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Thanks, Sol

Bill, does it happen with deleting the account too? I've been kicked out before as well, although I can't recall which operation I was trying to perform.

I had been suspending accounts because it looked from the list of accounts that that's what you were doing, but after you and I discussed it, I thought you were deleting them, which isn't what I saw, but I rolled with it, and resumed deleting accounts.

You usually get to them before I do, so I don't encounter this bug much, but it does get annoying.

You bet. :-)

Well done, Randy. Congrats.

Sol, thank you very much for the points changes.

For those who haven't already noticed, going forward, when you open someone's short story, chapter, or poem to read, the points you can earn is up by about 67%. So, something that once paid 1 point will now pay 1.67 points.

The points required to post that work has not gone up. Except for poems, we were paying 5 points to post a work that paid 1 point; we'll still pay 5 points to post that same work, but it will now pay 1.67 points (1/3 of what you paid to post it, instead of the 1/5 it used to pay).

If you're like me, who looks at the points a piece will pay to judge roughly how long it is, keep the points changes in mind. The following is for works other than poems:

1650 words - costs 5 to post, paid 1, now pays 1.67
2000 words - costs 6 to post, paid 1.2, now pays 2
2500 words - costs 7.5 to post, paid 1.5, now pays 2.5 -- Works up to 2500 words are fairly common; a reasonable length.
3000 words - costs 9 to post, paid 1.8, now pays 3
3300 words - costs 10 to post, paid 2, now pays 3.33 -- Still acceptable lengthwise, but please consider splitting works this long.
4150 words - costs 12.5 to post, paid 2.5, now pays 4.2 -- Definitely consider splitting works this long.
5000 words - costs 15 to post, paid 3, now pays 5 -- Please don't post stuff this long; it's tiring to review, especially in one sitting. Split it into parts, which is easy enough to do.

Note that if you multiply the number of points now being paid for a given work by 1000, you get the exact wordcount.

New Members: The shorter your posted work is, the easier it is for other members to squeeze it into their existing schedules. Long works require existing members to spend a lot more time reviewing just your work, which usually interferes with the time they have budgeted for writing and reviewing the works of their existing writing partners. As a result, you'll get fewer reviews, or it will take longer for others to review your work, or the reviews you get will be less helpful than they might otherwise be. But don't forget, the best way to get reviews is to give reviews of works from active members (i.e., the stuff scrolling by on your home page.)

I'll update this for poems later this week. The change was made there too, although poetry math was (and remains) different from other works since most poems tend to be quite short compared to other works like short stories and chapters.

Do you have notifications regarding new posted works turned off? Have a look under Settings on your dropdown menu (upper right).

Thank you, Lauren! :-)

Marilyn,

I checked the word count for your chapter 6, and you have a little over 3400 words, so it should cost somewhat over 10.6 and pay 20% of that for the moment. Could you please recheck the posted chapter from your account? The numbers look correct from my account.

I agree with everyone else on this thread, though. A ratio of 5 to 1 is still way too high compared to the 3 to 1 ratio Sol agreed to after we began working to revive the site. It's not like we have countless active members to fall back on.

I've been trying to help new members come up to speed as quickly as possible so they find the site less daunting/onerous, and although they may stay a month or two after the trial, most of them have since stopped posting (in many cases, that was many months ago).

I don't see the point of all the effort we've been doing, when several of the half dozen or so maintenance items originally identified/agreed as needing to be done to help us revive the site still aren't finished a year later.

I'm wasting my time doing this, and I don't see a reason to keep going. The site is once again back to running on fumes. Pardon my grumpiness, but I'm worn out from banging my head against a brick wall.

Sol, any update (ETA) on those items? The points ratio is obviously the most important.

I went for butt pimples over hemorrhoids.

Thanks, George. Why will Christians become 4D creatures? If it's just because Jesus walked through a wall, a far simpler explanation is that he managed to get all of his cells to other side of the wall because a) he's God and can do whatever he likes or b) can leverage quantum physics to pass through solid objects.

Kdot, why -gang (eg. Alessandro-gang)? Is that what you meant?

George, no worries about prior uses of the terms beastlings and wretchlings. I only plan to use the term I choose once, as a diminutive for the jerk bullies. Connor cycles through a host of "little antichrist" synonyms in his mind as he deals with the bullies. So, beastlings from the sea, toddlers of sin, bastard sons of perdition, etc.

I need just the one synonym for abomination of desolation. So far, hemorrhoids of desolation is in the lead.