Heinlein was right.

The visibility flag does the job, but at a cost.  The fear/concern is not about people registered on the site, but against peopld not so registered.  We'd like to be visible to people on the site, but not to people off the site.

Given your limited resources, I don't expect a fix tomorrow, but it appears that there are low-effort fixes possible.  If there is a no-index tag that search engines respect, it could be embedded in the forum page headers, perhaps controlled by a per-forum flag.  Making the forum server use the login-check machinery might be harder, especially the part about returning to the desired page after a login.  Those two steps would, I think, completely address the problem.

Just as stories can be exposed to the Internet or just to registered users, so too might the forums.

SolN wrote:

This was how the old site worked. ....

But if you want to bottle it all up, I'll look into a way of doing it.

I think that the consensus is that we do.  There have been a number of avenues suggested here; most seem technically feasible.

Vern, when you go to sue someone for acting against you, there are defenses that amount to "He left the gate open and didn't even put up a sign."  (See Adverse Possession in real property law.)
What Amy and others here are asking for is to close the gate and put up the sign.  If someone breaks in, it's breaking and entry, and not just a tort of some kind.

At least registered users have agreed to respect copyright.  This won't help the JKRowlings among us, but those are few.  The rest of us at least have taken the bare minimum or action to assert our rights, and that's the first step to protecting them.

Suit and countersuit

Please?

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Yes, but you're chasing a horse out of the Barn Door ... and across borders.

Amy's doing the best thing possible under the circumstances.  It might be worth quickying other group owners with a pointer to the discussion.

And I hope Sol and his team get to work on it.

If something's burning a hole in your mental pocket, write it down!   If you feel you have to polish it, then consider posting it, even though it's provisional.  (I have).  But don't feel obliged.

Hmm.  Maybe I misread the future ...

Doxie Ex Machina.

So somehow slip in the 'common knowledge' part.  There is a tie between that heritage and the dragons, is there not?  You don't need to tell the reader just yet what it is, do you?

Nana doesn't need to tell the creation story.  The narrator fills it in for the reader--after the reader hears from the characters that there's some kind of secret or mystery going on.

We see a man's true upbringing in his acts -- Drech will be troubled first, however briefly, at the thought applied to him, and after he will see Sir E in that light.

I like a man wit a callasical edeucation!

Everrybuddy's got to get inta de act!  (said whom?)

Rings a bell ....

Have you considered putting the 'myth' second, after the human prologue, so that the secret of the human prologue introduces the creation myth?  My suggestions about the register and style of the prologue remain.

The paradox of painting, photography, sound recording, and cinema is that they let us see a glimpse of the past as though it were there when we know otherwise.  We can fall in love with Judy Garland, ache at the longing in Satchmo's voice or the richness of Connie Francis's, be charmed by the young Shirley Temple,  enjoy the youthful performances of Nimoy and Shatner, hear an orchestra under the baton of Toscanini or Bernstein, just as if we'd lived with them.  Creepy?  A little, maybe.

My advice, for what little it's worth, is to consider the last verse of Tennyson's =The Lady of Shallot= and make your peace with this time travel.

s'gulp!

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Another potentially valuable site: www.iohai.com .

John Boyd, 'the fighter pilot who changed the art of war', quietly eclipsed both von Clausewitz and Sun Tzu.  He distilled his life's work into a set of briefings, which may occupy military theorists for the next century--or two.  It was his habit to give them himself, but they have survived him, and can be found on the site above.

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