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Dude please it's hilarious. It was permissible for people to link to Patreon from the very start. That has now changed but people won't get banned for their earlier allowed actions. As for "the law".... Are you a defender of "the law?" Which law? US law? Fighting civilly for giant...

Seriously, I was trying to warn Xcalibur when I was surfing on my phone, but I took a nap and forgot. Then, later on my PC, I see his story delisted. Literally got banned in the last five hours. There are people mass reporting stories left & right, but it only affects people who break the rules...

Seriously as a FF author myself I am pissed. Stop it with the fucking Patreon links in the description. There are guys who have nothing better to do than report you, but on this issue they are correct. Just abide by the fucking rules. You can simply write: "Open my profile if you want to support...

I thought this was a crying face and the grey lines were tears... then I read the other comments. :sweating_profusely:

You hate fanfics, we know. You have posted the same comments to multiple threads, some older than 3 months. Since you like rules so much, necroing old threads is not allowed.

I don't have any Patreon or fake Patreon links (with @s] in my stories. I just have broken links that I need to delete one by one. This has nothing to do with my story getting removed; I just want to clean it up. I am not in danger of getting my story pulled; it's just annoying.

Happens everywhere. Currently scrubbing old chapters, but I have like 650 chapters to clean up. Doing 20 chapters a day, so hopefully I'm done in a good month or so, lol.

Sometimes you just need to start. Write a chapter of whatever you feel like, and if it works out, continue! If it fails, just cancel it.

Yep, the author has exposed himself by mistake. It's a translated story. Was already suspicious after two chapters, and then stopped because it just feels weird... now we have confirmation. Also extremely low effort. I see a lot of formatting issues, and some paragraphs are 400-500 words long...

Doesn't seem to be fanfics though. Probably translations or AI-completed works.

These discussions pop up daily now. I always hear, "Why? Just why?" Show me one AI-generated/modified story on SH that's successful. If you can't, just accept that AI stories are not something people enjoy.

Is that really the case? As far as I can tell, there are hundreds of people who still have the link just separated with a _ or a @ that replaces the a. Someone even said he'll just bypass the system in the very same thread Toni announced the changes and justified it because he is in a bad...

Who wants to outright ban it? You are the third person misstating me. I am merely talking about visibility on the front page. I fully agree with you. Banning something is nearly always a dumb idea. I don't care what people do... their stories, their decisions. Let them write 5-word chapters...

Aside from the porn... You kinda pointed out exactly what multiple people said. This guy's chapters are half chapter and half Patreon promotion/link/summary. So I guess it would be difficult to implement a system that prevents that, and using manual reports would require multiple people who do...

The first page of the front page has 25 slots... so yes. I am not saying: "I want more clout," but I think it's clearly something that's not quite right. It will be abused, and it is currently being abused. Other people get overshadowed/pushed back because of announcements. I think it's a...

This suggestion was made because I stumbled over quite a few stories that release 200-word chapters and others who use chapters as a way to "Update" their readers and get additional readers without delivering new contents. Others write: "Patreon" Update and blatantly break the rules, but still...

No author can release 2 chapters a day over a longer period of time. Why should people get 2 front page slots a day for 2 x 200-word chapters, when someone else who delivers one 5k-word chapter a week only gets 1/14 of that?

I mentioned that, right? If people do that, the chapter can be reported, and the author could be warned or made ineligible for the front page for a month or so. I think the argument, "People will abuse the system either way, so let's not care and just do nothing," is kind of weak. Yes, and...

So? You can still release 2 microchapters with just a few hundred words every day.

Many people release chapters between 1k and 5k words. Personally, I have to admit I just aim for 1.5k to 2k. Anyway, I believe there are multiple valid arguments to be made for how long chapters should be, and this suggestion isn't about that. However, I think anyone can understand that there...