Topic: FUCCCCCKKKKK!!!!!!

Okay, so I have a bit of a problem. Somewhere between renewing for another year until now, Sol has made changes to basic and premium memberships. Before you could post work, but you could only receive regular reviews, no in-line reviews. Now it's changed to you can't post anything, but you can still receive regular reviews but no in-line reviews. Fucking impossible to receive regular reviews if you can't post your work.

This is the message I get when I want to post my latest chapter:

As a Basic Member, your content is no longer visible on the site or eligible for feedback or contest entries. Please upgrade to Premium Membership to reactivate it.

Please Note
- The portfolio of Basic Members, including their public portfolio page, is ordered by creation date. Only Writing Members can control the order and sorting of their portfolio.
-  The first two postings on top will be featured on your profile page.
-  The public page of your portfolio will not contain the postings with availability set to 'Invite Only' or 'Only to Groups'.

Reading this, it looks like you can post, but you have to remove the "only to groups" bit which I'm not so sure about, but if you can't post to groups, how can you fucking post which is the same as no you can't post.

I have 4 more chapters to go, one which is ready to go right now. But I won't be using my TNBW account fully for the next year while I revise my draft, so I wasn't planning to upgrade until I started posting the second novel.

The fucking best thing is I can't access any of my reviews without Premium either, I can't access ANYTHING, so I'm fucked from all over.

Were any of you aware of these changes?!

Do we have a monthly option?!

FUCCCCCKKKKK!!!!!!!!! This is bullshit and absolute crap. None of this has been communicated. But before I go to the main forum with this and to Sol, just wanted to check if it's not maybe me that missed the announcement.

FUCCCCCKKKKK!!!!!!

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You dont want to renew right now? Yeh... basic doesn't have a lot of power afaik

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I hope there's a monthly option, otherwise I'm really not going to get value back. I've messaged Sol, I think it's bullshit not being able to access reviews I have received while I was a paying member of this site. I refuse to fucking pay to get something I've already paid for. It's bullshit, fuck that.

I can't even upgrade at the moment. I see now button where to go "Click here to upgrade to Premium". I've also asked him if there's a monthly option because that I'm willing to do to post my last chapters. And I'll be fucking downloading all my reviews first weekend of the first premium month if all else fails.

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Okay, I've found something. Founding members have monthly and quarterly options. So now I'm just waiting for Sol to let me know how to do it.

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Time for deep breathing exercises, Aussie.

I'll throw another shrimp on the barbie for you, Mate. With two bottles of apricot brandy as a chaser. Damn, that stuff tastes good!

And we can watch reruns of the Star Wars prequel trilogy all weekend!

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PHEWWWWW!!!! It was just a bug. Sol fixed it so I'm a member of the site again. Shit, I almost had a heart attack.

He confirmed that basic members aren't able to post, which makes sense, but I've asked to confirm whether this will also lock all our work when that happens, which I don't agree with, clearly.

*pulls brandy closer and takes a big gulp*

I'm ready whenever you are with Star Wars Dirk!

All back to normal again.

Amy, we don't have any 5 year olds in this group, do we? Otherwise they just learned a new word today. The spelling is shit, but I think people will understand it well enough. smile

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I won't ban you for the F word. And never underestimate the power of a child's ability to understand. Like when Collin called his teacher a bitch. And meant it. And I got the phone call. And I had a hard time saying nothing because my son doesn't lie...

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I picked this thread because I'm about to remind you about winter. I figure last year, you established a baseline tolerance to the cold and will expect the same thing to happen. Winter is sneaky. Don't expect the same weather.

1) Fill up the fluids in your car and get the oil checked.
2) Use a non-freezing windshield wiper fluid that coats your windshield (like armor-all)
3) Replace your windshield wiper blades.
4) Throw the shovel back in your car.
5) Put the scraper/brush back in your car along with an extra set of gloves.
6) A bag of sand or salt in your trunk. Also put 3-4 old towels in the car (the most useful first aid item you could possibly stockpile)
7) Don't forget to have signal flares available in your trunk. At least three. Just in case. If you do decide to light them for an accident, then make sure they are FAR away from any spilled gasoline.

It's autumn weather down here. We might get an indian summer, but it's too early to tell.

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Keeping spares for your wiper blades is a good idea, too.  The $3 ga station cheapies will dry out in the trunk, but the expensive blades won't.

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Or, you could simply call a taxi. Leonardo is circling your street on Uber even as you read this.

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Leonardo de Caprio (or whatever the famous actor's name is)?! whoo-hoo!!! *tosses flares, wipers, towels, gloves and engine oil into the wind*
big_smile

Awh, Amy, you're the best! The prediction is a colder one that last year yikes I just hope we've sort of acclimatized a little bit at least. I've copied the list to email and have forwarded it to Mr C! Thank you. The car has been serviced recently, so we've already done a few things on the list. smile

ncj - I don't even know if we can get $3 wipers for our car, but if we do, we will not buy them! Thank you too.

This weekend I have to get all my winter clothes out, proper winter clothes, not what I used to think was winter clothes (I've been wearing my Perth winter clothes this summer! LOL).

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Queen Aussie wrote:

Leonardo de Caprio (or whatever the famous actor's name is)?! whoo-hoo!!! *tosses flares, wipers, towels, gloves and engine oil into the wind*

That man has an unusually large cranium. My own noggin has developed an atmosphere and a ring system as I've aged.

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When I finally get to meet you, Dirk, I expect planetary status.

Name this movie:

"Head! Pants! Now!....Aw, look he's gone to cry himself to sleep on his big pillow...I mean the thing is huge! Have yeh seen it? It's like Sputnik, huge w' big spikey things sticking out the sides!"

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So I married an axe murderer. I was staying with friends when that movie came out on VHS. That scene was so funny we watched it three times.

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Every time I read a new post in Sneaked vs snuck, I lose a few brain cells

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Don't do that then!

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Kdot wrote:

Every time I read a new post in Sneaked vs snuck, I lose a few brain cells

That's just getting personal. Charles can say the earth is round and they'll pounce on him just because he is Charles. *sigh*

amy s wrote:

When I finally get to meet you, Dirk, I expect planetary status.

big_smile

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njc wrote:

Don't do that then!

It's like a car crash. You don't want to, but you can't help yourself!

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I've been describing Trump as a train wreck in slow motion. You just have to look. Even my mother, who normally couldn't care less, now tunes in daily for an update. If it were a book, I'd end with a big reveal that he is in fact a lifelong Democrat, who hatched the whole plan to singlehandedly bring the Republican party to its knees.

I may be related to Trump. His family has German roots from the same township in Germany as the rest of my family there.

Go Trump!

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njc wrote:

Don't do that then!

I'd love to... but the underlying discussion spills over into every other thread on there.

Once this fervour dies down, eventually there will be a new post about some other topic such as the colour of the sky to a colour-blind person, and all the same people will pile in there and continue their existing literary flame war in it. It means I must abandon every thread I'm following.

Basically, this war is gobbling the entire group of 12K people.

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I agree K. It's gotten to the point where you can post nothing in the larger group forum or learn anything from that forum because it ends up being a slinging match of insults to see who can come up with the most witty come-back of the day and none of it has anything to do with the topic at hand. So much for trying to learn and look for advice/suggestions.

I sometimes wonder what new members think when they read that. Or if they just run for the exit without even trying to make sense of it. This can't be good for TNBW, yet Sol does nothing about it.

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Queen Aussie wrote:

I sometimes wonder what new members think when they read that.

And let's not forget those cases where someone drops a major F-bomb in the subject line of their post. tongue

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Dirk-always-looking-for-trouble babbled not wrote:

And let's not forget those cases where someone drops a major F-bomb in the subject line of their post. tongue

Hahaha, nah, that would make a few of the noobs feel home, I reckon! smile tongue

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What does it mean that this thread started with an F-bomb?

(Wrinkles brow and looks confused)

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I guess we're in the blast crater?