can I communicate with other users of this site, so that we can conspire and work together. I am currently working on a story that is just to much for one person to handle, but I don't understand how I can talk with "helpers". I just don't get it!-- [[User: Cyclops|Cyclops]]

You can click on a user's name to view their profile page, then click on the "discussion" tab to see their talk page. If you post something on their talk page, they'll see an alert at the top of their screen. Hopefully, they'll click the alert, go to their talk page, and then write something back on your page. --[[User:Platypus|Platypus]] 23:06, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

i think that there needs to be a few changes to this site. A chatroom. It would be very easy to find one online and embed it in a page. Also I believe there should be category pages where all the sci fi pages are in one place with links to it. Maybe on the mainpage, instead of links to very story, have links to the category listing. Finally I believe there should be something to let us rate pages (as in 4 out of 5 stars).
-[[User:Gartonia|Gartonia]]

The interaction between users does seem unusual (profile page->discussion...) There can be a better way surely?
Also, clicking on a user's name is not easy. For one, the pages don't have a author's link. Also, the person who wrote the last page in a story might be different from the author of the current page.
A link to the profile of the creator should be there on each page so one can easily click on it...
-[[User:BenchWarmer|BenchWarmer]]

A link to the profile of the creator ''is'' there on each page. Just click the History tab. There's a link to the profile page and to the discussion page of every user who's edited the page. --[[User:Platypus|Platypus]] 19:43, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

== Salutations. ==

Hello, I am one of the new guys here. I just wanted to know if there are any rules that I must adhere to on this site. I mainly made an account just so that I was able to continue on a story that I saw on this website. Well anyway, If you can notify me, please do, Thank You.

== Salutations. ==

Hello, I am one of the new guys here. I just wanted to know if there are any rules that I must adhere to on this site. I mainly made an account just so that I was able to continue on a story that I saw on this website. Well anyway, If you can notify me, please do, Thank You.

== Linking to existing pages ==

How does one link back to an existing page, in effect creating a loop?

The same way you create a link to a new page: By enclosing the name of the page in square brackets. For example: <nowiki> [[Main Page]] </nowiki> links you to [[Main Page]].--[[User:Platypus|Platypus]] 21:49, 13 June 2012 (UTC)

== Featured Story - A Dead Thing? ==

We're 8 days from the 8 month anniversary of the last time the Featured Story section was last updated. Who was last in charge of updating that? --[[User:TheElderOnes|TheElderOnes]] 07:24, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

The idea was proposed by [[User: Occono|Occono]], last seen in 2009. I said then that I had no objections to such a feature, but no intention of participating in it. Anyone volunteering? --[[User:Platypus|Platypus]] 18:19, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

As I understood it, anyone could edit the featured story section, no one in particular was responsible for keeping it reguarly updated. That being said, 8 months is an alarmingly long time. If we´re looking for a story right now to put on there "Megan" (which is already nominated) could do. Although that one might be a bit to... bloody disturbing, to be put there. Another one might be Battle Royal, which has a lot of pages. (Wait, did I just recomend Battle Royal over something else beacuse it was so bloody disturbing? Scary thought!).

Overall though, personally I´d want to put a quality story on the featured page. And the simply fact is that there arn´t enough quality storys on this site to maintain a one or two months switch around in my opinion. Also, personally, I´d also not like to see adulth storys be put there, which decresses the story-pool significantly.

--[[User:Fletcher Peninsula|Fletcher Peninsula]]

Woah, seriously? 8 months? That is amazing. Nevertheless it's a great thing that someone actually bothered to change it. It may be my story, but from 2012 onwards, I was surprised that [[Remember]] was still featured. Congratulations to TheElderOnes. It's been a long time coming, and now you've finally gotten the story featured. Nice.

--[[User:Heyoeveryone|Heyoeveryone]] 30/06/2012

== Compressing the main page ==

I started compressing the main page into smaller sortable tables. I just finished the family friendly section, feel free to take over for me if you would like to do the next sections

The goal for all of these tables is to keep the list around 10 items, and then have a more stories page for each section. The simpest way to do this is to choose all stories that have 50+ pages. If that leads to too many stories, then make it 100+...

If a story is well written, and more than 50 pages, it should trump a story with more pages.

Also, please bring the adult section back to the home page with the top items from it. That is the most active section of the site, and it generates a lot of traffic from google.

--[[User:RobKohr|RobKohr]] 12:19, 15 August 2012 (UTC)

== Separate Wiki for Adult Content ==

I don't really like that adult stores are so easily accessible for people that come here looking for non-adult material, such as that they'll pop up as random pages, or can be seen in "Recent Changes". Is there any interest in branching Adult content off in to a separate Wiki, and maybe including a link the "Adult Section" in the side-bar? --[[User:Holvard|Holvard]] 19:56, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

Unfortunately, the majority of the traffic here is looking for the Adult Content. Removing it or trying to bury it in some way would most likely kill off the non-adult content. --[[User:Platypus|Platypus]] 20:16, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

How extreme is the majority? As far as I can tell, this is the only active site to make free interactive adult stories, so if there's that much interest I may try to make my own. --[[User:Holvard|Holvard]] 20:56, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

Would it take a lot of work to put the adult content behind a disclaimer screen? As long as one had to go through the main page to access the adult site, it might actually ''increase'' traffic to the non-adult content, because people would feel better about, for instance, recommending it to children. People might feel more comfortable with the site in general if they felt sure that reasonable precautions were being taken. --[[User:LaedyRose|LaedyRose]] 9 April 2012

It could work through account settings, and then it being disabled by default, and the option for parental controls. Maybe even an option (that would have to be enabled through account settings) so that only one account could be tied to that IP, and these settings, after being enabled, could be disabled via a parental control password that is set up with the account, that could be different than the account's login password.
[[User:UZ9|UZ9]] 21:52, 20 April 2013 (UTC)

== Issues With the Site ==
I've noticed that Create Your Own Adventure pages tend to load slowly, and the last week or so, accessing the site at all has been touch and go. Is there any particular reason for this? Is there anything you or we can do about it, or do we just need to be patient? --[[User:LaedyRose|LaedyRose]] 9 April 2012

== Lag of site and page load limits ==
Is there a problem? When I first started contributing to this site it could sometimes be very slow, but I put that down to traffic at certain times of the day. In the morning in GMT (when the Americas are asleep!) it was usually pretty good. Now, though, I find it's terribly slow whenever I use it, often taking upwards of thirty seconds to a minute to load a single page. What's more, not infrequently it doesn't load the page at all and I instead get a "Uncached page load rate limit reached -> 3 per second;" message. After a couple of those (even if I've only been on the site for ~5 minutes and loaded three or four pages) I get a request to complete a Captcha: "Page loads per hour hit - limit 60. Reset limit by filling in this captcha:"

It seems that it's trying to load pages multiple times when I access them? That might explain why it's being so slow, too.

*There is indeed a problem: link spammers. RobKohr has had to deliberately slow down site responsiveness and include that captcha in the hopes of frustrating the spambots so maybe they'll go away and leave us alone. The messages you're seeing aren't because ''you're'' trying to load more than 3 pages per second. It's because the bots are trying to load far, far more pages than that per second. Do I like this solution? Not really. It's frustrating. Can anyone else think of a better one? --[[User:Platypus|Platypus]] 14:14, 13 May 2013 (UTC)

**You guys could require to creat a acc that is activaded by admin/mod to view the content, the login page should always come if a cookie isnt existing and the page itself could be a blank site with minmal text and a field to look in.

***You wouldn't even need to create an account to ''view'' the content (that would be counter-intuitive, since you want people to see it) but just to ''edit'' it. I know that's probably far from ideal because the whole point is the Wiki is free for everyone, but at the same time if it's being incredibly slow because of spambots then maybe it's a necessary step?

: Is there some reason that the normal solutions (for MediaWiki, let's say the Phalanx extension) can't be applied here? Spam is a rather indiscriminate reality of the Internet that sites are usually protected against without crippling themselves and hoping spambots will get frustrated and go away. They won't, but the users will. --[[User:KC Riley|KC Riley]] 13:06, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

== Linking pictures problems and other errors ==

Hello. In my various writing I try to place links to pictures to enhance the story experience. I've been doing this for months and months but lately the site has been completely blocking my ability to place links. The first time I try to post a page with a link it will force me to type in two words to verify that I'm human. After I type in the correct words it will attempt to post the page again but instead I will get this message: "You can only submit one page with a link in it per 20 minute period". Because of the human verification process I am completely unable to post links. I am fine with only posting one link per twenty minutes but the site has negated any way of posting links as the verification process eats up my one post per twenty minutes. As someone who uses the site often this is a major inconvenience.

Furthermore, if the human verification process doesn't stop my attempts at posting a link all the million of other error messages will. Errors such as site load limits or pages per hour or some such. These errors are never correct and seemingly random. I can stomach these messages and plod forward but they are a complete hindrance when it comes to posting links.

Please give me some assistance in this regard, I do not want to lose the function of placing links in my stories.

I have noticed this annoying tendency too. I tried to create a link to the CC-BY legal language, which is what I license my writing using, and find that, since I get the captcha thing, it blocks the link completely by telling me I can only do one external link per 20 minutes. So, it must say 1 time when I first submit, 1 time when I captcha and submit, meaning I can never do anything external. Like, say, link the CC-BY legal language for people to easily read the copyright terms, or provide a picture of an outfit I am thinking of, or whatever. Instead, I need to put a half link in so people can copy and paste, but not go to by directly clicking. Not sure how to get around this -.- --[[User:DirtyMeStoryTime|Dirty Me]] 04:45, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

== Hiya! Are people still active? ==

Hey guys. I'm Bloody and I just joined the site. I've noticed the discussion board is a little old, and just wanted to see if others were still active. Guess I just need a little reassurance that I'm not the only one. lol -Bloody

== Page loads per second hit - limit 2 ==

Has anyone else been getting this message a lot lately? [[User:AgentVincent|AgentVincent]] 21:32, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

Yes. I have. But I wait about 2 seconds and hit the "reload page" button, and it works. -- [[User:Teejay|Teejay]]

That page loads hit per second is extremely annoying. I'm a fast reader, and on short pages, it sometimes pops up. It does so constantly when I'm just trying to get back to pages inside of a story I want to edit or add more to. I also really dislike that "Page hits per hour" message. What's the point of having it? Maybe the site can do away with that? -- [[User:Sophos8|Sophos8]]

I don't like it either, but "throttling" the site is one of the techniques that RobKohr is using to frustrate the spam-bots that were filling the site with crap. --[[User:Platypus|Platypus]] 20:21, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

It is driving me insane. I can't enjoy this site when everytime i click on another page i get this annoying message. I spend more time reading that than actual story.
And i just got it when i tried to add here....

lol, you should try checking through stories to see if they should be moved to the pit. I see that message so often it isn't funny D: --[[User:DirtyMeStoryTime|Dirty Me]] 14:00, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

its annoying as hell it would be nice if it was raised to 4

How does one "frustrate" a bot? If anything it will cause people actually interested in this site to turn away. There has to be a better way to do this.

== Image linking ==

Every time I try to link an image, it gives me:
"You can only submit one page with a link in it per 20 minute period."
This happens regardless of whether i add via hyperlinking or as a text url itself.

Any help would be very much appreciated.
My only other option for this is to upload images to this site, but I'm not sure if I can or not. But the editing tools does support adding images during editing so...
--[[User:Aelvir|Aelvir]] 15:33, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

== Chat Concept ==

Recently created, and in need of a public announcement. Feel free to use this link and open in separate tabs to keep it alive:<br> '''editthischat.chatango.com'''<br>
--[[User:Completionist|Completionist]] 22:24, 8 May 2014 (UTC)

== Mermaid games? ==

Can someone please make a adult section mermaid choose sex game or direct me to one... Thanks.

And i want it to be that you cant change into legs and are cught by fishermen.

Also make the girl mermaid choose a blonde girl.

And its set in a medieval world thats advanced on slavery and cross breeding and has mutant bugs.

Thanks.

==New here==

So I'm working on a story called [[Three sisters]] in the adult section. I'm just wondering if anyone is enjoying it as of yet, its still a WIP and there is still loads of work to be done with it. Anyway let me know if there are things you would like to see in it, or anything else.

-[[User:Tapdancingfish|Tapdancingfish]] 23:39, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

==I have questions==
Ive just joined but having been writting up my own story for months, i want to know if its possible to keep my story hidden from public until im ready for them to read it? Also is there anyway for me to revert unwanted edits by other users (to be honest i dont want any users editing my work unless its to fix grammar)?
[[User:Blitzbear93|Blitzbear93]] 14:01, 14 September 2014 (UTC)Blitzbear93
:Hi,
:I suggest that you create a wiki to write your story, then you blank the page in the last edit. Nobody can read it when opening your wiki, but you can easily retrieve your own story in the revision history page (clicking on the previous archived version). You cannot really prevent any user from editing, but whether it happens, you have the right to make reverts, too, so you can check your work periodically if you are worried about that. You may mention at the beginning of the story the following sentence :
:''Please do not change or add pages (unless you correct my orthography, which you are welcome to do). Thank you.''
:Good luck. -- [[User:Girl Mamtha|Girl Mamtha]] 20:10, 26 October 2014 (UTC)

== Linking to outside sites ==

So, I've been trying for over two hours to upload the first page of my my story. However, submissions with outside links can only be submitted once every 20 minutes, a common sense policy I have no issues with. My problem comes when the first submission attempt loads the page again with a captcha to prove I'm not a spam bot. Entering the captcha, I discover that triggering the Captcha counts as a story submission and makes me wait 20 minutes before I can actually submit it. Annoying, but okay. I wait the 20 minutes, hit submit, and discover that my login has timed out. I log in again to discover that being informed that I timed out COUNTS AS A GODDAMN STORY SUBMISSION. I went around this loop AGAIN, keeping track of the time in an attempt to not have to repeat it, with no more success. It should not be this hard to link to a goddamn discussion/writers collaboration thread on another website.

Oh, and hitting submit and being told you have to wait ALSO counts, so if you misjudge by one minute, you have to wait EVEN MORE.

EDIT: After another 40 minutes of trying, I have given up and removed the link. This Kraken shall be wrestled another day.

== Is this websites community still active? ==

A few years back I used to frequently use this website a lot, I never had an account though.
Now I want to contribute stories and etc.
But I'm worried the hay day of this website is over.
How active is this community?

Tapdancingfish- 2/19/2015
I'm still around and a few others, dunno how active the site is as I don't see updates very often.

== New here! Started a story! "My Worlds" ==

I'm new here so I don't know if the site is still very active.
If yes then help if you want with my story, My Worlds.
I suck at grammar so help with that too.

==Still seeing if people are around==
Site seemed dead for awhile but you never know if people are lurking around out there. If you are give a shout out, if not, well then you can't read this.

-[[User:Noseknows|Noseknows]] 8:31, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

Oh man, this site was much busier back in the day. I really hope the website's community bounces back again, it'd probably motivate me to write once more and finish Remember. If not, i'll just return to checking in every few months.

-[[User:Heyoeveryone|Heyoeveryone]] 16:17, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
: Seems there is great interest in reviving this site, or one that is similar, but perhaps at a site that is better maintained? If enough project participants were interested, you could request CYOS.wiki at Wiki.wiki (that's the URL) and have it hosted there for free. You could either start from scratch or migrate over any content of interest. -[[User:JOR|JOR]] 21:06, 28 July 2015 (UTC)

I want so bad, but I simply don't have the time to maintain it, I have a tonne of responsibilities I have to attend and I can really only check on this site once every few months. If this site got revamped or a new one was made sure I can definitely contribute and add more to my story(ies), but until then I'll wait till something happens.

-[[User:Heyoeveryone|Heyoeveryone]] 15:10, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

I'm new to the site and I'm thinking about writing a story but I wouldn't know if I should since the site looks like it is pretty inactive at the moment. It would be nice to hear from anyone who is active XD
-[[User:Reer|Reer]] 17:15, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

I still exist in the ether of the site, lurking while not posting. Were my current personal life more conducive to writing, I'd be here more often. If anyone knows of a more active site, I'd love to migrate. It'd give me an excuse to find more time for writing. If nothing else, I'd also be happy to assist in the slow building of another wiki seeing as this one's main writer's community has disappeared. If anyone decides to go anywhere with this idea, head to my talk page, which I still check regularly. --[[User:TheElderOnes|TheElderOnes]] 07:11, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

I believe there'd be more people around if there was a way for others to know the site is being used. That content is being created, that stories are being read, that is. Some sense of activity that is clear to everyone, not just those who seek it, but those who are coming for the first time as well. --[[User:Darth Malcolm|Darth Malcolm]] 02:36, 05 January 2016 (UTC)

I am currently working on some story branches but I feel like I'm only writing it because I want to get it out of my head and not for people to read it. It's kinda depressing :/ --[[User:Dwarftopia|dwarftopia]] 18:13, 24 January 2016 (UTC)

It is a shame indeed. There's always people reading things, however. Even the most unexpected of them. Rest assured that ''someone'' will always read your story. Granted, it would be best if you had a way of knowing, but I doubt it's coming any time soon, if ever. --[[User:Darth Malcolm|Darth Malcolm]] 01:30, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

I'm new here, and want to write some stories, but if this site is dead, then is there a similar site that's active? [[User:Cobraworry|Cobraworry]] 12/7 2016

== How do I delete my account? ==

Don't think I'm ever coming back here.

== Viewing any traffic ==

Is there a way to see or monitor any traffic going through the site? Not individual stories but how often the place is visited. -[[User:117|117]] 5 December 2015

== Question ? ? ? ==

People/Whoever is reading this article,as you can see by the title of this The problem is quite simple to asnswer Im sure,but it says book creator and Im dont know how to make a story Even if there Is none.if you can answer my question,I thank you Oh So very much!

Yours Truly, BookCreator123

The '''[[Tutorial]]''' page may be a ''salubrious antidote'' to your not-knowing! [[User:Heathin|Heathin]] 07:06, 13 August 2016 (UTC)

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Old Owl:

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I just wanted to let you know, if you want to read the story I am writing on [[DirtyMeStoryTime Rants/Camping trip]] and let me know what you think, what is wrong, what is right, etc, it would be great. I was just thinking I had asked Fred and Teejay, but not you. Honestly, I didn't more because I didn't think you would really want to. But, I realized just now I was assuming that without even asking xD So, sorry for the delayed asking. --[[User:DirtyMeStoryTime|Dirty Me]] 04:22, 10 September 2016 (UTC)

Wow, I haven't been on this site for months and yet I still find you with the daily routine. Props! Just dropping by to say hello.--[[User:Completionist|Completionist]] 04:40, 9 August 2016 (UTC)

I've heard DirtyMe has been giving around flowers so because I have been up for 18 hours straight, here is something in the same spirit:

{{Hypnobutt}}

Yeah, that's probably true. I'll start reverting pages back.--[[User:Underside|Underside]] 02:06, 15 July 2016 (UTC)

Okay, in an effort to satisfy everybody I templated each section page for [[All Adult Stories]]. Then I added the templates to the main index for the best of both worlds. Now edits in a section of any page will show up under the main index and the individual page. The main page still has parser issues though. I hope it's alright like this. If so I could do this for the PG-13 pages too. --[[User:Underside|Underside]] 01:33, 15 July 2016 (UTC)

Alright, thanks. I wanted to keep the structure the same as much as possible. I like the idea of a single page index too. I considered making the split pages alongside the main index, but the extra bookkeeping of maintaining two indexes didn't seem like a better way. I'll check for edits that happened between now I when I split the pages, and incorporate any I find before I change it. --[[User:Underside|Underside]] 20:47, 14 July 2016 (UTC)

Hi there, I'm kinda new to the wiki, but I have been working on cleaning up the [[All Adult Stories|adult]] and [[All PG-13 Stories|PG-13]] stories. Both pages currently have too many parser calls and the 50kb adult page won't let me edit with my phone browser. I broke up the pages as suggested on the discussion page. [[User:DirtyMeStoryTime|DirtyMe]] suggested I check with you before making big edits to the indexes though. I have links to the changes I made [[All_Adult_Stories/#|here]] and [[All_PG-13_Stories/#|here]] respectively. Would it be alright if I break the pages up? --[[User:Underside|Underside]] 15:44, 14 July 2016 (UTC)

All glory.--[[User:Fredhot16|Fredhot16]] 01:36 (Louisiana Time), 1 July 2016

lol, that is why I mentioned that path specifically. While the rest is rather questionable in the first place, it could be argued on why it should be allowed. However, the single path seemed to pass beyond what Rob wanted. Actually, I think it was me that ironically made it available. When I came across one page, I got the content not welcome message, so I edited it so the page displayed properly. Then, the pages were suddenly able to be read. I agree about not liking to censor stuff. Honestly, I don't understand people that like that kind of thing, but I would rather they just write and fantasize than actually do stuff in real life. Like an outlet. Seems better to me anyways, since I can just avoid reading it if I want to. Lets face it, Dirty Me is an outlet for my own personal fantasies, since I can no longer really live them out. --[[User:DirtyMeStoryTime|Dirty Me]] 01:58, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

While I was reading through [[Life of a 13 year old]] for the review, I came across this path: [[Stalk an elementary school]]

This path has red links mostly, and the only written options lead the main character have sex with a 10 year old girl, ending with the character piercing her uterus and cumming inside her chest, next to her heart. I am unsure if this goes beyond Rob's rules, so wanted to let you know in case it should potentially be removed. I am not here to judge it, just to make sure you were aware in case this should be removed or modified to comply with the rules. I will let you judge if it is acceptable. (Personally, I find the whole story offensive, and questionable (since it is mostly supposed to be a 13 year old doing all these things), but that is a different issue...) --[[User:DirtyMeStoryTime|Dirty Me]] 05:00, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for your kind words and sage advice. A few thoughts you might want to consider:

*I finally built up the courage to make a contribution, and added a couple pages to an existing story. That's a big step. My first feedback is from a sysop who, rather than offering any sort of encouragement or advice, suggests I should be writing for a comic book. Not exactly the kind of behavior one would hope for in a sysop.
*I personally have no problem with feedback, but would hope it might come in a less douche-filled format. Particularly from a grizzled veteran such as yourself. That said, I'm not simply going to bow down and worship at the altar of Platypus. You have the power to ban...you've made it very clear. You've mentioned at every opportunity that you have special sysop powers. If your ego is so sensitive that you can't handle someone standing up to you, then ban away. A bully will be a bully...even in egg-laying mammalian clothing.
*I have no interest in getting into a pissing match. As previously stated, I simply was taken aback by your initial foray into doucheville. I've since come to understand that you were simply being you. I've dealt with cyber-bullies before, and will do so again. If you feel the need to flex your virtual muscles and remind everyone who is in charge, then feel free. Some guys need that sort of thing to get off. It takes more than a few snarky comments to scare me away. Can we hug it out now?

Hope this has been helpful.

Kindest regards,
--[[User:Bardo75|Bardo75]] 23:41, 28 June 2016 (UTC)

Did you honestly just ban me from editing "your stories" because I posted a snarky response to your grammar nazism, then thought better of it an deleted my own post? I think perhaps Mr Sysop is letting his title go to his head. --[[User:Bardo75|Bardo75]] 01:17, 28 June 2016 (UTC)

Hey, mind looking at "Escape from Syria" and "A Boy's Night Out" in the Mature Story section? I think they're Adult stories that somehow wandered into the Mature Story section. --[[User:Fredhot16]] 12:20, 19 June 2016 (Louisiana Time)

I didn't understand half of that...so...I am not completely sure if you are making fun of me or not xD Anyways, I have asked Teejay to look over my raider tale story I have completed for some proof reading. [[FMS/Tales from a raider/FS-Bitch1]]. I am not sure if you would be willing to or not. I assume it is easy enough to understand, even without knowing about the game. Raiders are the thieves, murderers, raiding groups. Deathclaw is just scary, like it sounds. And the random food is super low quality food that you would not even think of as worth stealing. The setting is the world after lots of atom bombs fell, so a giant, irradiated wasteland with mutated things running around trying to kill everything. Oh, and a Yao guai is a mutated bear. TMI? --[[User:DirtyMeStoryTime|Dirty Me]] 09:18, 17 June 2016 (UTC)

Sigh...where did everyone go? I keep seeing change after change of one name, then another name replaces, but it seems like it is relatively few people active right now...

I haven't even seen you in the logs lately.

btw, ever played fallout games? Wondering what you think of my new stuff if you have. Not getting much feedback from anyone on them lately... --[[User:DirtyMeStoryTime|Dirty Me]] 15:21, 16 June 2016 (UTC)

I explained how I do images. Maybe it will help him. --[[User:DirtyMeStoryTime|Dirty Me]] 02:34, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

I keep seeing [[Story Reviews]] on the front page, but...nothing is ever done.

I am slowly going to try to build a review system. I will change it as I go, probably with some key words in a template on the main rating page, giving the story link, review link, etc, but for now, I am just starting the thing. I am hoping after it is developed enough, we can use it to replace the [[Story Reviews]] page. Or, would it be better for me to blank [[The Review]], and just modify [[Story Reviews]]? I was thinking of just making a page per story, with my review and let others also add their reviews if they wish, but I want to know your thoughts. I will play with templates later to try to get right. I will of course include the same info as in the [[Story Reviews]], but in a nice table format. Title, link, review page link, page count, probably some key terms (Especially when I get to adult). But, again, I am a bit worried about how many pages I will create. I am also going to have a cutoff, pagecount. Like, under 20 pages, unless your story is 100% complete, I won't bother. I wanted your thoughts, since I think it would be better for people to understand the stories. --[[User:DirtyMeStoryTime|Dirty Me]] 09:19, 3 June 2016 (UTC)

Okay, this is a strange request. So, for your smutty sex romp, on the female path, would you be willing to write about a strange...fantasy...I have?

I can't explain the fantasy, and know it is really strange...but, I have always had a fantasy of taking a bath in a bathtub full of cum...

I wrote a little short, more as a funny short, for this: dirtylittlemestories.blogspot.com/2013/10/a-withdrawal-from-sperm-bank-cum.html. I know, if inspiration hits you, but it can't really hit you if you don't think of it xD --[[User:DirtyMeStoryTime|Dirty Me]] 15:15, 1 June 2016 (UTC)

I sort guessed it was there to stop spambots but it's annoying nonetheless. Ah Well. I'll see how much I can move to the pit before I get distracted (it might not be a lot) -- [[User:Hellspawn|Hellspawn]] 09:15 29 May GMT

Is there anyway to remove the captcha thing that pops up after every few pages. I was trying to be helpful and move a bunch of stuff over to the '''PIT OF ABANDONED STORIES''' (Great name btw) and after copying and pasting the names of the stories from 'All Adult Stories' to the 'Pit of Abandoned stories' page and I pressed save on the pit editing thing, fine, then I pressed save on the other page and suddenly I was presented with a captcha, filled in the captcha and then lost all the edits I had just made to the page. I think I've rectified the mistake but the annoyance, although minor, is not ideal. (Also I hope you don't mind me moving things to the pit, just felt like it needed a clean up.) -- [[User:Hellspawn|Hellspawn]] 27 May 21:21 GMT

lol, no comment about the dick I left on Zenclair's page? Yeah, I actually should remove it...honestly, I read over some of his stuff, and found it rather demeaning, so I hinted at him that I thought he was a dick. I sort of feel bad about that now. --[[User:DirtyMeStoryTime|Dirty Me]] 02:01, 27 May 2016 (UTC)

Hmm, hidden stories gives me ideas. Wonder what someone would say if I wrote an entire CYoS story, but when they saw the text they saw nothing. It isn't until they drag the mouse that they realize the font is white, the story is there and complete, but no one can see it xD

<p title="Is it just me or does he seem to be...rather young...like a know it all teen?">Maybe have a second story purely in pop-up text (using the <nowiki><p title="Some words will pop up when you hover your house over the words of the paragraph">Something</p></nowiki></p>

Now I am getting better ideas for Context xD --[[User:DirtyMeStoryTime|Dirty Me]] 15:32, 26 May 2016 (UTC)

Ok mr.platypus. im gonna say that my story is gdeleted by me and I am finding people who can contribute to my story
in my place(In my city actually) and then I will rewrite it. I may not include the title or category cause im still finding people who can help me with this
Since then I will not add choices to the I am male thinggy. I might as well not reply to people including you too. I may not be online too
Then after that I will make it a looong story. ps im removing "low priority" discussions from my discussion. pps my story I cant publish it in public first
Because many will put things in that. I must say that putting my story in my talk page is a kind of privacy which means only selected people or people who know me can read it because I dont talk to "Low priority" people. IT STAYS HIDDEN WHILE I MAKE IT. MR PLATYPUS.

And a flower for Platypus! --[[User:DirtyMeStoryTime|Dirty Me]] 10:00, 24 May 2016 (UTC)
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About rampage: You know, the way it is set up, why doesn't someone create subcategories for the currently possessed character? Like <nowiki>[[Category: Rampage:Black Cat]]</nowiki>? Then, the victim pages, like [[Ashley Duruma]], could just be category pages with the text on the page put in as the text of the category page. Just a though xD --[[User:DirtyMeStoryTime|Dirty Me]] 04:42, 19 May 2016 (UTC)

You know, I have been trying to change the 6th grade girl in rampage to 12th grade girl, and I found something. The rancher part, with the horses and stuff, is making me feel rather nauseous... I think I will stop touching that story and let someone else change her to 12th grade...before I throw up... --[[User:DirtyMeStoryTime|Dirty Me]] 06:15, 17 May 2016 (UTC)

I don't want to sound picky but is there any way to get my pages that I wrote like that? I understand that there was a slight spelling error on one and I messed up use of the status bar, but I went on there this morning to correct the and the majority had been taken down. That was over an hours writing that I'm a little miffed about having to redo for a misunderstanding since it was my first time adding to one of these pages. It's very intimidating getting a message a few seconds after you step out and try to share something on here simply because you slightly misunderstood the code. I'm new, and I am sorry about it, but I can't be perfect on my first post. Did I do something else wrong or do you really take people's post's down without giving them a chance to edit mistakes, because of my time zone this was the first chance I had to log on and check them.
--[[User:JulietMai]]

Hey Platypus, wanted to ask you a question about the new rules. Now that we're not allowed to write about underage characters a lot of the old stories have been deleted. Some of them were my favorites that I worked hard on. Are they gone forever or are they archived somewhere? I would love to transcribe them to the allthefallen stories site instead. Thanks! (Bellajones)

lol, I have been with a guy who was "Well endowed". He hurt, alot. Wish I had known about that ring thing before that. I would have made him use it. Instead, we only had sex one time. I never let him touch me again. Oh well, wasn't a serious thing anyways. --[[User:DirtyMeStoryTime|Dirty Me]] 10:14, 7 May 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing out the mistake. I am seriously beginning to speak Chinglish. Think I even have a little bit of a Chinese-English accent now...

So, what do you think of my [[DirtyMeStoryTime Rants]]? I know they are making fun of people, but I am at least trying to keep them interesting enough that they are readable. Also, not sure about your thoughts on my [[User:DirtyMeStoryTime/IRL sex experiences]]. I had a bit of discussion with this with Teejay, but I also know it crosses from "Story" to "Bio", so not sure if I should even put it here. Your thoughts? Basically, just trying to let those who like my writing know a bit about who I am. At least, in the areas that most people on here would care about, given most people on here are mostly [[All Adult Stories]] oriented. Guess it is more of a "Hey, do you wonder why I write mostly erotica? Here you go" thing. --[[User:DirtyMeStoryTime|Dirty Me]] 05:02, 6 May 2016 (UTC)

Noted, I will apply to the others then, just wanted to check before I did too much. I will try to improve it, trying to figure out how to get them to line up, but at least it is another step towards a nicer, more graphic website for us all ^.^ --[[User:DirtyMeStoryTime|Dirty Me]] 12:38, 4 May 2016 (UTC)

I have tried to add a nice looking template to the family friendly section on the front page. If you do not like it, we can revert. --[[User:DirtyMeStoryTime|Dirty Me]] 04:55, 4 May 2016 (UTC)

Dood can I ask something? I need you to please help me. Seriously and do you have a place that we can talk privately.

Yours, Michael. hehe really put that to help me(PLS SERSLY AND ALSO I WONT BE HOME TOMORROW SO I CANT REPLY BUT I WILL REPLY AS SOON AS I GET HOME Thanks) -- [[User:Michaeltamayo96]]

Dude I just read the tutorial and im new so dont expect me to write such many branches. --[[User:Michaeltamayo96|Michaeltamayo96]]

So I hope you don't mind me making fun of [[Smutty Sex Romp]] in my [[DirtyMeStoryTime Rants/Horny for sluts]] path. --[[User:DirtyMeStoryTime|Dirty Me]] 11:51, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

Please check [[Special:Contributions/Njrsgg]]. I have edited one of the stories that was posted that contained "under age vagina", but looking through many of his posts, it is still pretty obvious, even though I removed mention of the underage and
4th grade" and that kind of thing. I have also warned him. But, I think you may still want to look through his pages to decide what may be too close to the editthis ban on content. --[[User:DirtyMeStoryTime|Dirty Me]] 02:41, 26 April 2016 (UTC)

<nowiki>*</nowiki>Sniff<nowiki>*</nowiki> You haven't given me any options for [[The Exhibitionist]]. You should be able to give me great options. I will write the story, just want creative ways to show myself off xD --[[User:DirtyMeStoryTime|Dirty Me]] 09:17, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

It will be filled out over time as I come up with more ideas for the story. Unfortunately, I tend to take my time with writing so It'll mostly come out in bits and pieces. --[[User:Fredhot16]] 12:03, 25 January 2015 (UTC)

What the hell is "shotgun-wielding" supposed to mean? Here's what I mean: "Miss Natsume. Shotgun wielding teacher. Long dark purple hair, matching eyes. 5'8. C Cup." Really, what is it supposed to mean? Other then the obvious denotation but I haven't seen a anime where teachers are allowed to bring firearms to school and I get the feeling that it's supposed to be related to her personality.--[[User:Fredhot16]] 10:42, 15 April 2016 (Louisiana Time)

Hell yeah! I've discovered TV Tropes before I found this website. I even have my own troper profile:Fredhot16.--[[User:Fredhot16]] 10:32, 15 April 2016 (Louisiana Time)

Is it O.K to find empty discussion pages and put in a trope list of what tropes I think fits the page's content?--[[User:Fredhot16]] 07:53, 15 April 2016 (Louisiana Time)

Please check [[Special:Contributions/Sup]]. Teejay reversed the damage. --[[User:DirtyMeStoryTime|Dirty Me]] 05:24, 13 April 2016 (UTC)

Added a [[Rules]] page and linked it on the front page. I guess it is strange to tell them to follow the rules, and have no rules page, so... Anyways, I will let you edit it if you feel the need, add, subtract, modify, etc. --[[User:DirtyMeStoryTime|Dirty Me]] 02:03, 11 April 2016 (UTC)

Hey Platypus, it's [[User:Vgybhu]]. You gave me some helpful formatting advice for my Monster Girl Adventure story, but its in such an early state its not even playable. I guess I just wanted to say 'message received' and ask for any advice on how to keep my story progressing but allow me to write in 20 mins bursts. I'll keep the update log and option descriptions labeled for now with % complete, although I was hoping to write my story in chunks with one encounter for each character/start point (So it'll take awhile before there is actually a path to play into).

I formatted a couple links on the main page to try to help them stand out. I did in a single edit, so it can be easily reverted if you do not like. Maybe someone can take my idea and make it look better, I just made them look like buttons xD Anyways, if you do not like, please feel free to revert, and I won't feel bad. If anyone does like, well, perhaps someone else can modify the template to make it look better. It was actually a test template I was working on to try to make the index's themselves look better, but I could not get them to look right. --[[User:DirtyMeStoryTime|Dirty Me]] 05:53, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

I think I meant it to be the present case they were currently having sex? I am not really sure, but I will check later because I have things to do. I though I wrote in present tense cause I did not really check over my work though.[[User:GirlOnGirlFan!]]

Um, oops, I kind of got them mixed up its been a while since I wrote something. Did you edit it if not I will. And next time I will check my work more thoroughly.
[[User:GirlOnGirlFan!]]

Sorry, think I overwhelmed the poor guy :o I was trying to help, not intimidate xD (hint check histories...)

Am I really that intimidating? I want others to tell me what I am doing wrong in my writing, so I thought it would help...--[[User:DirtyMeStoryTime|Dirty Me]] 18:50, 1 April 2016 (UTC)

You are not replying, so I will write one page and if you do not like it simply delete it.
From [[GirlOnGirlFan!]] to Platypus.

I read your stories Smutty Sex Romp and Rampage, I must say your writing is truly marvelous. To be honest, I only created this account to tell you that because I am no easy person to please, In fact I am quite finicky in writing and reading other peoples stories, others work usually disappoints me and one request. The request is may I write some pages in your stories? As a huge fan of your work it would be such an honor for you to let me contribute to your superb stories! I would only write one page for a demo of my skills and you tell me if you want me to continue contributing or not.
From [[GirlOnGirlFan!]] to Platypus.

Hi Platypus, it's [[Whining Winnie]]. The reason I haven't been able to chat is because you've done something to like this page, so when on my DSi (I mostly use the internet browser on that) i try to send you messages about stuff, it won't let me type, similar to the problem user [[AllyG]] was having. Did you like change like the format or anything on this page? Also is anybody working on [[Star Wars: The Complete Erotic Saga]]?? Thanks, [[Whining Winnie]] Happy Easter Everyone!

The reason is why I do not have the grammatical skills is because I did not try at the time it was late and I got lazy but I wanted it to continue the story because its good and I hate cliff hangers, and plus I thought the rules of this site say your allowed I did not know.
[[User:H0rniWr1t3r]]

If you replied to my comment un ban H0rniWr1t3r and I will talk to you there instead of changing my public ip address, FYI I will not ever again write in your stories. I forgot the password of LookIdidNotMean2VandalismIamNewRemember either that or you deleted it! [[User:H0rniWr1t3r]]

Sorry if this is vandalism but I wanted you too see what I go through to understand why I am so "immature"
. I changed the page because it was a joke only meant for me to see to cope with the stress and pain in my life that's why I deleted it. You really think someone
like me has it easy I struggle with bipolar, severe borderline personality disorder,asd,ocd,schizophrenia,pstd,anxiety, depression, multiple personality disorder, grew up in another country and had to switch everything, got kicked out of the house when I was 18 cause I am bisexual, Not to mention I been abused as a child and I am studying penetration
testing and I cannot screw up because I am trying to get a job my life is not easy and now I am thinking of
committing suicide thanks to you because you crushed my hobby of writing I know I suck but I can at least pretend I am worth something. I think I am strong and continuing to grow do to what I go through! Its funny I called you a noob in IT but really I think I am the noob :( I guess I am not due to the fact my team says I am the best one there but yeah fucking right. The fact I am still standing loads of medication which is making me feel numb and queasy due to the crap side effects.[[User:H0rniWr1t3r]]

I don't know what I did wrong how did I do vandalism, I was just trying to comment you please don't ban me for this. I am new and just learning the ways of this site so please tell me how to do it the proper way. [[User:H0rniWr1t3r]]

Its me H0rniWr1t3r look I'm sorry about telling you to mind your own business, but I found your
comment very rude and I was emotionally crushed than you would delete my pages because you think
I am a bad writer and yet you allow other people to edit? so can we please talk this out though email or facebook or something this chat room sucks in my opinion. [[User:H0rniWr1t3r]]

I am terribly sorry to hear that D: I hope you have a fast recovery though, and good to know that you are at least okay, well, as okay as someone can be after surgery... --[[User:DirtyMeStoryTime|Dirty Me]] 18:13, 26 March 2016 (UTC)

o.O What happened? --[[User:DirtyMeStoryTime|Dirty Me]] 18:08, 26 March 2016 (UTC)

When you come back, you might want to check [[Special:Contributions/Darth_nox]]. I am not blanking his pages, just trying to fix them, but some of the stuff he is writing... --[[User:DirtyMeStoryTime|Dirty Me]] 03:52, 26 March 2016 (UTC)

Sooooo...I got Teejay to leave me options. When is platy going to leave me some? --[[User:DirtyMeStoryTime|Dirty Me]] 03:56, 18 March 2016 (UTC)

lol, feel free to give him warning 2...I have already warned him about categories, then I gave him a non-warn2 warning before he got the second warning. Seems he isn't learning his lesson :o --[[User:DirtyMeStoryTime|Dirty Me]] 10:05, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

Note for you, some idiot wiped the adult index, and I cannot figure out how to restore because of "too many conflicting changes"...only thing I can see is recreating the entire thing...which would be a pain...I will leave it up to you to see if you can figure out how to fix. --[[User:DirtyMeStoryTime|Dirty Me]] 13:28, 11 March 2016 (UTC)

Please do not tell me what I can and can't edit, you should just mind your own goddamn business! I know I am not experienced in English its my second language. So
can you please keep to your self. [[H0rniWr1t3r]]

Just wanted to say thanks for the reminder with category pages! Sorry that I caused the trouble. [[User:LilBitOfSpace|LilBitOfSpace]]

Just wanted to experiment! Did you like the rest of the story? [[Whining Winnie]]

Well if your not happy with that bit, I'll edit it out!......:-( [[Whining Winnie]]

It's not letting me add external links. I try to, then the page reloads asking me to enter a captcha. I do that and then a page pops up saying I can only submit one page with an external link every 20 minutes. Only I wasn't able to submit any. Any suggestions? [[User:Gr1mm|Gr1mm]] 11:13 Central Time 1/15/2016

Don't forget that [[CLM]] is my first story. Of course it's going to have some issues and stuff. But practice makes perfect! Also I`ve added a few more pages and the reason I haven't been on was because I went to my friends funeral. He died in a car crash. RIP Jacob Pierre 1989-2016

[[Whining Winnie]]

Could you move [[CLM]] to the [[Adult Stories]] section? It's now got sex in it so I thought it should be moved to Adult. And is it rude that the druglord in my story is named El Faggetito? [[Whining Winnie]] 20/1/16 21:37 (AEST)

Damn. Well thanks for the reply anyway, though.
[[User:Gr1mm|Gr1mm]] 1:35 Central Time 1/21/2016

Thank you for maintaining the organization of the Force Awakens page as we get some new people writing. Cheers! - [[User:CodeSoldier|CodeSoldier]]

Hey, is it possible to have rate limits removed? I believe that is what they are referred to as. I just want to know if it's somehow possible to be verified or something such and remove the time limits. I.e. the 2 second un-cached page limit, the 60(?) page visit limit, the 20 minute page with a link limit. Thanks for your help. [[User:CodeSoldier|CodeSoldier]] 31/01/16

Hey, you left a message on my discussion page that my dialogue's punctuation and grammar is bad and I shouldn't post on your stories because of a page that I made on one of your stories, but the grammar seems fine to me and all you did was add a comma and change some wording around. So am I allowed to add pages to your story or should I not edit that story anymore? [[User:Fort|Fort]] 05/02/16

Relax… All I did was ask why you thought my grammar was bad because when I checked the edit, I only saw one punctuation edit and that didn’t seem to be enough to warrant your complaint that my pages were bad. When I looked again, I saw that there were three grammar edits, so I retracted my statement. I don’t quite understand your hostility towards a first-time editor, but I’ll remove my pages posthaste from your story Smutty Sex Romp as my writing is not good enough for your standards. I readded my previous comment for posterity's sake. --[[User:Fort|Fort]] 5 February 2016

I apologize for my "obsession with colons" when it comes to dialogue - I've been told my English grammar is rather good for a non-native speaker, but apparently that's one bad habit that's slipped through so far. Will definitely try to do better. - ETA later same day: Thanks. Hopefully you won't find as many wrong colons from now on... [[User:Shirasade|Shirasade]] 20/02/16

Really sorry, but I screwed up a link and accidentally created two identical pages with different titles. There is one page with no link to it and I can't see how to redirect or delete it. Apologies once again. [[User:Slk350|Slk350]] 23/02/16

Thank you ever so much for fixing the problem so quickly. [[User:Slk350|Slk350]] 24/02/16

I actually meant grammar sergeant about the intimidating xD For the other guy, he will probably be back on his next up swing. I am familiar many of his conditions. Honestly, nothing anyone here can do for him. Anyways, I mean check grammar sergeant's large deletions when I had a large addition on talk pages (His and a [[Talk:Continue fucking Kate|specific story talk page]]) and you will see why I ask if I was intimidating. --[[User:DirtyMeStoryTime|Dirty Me]] 02:46, 2 April 2016 (UTC)

Sorry to bother you about this and I apologize in advance if I sound too critical but I'm actually kinda curious about the "Feel her up for real since she's already slapped you" choice in "Darkness". I mean, why would someone choose to deliberately cop a feel on their sister in the middle of a mysterious blackout after they had found a note imploring them to stay? Also, why was there a katana or steel thing in the room where the protagonist was and why did you include the "I'm Your Brother" choice if the protagonist was a girl? It felt like a place where the reader could decide on the protagonist's gender even if it was a bit late. Sorry if this sounds too critical. - [[User:Fredhot16|Fredhot16]]

I'm going to finish the above section in "Idea Pitches" in time. I've got projects to do. Sorry for delay. --[[User:Fredhot16]] 09:12, 10 March 2016 (Louisiana Time)

Woah. You actually know the nickname of the Venture. Well, one. The nickname in the core rulebook in the First Edition is "Lords". It's still cool, though. Thanks for the advice. I've got a question, though: how do you the copyright since I'm planning on copying the short descriptions of the clans from one of the pdfs of Vampire? Edit: I've found "Aristocrats" to be used in one of the NWOD Vampire novels so...you win this round. --[[User:Fredhot16]] 09:15, 11 March 2016 (Louisiana Time)

You know what? I've finally decided about what to do that "feeling up" choice in "Darkness". Fuck it. FUCK. IT. Not only is the choice out of place, there is nothing that would suggest that the protagonist, Jenny, has any feelings or thoughts that would suggest she would do such a thing. And yes, I've read your note about how how choices don't need to seem logical but this is, simply put, not a good choice. Gepetto chose that choice because it was a fairy tale and illogical choices are a staple in that sort of thing. Thing is, I'm not against illogical choices. I'm not against unreasonable choices. Hell, I'm not even against stupid choices. I'm against unrealistic choices. I'm against a choice that does nothing to advance the story or even make an attempt to do so. So fuck that choice. As of now, I'm going to get rid of it when I've got the time. --[[User:Fredhot16]] 08:26, 18 March 2016 (Louisiana Time)

So to answer your question about[[My Little Pony: Choose Your Own Adventure]] (yeah, it was over a year ago but...) anyway, Here's a short description of the story: it's basically a dating sim. Of a sort. I'm only calling a "dating sim: because, well, I've realized that if I were to put a genre into it, "dating sim" would be the closest one thought "slice of life" is a better description. If you have the patience to listen to me ramble on about what it's supposed to be, let me know.--[[User:Fredhot16]] 16:04, 19 March 2016 (Louisiana Time)

I thought I'd ask an experienced user (I am very new) is it worth trying to resurrect/clean up a cluttered and/or messy story started by someone else. I'm having fun editing the Pokesex story but I'm more than a little put off by the lack of focus some of the things people added before I got there (Some joker added a shemale option at the beginning that had nothing to it and although there are some worthwhile ideas there are way too many categories and sub divisions) So the story is looking a little neglected but I quite like the set up. I'm new to the site so please excuse me if I get something wrong. (Oh by the way, is there a way to watch an entire branch of a story for edits?) --[[User:Hellspawn|Helpless Newbie]] 8 April 2016

Yes, I do. However, I'm to categorize them later. Let's be honest: I am a very patchy writer. Also, I apologize for the "Darkness" choices. Let me ask: did you start the story? If so, can you please tell me what the story is supposed to be? Just want to know so i can be sure of what type of stuff to put in the story.--[[User:Fredhot16]] 08:37, 08 April 2016 (Louisiana Time)

Thanks for the help with the previous thing. Unfortunately I've come back with another question; Is there a way to outright delete a page? I want to delete a series of pages that a user (Who was banned some time ago) added because they are stupid for the sake of being stupid. If that's impossible or against the rules I'll work around it but it would be helpful if I had the option --[[User:Hellspawn|Helpless Newbie]] 10 April 2016

Hi, you deleted my page because you said it had already been created and deleted, when it was originally created earlier today I accidentally started making it on my home page because I was confused about how to go about it, but I was warned about having an unsorted story so I deleted all of it and put it in the mature section like I was supposed to originally. I'm very new to this site and was just confused. The original link doesn't exist anymore- at least I don't think it does. So I'm going to put my story back on there, because there's no need to rewrite something when you just put it in the wrong spot. Thank you for deleting though. --[[QueenPrisme]] 7:43pm April 13, 2016

Hey would it be kosher to set up the category page for someone else's story just out of the blue or should I ask them first? --[[User:Intheworstways| In The Worst Ways]] 1:44am April 16, 2016

Is there a way to make the page titles shorter, the ones at the top of the webpage not the address of the page (Apart from making the address shorter) I want to keep things neat and make it easy for people to find the beginning and stuff but the length for some of the pages is getting silly. If there isn't thats fine but I just wanted to know if I had the option. --[[User:Hellspawn|Hellspawn]] 19 April 2016

Would you happen to be able to tell me if [[Leaving]] is past the point of me worrying about the pit or not? I know it takes a while to get to that point, but we may be ending up on the sidewalk soon, and I'm just worried it'll fall of the bottom if I can't get back online for a long time. --[[User:Intheworstways| In The Worst Ways]] 12:49pm 4/26/16 (Eastern Standard Time)

For the record, what is the page maximum for the pit? The main page says 10 pages but iirc I've seen stories in the pit with more than 10 pages. Again I know it takes a while for something to drop into the pit, and I know I can get it back out again, but I thought I'd ask.

I get paranoid cause I have a habit of unintentionally abandoning things and I'm still mildly worried about losing internet access soon. I'd like to get anything new I start past the point where it could fall into the pit just in case. -- [[User:Intheworstways|In The Worst Ways]] 07:25, 19 May 2016 (UTC)

So, I'm trying to include an image in something, but the only way to do this is to link to an image outside of the wiki. Which would be fine, if it weren't for the fact that apparently said images are also under the rule of having to wait 20 minutes. Which again would be fine, if it didn't count hitting preview?

So if I want to see how it looks on the page I need to wait 20 minutes before I can see the changes I've made? And then, from past experience, if I try to submit the page I have to fill out a captcha and wait another 20 minutes before I can submit the captcha, by which point my session (every time I tried this at least) has been terminated?

Is there something I'm missing here? Are other people able to include links and images just fine and somehow I'm just completely screwing this up? Like I'm not trying to be ungrateful and I know you probably don't have control over any of this I'm just confused and I'm starting to get frustrated with the thing I'm trying to work on. Sorry for bothering you. -- [[User:Intheworstways|In The Worst Ways]] 22:23, 6 June 2016 (UTC)

Hey, sorry about not seeing your messages earlier! I'll remember to categorize my pages. Sorry about that! -- [[User:Kal]] 23:11, 2 August 2016 (EST)

Hey, could you delete the following page of my story? The writing is awful, misspellings everywhere, horrible punctuation, and there aren't even any options. I tried, but I couldn't salvage it. Thanks.
http://editthis.info/create_your_own_story/Make_her_the_first_whore_of_the_tribe,_all_are_welcome_to_fuck_her_and_impregnated_her
[[User:Kanin452]] 23 October 2016

Sorry, Platypus. I thought I was punctuating where needed, but I'll proofread some of the things I've posted. I am an ESL student and trying to get better by writing short stories, and I suppose the short quips for Rampage and Smutty are ideal for this. I immensely enjoy both those and try to contribute where I can. But if I'm just a terrible writer getting in the way of progress, I'll just be content reading what others have posted. Thank you for the opportunity though. Cheers. - [[User:Wtfismook]]

Sorry. I try my best, but it seems that no matter how many times I look things over, or how carefully I read it, the little things slip on through. -[[User:Kanin452|Kanin452]] 6 December 2016

== How to make my own story without disturbing the peace ==

I just wana know how to make my own story

1. There is a sidebar to the left

2. The second divider from the top remarks "search"

3. Enter through the '''input box''' the '''name of the story you'd like to create'''

4.Once on this page anew: note the tabs at the top of the page.

5.Impress the button that is prescribed the word '''create'''.

6.''On formatting:'' There are buttons above the page to change the text and to '''include links to the next part of the story; including links to the next part of the story is vital for any interactive story'''. Create a link by typing in the name of the action the user may perform I.e <nowiki>[[Action]]</nowiki>. Replace "action" with what you want the character to be able to do.

7.If anything went wrong: '''Platypus the site moderator is always able to revert the changes'''

8.'''At the bottom of each page in your story: write down the story's category like this:
<nowiki>[[Category:Story name]]</nowiki>
At "Story name" put the name of your story.

9. If all goes according to plan, your page should be formatted like so:

Solemn ipsut Armet

Do you:

<nowiki>*[[Go to the left]]

*[[Go to the right]]

[[Category:Story]]</nowiki>

If your page looks like that: it should function rather blithe.

You got the chips,
[[User:Heathin|Heathin]] 19:52, 9 August 2016 (UTC)

Hi, I'm fairly new to this site and all I can say is wow. This is probably my favorite place on the internet. However, being a wiki means it can be edited by users and that's even more amazing. Again, just wow. Now, taking into consideration I'm a writer myself and love being part of group efforts. I would like to know if the contributions I've made will be unsatisfactory. I would like to know what the thoughts are on the pages I've created [http://editthis.info/create_your_own_story/Follow_her_silently Here], [http://editthis.info/create_your_own_story/Call_Neria%27s_bluff Here], [http://editthis.info/create_your_own_story/Continue_staring_at_the_lovely_butt And Here]. I have no problem if the moderator or another user edits the works. I mean that's kind of the point of a wiki. However, I'd like to know if i would be better off creating my own works from scratch.
Thank you for your time. Kreaturewithak

Hey Platypus, do you know what's up with the website? Some time ago it had been out for a few weeks, then once back, it keeps fluctuating between slow, functional, and offline. Thanks in advance. --[[User:Darth Malcolm|Darth Malcolm]] 11:26, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

Thank you. I still don't know how to use it properly but I'm learning a bit. I'll leave Category now :) If you want tell me something about let me know. Thanks mate. --[[User:Mind|Mind]] 00:12, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

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Old Owl:

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I just wanted to let you know, if you want to read the story I am writing on [[DirtyMeStoryTime Rants/Camping trip]] and let me know what you think, what is wrong, what is right, etc, it would be great. I was just thinking I had asked Fred and Teejay, but not you. Honestly, I didn't more because I didn't think you would really want to. But, I realized just now I was assuming that without even asking xD So, sorry for the delayed asking. --[[User:DirtyMeStoryTime|Dirty Me]] 04:22, 10 September 2016 (UTC)

Wow, I haven't been on this site for months and yet I still find you with the daily routine. Props! Just dropping by to say hello.--[[User:Completionist|Completionist]] 04:40, 9 August 2016 (UTC)

I've heard DirtyMe has been giving around flowers so because I have been up for 18 hours straight, here is something in the same spirit:

{{Hypnobutt}}

Yeah, that's probably true. I'll start reverting pages back.--[[User:Underside|Underside]] 02:06, 15 July 2016 (UTC)

Okay, in an effort to satisfy everybody I templated each section page for [[All Adult Stories]]. Then I added the templates to the main index for the best of both worlds. Now edits in a section of any page will show up under the main index and the individual page. The main page still has parser issues though. I hope it's alright like this. If so I could do this for the PG-13 pages too. --[[User:Underside|Underside]] 01:33, 15 July 2016 (UTC)

Alright, thanks. I wanted to keep the structure the same as much as possible. I like the idea of a single page index too. I considered making the split pages alongside the main index, but the extra bookkeeping of maintaining two indexes didn't seem like a better way. I'll check for edits that happened between now I when I split the pages, and incorporate any I find before I change it. --[[User:Underside|Underside]] 20:47, 14 July 2016 (UTC)

Hi there, I'm kinda new to the wiki, but I have been working on cleaning up the [[All Adult Stories|adult]] and [[All PG-13 Stories|PG-13]] stories. Both pages currently have too many parser calls and the 50kb adult page won't let me edit with my phone browser. I broke up the pages as suggested on the discussion page. [[User:DirtyMeStoryTime|DirtyMe]] suggested I check with you before making big edits to the indexes though. I have links to the changes I made [[All_Adult_Stories/#|here]] and [[All_PG-13_Stories/#|here]] respectively. Would it be alright if I break the pages up? --[[User:Underside|Underside]] 15:44, 14 July 2016 (UTC)

All glory.--[[User:Fredhot16|Fredhot16]] 01:36 (Louisiana Time), 1 July 2016

lol, that is why I mentioned that path specifically. While the rest is rather questionable in the first place, it could be argued on why it should be allowed. However, the single path seemed to pass beyond what Rob wanted. Actually, I think it was me that ironically made it available. When I came across one page, I got the content not welcome message, so I edited it so the page displayed properly. Then, the pages were suddenly able to be read. I agree about not liking to censor stuff. Honestly, I don't understand people that like that kind of thing, but I would rather they just write and fantasize than actually do stuff in real life. Like an outlet. Seems better to me anyways, since I can just avoid reading it if I want to. Lets face it, Dirty Me is an outlet for my own personal fantasies, since I can no longer really live them out. --[[User:DirtyMeStoryTime|Dirty Me]] 01:58, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

While I was reading through [[Life of a 13 year old]] for the review, I came across this path: [[Stalk an elementary school]]

This path has red links mostly, and the only written options lead the main character have sex with a 10 year old girl, ending with the character piercing her uterus and cumming inside her chest, next to her heart. I am unsure if this goes beyond Rob's rules, so wanted to let you know in case it should potentially be removed. I am not here to judge it, just to make sure you were aware in case this should be removed or modified to comply with the rules. I will let you judge if it is acceptable. (Personally, I find the whole story offensive, and questionable (since it is mostly supposed to be a 13 year old doing all these things), but that is a different issue...) --[[User:DirtyMeStoryTime|Dirty Me]] 05:00, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for your kind words and sage advice. A few thoughts you might want to consider:

*I finally built up the courage to make a contribution, and added a couple pages to an existing story. That's a big step. My first feedback is from a sysop who, rather than offering any sort of encouragement or advice, suggests I should be writing for a comic book. Not exactly the kind of behavior one would hope for in a sysop.
*I personally have no problem with feedback, but would hope it might come in a less douche-filled format. Particularly from a grizzled veteran such as yourself. That said, I'm not simply going to bow down and worship at the altar of Platypus. You have the power to ban...you've made it very clear. You've mentioned at every opportunity that you have special sysop powers. If your ego is so sensitive that you can't handle someone standing up to you, then ban away. A bully will be a bully...even in egg-laying mammalian clothing.
*I have no interest in getting into a pissing match. As previously stated, I simply was taken aback by your initial foray into doucheville. I've since come to understand that you were simply being you. I've dealt with cyber-bullies before, and will do so again. If you feel the need to flex your virtual muscles and remind everyone who is in charge, then feel free. Some guys need that sort of thing to get off. It takes more than a few snarky comments to scare me away. Can we hug it out now?

Hope this has been helpful.

Kindest regards,
--[[User:Bardo75|Bardo75]] 23:41, 28 June 2016 (UTC)

Did you honestly just ban me from editing "your stories" because I posted a snarky response to your grammar nazism, then thought better of it an deleted my own post? I think perhaps Mr Sysop is letting his title go to his head. --[[User:Bardo75|Bardo75]] 01:17, 28 June 2016 (UTC)

Hey, mind looking at "Escape from Syria" and "A Boy's Night Out" in the Mature Story section? I think they're Adult stories that somehow wandered into the Mature Story section. --[[User:Fredhot16]] 12:20, 19 June 2016 (Louisiana Time)

I didn't understand half of that...so...I am not completely sure if you are making fun of me or not xD Anyways, I have asked Teejay to look over my raider tale story I have completed for some proof reading. [[FMS/Tales from a raider/FS-Bitch1]]. I am not sure if you would be willing to or not. I assume it is easy enough to understand, even without knowing about the game. Raiders are the thieves, murderers, raiding groups. Deathclaw is just scary, like it sounds. And the random food is super low quality food that you would not even think of as worth stealing. The setting is the world after lots of atom bombs fell, so a giant, irradiated wasteland with mutated things running around trying to kill everything. Oh, and a Yao guai is a mutated bear. TMI? --[[User:DirtyMeStoryTime|Dirty Me]] 09:18, 17 June 2016 (UTC)

Sigh...where did everyone go? I keep seeing change after change of one name, then another name replaces, but it seems like it is relatively few people active right now...

I haven't even seen you in the logs lately.

btw, ever played fallout games? Wondering what you think of my new stuff if you have. Not getting much feedback from anyone on them lately... --[[User:DirtyMeStoryTime|Dirty Me]] 15:21, 16 June 2016 (UTC)

I explained how I do images. Maybe it will help him. --[[User:DirtyMeStoryTime|Dirty Me]] 02:34, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

I keep seeing [[Story Reviews]] on the front page, but...nothing is ever done.

I am slowly going to try to build a review system. I will change it as I go, probably with some key words in a template on the main rating page, giving the story link, review link, etc, but for now, I am just starting the thing. I am hoping after it is developed enough, we can use it to replace the [[Story Reviews]] page. Or, would it be better for me to blank [[The Review]], and just modify [[Story Reviews]]? I was thinking of just making a page per story, with my review and let others also add their reviews if they wish, but I want to know your thoughts. I will play with templates later to try to get right. I will of course include the same info as in the [[Story Reviews]], but in a nice table format. Title, link, review page link, page count, probably some key terms (Especially when I get to adult). But, again, I am a bit worried about how many pages I will create. I am also going to have a cutoff, pagecount. Like, under 20 pages, unless your story is 100% complete, I won't bother. I wanted your thoughts, since I think it would be better for people to understand the stories. --[[User:DirtyMeStoryTime|Dirty Me]] 09:19, 3 June 2016 (UTC)

Okay, this is a strange request. So, for your smutty sex romp, on the female path, would you be willing to write about a strange...fantasy...I have?

I can't explain the fantasy, and know it is really strange...but, I have always had a fantasy of taking a bath in a bathtub full of cum...

I wrote a little short, more as a funny short, for this: dirtylittlemestories.blogspot.com/2013/10/a-withdrawal-from-sperm-bank-cum.html. I know, if inspiration hits you, but it can't really hit you if you don't think of it xD --[[User:DirtyMeStoryTime|Dirty Me]] 15:15, 1 June 2016 (UTC)

I sort guessed it was there to stop spambots but it's annoying nonetheless. Ah Well. I'll see how much I can move to the pit before I get distracted (it might not be a lot) -- [[User:Hellspawn|Hellspawn]] 09:15 29 May GMT

Is there anyway to remove the captcha thing that pops up after every few pages. I was trying to be helpful and move a bunch of stuff over to the '''PIT OF ABANDONED STORIES''' (Great name btw) and after copying and pasting the names of the stories from 'All Adult Stories' to the 'Pit of Abandoned stories' page and I pressed save on the pit editing thing, fine, then I pressed save on the other page and suddenly I was presented with a captcha, filled in the captcha and then lost all the edits I had just made to the page. I think I've rectified the mistake but the annoyance, although minor, is not ideal. (Also I hope you don't mind me moving things to the pit, just felt like it needed a clean up.) -- [[User:Hellspawn|Hellspawn]] 27 May 21:21 GMT

lol, no comment about the dick I left on Zenclair's page? Yeah, I actually should remove it...honestly, I read over some of his stuff, and found it rather demeaning, so I hinted at him that I thought he was a dick. I sort of feel bad about that now. --[[User:DirtyMeStoryTime|Dirty Me]] 02:01, 27 May 2016 (UTC)

Hmm, hidden stories gives me ideas. Wonder what someone would say if I wrote an entire CYoS story, but when they saw the text they saw nothing. It isn't until they drag the mouse that they realize the font is white, the story is there and complete, but no one can see it xD

<p title="Is it just me or does he seem to be...rather young...like a know it all teen?">Maybe have a second story purely in pop-up text (using the <nowiki><p title="Some words will pop up when you hover your house over the words of the paragraph">Something</p></nowiki></p>

Now I am getting better ideas for Context xD --[[User:DirtyMeStoryTime|Dirty Me]] 15:32, 26 May 2016 (UTC)

Ok mr.platypus. im gonna say that my story is gdeleted by me and I am finding people who can contribute to my story
in my place(In my city actually) and then I will rewrite it. I may not include the title or category cause im still finding people who can help me with this
Since then I will not add choices to the I am male thinggy. I might as well not reply to people including you too. I may not be online too
Then after that I will make it a looong story. ps im removing "low priority" discussions from my discussion. pps my story I cant publish it in public first
Because many will put things in that. I must say that putting my story in my talk page is a kind of privacy which means only selected people or people who know me can read it because I dont talk to "Low priority" people. IT STAYS HIDDEN WHILE I MAKE IT. MR PLATYPUS.

And a flower for Platypus! --[[User:DirtyMeStoryTime|Dirty Me]] 10:00, 24 May 2016 (UTC)
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About rampage: You know, the way it is set up, why doesn't someone create subcategories for the currently possessed character? Like <nowiki>[[Category: Rampage:Black Cat]]</nowiki>? Then, the victim pages, like [[Ashley Duruma]], could just be category pages with the text on the page put in as the text of the category page. Just a though xD --[[User:DirtyMeStoryTime|Dirty Me]] 04:42, 19 May 2016 (UTC)

You know, I have been trying to change the 6th grade girl in rampage to 12th grade girl, and I found something. The rancher part, with the horses and stuff, is making me feel rather nauseous... I think I will stop touching that story and let someone else change her to 12th grade...before I throw up... --[[User:DirtyMeStoryTime|Dirty Me]] 06:15, 17 May 2016 (UTC)

I don't want to sound picky but is there any way to get my pages that I wrote like that? I understand that there was a slight spelling error on one and I messed up use of the status bar, but I went on there this morning to correct the and the majority had been taken down. That was over an hours writing that I'm a little miffed about having to redo for a misunderstanding since it was my first time adding to one of these pages. It's very intimidating getting a message a few seconds after you step out and try to share something on here simply because you slightly misunderstood the code. I'm new, and I am sorry about it, but I can't be perfect on my first post. Did I do something else wrong or do you really take people's post's down without giving them a chance to edit mistakes, because of my time zone this was the first chance I had to log on and check them.
--[[User:JulietMai]]

Hey Platypus, wanted to ask you a question about the new rules. Now that we're not allowed to write about underage characters a lot of the old stories have been deleted. Some of them were my favorites that I worked hard on. Are they gone forever or are they archived somewhere? I would love to transcribe them to the allthefallen stories site instead. Thanks! (Bellajones)

lol, I have been with a guy who was "Well endowed". He hurt, alot. Wish I had known about that ring thing before that. I would have made him use it. Instead, we only had sex one time. I never let him touch me again. Oh well, wasn't a serious thing anyways. --[[User:DirtyMeStoryTime|Dirty Me]] 10:14, 7 May 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing out the mistake. I am seriously beginning to speak Chinglish. Think I even have a little bit of a Chinese-English accent now...

So, what do you think of my [[DirtyMeStoryTime Rants]]? I know they are making fun of people, but I am at least trying to keep them interesting enough that they are readable. Also, not sure about your thoughts on my [[User:DirtyMeStoryTime/IRL sex experiences]]. I had a bit of discussion with this with Teejay, but I also know it crosses from "Story" to "Bio", so not sure if I should even put it here. Your thoughts? Basically, just trying to let those who like my writing know a bit about who I am. At least, in the areas that most people on here would care about, given most people on here are mostly [[All Adult Stories]] oriented. Guess it is more of a "Hey, do you wonder why I write mostly erotica? Here you go" thing. --[[User:DirtyMeStoryTime|Dirty Me]] 05:02, 6 May 2016 (UTC)

Noted, I will apply to the others then, just wanted to check before I did too much. I will try to improve it, trying to figure out how to get them to line up, but at least it is another step towards a nicer, more graphic website for us all ^.^ --[[User:DirtyMeStoryTime|Dirty Me]] 12:38, 4 May 2016 (UTC)

I have tried to add a nice looking template to the family friendly section on the front page. If you do not like it, we can revert. --[[User:DirtyMeStoryTime|Dirty Me]] 04:55, 4 May 2016 (UTC)

Dood can I ask something? I need you to please help me. Seriously and do you have a place that we can talk privately.

Yours, Michael. hehe really put that to help me(PLS SERSLY AND ALSO I WONT BE HOME TOMORROW SO I CANT REPLY BUT I WILL REPLY AS SOON AS I GET HOME Thanks) -- [[User:Michaeltamayo96]]

Dude I just read the tutorial and im new so dont expect me to write such many branches. --[[User:Michaeltamayo96|Michaeltamayo96]]

So I hope you don't mind me making fun of [[Smutty Sex Romp]] in my [[DirtyMeStoryTime Rants/Horny for sluts]] path. --[[User:DirtyMeStoryTime|Dirty Me]] 11:51, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

Please check [[Special:Contributions/Njrsgg]]. I have edited one of the stories that was posted that contained "under age vagina", but looking through many of his posts, it is still pretty obvious, even though I removed mention of the underage and
4th grade" and that kind of thing. I have also warned him. But, I think you may still want to look through his pages to decide what may be too close to the editthis ban on content. --[[User:DirtyMeStoryTime|Dirty Me]] 02:41, 26 April 2016 (UTC)

<nowiki>*</nowiki>Sniff<nowiki>*</nowiki> You haven't given me any options for [[The Exhibitionist]]. You should be able to give me great options. I will write the story, just want creative ways to show myself off xD --[[User:DirtyMeStoryTime|Dirty Me]] 09:17, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

It will be filled out over time as I come up with more ideas for the story. Unfortunately, I tend to take my time with writing so It'll mostly come out in bits and pieces. --[[User:Fredhot16]] 12:03, 25 January 2015 (UTC)

What the hell is "shotgun-wielding" supposed to mean? Here's what I mean: "Miss Natsume. Shotgun wielding teacher. Long dark purple hair, matching eyes. 5'8. C Cup." Really, what is it supposed to mean? Other then the obvious denotation but I haven't seen a anime where teachers are allowed to bring firearms to school and I get the feeling that it's supposed to be related to her personality.--[[User:Fredhot16]] 10:42, 15 April 2016 (Louisiana Time)

Hell yeah! I've discovered TV Tropes before I found this website. I even have my own troper profile:Fredhot16.--[[User:Fredhot16]] 10:32, 15 April 2016 (Louisiana Time)

Is it O.K to find empty discussion pages and put in a trope list of what tropes I think fits the page's content?--[[User:Fredhot16]] 07:53, 15 April 2016 (Louisiana Time)

Please check [[Special:Contributions/Sup]]. Teejay reversed the damage. --[[User:DirtyMeStoryTime|Dirty Me]] 05:24, 13 April 2016 (UTC)

Added a [[Rules]] page and linked it on the front page. I guess it is strange to tell them to follow the rules, and have no rules page, so... Anyways, I will let you edit it if you feel the need, add, subtract, modify, etc. --[[User:DirtyMeStoryTime|Dirty Me]] 02:03, 11 April 2016 (UTC)

Hey Platypus, it's [[User:Vgybhu]]. You gave me some helpful formatting advice for my Monster Girl Adventure story, but its in such an early state its not even playable. I guess I just wanted to say 'message received' and ask for any advice on how to keep my story progressing but allow me to write in 20 mins bursts. I'll keep the update log and option descriptions labeled for now with % complete, although I was hoping to write my story in chunks with one encounter for each character/start point (So it'll take awhile before there is actually a path to play into).

I formatted a couple links on the main page to try to help them stand out. I did in a single edit, so it can be easily reverted if you do not like. Maybe someone can take my idea and make it look better, I just made them look like buttons xD Anyways, if you do not like, please feel free to revert, and I won't feel bad. If anyone does like, well, perhaps someone else can modify the template to make it look better. It was actually a test template I was working on to try to make the index's themselves look better, but I could not get them to look right. --[[User:DirtyMeStoryTime|Dirty Me]] 05:53, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

I think I meant it to be the present case they were currently having sex? I am not really sure, but I will check later because I have things to do. I though I wrote in present tense cause I did not really check over my work though.[[User:GirlOnGirlFan!]]

Um, oops, I kind of got them mixed up its been a while since I wrote something. Did you edit it if not I will. And next time I will check my work more thoroughly.
[[User:GirlOnGirlFan!]]

Sorry, think I overwhelmed the poor guy :o I was trying to help, not intimidate xD (hint check histories...)

Am I really that intimidating? I want others to tell me what I am doing wrong in my writing, so I thought it would help...--[[User:DirtyMeStoryTime|Dirty Me]] 18:50, 1 April 2016 (UTC)

You are not replying, so I will write one page and if you do not like it simply delete it.
From [[GirlOnGirlFan!]] to Platypus.

I read your stories Smutty Sex Romp and Rampage, I must say your writing is truly marvelous. To be honest, I only created this account to tell you that because I am no easy person to please, In fact I am quite finicky in writing and reading other peoples stories, others work usually disappoints me and one request. The request is may I write some pages in your stories? As a huge fan of your work it would be such an honor for you to let me contribute to your superb stories! I would only write one page for a demo of my skills and you tell me if you want me to continue contributing or not.
From [[GirlOnGirlFan!]] to Platypus.

Hi Platypus, it's [[Whining Winnie]]. The reason I haven't been able to chat is because you've done something to like this page, so when on my DSi (I mostly use the internet browser on that) i try to send you messages about stuff, it won't let me type, similar to the problem user [[AllyG]] was having. Did you like change like the format or anything on this page? Also is anybody working on [[Star Wars: The Complete Erotic Saga]]?? Thanks, [[Whining Winnie]] Happy Easter Everyone!

The reason is why I do not have the grammatical skills is because I did not try at the time it was late and I got lazy but I wanted it to continue the story because its good and I hate cliff hangers, and plus I thought the rules of this site say your allowed I did not know.
[[User:H0rniWr1t3r]]

If you replied to my comment un ban H0rniWr1t3r and I will talk to you there instead of changing my public ip address, FYI I will not ever again write in your stories. I forgot the password of LookIdidNotMean2VandalismIamNewRemember either that or you deleted it! [[User:H0rniWr1t3r]]

Sorry if this is vandalism but I wanted you too see what I go through to understand why I am so "immature"
. I changed the page because it was a joke only meant for me to see to cope with the stress and pain in my life that's why I deleted it. You really think someone
like me has it easy I struggle with bipolar, severe borderline personality disorder,asd,ocd,schizophrenia,pstd,anxiety, depression, multiple personality disorder, grew up in another country and had to switch everything, got kicked out of the house when I was 18 cause I am bisexual, Not to mention I been abused as a child and I am studying penetration
testing and I cannot screw up because I am trying to get a job my life is not easy and now I am thinking of
committing suicide thanks to you because you crushed my hobby of writing I know I suck but I can at least pretend I am worth something. I think I am strong and continuing to grow do to what I go through! Its funny I called you a noob in IT but really I think I am the noob :( I guess I am not due to the fact my team says I am the best one there but yeah fucking right. The fact I am still standing loads of medication which is making me feel numb and queasy due to the crap side effects.[[User:H0rniWr1t3r]]

I don't know what I did wrong how did I do vandalism, I was just trying to comment you please don't ban me for this. I am new and just learning the ways of this site so please tell me how to do it the proper way. [[User:H0rniWr1t3r]]

Its me H0rniWr1t3r look I'm sorry about telling you to mind your own business, but I found your
comment very rude and I was emotionally crushed than you would delete my pages because you think
I am a bad writer and yet you allow other people to edit? so can we please talk this out though email or facebook or something this chat room sucks in my opinion. [[User:H0rniWr1t3r]]

I am terribly sorry to hear that D: I hope you have a fast recovery though, and good to know that you are at least okay, well, as okay as someone can be after surgery... --[[User:DirtyMeStoryTime|Dirty Me]] 18:13, 26 March 2016 (UTC)

o.O What happened? --[[User:DirtyMeStoryTime|Dirty Me]] 18:08, 26 March 2016 (UTC)

When you come back, you might want to check [[Special:Contributions/Darth_nox]]. I am not blanking his pages, just trying to fix them, but some of the stuff he is writing... --[[User:DirtyMeStoryTime|Dirty Me]] 03:52, 26 March 2016 (UTC)

Sooooo...I got Teejay to leave me options. When is platy going to leave me some? --[[User:DirtyMeStoryTime|Dirty Me]] 03:56, 18 March 2016 (UTC)

lol, feel free to give him warning 2...I have already warned him about categories, then I gave him a non-warn2 warning before he got the second warning. Seems he isn't learning his lesson :o --[[User:DirtyMeStoryTime|Dirty Me]] 10:05, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

Note for you, some idiot wiped the adult index, and I cannot figure out how to restore because of "too many conflicting changes"...only thing I can see is recreating the entire thing...which would be a pain...I will leave it up to you to see if you can figure out how to fix. --[[User:DirtyMeStoryTime|Dirty Me]] 13:28, 11 March 2016 (UTC)

Please do not tell me what I can and can't edit, you should just mind your own goddamn business! I know I am not experienced in English its my second language. So
can you please keep to your self. [[H0rniWr1t3r]]

Just wanted to say thanks for the reminder with category pages! Sorry that I caused the trouble. [[User:LilBitOfSpace|LilBitOfSpace]]

Just wanted to experiment! Did you like the rest of the story? [[Whining Winnie]]

Well if your not happy with that bit, I'll edit it out!......:-( [[Whining Winnie]]

It's not letting me add external links. I try to, then the page reloads asking me to enter a captcha. I do that and then a page pops up saying I can only submit one page with an external link every 20 minutes. Only I wasn't able to submit any. Any suggestions? [[User:Gr1mm|Gr1mm]] 11:13 Central Time 1/15/2016

Don't forget that [[CLM]] is my first story. Of course it's going to have some issues and stuff. But practice makes perfect! Also I`ve added a few more pages and the reason I haven't been on was because I went to my friends funeral. He died in a car crash. RIP Jacob Pierre 1989-2016

[[Whining Winnie]]

Could you move [[CLM]] to the [[Adult Stories]] section? It's now got sex in it so I thought it should be moved to Adult. And is it rude that the druglord in my story is named El Faggetito? [[Whining Winnie]] 20/1/16 21:37 (AEST)

Damn. Well thanks for the reply anyway, though.
[[User:Gr1mm|Gr1mm]] 1:35 Central Time 1/21/2016

Thank you for maintaining the organization of the Force Awakens page as we get some new people writing. Cheers! - [[User:CodeSoldier|CodeSoldier]]

Hey, is it possible to have rate limits removed? I believe that is what they are referred to as. I just want to know if it's somehow possible to be verified or something such and remove the time limits. I.e. the 2 second un-cached page limit, the 60(?) page visit limit, the 20 minute page with a link limit. Thanks for your help. [[User:CodeSoldier|CodeSoldier]] 31/01/16

Hey, you left a message on my discussion page that my dialogue's punctuation and grammar is bad and I shouldn't post on your stories because of a page that I made on one of your stories, but the grammar seems fine to me and all you did was add a comma and change some wording around. So am I allowed to add pages to your story or should I not edit that story anymore? [[User:Fort|Fort]] 05/02/16

Relax… All I did was ask why you thought my grammar was bad because when I checked the edit, I only saw one punctuation edit and that didn’t seem to be enough to warrant your complaint that my pages were bad. When I looked again, I saw that there were three grammar edits, so I retracted my statement. I don’t quite understand your hostility towards a first-time editor, but I’ll remove my pages posthaste from your story Smutty Sex Romp as my writing is not good enough for your standards. I readded my previous comment for posterity's sake. --[[User:Fort|Fort]] 5 February 2016

I apologize for my "obsession with colons" when it comes to dialogue - I've been told my English grammar is rather good for a non-native speaker, but apparently that's one bad habit that's slipped through so far. Will definitely try to do better. - ETA later same day: Thanks. Hopefully you won't find as many wrong colons from now on... [[User:Shirasade|Shirasade]] 20/02/16

Really sorry, but I screwed up a link and accidentally created two identical pages with different titles. There is one page with no link to it and I can't see how to redirect or delete it. Apologies once again. [[User:Slk350|Slk350]] 23/02/16

Thank you ever so much for fixing the problem so quickly. [[User:Slk350|Slk350]] 24/02/16

I actually meant grammar sergeant about the intimidating xD For the other guy, he will probably be back on his next up swing. I am familiar many of his conditions. Honestly, nothing anyone here can do for him. Anyways, I mean check grammar sergeant's large deletions when I had a large addition on talk pages (His and a [[Talk:Continue fucking Kate|specific story talk page]]) and you will see why I ask if I was intimidating. --[[User:DirtyMeStoryTime|Dirty Me]] 02:46, 2 April 2016 (UTC)

Sorry to bother you about this and I apologize in advance if I sound too critical but I'm actually kinda curious about the "Feel her up for real since she's already slapped you" choice in "Darkness". I mean, why would someone choose to deliberately cop a feel on their sister in the middle of a mysterious blackout after they had found a note imploring them to stay? Also, why was there a katana or steel thing in the room where the protagonist was and why did you include the "I'm Your Brother" choice if the protagonist was a girl? It felt like a place where the reader could decide on the protagonist's gender even if it was a bit late. Sorry if this sounds too critical. - [[User:Fredhot16|Fredhot16]]

I'm going to finish the above section in "Idea Pitches" in time. I've got projects to do. Sorry for delay. --[[User:Fredhot16]] 09:12, 10 March 2016 (Louisiana Time)

Woah. You actually know the nickname of the Venture. Well, one. The nickname in the core rulebook in the First Edition is "Lords". It's still cool, though. Thanks for the advice. I've got a question, though: how do you the copyright since I'm planning on copying the short descriptions of the clans from one of the pdfs of Vampire? Edit: I've found "Aristocrats" to be used in one of the NWOD Vampire novels so...you win this round. --[[User:Fredhot16]] 09:15, 11 March 2016 (Louisiana Time)

You know what? I've finally decided about what to do that "feeling up" choice in "Darkness". Fuck it. FUCK. IT. Not only is the choice out of place, there is nothing that would suggest that the protagonist, Jenny, has any feelings or thoughts that would suggest she would do such a thing. And yes, I've read your note about how how choices don't need to seem logical but this is, simply put, not a good choice. Gepetto chose that choice because it was a fairy tale and illogical choices are a staple in that sort of thing. Thing is, I'm not against illogical choices. I'm not against unreasonable choices. Hell, I'm not even against stupid choices. I'm against unrealistic choices. I'm against a choice that does nothing to advance the story or even make an attempt to do so. So fuck that choice. As of now, I'm going to get rid of it when I've got the time. --[[User:Fredhot16]] 08:26, 18 March 2016 (Louisiana Time)

So to answer your question about[[My Little Pony: Choose Your Own Adventure]] (yeah, it was over a year ago but...) anyway, Here's a short description of the story: it's basically a dating sim. Of a sort. I'm only calling a "dating sim: because, well, I've realized that if I were to put a genre into it, "dating sim" would be the closest one thought "slice of life" is a better description. If you have the patience to listen to me ramble on about what it's supposed to be, let me know.--[[User:Fredhot16]] 16:04, 19 March 2016 (Louisiana Time)

I thought I'd ask an experienced user (I am very new) is it worth trying to resurrect/clean up a cluttered and/or messy story started by someone else. I'm having fun editing the Pokesex story but I'm more than a little put off by the lack of focus some of the things people added before I got there (Some joker added a shemale option at the beginning that had nothing to it and although there are some worthwhile ideas there are way too many categories and sub divisions) So the story is looking a little neglected but I quite like the set up. I'm new to the site so please excuse me if I get something wrong. (Oh by the way, is there a way to watch an entire branch of a story for edits?) --[[User:Hellspawn|Helpless Newbie]] 8 April 2016

Yes, I do. However, I'm to categorize them later. Let's be honest: I am a very patchy writer. Also, I apologize for the "Darkness" choices. Let me ask: did you start the story? If so, can you please tell me what the story is supposed to be? Just want to know so i can be sure of what type of stuff to put in the story.--[[User:Fredhot16]] 08:37, 08 April 2016 (Louisiana Time)

Thanks for the help with the previous thing. Unfortunately I've come back with another question; Is there a way to outright delete a page? I want to delete a series of pages that a user (Who was banned some time ago) added because they are stupid for the sake of being stupid. If that's impossible or against the rules I'll work around it but it would be helpful if I had the option --[[User:Hellspawn|Helpless Newbie]] 10 April 2016

Hi, you deleted my page because you said it had already been created and deleted, when it was originally created earlier today I accidentally started making it on my home page because I was confused about how to go about it, but I was warned about having an unsorted story so I deleted all of it and put it in the mature section like I was supposed to originally. I'm very new to this site and was just confused. The original link doesn't exist anymore- at least I don't think it does. So I'm going to put my story back on there, because there's no need to rewrite something when you just put it in the wrong spot. Thank you for deleting though. --[[QueenPrisme]] 7:43pm April 13, 2016

Hey would it be kosher to set up the category page for someone else's story just out of the blue or should I ask them first? --[[User:Intheworstways| In The Worst Ways]] 1:44am April 16, 2016

Is there a way to make the page titles shorter, the ones at the top of the webpage not the address of the page (Apart from making the address shorter) I want to keep things neat and make it easy for people to find the beginning and stuff but the length for some of the pages is getting silly. If there isn't thats fine but I just wanted to know if I had the option. --[[User:Hellspawn|Hellspawn]] 19 April 2016

Would you happen to be able to tell me if [[Leaving]] is past the point of me worrying about the pit or not? I know it takes a while to get to that point, but we may be ending up on the sidewalk soon, and I'm just worried it'll fall of the bottom if I can't get back online for a long time. --[[User:Intheworstways| In The Worst Ways]] 12:49pm 4/26/16 (Eastern Standard Time)

For the record, what is the page maximum for the pit? The main page says 10 pages but iirc I've seen stories in the pit with more than 10 pages. Again I know it takes a while for something to drop into the pit, and I know I can get it back out again, but I thought I'd ask.

I get paranoid cause I have a habit of unintentionally abandoning things and I'm still mildly worried about losing internet access soon. I'd like to get anything new I start past the point where it could fall into the pit just in case. -- [[User:Intheworstways|In The Worst Ways]] 07:25, 19 May 2016 (UTC)

So, I'm trying to include an image in something, but the only way to do this is to link to an image outside of the wiki. Which would be fine, if it weren't for the fact that apparently said images are also under the rule of having to wait 20 minutes. Which again would be fine, if it didn't count hitting preview?

So if I want to see how it looks on the page I need to wait 20 minutes before I can see the changes I've made? And then, from past experience, if I try to submit the page I have to fill out a captcha and wait another 20 minutes before I can submit the captcha, by which point my session (every time I tried this at least) has been terminated?

Is there something I'm missing here? Are other people able to include links and images just fine and somehow I'm just completely screwing this up? Like I'm not trying to be ungrateful and I know you probably don't have control over any of this I'm just confused and I'm starting to get frustrated with the thing I'm trying to work on. Sorry for bothering you. -- [[User:Intheworstways|In The Worst Ways]] 22:23, 6 June 2016 (UTC)

Hey, sorry about not seeing your messages earlier! I'll remember to categorize my pages. Sorry about that! -- [[User:Kal]] 23:11, 2 August 2016 (EST)

Hey, could you delete the following page of my story? The writing is awful, misspellings everywhere, horrible punctuation, and there aren't even any options. I tried, but I couldn't salvage it. Thanks.
http://editthis.info/create_your_own_story/Make_her_the_first_whore_of_the_tribe,_all_are_welcome_to_fuck_her_and_impregnated_her
[[User:Kanin452]] 23 October 2016

Sorry, Platypus. I thought I was punctuating where needed, but I'll proofread some of the things I've posted. I am an ESL student and trying to get better by writing short stories, and I suppose the short quips for Rampage and Smutty are ideal for this. I immensely enjoy both those and try to contribute where I can. But if I'm just a terrible writer getting in the way of progress, I'll just be content reading what others have posted. Thank you for the opportunity though. Cheers. - [[User:Wtfismook]]

Sorry. I try my best, but it seems that no matter how many times I look things over, or how carefully I read it, the little things slip on through. -[[User:Kanin452|Kanin452]] 6 December 2016

The story "Stupid Sexy Kids!" needs to go. The author describes the story as a place for pedos. I will be going through the rest (A to Z) to ferret out more violations, and I'll report back. I prefer to remain anonymous if that's alright, to prevent flaming on my talk page.

== How to make my own story without disturbing the peace ==

I just wana know how to make my own story

1. There is a sidebar to the left

2. The second divider from the top remarks "search"

3. Enter through the '''input box''' the '''name of the story you'd like to create'''

4.Once on this page anew: note the tabs at the top of the page.

5.Impress the button that is prescribed the word '''create'''.

6.''On formatting:'' There are buttons above the page to change the text and to '''include links to the next part of the story; including links to the next part of the story is vital for any interactive story'''. Create a link by typing in the name of the action the user may perform I.e <nowiki>[[Action]]</nowiki>. Replace "action" with what you want the character to be able to do.

7.If anything went wrong: '''Platypus the site moderator is always able to revert the changes'''

8.'''At the bottom of each page in your story: write down the story's category like this:
<nowiki>[[Category:Story name]]</nowiki>
At "Story name" put the name of your story.

9. If all goes according to plan, your page should be formatted like so:

Solemn ipsut Armet

Do you:

<nowiki>*[[Go to the left]]

*[[Go to the right]]

[[Category:Story]]</nowiki>

If your page looks like that: it should function rather blithe.

You got the chips,
[[User:Heathin|Heathin]] 19:52, 9 August 2016 (UTC)

Hi, I'm fairly new to this site and all I can say is wow. This is probably my favorite place on the internet. However, being a wiki means it can be edited by users and that's even more amazing. Again, just wow. Now, taking into consideration I'm a writer myself and love being part of group efforts. I would like to know if the contributions I've made will be unsatisfactory. I would like to know what the thoughts are on the pages I've created [http://editthis.info/create_your_own_story/Follow_her_silently Here], [http://editthis.info/create_your_own_story/Call_Neria%27s_bluff Here], [http://editthis.info/create_your_own_story/Continue_staring_at_the_lovely_butt And Here]. I have no problem if the moderator or another user edits the works. I mean that's kind of the point of a wiki. However, I'd like to know if i would be better off creating my own works from scratch.
Thank you for your time. Kreaturewithak

Hey Platypus, do you know what's up with the website? Some time ago it had been out for a few weeks, then once back, it keeps fluctuating between slow, functional, and offline. Thanks in advance. --[[User:Darth Malcolm|Darth Malcolm]] 11:26, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

Thank you. I still don't know how to use it properly but I'm learning a bit. I'll leave Category now :) If you want tell me something about let me know. Thanks mate. --[[User:Mind|Mind]] 00:12, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

User talk:Platypus

Old Owl — Tue, 13 Dec 2016 23:25:50 GMT

Old Owl:

Talk:Main Page

Old Owl — Tue, 13 Dec 2016 20:18:11 GMT

Old Owl: /* Removed pedo stories */

Older discussions started before 2010 have been moved to an [[Talk:Main Page/Archive1|archive page]].

==Removed pedo stories==
I created a filter for the story pedo__romp (with only 1 underscore, but used 2 underscores to get through my own filter). After a little research this content would be considered illegal as obscene even though it was only in text form.
[http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca11/13-14350/13-14350-2015-03-12.html Reference]
I don't monitor the content on the site, but this was pointed out to me by a user. If you find any content explicitly related to sex with a minor, please remove it or edit it. --[[User:RobKohr|RobKohr]] 20:00, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

Removing these pages is impossible. If the wrong word is in the page title, the page can't be moved or deleted, only edited. --[[User:Platypus|Platypus]] 21:42, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

To quote another user, who was unable to reply here for technical reasons:

"You are totally wrong about written descriptions of underage sex being illegal. The fact that the material could be considered obscene, and thus illegal (in the US) would actually apply equally to any story with any extreme sexual activity. It can be applied to rape, bestiality, and just about ANY story that contains sexual descriptions. It is based on a remnant of a struck down child protection law that was unconstitutional, which is why it is sited for material directly related to children. The law is laughable, and you may have found one of the few cases where it was actually used, and the only one that I am aware of that actually made it through successfully. The user who pointed it out to you must be a free speech hating Nazi to bring up such an unlikely and remote senario as based on such a law. If this law were actually a problem, the largest sex story site on the internet www.asstr.org would not exist. No reasonable court would rule that you are guilty of transporting obscenity for something someone else wrote on your website. I'm not trying to tell you how to run your site, but if the "no pedo stories" rule stands; I will be leaving."

This is very much a sentiment I share. '''--[[User:BakaG|BakaG]] 08:08, 27 September 2015 (UTC)'''

You realize that anyone who had said pages on their watch list is now totally hosed, right?

You mean because that renders their watch lists totally inaccessible? Yes, and it also blocks access to various index pages. I'd like to remove the pages rather than have the site littered with blockages, but that's not currently possible. I've left feedback at the main site, but we'll see if and when anything is done about it. --[[User:Platypus|Platypus]] 22:42, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

I implore you to look at Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act - I'd link to it, but keeps preventing me from posting external links.

''No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.''

Section 230 applies to intermediaries of third-party content. When content is simply hosted and not moderated by a web site then there is no liability for the provider. ---[[User:Privitude|Privitude]] 22:45, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

Here we go: https://www.eff.org/issues/cda230

''Section 230 says that "No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider" (47 U.S.C. § 230). In other words, online intermediaries that host or republish speech are protected against a range of laws that might otherwise be used to hold them legally responsible for what others say and do. The protected intermediaries include not only regular Internet Service Providers (ISPs), but also a range of "interactive computer service providers," including basically any online service that publishes third-party content. Though there are important exceptions for certain criminal and intellectual property-based claims, CDA 230 creates a broad protection that has allowed innovation and free speech online to flourish.'' --[[User:Privitude|Privitude]] 23:03, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

I'm confused here, so any content that includes pedophilia, is it allowed here or not?
[[User: Cobraworry|Cobraworry]]

To put it as simply as possible: No. Underage sex is strictly forbidden on this site. --[[User:Platypus|Platypus]] 18:54, 8 December 2016 (UTC)

How does one report such content? I've stumbled onto one in particular that needs deleting.

== An Idea For A Perfect Game Of Thrones Story ==
Hello dear users of C.Y.O.A, I know how our precious site works and I would like to announce you that I am about to write a big and great story, in the Universe of A Song Of Ice And Fire book series. Anyone who would like to help me in this story, please contact me via Skype (sarp.kaya12) or [[User talk:Potato King|edit my talk page]].

== Why are there no cows in the story Furry World? ==
-- Jasper --

I hope I can find some friends and even get help with my story. Looking forward.

Edit: Check it Out! [[An Interactive Game Of Thrones Story]]

-- [[User:Potato King|Potato King]] , 05.08.2015, 15:03 (GMT+2)

== How to start my own ==
I'm new and I have no idea how to start my own story.

==HELP==
Could some people please help me write *[[time machine]]

==Rules?==
Hi, I'm fairly new here. I'm wondering, is there anything that is not allowed in stories/on site? I just don't want my stuff deleted. -Creat0r

==Just some trouble==

Hi there, I've been writing a C.Y.O.A. and I'm having the problem that I've set three options on my first page; Male, Female and Other. These redirect to different C.Y.O.A.s and it is rather irritating that when I try to chose the male option to advance it comes up with a selection of emo guys that I can use, from a different Catagory. Any help would be appreciated as I will not be able to advance in my writings until it is fixed.

Thank you in advance
--Xuan Tian Shang Ti

Xuan, I had that same problem on my new CYAO. This happens because someone else is already using this as a category name, so it will keep redirecting to their story. It helps to use your story's name in front of the choices or to put a specific phrasingthat noone has used yet.
For instance say your story is Smurfs in Ireland and you want to give people the choice of being a male or female. You could put Smurfs In Ireland: Male, or I want to be a male smurf
Hope this helps for anyone else with the same problem.

--
Above guy didn't sign.

Additionally, try using the character |.

You see, <nowiki>[[StoryName- Choice1| Choice1]]</nowiki> will show up just as
Choice1

--[[User:Snowball|Snowball]] 13:48, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

==Main Page Stories==

What constitutes a story being on the main page? It seems like people just throw theirs on there. [[User:Theotherguy|Theotherguy]] 07:10, 30 August 2012 (UTC)

We're trying to only include a small, representative sampling on the Main Page. Yes, some people are throwing theirs on there, but those stories are being thrown back off when they're spotted. --[[User:Platypus|Platypus]] 11:25, 30 August 2012 (UTC)

By my understanding, the story has to be of a quality that it can be 'considered' for a feature, not necessarily featured, but close or at the level. By the way, great to see someone took the initiative and did this, the site really needed some tidying. --[[User:Heyoeveryone|Heyoeveryone]] 13 September 2012

Maybe we should make specific guidelines? Must be this many pages, this quality of writing, etc. etc. [[User:Theotherguy|Theotherguy]] 23:14, 13 September 2012 (UTC)

Well I would suggest at least having the minimum amount of pages be set to 50, besides the 'Quizzes and Challenges' Section. I'm not sure about the quality of writing, as long as it is understandable and entertaining. --[[User:Heyoeveryone|Heyoeveryone]] September 14 2012

== Main Page and Its Length ==

I'm sure most of you here have noticed this already, but I'd like to just point out. The Main Page is ever growing in it's length. That's great news! That means more adventures, but it comes at a price. The overall size of the page. I thought I'd do a little experiment and see how long it would take me to scroll down from the top to the very bottom. It took me more than 10 seconds. That is a ridiculously long time. Only fine for social media sites such as Facebook.

What I'm suggesting is that we need to find a way to successfully organize the Main Page to which the size of it is significantly less, while not having it link off into other pages. Such as replacing the sections with say Collapsible Tables [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Collapsing], so then you can choose which sections you want to look at, perhaps even placing sub tables on top of that.

Heyoeveryone 12:02, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

It's certainly worth looking into. But bear in mind that newbies constantly screw up even the limited formatting currently on the Main Page. Any further complications to the coding will mean even more intense monitoring and reverting. --[[User:Platypus|Platypus]] 15:56, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

Ahh, true. I barely know coding myself, but new people constantly make stories, and sooner or later, mistakes will be made, and those beloved tables will be disfigured. It is possible though, and if someone were able just to implement this idea, it will do wonders for this site. I don't go on often, but when I do, I always notice how long the Main Page is.

So, '''IF''' anyone is willing to do this, then by all means, go ahead, it will do wonders for the site, I suggest you ask Platypus though.

--Heyoeveryone 06:05, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

== YouTube Idea ==

I have been a fan of this site for a while. I am an experienced actor and had the idea of adapting some of these stories to YouTube. Essentially, it would be an audiobook of the story where you click a link at the end of the video to make your choice (leading you to the next part of the story). I would like to try it with a shorter story first. If you have a short, well written CYOA story and are interested in sharing your story on YouTube, please let me know your username, the name of the story, and that I have your permission to record it and put it on YouTube (right below this post) . I would also be happy to hear any input on this idea.
-AlexCW

I know a lot about doing that kind of thing, it would be really great if it was animated or something like that. If you need any help working with Youtube CYOAs I can certainly help. I can also do (some) animation if you want. -Creat0r

I think this would be awesome! Guys I don't know how long this thread was posted but I would like to continue it. You know in the you adventure stories or something like that you flip to a page to continue? Well, maybe it should be one or two long videos that you pause at choices and the choices have the time you skip to. I might make a video like this on my YouTube! Awesome idea.
- [[KateFleet]] [[ YouTube : FleetGaming ]]

== Family-Friendly Section, Not Family-Friendly ==

I recently noticed that about 10 new stories were made, and each of them looked like they should be in the 10+ section. How is stealing a car family friendly? Or discouraging school? Seriously, If I see one more story like that being made, it's going straight to PG-13.
Note: I am 11 years old, and I don't even think that those stories are appropriate for my age!--[[User:903860|The Adenster]] 01:05, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

Adenster, family-friendly is generally a relative term. While I dont know the particular stories you speak of, discouraging school or stealing a car CAN be used in a family setting IE. one character has a Huckleberry Finn-ish tendency to skip school and the car can be used as a life lesson piece. Terms like Family-Friendly vary greatly from person to person and are entirely dependent on perception. For example some people believe in spanking their children whilst others dont. One side would consider it "Family-Friendly" whilst the other group would not. Generally if things such as car-stealing or such occur it can be acceptable if put in perspective and used in the context of the story. --[[User:BFEL|BFEL]] 12:13, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

== New Category ==
I just had a really great idea, maybe a new category can be made for just new stories, called Not Rated Yet, or whatever. Then, where the story is placed can be decided by somebody, so that sections like "Family-Friendly" are not so populated with stories that aren't appropriate.--[[User:903860|The Adenster]] 01:23, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

Your points are well taken, and this new group of writers is not writing family friendly material, but I'm somewhat averse to creating a Not Yet Rated section for ''somebody'' to rate, because there's only one sysop active on this site. My time is limited and I like to get in a little bit of time to work on my own writing. --[[User:Platypus|Platypus]] 03:02, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

I myself would be interested in assisting with this, Platypus. --[[User:TheElderOnes|TheElderOnes]] 03:28, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

Yeah, maybe ratings could be incoporated into reviews. That way unrated stories can move and get a review simultaneously.--[[User:Snowball|Snowball- The Anti-Adult-Content Resistance Leader]] 10:52, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

== About story page links ==
I'm kind of a perfectionist and it just hurts my eyes to see the story page links not formatted properly. It's either because people are too lazy or just not well enough informed on how to create proper links. Most pages have something like this:
* <nowiki>[[Story Name-Page Name]]</nowiki> = [[Story Name-Page Name]]
* <nowiki>[[Story Name/Page Name]]</nowiki> = [[Story Name/Page Name]]
* <nowiki>[[Story Name: Page Name]]</nowiki> = [[Story Name: Page Name]]
And so on. What I'd like to see is this:
* <nowiki>[[Story Name/Page Name|Display Name]]</nowiki> = [[Story Name/Page Name|Display Name]]
* <nowiki>[[Story Name/Character: Page Name|Display Name]]</nowiki> = [[Story Name/Character: Page Name|Display Name]]
The '''Display Name''' field makes the link show as that to the user, while still linking to the '''Story Name/Page Name''' page. This kind of naming makes the story pages look a lot better while still keeping the pages properly sorted out. I think this is explained on the main page, but it seems a bit unclear. Maybe it could be improved? --[[User:Dreama|Dreama]] 16:00, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

It is discussed in the [[Tutorial]], but sometimes it seems as if some of the people who want to write here aren't capable of reading.

Mostly, I like to see consistency within any given story. --[[User:Platypus|Platypus]] 21:16, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

Is there a way to get the Category page to display just the page names? In my story, I use the <nowiki>[[Story Name/Page Name|Page Name]]</nowiki> idiom, but the category page shows every page with the story prefix and they are all grouped under the same header. --[[User:Shiine|Shiine]] 8:50, 5 July 2010

I don't know a way of changing the way the page names are displayed on the Category page, but if you categorize each individual page as <nowiki>[[Category:Story Name|Page Name]] </nowiki>, then the Category page will aphabetize based on whatever you tell it the Page Name is, regardless of what the page name displays as. --[[User:Platypus|Platypus]] 19:10, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

I added a section to [[Tutorial/sleep|the tutorial]] about using the sort key in the category field. --[[User:Shiine|Shiine]] 23:40, 10 Aug 2010

== problems with the search bar ==

Hello, I just want to say that there seems to be a problem with the search, whenever I type a requist in it comes back with no results, I tried using the report a bug feature but the appears to be broken. --[[User:Tricrotic|Tricrotic]] 11:57, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

Yeah, the search bar only works when you type in the exact title of a story. Granted, there is a place where you search for pages that begin with _______, that should be the automatic search engine. I don't know much about programming, but it really shouldn't be too hard to move a program that's already been created, just to a different, more accessible place. - veri_disquo (2014)

==New Story==

If you guys remember me from way back, I used to use this site a lot, then suddenly stopped. Well, I'm back (again), and I've started a new story titled [[Cell]]. I look forward to the reviews of this CYOA story, as it goes through the process of Evolution.--[[User:blablob|blablob]]

Are you still working on it? --[[user:blamblegam]]

==Questions==
Are the stories in here copyrighted in anyway? If I want to feature one on a website, can do I need permission of the author or is it public material?

The stories here aren't copyrighted. But it might be polite to mention your intentions to the author beforehand. --[[User:Platypus|Platypus]] 22:53, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

I am pretty certain you are in error here. The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention Berne Convention], agreed to by the majority of the world, makes anything written also automatically copyrighted from the moment that it has been "fixed", and publishing online absolutely qualifies as fixed. That is why Wikipedia maintains a clearly stated policy regarding the reuse of its content under a Creative Commons license. They couldn't do that, nor would they need to, if collaborative, wiki-style writing did not result in the same copyright that other forms of writing does. It just means that as a collaborative work, copyright is vested in some degree in all the authors who participated in its creation. (To determine exactly what degree, you'd have to consult someone with more than my layman's understanding of copyright laws, especially given the inherently international nature of both intellectual property issues and internet publishing.)

Ergo, in response to the original question, yes, permission is absolutely needed to use the stories on other websites, as I have not seen anything on this site like Wikipedia's Creative Commons policy that all editors agree to be bound by as part of the editing policy, which would similarly allow free use of the stories (under the terms of said license, that is). Nor is there any sort of posted policy indicating that the collective authors of the site, by participating in the site, are surrendering any copyright they might otherwise hold in the works created, neither to the site nor to the public domain. And at this point, implementing any version of such policies would not retroactively remove copyright from all those stories already created. I suspect that primary rights would rest with the original creator of each individual story, as all additional chapters would potentially qualify as derivative works, but I don't know the full intricacies of how copyright law applies to collaborative works, online or off, and suspect that the situation is more complicated than that, especially since the exact details would vary from country to country and individual contributors to a story could very well be in many different nations.

Unfortunately, it is likely to be rather difficult to acquire permission for some of the stories, due to potentially having multiple authors, some of whom may have been known only be a pseudonym, and maybe a no longer used email address in the website's files, if those authors are no longer active on the website. But even works with unknown authors remain in copyright for 50 years after publication, in case the author is discovered or makes themself known during that time, in which case the normal life of author plus 50 years applies. (And these are just the minimums provided in the Berne Convention, some countries have enacted longer terms.) -- [[User:Cadrac|Cadrac]] 20:59, 8 March 2016 (UTC)

@Cadrac, Actually, it depends on what the Wiki is attributed under. If it is CC0, then everything placed here is automatically fair game for anyone to do anything they want, even copy and sell. The greater concern is where your content comes from, not the content posted here. Basically, I think Platypus pretty much just said editthis content is CC0, which means anyone can do anything with the stuff on here with no concern over legal recourse. Now, if I copy text from a novel and post it on here, that is a completely different issue... --[[User:DirtyMeStoryTime|Dirty Me]] 05:17, 9 March 2016 (UTC)

He may have said it, but that in no way is legally binding on any of the authors since, as far as I have been able to determine in searching the site, there is no notice which authors must agree to that their work will be under such a license if posted to the site. While every editing page warns that the work "may be edited, altered, or removed" and not to submit it if you are not okay with that, it doesn't say anything about it being copied to another site. That was my whole point. Authors did not have to agree to give up copyright in order to post, or agree that such rights are surrendered for all posting on the site by agreeing to a general TOS, ergo, they haven't. While the wiki program has a license the wiki content isn't attributed under ANY license. Platypus may have said the content was CC0, but since the authors never had to agree to that and he doesn't own the copyrights, he doesn't have the authority to make them CC0. --[[User:Cadrac|Cadrac]] 13:12, 10 March 2016 (UTC)

If the story is in the Pit, can you edit the story to be in a different category? Because, for this story that I have been editing, I wish to change the maturity since its hard to keep track of every link you put. The Lost City of Atlantice is the story i had been working on for a bit and some of the tags that were created aren't really in the category. Plus, some of my ideas fit into other categories. What should I do? --[[User:sayrppoetry/sayrppoetry]]

If you retrieve a story from the Pit, feel free to up its maturity level as needed. --[[User:Platypus|Platypus]] 22:51, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

== Status functionality? ==

The tutorial mentions status functionality as if you are able to use variables, but there was no information on how to perform operations on variables (You know, add, subtract, that sort of thing.) I looked for an article on the issue but didn't find any. Is this functionality available?

No. You can not perform operations on the variables. You have to do any adding and subtracting manually on the next page, and if you want options where you have different values for the variables, you have to create multiple paths. --[[User:Rawar|Rawar]] 19:27, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

BTW: I was wanting to experiment with status stuff, so I ended up creating a template page for the [[sandbox]]. Since you can't delete pages, and this might be useful, I replaced it with a basic status bar and left it in the sandbox. I hope others find it useful. --[[User:Shiine|Shiine]] 04:27, 19 March 2011 (UTC)

== New here, and want to know a few things about editting. ==

I joined today and want to know if it is okay for me to go through stories fixing some grammar mistakes and spelling. (not that I a grammar freak or saying I am perfect myself.) Some stories i looked at had a dozen mistakes a page and that is just bad for the site. See [[DUDE WHERES MY CAR]], I fixed the main page, leaving in the repitive sentence structure because I was unsure if I should change that. The next pages I looked at were equally plagued. Is there a way to catergorize stories as "being a pain to read because of mistakes"? I did not mean chnaging content, simplly fixing sloppy mistakes. To be sure, I am not planning on reading every story on here to be an English jainitor. I just wondered whose job these things were, Thanks. ~[[User:RandyRift|RandyRift]]

I’m not an admin or anything but…

There is no real problem or rule against editing pages, especially grammar correction. If you want to fix stories then that’s alright. Hell, even adding new stuff to the story is fine in most cases.
The problem with this site is that there are some users who create crappy stories with five pages that have no real plot or proper grammar. People work on their story for a day then leave resulting in many poor stories with no real purpose. So if you want to fix stories then go for it.

--[[User:Fletcher Peninsula|Fletcher Peninsula]]

Unfortunately, there are far too many ungrammatical writers out there for me to repair all the things they post. I am the only active sysop here, and I don't object to anyone trying fix grammar around the site. We were recently invaded by a Canadian school whose students wanted the thrill of posting on the web despite the fact that many of them had a poor grasp of English. Their teacher's help made many things worse, not better. But since they seem to have left, many of their stories are going to be getting moved to the Pit of Abandonned Stories soon. --[[User:Platypus|Platypus]] 01:21, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

I have another question, why is it that on the category page, (for my story) when I am logged in I see 90 pages, but when not logged in I see 78? (the page lists only that many.) ~[[User:RandyRift|RR]] 3 April 2010

== Pictures and Copyrights ==
I'm not very familiar with finding out what kind of copyrights some picture has on the web and what pictures are free to be posted here, for example, and what pictures may be freely copied and even uploaded here to be displayed. So far I've only been directly linking to pictures on Wikipedia (in very rare occasions anyway), but that's very limited. Anyone know better? --[[User:Dreama|Dreama]] 22:56, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

The safest thing is to upload your own pictures to photobucket or something. However, there are several free stock photo and picture sites out there. My favorite is http://www.sxc.hu/ . However, make sure you read the licenses for the photos before using them or linking to them! --[[User:Rawar|Rawar]] 00:42, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

There's thousands of free stock photos on [http://www.dreamstime.com/free-photos Dreamstime.com]. Just resize them to a width of 800 for web use. -- [[User:ImmortalDreams|ImmortalDreams]]

== A portrait of an American Girl Named Myra. ==

If you like the story idea, please help create a scenario for Myra. Remember, do not edit or add onto anyone else's scenario. Create a small one of your own. It doesn't have to be deep! Thank you for contributing!

She ought to wear a funky fruit hat. She's 12, was living with her mother in Maine, dad's a deadbeat, moves to Oklahoma for no apparent reason, uncovers alien conspiracy there. Turns out her mother's been replaced by an evil space automaton. She must team up with her drunken embarassment of a father to rescue her from a Dick Dastardly-esque villain who brought the aliens here with a magical voodoo portal, and then find a way to close said portal. Along the way, she learns important lessons regarding metaphysical idealism and beef Wellington. --[[User:Nalanhata|Nalanhata]], June 18

== Moving a page ==

Is there a way to move pages? I've looking over a story with terrible spelling problems and [[Tour_the_town|this page]] links to [[A little Tatoo paurlor]] which should be fixed. -- [[User:TheRick|TheRick]] 05:26, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

The page-moving function had to be disabled due to malicious vandals. However, what you can do is copy the text in the mis-named page, blank that page, edit the page with the mis-named link, and paste the text onto a new page with the correctly spelled name. Then I'll delete the blanked page. I'm the only one who can do deletions. And I do appreciate anyone who actually wants to do some work tidying up the place. --[[User:Platypus|Platypus]] 11:56, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

== Old Geezer ==

I'm still having problems with editing Lady Helsing as it says Permission error" when l try to
edit it.

First of all make sure you are logged in... next... if you have been on a single page writing for too long it will automatically log you out so right click copy anything you have if you need to re-log in --[[User:Mezzo|Mezzo]] 17:12, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

== Tags? ==
What are the tags supposed to do? Because the ones that are for this one are 'porn or death'. --[[User:Heyoeveryone]]

== Severe lag of site? ==

Anybody else getting loadtimes of upwards of 5 minutes (multiple refreshes included) for even the shortest of pages?

If so, I think I know why. Remember, this is only a guess (although it's one with backup). I noticed my browser (Chrome) seems to hang on loading the info from TagNimbus, so I tried to visit the TagNimbus site. It seems to be down or dead, and a look at www.IsUp.me told me the whole site seemed to be down for others, too.

If it's down, any chance of getting in touch with the owner to restore it? Otherwise, if TagNimbus is finall- I mean unfortunately dead, can we just remove the thing anyways? It didn't seem to change anything and was abused to tag pages with irrelevant tags...

But hey, this is all the rambling of one author who just hopes to get the site working so he can get back to writing the gore story he was in the middle of... --[[User:TheElderOnes|TheElderOnes]] 06:27, 23 April 2011 (UTC)

==Hello==

Hello. Just wanted to say this site looks really cool and interesting, I really look forward to helping stories along or even starting some once I get the hang of it.

I should know though, are there any particular rules or anything that aren't immediately obvious or that are mentioned? And where should I start? Any advice for a newbie would be very appreciated. The site is a little unnecessarily complicated.

Heyo whoever you are! Best thing you should start on is probably continuing on stories that have been started, but after 10 pages, the author has quit. If you really want to begin a new story, i suggest planning it before you actually type it all out. In your plan you should have: the main storyline, the seperate endings, and of course the characters who are going to be in the story.
-- [[User:Heyoeveryone]] 3 September 2011

You should try mind mapping. It's a great way to make branching plot lines. -- [[User:ImmortalDreams|ImmortalDreams]]

It's bad to add to the number of all the carcasses you can see on the Main Page. Save those, or if you prefer, get the more severely rotting ones that we lumped in the Pit to decompose. Unfortunately, stories are hard to get rid of, so save them from non-authorship before it's too late. It also makes it easier, since you'd agree with the storyline from the beginning, whereas others end up left behind because there's a lock on the whole thing. For Example, everything might lead to a standstill after everything directs to a page. The rest of the plot is a mystery and starts rotting. Simply because the author him/her self doesn't know how it ends.--[[User:Snowball|Snowball- The Anti-Adult-Content Resistance Leader]] 14:58, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

== Template Appearance Problem ==

The templates for my story [[War Pigs]] are coming out all wrong in IE 9, but they look fine in Firefox. Can anybody explain why? It would be greatly appreciated. --[[User:AgentVincent|AgentVincent]] 03:55, 7 July 2011 (UTC)

The problem is probably that it's IE9. IE9 enjoys shitting all over everything nice looking on the internet. --[[User:TheElderOnes|TheElderOnes]] 15:47, 31 July 2011 (UTC)

== The whole "Anon" thing. ==

Anyone else amused by this? Three brief little "attacks" (if you even want to call them that) with an empty threat? I dunno, I guess it just struck me as pathetic and funny. --[[User:TheElderOnes|TheElderOnes]] 06:26, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

Yea a real dumbass, but thank God he didn´t write any pages, those would have been real '''attacks''' on the site! :)

[[User:Fletcher Peninsula|Fletcher Peninsula]]

== Pictures ==

I noticed that there was an embedded image button. Being a photo editor, such as myself, I jumped at the idea of adding a picture where they could be used. Unfortunately it says that file adding is disabled. I looked through the General Discussion and i realize that you have had "attacks" in the past but is there a chance that they could be re-added?

--[[User:Aegisofawakening|Aegisofawakening]] 01:58, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

Actually, file adding was disabled due to server-size limitations, not due to attacks. But images can still be displayed on pages, even if the file itself cannot become part of this site. --[[User:Platypus|Platypus]] 04:09, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

== Thanks! ==

I'd just like to say thank you so much!!! Why? Well, a few years back i wrote a few tales ([[Girlngirl High]], [[All Alone]] and [[Teehee!]]). I thought, no way were these stories would ever become hits, all of them are less than 100 pages! And i never finished any of them. So i decided to quit the site for 2 years. Today, i decided to go on and look at my stories, see how they've turned out.

I looked down to find out that '''every story i've made has gotten over 1000 views on the first page, with the most being 20 000!!!''' I was just amazed at how my stories were this popular. So i'd just like to say THANK YOU!! I've given the job of continuing the stories to my friend [[User:Heyoeveryone|Heyoeveryone]]. He's a very good friend of mine and he said he'd love to take over. So once again, thank you so much for your support throughout these past 2 years. Also thanks to those people who added pages onto my stories. If you'd like to work on these stories, just ask Heyo for permission and he should promptly allow you.

Am i coming back? Nah. Well maybe. --[[User:Unkowhero23]]

Actually, you don't need my permission. Just make sure that you don't have many grammatical and spelling errors, and that the pages aren't just one or two sentences. Those are terrible, and with the load times of the site sometimes, you want something more than just that.

--[[User:Heyoeveryone|Heyoeveryone]] 5th September, 2011

== Spam ==

What's with all the random advertisements lately? It's actually more of a nuisance than those Anon people a little while back. Is this site really such a big deal that people need to go around and post all these ads? - [[User:Jamesparker|Jamesparker]], September 23, 2011

Ad's? Where? Link them here. It's best if you name and shame them, and so that their account will be quickly deleted off the site. And I guess it is such a big deal. --[[User:Heyoeveryone|Heyoeveryone]] 9 October 2011

== Mature, Adult, Bad Taste ==

A suggestion, if you will. Maybe the mature, adult and bad taste story listings should be collectively put on a sub-page separate from the main page? On reflection, maybe only the Adult and Bad Taste ones. Those wishing to see those stories wouldn't have any trouble finding them by following the link (from the main page), and it'd render the main page free of offensive language and titles. Everybody wins? What'd'y'all think? [[User:JackalRobot|JackalRobot]] 21:12, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

I have been giving the idea consideration, especially as some people would prefer not to be exposed to even the titles of some of the Adult stories. And it would help reduce the sheer size of the Main Page. --[[User:Platypus|Platypus]] 00:41, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

Despite my own story preferences, I agree. I always thought it odd (and not a little family-unfriendly) to give almost equal weight to kiddie stories as well as possibly very kinky adult stuff. As long as you can always go directly to any given page (through a browser bookmark perhaps) I actually suggest adult stories are kept behind a disclaimer screen of some sort.
[[User:Anedwcan|Anedwcan]] 19:48, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Also, it can broaden the areas for the Adult Stories and free the titles. Then there could be another sub-group for the mild content.--[[User:Snowball|Snowball- The Anti-Adult-Content Resistance Leader]] 14:52, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

That is a great idea you have there, and it would be nice to see this happen. However there is a huge flaw I see in this. Recent Changes would still show everything be it a kids story about a kitten, or an adult story about bestiality.--[[User:Yihman1|Yihman1]] 07:04, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

I have a "Mature" (R rated) story I am writing. I am considering adding a storyline in which the character gets raped offscreen. Is that too intense for "Mature"? Should I post the beginning of the storyline, and the page that links to it, here to be vetted? --[[User:LaedyRose|LaedyRose]]

I don't think an offscreen rape would necessarily need to be put in the Adult section. At least the Mature section, certainly. It depends on how much detail you put in. You might want to put a warning at the beginning of the storyline, simply because rape is a special kind of evil and will break (or make) the story for some readers. --[[User:Platypus|Platypus]] 01:34, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

== Feedback For My Stories ==

Hi! I'm new here, and I'm starting my first story, [[Transformers: War Between Two Worlds]]. I wasn't sure if it should go in the Family Friendly Section or the PG13 Section, so I put it in Family Friendly. If you have any feedback, read what I have so far and post it here. This story will take me a while, but as soon as I'm done, I'll get started on another one. Also, would anyone like to team up with me on a story? I'm guessing most of you will think I'm crazy, but it's good to check. TEAMWORK RULES! I'm not that smart when it comes to wiki editing, so if there's a place where this page would better fit, then please tell me here.

Feedback:

New Ideas (for my future stories):

Edit Requests (If you would like permission to edit one of my stories, put your username here):

-[[User:AwesomeSauce2233475]]

Sorry about putting my page in the wrong place, Platypus. How do you reach the user page?

== Finding A Story ==

Hi everyone.

Just a quickie.

1) Is there a story that focuses on something like a haunted house/mansion/what-have-you somewhere? I've skimmed the titles but nothing popped out at me and I've been reading here and there but even though most stories seem to only be like 5-10 pages the sheer number of them means I haven't had a chance to check them all and was hoping someone who'd been around longer knew of one and could point me in the right direction?

-- [[User:Captain.Devonin|Cpt. Devonin]]

: I don't know of such a story, but this brings up an issue I've been meaning to: it's awfully hard for someone to find anything they might be looking for, if they haven't seen it already. I'm wondering if the allowance of short synopses has been discussed before, or perhaps if we might create categories like [[:Category:Stories that feature supernatural characters|stories that feature supernatural characters]] or [[:Category:Stories that take place in haunted houses|stories that take place in haunted houses]].

: --[[User:KC Riley|KC Riley]] 03:39, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

Well, [[Madman's Mansion]] isn't haunted but its the best one I know of that involves a proper what-have-you-somewhere and decent story length and grammar and punctustion and so on.

--[[User:Snowball|Snowball- The Anti-Adult-Content Resistance Leader]] 14:49, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

Also, how about this: when you enter the main page, there is a link to each level of the stories, then, you can continue on into sub-groups of Ghost, Sci-Fi, Quest, Tragedy, or something like that.--[[User:Snowball|Snowball- The Anti-Adult-Content Resistance Leader]] 13:55, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

== How to know people are watching? ==

I'm new here, and recently finished a short story.

But how do I tell if anyone is seeing it? Is there a place on this website to get feedback on the stories?

Thanks

You can see at the bottom of each page how many times the page has been accessed. --[[User:Platypus|Platypus]] 07:16, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

Platypus, is this still true? I have looked at my page, and do not see a number for how many times it has been accessed. Or was this removed? --[[User:DirtyMeStoryTime|Dirty Me]] 12:20, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

Yes, unfortunately, this isn't currently active. It was always nice to know how often a page has been accessed. --[[User:Platypus|Platypus]] 15:38, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

== Something wrong? ==

Hi, I'm new here. Saw this site and thought it was pretty interesting, and gave it a try. It's fun and I'm currently working on a story. However, I'm getting a feeling I am doing something wrong with creating stories and editing them. If I am doing anything wrong so far, which I am sure I am, please tell me, okays?

-Bluedragon

So far, so good. I see nothing wrong with what you're doing. --[[User:Platypus|Platypus]] 14:25, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

== A page making/organizing resource ==

First of all, I don't want to sound like a spammer or advertiser, but since I can code, I thought I'd make a resource for everyone who's interested.
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I've noticed when making games on here, that it's difficult to keep track of all your pages, and it's still hard to make them even with a mind map. So I made a rather unconventional, very small piece of software using Game Maker. Despite its not too standard interface. It provides an easy and efficient way to organize your pages. You can type and paste your page content into it and then automatically generate the pages in the correct format for this site.
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I in no way claim that I have ownership rights to the site. I only want to provide a resource for its users in order to make the creating process easier.
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The file is only 2.3MB.
Here's the download link(vs1) - http://www.4shared.com/file/g5M6PSP2/CYOA_-_Page_Organizer.html
--[[User:ImmortalDreams|ImmortalDreams]]
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'''New Features:'''
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Made page recognition easier by showing the link names instead of the page names for the disabled parallel fields of each choice.
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Added a ''Clear'' button to the description area.
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Added a feature where the active field is always highlighted.
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Added tab key support for faster navigation between fields.
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'''Bug Fixes:'''
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All of the proper link names show up in the generated code files. Before, all link names had been choice1's.
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The disabled child name(now link) fields no longer show a value of 0 when going to one page and back again.
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New download link(vs1.1) - [http://www.4shared.com/file/KF270foj/CYOA_-_Page_Organizer11.html]
--[[User:ImmortalDreams|ImmortalDreams]]

== Interaction ==

How can I communicate with other users of this site, so that we can conspire and work together. I am currently working on a story that is just to much for one person to handle, but I don't understand how I can talk with "helpers". I just don't get it!-- [[User: Cyclops|Cyclops]]

You can click on a user's name to view their profile page, then click on the "discussion" tab to see their talk page. If you post something on their talk page, they'll see an alert at the top of their screen. Hopefully, they'll click the alert, go to their talk page, and then write something back on your page. --[[User:Platypus|Platypus]] 23:06, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

i think that there needs to be a few changes to this site. A chatroom. It would be very easy to find one online and embed it in a page. Also I believe there should be category pages where all the sci fi pages are in one place with links to it. Maybe on the mainpage, instead of links to very story, have links to the category listing. Finally I believe there should be something to let us rate pages (as in 4 out of 5 stars).
-[[User:Gartonia|Gartonia]]

The interaction between users does seem unusual (profile page->discussion...) There can be a better way surely?
Also, clicking on a user's name is not easy. For one, the pages don't have a author's link. Also, the person who wrote the last page in a story might be different from the author of the current page.
A link to the profile of the creator should be there on each page so one can easily click on it...
-[[User:BenchWarmer|BenchWarmer]]

A link to the profile of the creator ''is'' there on each page. Just click the History tab. There's a link to the profile page and to the discussion page of every user who's edited the page. --[[User:Platypus|Platypus]] 19:43, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

== Salutations. ==

Hello, I am one of the new guys here. I just wanted to know if there are any rules that I must adhere to on this site. I mainly made an account just so that I was able to continue on a story that I saw on this website. Well anyway, If you can notify me, please do, Thank You.

== Salutations. ==

Hello, I am one of the new guys here. I just wanted to know if there are any rules that I must adhere to on this site. I mainly made an account just so that I was able to continue on a story that I saw on this website. Well anyway, If you can notify me, please do, Thank You.

== Linking to existing pages ==

How does one link back to an existing page, in effect creating a loop?

The same way you create a link to a new page: By enclosing the name of the page in square brackets. For example: <nowiki> [[Main Page]] </nowiki> links you to [[Main Page]].--[[User:Platypus|Platypus]] 21:49, 13 June 2012 (UTC)

== Featured Story - A Dead Thing? ==

We're 8 days from the 8 month anniversary of the last time the Featured Story section was last updated. Who was last in charge of updating that? --[[User:TheElderOnes|TheElderOnes]] 07:24, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

The idea was proposed by [[User: Occono|Occono]], last seen in 2009. I said then that I had no objections to such a feature, but no intention of participating in it. Anyone volunteering? --[[User:Platypus|Platypus]] 18:19, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

As I understood it, anyone could edit the featured story section, no one in particular was responsible for keeping it reguarly updated. That being said, 8 months is an alarmingly long time. If we´re looking for a story right now to put on there "Megan" (which is already nominated) could do. Although that one might be a bit to... bloody disturbing, to be put there. Another one might be Battle Royal, which has a lot of pages. (Wait, did I just recomend Battle Royal over something else beacuse it was so bloody disturbing? Scary thought!).

Overall though, personally I´d want to put a quality story on the featured page. And the simply fact is that there arn´t enough quality storys on this site to maintain a one or two months switch around in my opinion. Also, personally, I´d also not like to see adulth storys be put there, which decresses the story-pool significantly.

--[[User:Fletcher Peninsula|Fletcher Peninsula]]

Woah, seriously? 8 months? That is amazing. Nevertheless it's a great thing that someone actually bothered to change it. It may be my story, but from 2012 onwards, I was surprised that [[Remember]] was still featured. Congratulations to TheElderOnes. It's been a long time coming, and now you've finally gotten the story featured. Nice.

--[[User:Heyoeveryone|Heyoeveryone]] 30/06/2012

== Compressing the main page ==

I started compressing the main page into smaller sortable tables. I just finished the family friendly section, feel free to take over for me if you would like to do the next sections

The goal for all of these tables is to keep the list around 10 items, and then have a more stories page for each section. The simpest way to do this is to choose all stories that have 50+ pages. If that leads to too many stories, then make it 100+...

If a story is well written, and more than 50 pages, it should trump a story with more pages.

Also, please bring the adult section back to the home page with the top items from it. That is the most active section of the site, and it generates a lot of traffic from google.

--[[User:RobKohr|RobKohr]] 12:19, 15 August 2012 (UTC)

== Separate Wiki for Adult Content ==

I don't really like that adult stores are so easily accessible for people that come here looking for non-adult material, such as that they'll pop up as random pages, or can be seen in "Recent Changes". Is there any interest in branching Adult content off in to a separate Wiki, and maybe including a link the "Adult Section" in the side-bar? --[[User:Holvard|Holvard]] 19:56, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

Unfortunately, the majority of the traffic here is looking for the Adult Content. Removing it or trying to bury it in some way would most likely kill off the non-adult content. --[[User:Platypus|Platypus]] 20:16, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

How extreme is the majority? As far as I can tell, this is the only active site to make free interactive adult stories, so if there's that much interest I may try to make my own. --[[User:Holvard|Holvard]] 20:56, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

Would it take a lot of work to put the adult content behind a disclaimer screen? As long as one had to go through the main page to access the adult site, it might actually ''increase'' traffic to the non-adult content, because people would feel better about, for instance, recommending it to children. People might feel more comfortable with the site in general if they felt sure that reasonable precautions were being taken. --[[User:LaedyRose|LaedyRose]] 9 April 2012

It could work through account settings, and then it being disabled by default, and the option for parental controls. Maybe even an option (that would have to be enabled through account settings) so that only one account could be tied to that IP, and these settings, after being enabled, could be disabled via a parental control password that is set up with the account, that could be different than the account's login password.
[[User:UZ9|UZ9]] 21:52, 20 April 2013 (UTC)

== Issues With the Site ==
I've noticed that Create Your Own Adventure pages tend to load slowly, and the last week or so, accessing the site at all has been touch and go. Is there any particular reason for this? Is there anything you or we can do about it, or do we just need to be patient? --[[User:LaedyRose|LaedyRose]] 9 April 2012

== Lag of site and page load limits ==
Is there a problem? When I first started contributing to this site it could sometimes be very slow, but I put that down to traffic at certain times of the day. In the morning in GMT (when the Americas are asleep!) it was usually pretty good. Now, though, I find it's terribly slow whenever I use it, often taking upwards of thirty seconds to a minute to load a single page. What's more, not infrequently it doesn't load the page at all and I instead get a "Uncached page load rate limit reached -> 3 per second;" message. After a couple of those (even if I've only been on the site for ~5 minutes and loaded three or four pages) I get a request to complete a Captcha: "Page loads per hour hit - limit 60. Reset limit by filling in this captcha:"

It seems that it's trying to load pages multiple times when I access them? That might explain why it's being so slow, too.

*There is indeed a problem: link spammers. RobKohr has had to deliberately slow down site responsiveness and include that captcha in the hopes of frustrating the spambots so maybe they'll go away and leave us alone. The messages you're seeing aren't because ''you're'' trying to load more than 3 pages per second. It's because the bots are trying to load far, far more pages than that per second. Do I like this solution? Not really. It's frustrating. Can anyone else think of a better one? --[[User:Platypus|Platypus]] 14:14, 13 May 2013 (UTC)

**You guys could require to creat a acc that is activaded by admin/mod to view the content, the login page should always come if a cookie isnt existing and the page itself could be a blank site with minmal text and a field to look in.

***You wouldn't even need to create an account to ''view'' the content (that would be counter-intuitive, since you want people to see it) but just to ''edit'' it. I know that's probably far from ideal because the whole point is the Wiki is free for everyone, but at the same time if it's being incredibly slow because of spambots then maybe it's a necessary step?

: Is there some reason that the normal solutions (for MediaWiki, let's say the Phalanx extension) can't be applied here? Spam is a rather indiscriminate reality of the Internet that sites are usually protected against without crippling themselves and hoping spambots will get frustrated and go away. They won't, but the users will. --[[User:KC Riley|KC Riley]] 13:06, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

== Linking pictures problems and other errors ==

Hello. In my various writing I try to place links to pictures to enhance the story experience. I've been doing this for months and months but lately the site has been completely blocking my ability to place links. The first time I try to post a page with a link it will force me to type in two words to verify that I'm human. After I type in the correct words it will attempt to post the page again but instead I will get this message: "You can only submit one page with a link in it per 20 minute period". Because of the human verification process I am completely unable to post links. I am fine with only posting one link per twenty minutes but the site has negated any way of posting links as the verification process eats up my one post per twenty minutes. As someone who uses the site often this is a major inconvenience.

Furthermore, if the human verification process doesn't stop my attempts at posting a link all the million of other error messages will. Errors such as site load limits or pages per hour or some such. These errors are never correct and seemingly random. I can stomach these messages and plod forward but they are a complete hindrance when it comes to posting links.

Please give me some assistance in this regard, I do not want to lose the function of placing links in my stories.

I have noticed this annoying tendency too. I tried to create a link to the CC-BY legal language, which is what I license my writing using, and find that, since I get the captcha thing, it blocks the link completely by telling me I can only do one external link per 20 minutes. So, it must say 1 time when I first submit, 1 time when I captcha and submit, meaning I can never do anything external. Like, say, link the CC-BY legal language for people to easily read the copyright terms, or provide a picture of an outfit I am thinking of, or whatever. Instead, I need to put a half link in so people can copy and paste, but not go to by directly clicking. Not sure how to get around this -.- --[[User:DirtyMeStoryTime|Dirty Me]] 04:45, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

== Hiya! Are people still active? ==

Hey guys. I'm Bloody and I just joined the site. I've noticed the discussion board is a little old, and just wanted to see if others were still active. Guess I just need a little reassurance that I'm not the only one. lol -Bloody

== Page loads per second hit - limit 2 ==

Has anyone else been getting this message a lot lately? [[User:AgentVincent|AgentVincent]] 21:32, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

Yes. I have. But I wait about 2 seconds and hit the "reload page" button, and it works. -- [[User:Teejay|Teejay]]

That page loads hit per second is extremely annoying. I'm a fast reader, and on short pages, it sometimes pops up. It does so constantly when I'm just trying to get back to pages inside of a story I want to edit or add more to. I also really dislike that "Page hits per hour" message. What's the point of having it? Maybe the site can do away with that? -- [[User:Sophos8|Sophos8]]

I don't like it either, but "throttling" the site is one of the techniques that RobKohr is using to frustrate the spam-bots that were filling the site with crap. --[[User:Platypus|Platypus]] 20:21, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

It is driving me insane. I can't enjoy this site when everytime i click on another page i get this annoying message. I spend more time reading that than actual story.
And i just got it when i tried to add here....

lol, you should try checking through stories to see if they should be moved to the pit. I see that message so often it isn't funny D: --[[User:DirtyMeStoryTime|Dirty Me]] 14:00, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

its annoying as hell it would be nice if it was raised to 4

How does one "frustrate" a bot? If anything it will cause people actually interested in this site to turn away. There has to be a better way to do this.

== Image linking ==

Every time I try to link an image, it gives me:
"You can only submit one page with a link in it per 20 minute period."
This happens regardless of whether i add via hyperlinking or as a text url itself.

Any help would be very much appreciated.
My only other option for this is to upload images to this site, but I'm not sure if I can or not. But the editing tools does support adding images during editing so...
--[[User:Aelvir|Aelvir]] 15:33, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

== Chat Concept ==

Recently created, and in need of a public announcement. Feel free to use this link and open in separate tabs to keep it alive:<br> '''editthischat.chatango.com'''<br>
--[[User:Completionist|Completionist]] 22:24, 8 May 2014 (UTC)

== Mermaid games? ==

Can someone please make a adult section mermaid choose sex game or direct me to one... Thanks.

And i want it to be that you cant change into legs and are cught by fishermen.

Also make the girl mermaid choose a blonde girl.

And its set in a medieval world thats advanced on slavery and cross breeding and has mutant bugs.

Thanks.

==New here==

So I'm working on a story called [[Three sisters]] in the adult section. I'm just wondering if anyone is enjoying it as of yet, its still a WIP and there is still loads of work to be done with it. Anyway let me know if there are things you would like to see in it, or anything else.

-[[User:Tapdancingfish|Tapdancingfish]] 23:39, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

==I have questions==
Ive just joined but having been writting up my own story for months, i want to know if its possible to keep my story hidden from public until im ready for them to read it? Also is there anyway for me to revert unwanted edits by other users (to be honest i dont want any users editing my work unless its to fix grammar)?
[[User:Blitzbear93|Blitzbear93]] 14:01, 14 September 2014 (UTC)Blitzbear93
:Hi,
:I suggest that you create a wiki to write your story, then you blank the page in the last edit. Nobody can read it when opening your wiki, but you can easily retrieve your own story in the revision history page (clicking on the previous archived version). You cannot really prevent any user from editing, but whether it happens, you have the right to make reverts, too, so you can check your work periodically if you are worried about that. You may mention at the beginning of the story the following sentence :
:''Please do not change or add pages (unless you correct my orthography, which you are welcome to do). Thank you.''
:Good luck. -- [[User:Girl Mamtha|Girl Mamtha]] 20:10, 26 October 2014 (UTC)

== Linking to outside sites ==

So, I've been trying for over two hours to upload the first page of my my story. However, submissions with outside links can only be submitted once every 20 minutes, a common sense policy I have no issues with. My problem comes when the first submission attempt loads the page again with a captcha to prove I'm not a spam bot. Entering the captcha, I discover that triggering the Captcha counts as a story submission and makes me wait 20 minutes before I can actually submit it. Annoying, but okay. I wait the 20 minutes, hit submit, and discover that my login has timed out. I log in again to discover that being informed that I timed out COUNTS AS A GODDAMN STORY SUBMISSION. I went around this loop AGAIN, keeping track of the time in an attempt to not have to repeat it, with no more success. It should not be this hard to link to a goddamn discussion/writers collaboration thread on another website.

Oh, and hitting submit and being told you have to wait ALSO counts, so if you misjudge by one minute, you have to wait EVEN MORE.

EDIT: After another 40 minutes of trying, I have given up and removed the link. This Kraken shall be wrestled another day.

== Is this websites community still active? ==

A few years back I used to frequently use this website a lot, I never had an account though.
Now I want to contribute stories and etc.
But I'm worried the hay day of this website is over.
How active is this community?

Tapdancingfish- 2/19/2015
I'm still around and a few others, dunno how active the site is as I don't see updates very often.

== New here! Started a story! "My Worlds" ==

I'm new here so I don't know if the site is still very active.
If yes then help if you want with my story, My Worlds.
I suck at grammar so help with that too.

==Still seeing if people are around==
Site seemed dead for awhile but you never know if people are lurking around out there. If you are give a shout out, if not, well then you can't read this.

-[[User:Noseknows|Noseknows]] 8:31, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

Oh man, this site was much busier back in the day. I really hope the website's community bounces back again, it'd probably motivate me to write once more and finish Remember. If not, i'll just return to checking in every few months.

-[[User:Heyoeveryone|Heyoeveryone]] 16:17, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
: Seems there is great interest in reviving this site, or one that is similar, but perhaps at a site that is better maintained? If enough project participants were interested, you could request CYOS.wiki at Wiki.wiki (that's the URL) and have it hosted there for free. You could either start from scratch or migrate over any content of interest. -[[User:JOR|JOR]] 21:06, 28 July 2015 (UTC)

I want so bad, but I simply don't have the time to maintain it, I have a tonne of responsibilities I have to attend and I can really only check on this site once every few months. If this site got revamped or a new one was made sure I can definitely contribute and add more to my story(ies), but until then I'll wait till something happens.

-[[User:Heyoeveryone|Heyoeveryone]] 15:10, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

I'm new to the site and I'm thinking about writing a story but I wouldn't know if I should since the site looks like it is pretty inactive at the moment. It would be nice to hear from anyone who is active XD
-[[User:Reer|Reer]] 17:15, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

I still exist in the ether of the site, lurking while not posting. Were my current personal life more conducive to writing, I'd be here more often. If anyone knows of a more active site, I'd love to migrate. It'd give me an excuse to find more time for writing. If nothing else, I'd also be happy to assist in the slow building of another wiki seeing as this one's main writer's community has disappeared. If anyone decides to go anywhere with this idea, head to my talk page, which I still check regularly. --[[User:TheElderOnes|TheElderOnes]] 07:11, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

I believe there'd be more people around if there was a way for others to know the site is being used. That content is being created, that stories are being read, that is. Some sense of activity that is clear to everyone, not just those who seek it, but those who are coming for the first time as well. --[[User:Darth Malcolm|Darth Malcolm]] 02:36, 05 January 2016 (UTC)

I am currently working on some story branches but I feel like I'm only writing it because I want to get it out of my head and not for people to read it. It's kinda depressing :/ --[[User:Dwarftopia|dwarftopia]] 18:13, 24 January 2016 (UTC)

It is a shame indeed. There's always people reading things, however. Even the most unexpected of them. Rest assured that ''someone'' will always read your story. Granted, it would be best if you had a way of knowing, but I doubt it's coming any time soon, if ever. --[[User:Darth Malcolm|Darth Malcolm]] 01:30, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

I'm new here, and want to write some stories, but if this site is dead, then is there a similar site that's active? [[User:Cobraworry|Cobraworry]] 12/7 2016

== How do I delete my account? ==

Don't think I'm ever coming back here.

== Viewing any traffic ==

Is there a way to see or monitor any traffic going through the site? Not individual stories but how often the place is visited. -[[User:117|117]] 5 December 2015

== Question ? ? ? ==

People/Whoever is reading this article,as you can see by the title of this The problem is quite simple to asnswer Im sure,but it says book creator and Im dont know how to make a story Even if there Is none.if you can answer my question,I thank you Oh So very much!

Yours Truly, BookCreator123

The '''[[Tutorial]]''' page may be a ''salubrious antidote'' to your not-knowing! [[User:Heathin|Heathin]] 07:06, 13 August 2016 (UTC)