User talk:DirtyMeStoryTime

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Contents 1 Thank you for reminding me. 2 Trueroman's talk 3 Wassersaeufer's talk 4 MFCmaster123's talk 5 link log page 6 ArthurKung's talk 7 Teejay's talk 8 hidden text 9 Blazetempest 10 warnings 11 egrizzly 12 Nah, it's okay 13 Reply to your comment 14 Number of views 15 Platypus' other talk 16 Regarding your comments 17 Sympathy from the Devil (i.e Men). 18 Thanks! 19 Defnota's Messages 19.1 - Page Layout - 19.2 - Page Layout Two- 20 Minnie May Hopkin's talk 21 Thank You For Your Message 22 WriterGhost talk 23 Completionist Talk 24 Realism

Thank you for reminding me.

Heh, I absolutely forgot Smutty Sex Romp required a certain template on each page. Thanks for the reminder.

Akibahara 01:50, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

Trueroman's talk

Thanks for the advice. When I write I tend to jot everything down then go back and correct my spelling. Usually this isn't a problem when I right on Word then transfer it over to wherever I am posting it online. Since this website is linked based and I'm kind of just throwing ideas as I go along, I plan on going back to correct spelling and grammar when I get a decent amount written through a couple of path choices.

I am still learning the site, I tried the tutorial and while it explains it well when it comes to computer terms I find it easier to experiment. I was clicking the Ab button on the tool bar to put the brackets, but I will start adding the * beforehand. Please share any other tips if you like :)

Yeah I was fiddling with how you did that. I figured it out though, thanks.

So if I have a path that ends the story do I need to still put a link? I have seen others that didn't so wasn't sure. Also, I came to a point where I didn't need a page anymore, how to do I completely remove it?

Trueroman 9:53 AM 20th March 2014

Wassersaeufer's talk

Finally I made time and took a look at Dirty Me, the story I mean. And damn, your writing is great, I really enjoy reading it. I'm normally into more perverse stuff, at least in stories, but I enjoy your style too much. Only thing which bothers me is, that your posts are so damn long. Not that it is a bad thing, it makes a great story, but I would just enjoy a few more options to choose how to proceed. Anyway, other than that, great writing, looking forward to more. - Wassersaeufer 15:55 19th March 2014 (UTC)

Wow, thanks for the compliment on me complimenting someone else, even though you weren't the one I complimented... well, now this sentence sounds really wrong *lol*. Anyway, thanks for noticing and keep up the good work. Though I have not yet read Dirty Me, I will soon change that. - Wassersaeufer 14:27 18th March 2014 (UTC)

MFCmaster123's talk

From MFCmaster123 Thanks for your help with my Bold font problem. Writ this day 17 March, 2014

link log page

Making a link log page or a story notes page for your story is acceptable. --Platypus 15:48, 21 February 2014 (UTC)

ArthurKung's talk

I think your story "Dirty Me" is very interesting as of yet. I don't think I've ever read a CYOA involving elements of tragedy written from a realistic ("Not the fun fantasy stuff" as you wrote yourself) point of view, but yours looks very promising. I hope to see more of it, and wish you the best of luck with your writing! --ArthurKung 21:53, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

Not all of it will be tragedy. I write erotica, as well as other things, and have some of my short works for sale. It will have alot of sex and sexuality in it. Sadly, many elements come from my own life, and I was not...the most well adjusted or confident person growing up. It will just be more realistic than much of the stuff on here. You try to walk around town naked in stories on here, you just get to have lots of sex. You try to walk around town naked in real life, you will end up in a jail cell, and probably with a record for the rest of your life. I want to keep it plausible, believable. I will sketch out background stories, these will not really branch, just "Dream about x, remember y" type of thing, that will actually have elements from my real life, either in part, or whole. I will probably include me being raped, not once, but twice, but not sure if I want the character to go through it, or remember it. I will probably have how I was molested, and how that lead to the character/me that you see here. I have been beaten, and will probably include issues around that also. At the heart, my story will be a growing up story with many of my specialty writing, erotica. I already have included how I/the character, ended up on probation, and my/the characters, first time having sex. There will be more of that. Some pleasant, some horrifying. I just hope people can connect to my stories, written here, my blog, for sale on Amazon, etc. --Dirty Me 03:56, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

Teejay's talk

You're doing fine with the organizing, and you can move +Infinity to the I's if you want. -- Teejay

To be honest, I haven't yet looked into your story. So I have no basis for an opinion. I will, however, look into it soon. I note that ArthurKung likes it, and he's usually a pretty good judge. -- Teejay

I haven't read any of the story yet, but read your informational page. First off, I'm very sorry about the bad things that have actually happened to you, and I hope your life turns out better in the future. Second, I'm happy you've had some fun and good experiences as well, and I hope you have more of them. -- Teejay

OK, I've read what you have so far (I read very fast.) I'm quite impressed. You're an excellent writer. -- Teejay

Thanks for the heads-up. Like I said, I'm just sorry that all those negative things happened to you. I know you don't want sympathy, but I will say that I hope from now on your life is filled with goodness, light, and a loving partner who cares about you. And that you have lots of loving, tender, consensual, enjoyable sexual experiences. -- Teejay

I have seen some of the elements from your blog appear. I haven't done much additional commenting on it, but what is there to say that I haven't said already? I wish I could erase some of the really horrible stuff that happened to you, and I hope your husband is always warm and loving and kind and ensures you enjoy sweet, tender sex. (Women/girls being abused always has been a trigger of powerful emotions in me: anger at the abuser, and deep sorrow and an urge to comfort the woman who has been abused.) -- Teejay

Nothing you haven't already heard. You're a very skilled writer and I'm enjoying your developing story. -- Teejay

Been there... just try to relax. Maybe read a different story for a few minutes to take your conscious mind off it, then when you feel inspired, return to the story... -- Teejay

No, I actually was offline for a couple of days. It wasn't your imagination. I'll poke around your story and check out the new links. -- Teejay

I like Prank War. It's a cute little story and reminds me of being back in middle school. -- Teejay

I think you're doing a great job so far. I like the fact you take your time and post well-written stories. -- Teejay

hidden text

Don't mind me, just noticed by the changelog that it looked like you were looking for a way to essentially hide text that is only viewable through the edit window, correct? --TheElderOnes 09:22, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

I'm not sure what you want your hidden text template to do, but I can see where it's going wrong. You're referencing hidden text within the code for the hidden text template, which is what's generating the loop error.

If you want invisible text, the easy way is to change the font color to white.

<font color=white> invisible </font color=white>

produces: invisible

You can see the text by painting over it with your cursosr. --Platypus 12:39, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

Got it. You're trying to build a collapsible, nested table. I'm not sure how to build such a thing here. The wiki markup language available is somewhat limited. I'll play around some and see if I can't come up with something. --Platypus 13:31, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

Ah, I see what you're going for. Like Platypus guessed, it sounds like a nested table with collapsible elements. Almost kinda "flowchart-y" in nature. I found the syntax for a nested table at an external wiki (Aberwiki, at their MediaWiki User's Guide: Using Tables page), but as far as collapsibility goes, there's a javascript extension/gadget that exists (Manual:Collapsible elements on the actual main Mediawiki site), but isn't implemented in CYOA's Common.js section. Like Platypus said, the markup around here is really barebones around here. I think it can be done, but it might require some playing with before it works. Sorry for the vagueness as to where the two syntax pieces I found are, it's impossible to post two external links in the same post without doing one, waiting 20 minutes, then doing the other. Tedious, but it does prevent spambots from flooding us as badly as they did before... --TheElderOnes 14:10, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

Javascript matters should probably be brought up with Platypus, since he'd be the only one able to add your code into CYOA's Common.js page. o: --TheElderOnes 16:53, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

Actually, Javascript matters would have to go to RobKohr. He doesn't have the daily presence here that I have, but he's the site administrator/owner. I'm the sysop, which is a rank I own at RobKohr's discretion. He makes the decisions about site functionality and features.--Platypus 19:58, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

Blazetempest

It was nice of you to try cleaning up Blazetempest's poor writing, but given the overwhelming number of poor postings that show up in my stories, I feel I have to be firm with these writers. If they can't read the warning that specifies that poor writing will be deleted, then they really shouldn't be posting. --Platypus 19:58, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

warnings

If you spot someone leaving off the categories before I do, by all means, feel free to use the warning templates to remind them. It is a relief to not have to do everything that needs doing around here. --Platypus 09:20, 12 March 2014 (UTC)

egrizzly

Thanks for the heads up. 'Funny' vandals usually only post once then disappear, but I'll give him a warning and if he makes another 'joke' edit, I'll block him. --Platypus 14:36, 13 March 2014 (UTC)

Nah, it's okay

I respect your concern for the site, and i guess i was being slightly bitchy about it. People like you are the ones people respect in real life.

Reply to your comment

Just here to say, that I read a bit of your story and I like it. Also, if this isn't too much to ask, I thought maybe you could help me with my writing skills, since I have close to zero experience about writing about sex and stuff. But if you don't want to, I understand. I'll try and read as much as I can on the rest of your story next time, and try to give you a full review. --Chaomaster 22:00 15 March 2014

Number of views

It's true that the site used to automatically display the number of views on every page you pulled up. It's just one of those things that stopped functioning. It would be nice to have that back, since every user is always curious if their work is being read. Site-functionality issues have to go to RobKohr, not me. He's the only one who could restore that automatic function.

I'll experiment with variations on {{NUMBEROFVIEWS}} and see if I can't come up something. --Platypus 11:35, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

I've been kicking around the idea of adding to the warn1 template to include those links, so I think we'll keep it with your amendment. --Platypus 02:26, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

I'm sure there are ways that the look of the site could be improved. The site is improved from some of the older formats that it had. I promise to be openminded about any suggestions you might have. Anything that would involve changing the underlying wiki code or wiki functionality would have to go through RobKohr, of course. --Platypus 11:40, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

Platypus' other talk

Are you doing fine? No, you're doing better than that. It's okay for some of your pages to be works in progress. You've contributed a lot, not just to your own story (which is very well written, btw), but to the site as whole by assisting with some of the overdue cleanup. Don't worry so much and keep on keeping on as you've been doing. --Platypus 12:48, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

I'd noticed that Gunior has taken over Smutty Sex Romp 2, and despite his blurb about using proper grammar and spelling, his writing leaves much to be desired. You know something? I'm going to let him run with it. There's something about SSR that attracts an awful lot of truly awful writers. Maybe it's the fact that I only allow the well-written pages to remain undeleted. But maybe if I allow a poorly written knockoff to remain as is, unpoliced by me, the poor writers will flock there and leave the original SSR to be written by those of us who have an actual concept of grammar. As long as SSR2's page are categorized, let them use poor grammar, worse spelling, and dead-end pages with missing options. --Platypus 15:40, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

I really do appreciate all you've done to help clean up the site. The backlog builds up so quickly around here! It seems like only yesterday when we had all the stories on the site on the Main Page... and it was all good because we only had five stories! --Platypus 17:30, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

You're too new to know this, but this site was originally Choose Your Own Adventure, not Create Your Own Adventure. The name had to be changed for legal purposes. The thing is, when the site moved to the new name, the files were also moved to the new name. The links in the pages weren't. It wouldn't have hurt the story any to cut the file link out, but all that needed doing was updating the word 'choose' in the link to 'create' and the link was fixed.

Look at those dates in the history. I last wrote in that story back in 2007! --Platypus 16:34, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

Just so you know... If someone's posted an uncategorized page, you can click on 'what links here' over to the left and find out what the previous page in story is. Hopefully, it will be a page with a category on it. It usually will be, unless the user is a newbie who's just posted page after page without reading the site rules first.

And sometimes you'll see that several pages, from different stories, link to the new page. That can get messy to sort out.--Platypus 14:22, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

I have very low hopes for poor Family guy. Ugh! --Platypus 02:12, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

Congratulations on getting through the Adult section. That was quite a task you took on. At least the other sections aren't nearly as overwhelmed with clutter as the Adult section. --Platypus 12:42, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

I don't mind doing a bit (or a lot) of deleting. The site really does need to have these unstarted stories swept out every few years. --Platypus 15:49, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

The Hitchhiker's template works because it's the same image on every page. If the image was a variable, then the page addressing the template would have to have the image link on it, invoking the edit limitations that you're trying to avoid. Great pic though.--Platypus 12:52, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

Single-use templates would allow you to edit the page where you're displaying the image without having to fight the edit limitations. I wouldn't consider that spammy, since you have valid, story-oriented reasons for doing it. I wouldn't worry about displaying anything too adult, either. There's nothing that you can't find on display on the net these days, and if someone ignores the Adult warning and goes blind because of a pic you displayed, they have only themselves to blame.

I've occasionally caught someone trying to edit pages describing sex with preteens to add years to the underage characters' ages, but these self-declared censors don't stick around long. --Platypus 13:06, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

I do wish there was some way to remove restictions from established users. Unfortunately, before the site had these restrictions, we were being bombarded with spam pages full of dangerous links and real pages were being vandalized to add spam links. And as irritating as it is to keep reloading because of the 'load limit reached' thing, before the site was restricted, the bot traffic was so heavy that pages took as many as five minutes to load. Yes, every page would load that slowly, because there were simply so many bots crawling the site. It was an awful time. --Platypus 12:17, 16 April 2014 (UTC)

Regarding your comments

+Hi thank you for your recent criticisms regarding my IE story, I am using word to paste and check grammar however being English, the setting I use is English/UK not English/US these settings although they use the same language, spelling and grammar can vary wildly.

+As regarding racial stereotypes, I find stories are always written to suit a specific audience, therefore people expect to read about well-endowed men having sexual relations with often naive women, whereas relationships of a more mature loving type would be best placed in the mature story category.

+As for the shallow characters, it is sadly part of the limited story arc, as a simple choice in the story can discard a character arc this limits the depth of most characters, as there seems little point in go to in-depth on a character who may lost two story segments, if I was writing a novel I could round them out and make them more three dimensional people who you could grow to love and care about.

+Don't mind the criticisms at all as it is the first time I've done any real writing in twenty years and I'm always looking for ways to improve my technique.

Blackadder38

Sympathy from the Devil (i.e Men).

I find men to be a complicated bunch. Take mine for example when we're alone He is the sweetest, kindest man I've ever known, but when he's with his friends he's as crude and crass as the rest of them. Admittedly he is twenty years older than I am and from a different generation and culture, so I don't try to change, well not too much anyway, but when my oldest son makes similar remarks I come down on him like a ton of bricks.

As for gaining sympathy or empathy from the male populace, it may work on some but again it’s about the target audience, all my stories will only have characters engaging in sex if they are above the age of consent (16 UK), and rape and death will be too a minimum and only as a result of bad choices or very bad luck, I won't avoid the subject because unfortunately it does happen.

Regarding your suicide attempts I can only sympathize with you, and can only imagine how low and depressed you must have been to even think of it as a way out.

Thanks!

Thanks for the grammar edits! - Bojangler

I'm not really sure how to post messages to others and I hope I'm doing it right. So thanks a lot for telling me how to get a line gap. I was searching for it myself. - countingStars

Defnota's Messages

I appreciate you letting me know how to delete pages, but also for letting me know this wiki is still alive. I was writing for myself, as I have no idea how to tell how much traffic a wiki gets, but it's nice to know there are other people here. -Defnota 24th of March, 2014

That's really nice of you, it's not too fun thinking you're in an empty community. Kind of isolating, even if just while you're on here. -Defnota 24th of March, 2014

        My message to Platypus was based on the assumption that he or she hosts the wiki, thus I could send them code to implement if they needed it.
The message was also based on the assumption MediaWiki allows one to write their own code. As for cleaning the wiki, I would need to know what I'm cleaning, but of that I have no idea. -Defnota 25th of March, 2014

        Thank you for your knowledge of who hosts the wiki, turns out editthis.info has a features request.
I put in a request for admin's to be able to change the code, which might not do too much depending on how tech savvy the admins are, but it would at least give the option. -Defnota 25th of March, 2014

        Also, how would I go about helping the clean-up and organization of the site? -Defnota 25th of March, 2014

        Oh, crap, sorry about that, there was no intention to ignore. For some reason the message indicator didn't show up for any of those messages.
Nonetheless, should probably get some sleep, so I won't be on for a bit. -Defnota 25th of March, 2014

        Thank you, I thought I'd give the main page a go, but as you probably already know: HTML is lots of trial and error.
If you want practice doing HTML just make a practice page and copy one of the site's pages, then goof around with it. -Defnota 25th of March, 2014

        By the by, what do you think I should use for colours? The page is look rather bland at the moment. -Defnota 25th of March, 2014

        Do think it would be okay if on the page How to create a page, I changed the story format from "|[[ Your story]]|| 0 || public or private"
to "[[Your Story]] || {{PAGESINCAT:Your Story}} Pages || Public or Private"? It's a little harder to write, but it is way more organized and means you don't have to update your page count.
Defnota 05:12, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

        Fair enough, but speaking of magic words, do you think that if one were to run the __TOC__ magic word through
one of the alternate parsers (mediawiki.org/wiki/Alternative_parsers) into HTML, and then dissect it, that they could use it as a collapsible element?
-Defnota 05:30, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

        Oh, as an alternative, if one could link to an external stylesheet, or get the HTML <style> tags working to make an internal stylesheet,
people could start using css3 instead of javascript to make collapsible elements. That would also mean we could use vector images and we could animate page elements.
-Defnota 06:09, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

        Thanks, took a-lot of effort, but was definitely worth it.
-Defnota 01:55, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

        Re-writing it, didn't plan it out at all, and there wasn't much for writing on any of the pages.
-Defnota 05:28, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

- Page Layout -

        The problem is that either your image or your template has a massive whitespace margin. This margin can't be changed with HTML.

• If the margin is in the image, you should use Photoshop to edit it out.
• If the margin is in the template, there isn't much I can do for you.

-Defnota 05:47, 16 April 2014 (UTC)

- Page Layout Two-

        To do it without knowing very much HTML you could use positioning (w3schools.com/cssref/pr_class_position.asp),
but positioning tends to create a billion little problems. I emailed you a modified version of your image without the margins,
I heavily recommend using that instead, and I could probably get the page set up then.
-Defnota 23:40, 16 April 2014 (UTC)

Minnie May Hopkin's talk

Thanks for dealing with the sub category. I didn't find out yet how to do it myself. - MMH

Thank You For Your Message

Hey! Thanks for welcoming me to this site. I've begun a fantasy adventure called Faire Isle Adventure. Hopefully I will be able to make it a good long story length despite my busy life. Good luck with your writing and have a good day! --Stargirlsnr5 11:54, 29 March 2014

WriterGhost talk

Thanks for your thoughts regarding "Adventure at the TG Thriftshop." The "Name" area has changed on paths already, with Craig becoming Kortney (Blonde Bikini Model) and Triss (Redheaded Clerk).

Completionist Talk

As you probably already noticed, I'm new to the site so I haven't read much of the stories yet, but I'm looking forward to reading some of your stories, too. . . .

Male perspective? Sounds pretty challenging. Let me try to come up with a brainstorm first and see where I get to. If it's passable for me to build upon, then it will be done. But if not, then I'll continue my brainstorming for that. For the meantime, thanks for the invite. --Completionist 22:24, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

...

Thank you for organizing some of the links and making the subcategories. I've been meaning to do that but had trouble figuring out what and where to input it since the tutorial's directions were a little vague to me. Now it all makes sense and I'll try to remember doing that for the later stories as well.--Completionist 15:41, 15 April 2014 (UTC)

Realism

Hi Dirtyme,

Yes I do realize what a cervix is capable/incapable of doing, but it is a fantasy story. I hope most people who have read my story know this, or else their SO might be in for a painful surprise! Thanks for the response. Happy writing!

-Bojangles