Story Site Issues, Etc.

[ashtonDs]

You handle an amazing amount of work and need to be officially thanked for it. (The trouble is I don't see an officials hanging around here right now.)

Is there anything the people posting stories can do to help you out (and maybe introduce a little consistancy/control over the resulting post?)

Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[rilawild]

Hi,

This wasn't meant as an attack on Torq. If it seemed that way then I apologise.

I thought that this was the Tech Problems and Answers forum; I see this as a tech problem not a personnel problem. I want this site to improve. I was trying to point out what the issue was (that the same style names gets reused and then clash when the whole story is viewed) and suggested a couple of ways that it might be fixed, and then I asked the question about how to avoid the problem in the first place.

What else was I supposed to do? I have asked these questions and made similar suggestions about this privately before (when uploading new chapters, by emailing webmaster and by emailing Torq) and received no answer so I assumed that the best thing to do was to post it here.

If the software used for the site is so hard to use why not ask Tiger for something better, or even ask the community to help find/write better software - at least to enable the load to be shared by more people. Alternatively maybe provide a guide for how to get the formatting to be consistent and how to provide stories so that it takes the minimum amount of time/intervention from Torq.

Rilawild

[Euryleia]

<snip> Alternatively maybe provide a guide for how to get the formatting to be consistent and how to provide stories so that it takes the minimum amount of time/intervention from Torq.

I think this a good suggestion. Maybe a FAQ or more detailed submission guidelines would help. I would be more than willing to do my part to make Torq's job easier by following formatting rules.

I'm sure I speak for the other authors and the readers when I say that we are enormously grateful for the time and effort that it takes to upload and update stories on the site. I had no idea the scope of the issue and my admiration for Torq taking on the job and doing it so well has just increased.

Thanks, Torq.