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It's not cool to use up somebody's bandwidth by embedding an image from their site in a post.

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I'm getting a password prompt.

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Sure.  Are they one style or several?

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😉

That's excellent.

Actually, update, that's beyond excellent.  That's phenomenal.

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Thing is, I kinda welcome the feedback, advice, and kudos I get from other readers. I like to know what I'm doing wrong and right when I present the writings in the forum.

Meanwhile, I thought I'd sent you a PM giving the OK to put Power Play into the archive earlier. I still do.

I can do that, but my goal is to give people the ability to post their own stories to the content management system, and then act as editor.  Muscle Growth Fan is using the CMS to manage his cartoon sightings, I'm using it to blog, Marknew is using it to post stories…we're definitely moving in the right direction.  It's extremely flexible, and can support a large number of creative users.

And there's nothing that would prevent you from starting a forum thread or permitting people to add comments to the end of the story.

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There were two archives, the size one and another focused just on female growth – the one not mentioned here was run by a guy who's still around, but he prefers his name not be used.  I don't see his archive on the Wayback Machine.  He writes me sometimes.  Nice guy.  He might respond here, or he might not.

A lot of early FMG, BE and GTS stories were archived at the second archive, and for my money they were some of the best.  They don't really conform to genres, because there weren't any genres yet.  Hell, the BE guys fought for YEARS amongst themselves about what constituted their fetish, inflation vs. growth, etc.  The inflation guys – early on, like '96 – really didn't want me hanging around, and were not shy about saying so.  We didn't use the term "FMG" at that time – I may have been the one who started referring to the genre by that name, I'm not really sure.  Early on we called "ama. trans".  Which, in hindsight, sucked. 

A third guy I have mixed emotions about – Jim from the Amazons Arena.  He's the one who founded alt.amazon-women.admirers, which is huge and we all owe him for that.  But he's also sold story CDs with my stories on them, without my permission.  That isn't cool.  So it's complicated.

A fourth giant is Larry Heller, of LH-Art.  He's made an enormous contribution and I'd like to see him do well.  He's pissed me off a couple times, but I think it was inadvertant.  I shouldn't have taken offense – the first time was around '96 and he contacted me about writing for LH-Art.  He offered me something like $20 for the rights to one of my stories, and I think I wrote back, "Are you smoking crack?"  In hindsight I'm sure he's not raking in the big bucks off publishing – it's probably more of a hobby.  But then he wrote me again about the same time I launched Transvigor in 2003 and asked whether I wanted to move my blog inside LH-Art.com.  I told him that I wasn't confident in his ability to run a content site, which was the truth but I probably could have sugar coated it.  I didn't hear back from him, and I regretted my response almost immediately.  I'm sure he means well, and he's accomplished a lot.

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I'm going to lock this one up for now and talk to the mods about it tomorrow.  Never had a flame war before, have to figure out what to do about it.

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Well, I can make it anything, but there are good reasons for having a practical limit.  I don't know the code very well, but I'm guessing that SMF doesn't "like" to have very large posts to pull out of the database – it lengthens the connection time and probably slows down other tasks.  Your stories are certainly good enough to be in the archive, where documents are only loaded once an hour and then cached, drastically cutting database load.  So I'll double the size to 40000, but I hope you'll take me up on the offer to start putting your stories in the archive, instead of the forum.

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Good idea.  I'm trying to be careful with intellectual property rights on this new site, so I read up on fanfic and its legal status.  The quick answer is that nobody seems to have the first friggin' clue about where fanfic stands legally, but that it's a good idea and a nice thing to do to make clear that the story is a work of fan fiction and not an official product distributed by the owner of the character. 

So I'll see if I can find a good disclaimer and post it here.

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Oh, I disabled that.  Duh. 

It doesn't matter, I'll turn it back on.  Check it around 7pm EST, I'll turn the toggle switch back on. 

(There were literally something like 100 variables to set.)

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