Hey,
Just a suggestion, but instead of complaining, why not send a PM or email to Torq, with your story info & the problem, and see if maybe he can work with you on it. He is one guy, processing 100s of stories a week, so yeah, there's a good chance things slide through.

The story processing program that converts from RTF to the style needed to upload it to the stories site is, indeed, archaic. But the entire stories process is a tad archaic. And no, it's not changing anytime soon, for a variety of reasons, all of which I am sure Torq can explain. However, there are ways to help the issue along, like ensuring your story is in a True Font, that it has no formatting inside of it, etc.

As for the grammar... well... a.) there have been at least 2 people story processing in the past 2.5 yr, and the previous person (before Torq) had a lot of the "delia'/s" problem (the slash/apostrophe) that you mention. However, it would take HOURS & HOURS to fix this issue, because you would manually have to go into each & every story to fix every chapter seperately... so put on your blinders & grin and bear it Also, when processing 100s of stories, sometimes mistakes in the writing are made... they each have to be MANUALLY ENTERED. And last time I looked, Torq was a human, so hey, guess what, probably isn't going to be perfect.


As you mentioned, this is a free site. And while I usually stand on the sidelines & let Torq field all of these questions on his own, I have about had enough. The man works 16-18hr days, and spends his off time processing stories. That is no joke. Trust me, I live with him--he spends his time doing that, when instead, hey, we could be having fun together. Do I mind? No, because it's giving back to a community that has given us so much. But please, EVERYONE, have a little patience--he tries to do them as fast as possible & as well as possible, but he is, as I have mentioned, a human, not Superman (welllll at least not in terms of story processing *grins*). And just to answer the inevitable "why not get help?" question, the story processing, as I previously mentioned, is ridiculously archane (sp?) and requires 1 person to do it. Annoying? yes. Is there a better way? Probably. But hey, life ain't perfect. So... we all live with what we have & enjoy what we can.


Cheers,

delia