Story Site Issues, Etc.

[es02]

Have you tried sending him a PM on the forum? He was only online 4hours ago so clearly he does exist

http://www.bdsmlibrary.com/forums/member.php/32526-Torq

[Mistress Hades]

Hi. I'm new to this. What do the letters 'PM' mean - other than afternoon?

[Thorne]

'PM' stands for 'Private Message'. At the top of the page, beneath the Library logo, you'll see an orange, or gold (on my system, anyway), list of links: 'New Posts', 'Private Messages', 'FAQ', etc. You can send a private message to other Library Members, instead of sending an email. Review the FAQ, though, to learn proper PM etiquette.

[MrEmann]

I think Torq even advise the private email as the best means to get a hold of him. I can't say he responds to everything, but I do know he responds. He was recently in contact with Me. it's my humble opinion that certain problems will generate a personal response. Certain other problems are dealt with behind the scenes. This opinion is based solely on my own interactions with Torq. Nothing else.

[Darinost]

There seems to be a problem with all the site counts now, unless everyone's forsworn reading recently and I missed the memo. Not a single story on site has more than 3 readers listed for the month, and the total counts for new stories are similarly low. The page for T.S. Fesseln's "Hunt", for example, claims it's only had 14 total readers since it went up on the 20th.

The low counts look like they started with the March 18, 2011 update.

[Ferranartist]

I really don't know where else to put this, but I've been trying, for a few months now, to get my author profile information changed when someone clicks my name on a story. I just need to get my website added. It's ............... I've tried emailing webmaster@bdsmlibrary.com twice, and sending a message to the administrator on the forums via the contact link at the bottom, and not gotten a response. If there is someone else I need to contact, please let me know.

[Ferranartist]

Did not receive any pm's?? Your 1 story current address is quite ok. The "link" you wanted will nOT be used, it's a direct link to an outside site.

Be Well
T

So let me get this straight. I provide original content to you, written by me, free of charge, and you won't even link back to my personal website under "Author's Homepage" in my profile? What is that field for, then, if not link to the Author's Homepage?

[Ferranartist]

Also, I looked at a few of the other author profiles, and they link to outside sites. Maybe miscommunicating here? All I'm looking for is a link to my own personal site from my author profile...which I used to have.

[teleya]

Any update on the story count? It still registers as 1 reader per day.
Also, when i click on my name it doesnt open the page that would list all the reviews i have written. Around half the people do get the hyperlinks and half doesnt. Any thng i could do to get this fixed? I simply like to check who i reviewed.

Thanks
Teleya

[snowbear]

Hello! I have read over each forum category, but I'm still not totally sure where it would be appropriate to ask this.

I read this BDSM short story a while ago, only I can't remember the title or the author. However, I vividly remember the plot (it was a relatively short one-shot), and I recall coming across it several times, so I feel somewhat confident that someone may recognize this story if I describe it to them. Where could I ask people this?

Incidentally, the story plotline is:

This story is told from the point of view of the rapist (I can't remember if it was in third or first person). Basically, he raped several of the women in the neighborhood, who joined together and asked a Master and his slave to help them obtain revenge - though we don't discover this until the end. The rapist first watches his new neighbors (the Master and his slave) very intensely. He thinks the Master is a "pussy" because he is kind and successful. Throughout the story, we come to see the rapist as being very bitter and hateful towards women, and it's implied that he's very envious of the Master.

He closely watches the Master walk the slave on a leash, whip her, etc. He becomes obsessed with spying on the slave - he watches her eat at her Master's feet, go jogging, and so on. One night, the Master deliberately leaves his house after he ties up his slave on the sofa. The rapist can't resist this opportunity, so he sneaks into the house and rapes the slave. The set up is then revealed, and the women take their revenge by rapin him.

[Ozme52]

Something like that you can usually ask either in general bdsm or perhaps the pencil sharpening threads.


Can't help you with your story question though.

[snowbear]

Ozme52 - thank you! I'll try there

[Darinost]

Torq, I submitted a story back near the end of August that has yet to appear on site. If it's just working its way through the queue, that's fine, but I want to make sure that it didn't get lost in the shuffle somewhere.

[Mermaid Master]

I just had two tech questions and I am not sure if this is the right place to ask. I have one story here which has gotten a lot of readers and very high ratings. I am now doing stories that are illustrated. They are too large to submit in Word format but are of reasonable size in PDF format. My questions are first, do you accept illustrated stories and second, if so, can I submit them in PDF format?

[amanda_serve]

http://www.bdsmlibrary.com/stories/a...?authorid=3279

I submitted stories to this site and have contacted webmaster@bdsmlibrary.com many times over the past months to ask if they would remove or anonymize my email. I do not want nastygrams/feedback and I did not know they would display my real email.

How can I get them to change the email to author@needfeedback.com or something or just delete the page? They won't reply to my emails. It's been over a year now I think.

Does anyone have access to the admins who run bdsmlibrary?

I ended up taking off all my stories because I'd rather use a psuedonym and posting them on another site because of this one minor detail.

[lexora]

Hmm... odd I am sure there is a way, I never submitted a story to BDSM tho.. But then again I have several emails for that reason alone

[fallenang_l]

It appears that some special character sets are not being recognized on the site, all the stories have these squares where a special character should be, at first I thought it was only new stories but went back & it appears to be on all stories.

This is displaying this way on multiple browsers.

[ksst]

I am having this problem with the stories now too. I thought it was just my computer, which can be uncooperative, but I guess not.

[fallenang_l]

I am having this problem with the stories now too. I thought it was just my computer, which can be uncooperative, but I guess not.

I believe that the issue lies with either the server needing a character set update it was a issue I had previously on a similar site.

Webmaster can you pipe in on this issue, I love the site but some stories are unreadable

[Dr_BuzzCzar]

At least now I know it isn't just me experiencing the same thing.

[fallenang_l]

I've tried to test this & it displays on multiple browsers & multiple systems, I think that this is something that the server admin will need to fix & hoping they do soon or recommend someway to view the stories without the odd characters displaying.

[fallenang_l]

Bumping this post up a bit, not sure why but this story - Sandra Ottershaw Ponygirl 314 - http://www.bdsmlibrary.com/stories/s...p?storyid=9403 - Does nto show the characters while this story - A Latex Girl Thing - http://www.bdsmlibrary.com/stories/s...p?storyid=9402 - May be a editor issue but unlikely & hoping the site admin can help!

[MstrJake]

I have the same problem. I use Windows 7 and Firefox. Most stories open with strange symbols in place of single and double quotation marks. I can fix it by clicking on the View menu, then Character Encoding. Most stories have preselected Unicode (UTF-8). If I click on one of the other choices such as Western (ISO-8859-1) the symbols are instantly replaced with the correct symbols. However, the change does not stick. When I go to the next chapter I have to do those steps again. I know this fix works, but I don't know what it means, if you know what I mean. Still researching. Hope this helps a little.

[Panther007]

I'm having the same problem and it's on some great stories but really hard to read with weird question marks instead of quotation marks.

It's been this way for awhile now, hopefully it will get fixed soon.

[shabbadew2002]

I'm having the same problem with my stories. Torq - brother, can we get this fixed... and soon? Thanks! Brewt has been having the same problem too. So, it's not just with a few authors or stories...

[karel]

same problem. Not all the text has these unrecognised characters, but some parts do.

[Mermaid Master]

I don't think sending it in RTF format will work well because it is too long. However, if you prefer, I can send it in parts. Would that work better? Thank you for your prompt response which I did not see.

[shabbadew2002]

Torq:
It's not affecting a few of my recently posted stories, it's affecting all 27 of my stories. This is a recent development and appears to be due the site's new server. My stories, submitted since 2008, were "OK", but at some point recently this problem appeared. BTW, they were all submitted as Word docs.

Will you be correcting the problem as a consequence of fixing the server's "bugs"? If so, thank you. But, if the problem is not going to be corrected and/or you're asking me to re-submit all my stories, then please remove all my stories from the site, with the exception of the one I co-authored with JoeTex, "Bosnian Rape Farm". Thank you.

Shabbadew2002

[Tavy]

I noticed one of my stories displayed ok and two had the "weird question marks". On re-checking my original submissions it appeared that the one using word with Smart Quotes enabled produced the weird symbols while one using Open Office with plain quotes displayed ok!

So I may be wrong but it seems that if .doc files are submitted with plain quotes the irritating little ? s can be prevented.

[MrDang]

Hi, I've found a way to make special characters display correctly.

For Firefox (Assuming you're using the latest version):
1. Click the 'Firefox' menu button on the top left corner.
2. Select 'Web Developer'
3. Select 'Character Encoding'
4. Select 'Western (ISO-9959-1)'
The page should reload and the correct characters display.

For Chrome:
1. Click the little wrench icon on the top right corner (not the close button, but just below it)
2. Select 'Tools'
3. Select 'Encoding'
4. Select 'Western (ISO-9959-1)'
The page should reload and the correct characters display.

For IE (Assuming you're using the latest version, you're not still using IE6... right?)
1. Click 'Page'
2. Select 'Encoding'
3. Select 'Western European (Windows)'
The page should reload and the correct characters display.

The annoying thing is that you have to do this every time, unless you use an extension or addon to override the site's default encoding, which for some reason is set to Unicode. It doesn't matter what format you submit your stories in, because it'll always break those 'special characters' once your browser uses Unicode encoding, whether it is RTF, HTML, PDF or whatever.

I don't know if the site administrators can fix this but at least I hope this helps some people.

EDIT: I noticed somebody already mentioned the same thing about two months ago. Anyway I still hope it helps.