[cwmoss]

I just wanted to say what a great storie Arie has posted at brawna. I felt that I needed to post here because it is utterly impossible for me to get through the Captcha at brawna to let Arie know that I enjoyed his story.

I wonder how many others are having the same problem and if the authors feel that their efforts aren’t appreciated?

Sally’s Game

[TC2]

I understand your frustration, but if Lingster were to turn off the captcha, the bots would overrun that site in minutes. It is a necessary evil.

[iowabeefpackers]

CW – Although Brawna has a lot of excellent stories, it seems the posting and commenting system is pretty bunk. Authors end up posting stories 4 or 5 times because they’re can’t be sure it’s gone through, and DAT CAPTCHA. I have tried to post feedback on several occasions and simply given up due to the captcha. I do find that it helps if you don’t capitalize any of the letters.

Re:Arie’s story. yeah… one of the best in a long time. Classic stuff.

[Lingster]

Because the traffic at Brawna is substantial — 20,000 pageviews per day on average — sometimes the site times out when someone posts a new story.

And then sometimes the author reposts without checking to see if it went through the first time.

And then sometimes the author doesn’t unpublish his duplicate stories.

I just disabled the captcha for people who have already registered. I did that before and the spambots killed dozens of comment threads, but we’ll see what happens this time.

I also changed it so authors can delete their own stories. Previously they could “unpublish” them but almost none ever did when a duplicate was posted, but we’ll see what happens now.

[iowabeefpackers]

Wow major changes. Thank you Lingster. It seems like the spambots were already getting through to some extent so I guess the key will be to see how much worse it gets.

[Lingster]

I really should just shut it down. It’s expensive to run and more trouble than it’s worth.

[Cowprobe]

Thank you for the efforts so far in keeping Brawna running then Lingster.

Perhaps something like the mg-sg story archive as a less labor intensive drain on interia?

mg-sg.pbworks.com/w/page/5824848/FrontPage

[iowabeefpackers]

I really should just shut it down. It’s expensive to run and more trouble than it’s worth.

Ech. Well I am goddamn glad you haven’t done so yet. There is so much quality content on there and it would be tragic to see it lost to the ages.

[TC2]

I know this is going to be a SUPER unpopular suggestion.

But if people like Brawna so much, maybe it’s time to set up a subscription service to have the website break even and pay for itself?

I know, I know, “WHAT SUBSCRIPTIONS!?” But really, if it’s getting to the point that Lingster is having a headache keeping it running, well… the consumers of the website should contribute -something- to keep it going.

[FlakBait]

I know this is going to be a SUPER unpopular suggestion.

But if people like Brawna so much, maybe it’s time to set up a subscription service to have the website break even and pay for itself?

I know, I know, “WHAT SUBSCRIPTIONS!?” But really, if it’s getting to the point that Lingster is having a headache keeping it running, well… the consumers of the website should contribute -something- to keep it going.

or at the very least disable adblock for the site.

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