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I'lll never admit when I am high, shit posting.
But I will concede that sometimes I type in cursive, just because*, not because I'm high or anything like that.
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All the words in my head are comic sans for some reason...Also random but for some reason my cat's refuse to watch Felix the cat when I have it playing and every time I see your avatar I end up recalling me deciding to introduce them to all my favourite's and them hissing and running.
Please browse my digital bookshelf. In this collection, you can find 125 full stories, 10 micro-stories, and 3 poems with the following features:
* 30 Editor's Picks, 82 Recommended Reads.
* 16 competition podium places, 11 other times in the top ten.
* 23 collaborations.
* A whole heap of often filthy, tense, hot sex.
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2 PMs sent.
Anyone else?
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Bumping up other entries is not viable. As stated, it wasn't earned.
The problem is that an author has that right to be forgotten so by keeping their stories around against their express wishes is legal hot water. The Ts and Cs about granting the site usage for 12 months probably won't fly if it was contested against GDPR, for example. Not sure. Don't know any lawyers.
My 200th story.. a young nurse gets down on her knees for an older man to make his day
Quote by deviantsusie
if they willingly enter a competition where the rules state Lushstories reserves the right to publish the top 3 stories even after membership lapses then it can still be published.
Please browse my digital bookshelf. In this collection, you can find 125 full stories, 10 micro-stories, and 3 poems with the following features:
* 30 Editor's Picks, 82 Recommended Reads.
* 16 competition podium places, 11 other times in the top ten.
* 23 collaborations.
* A whole heap of often filthy, tense, hot sex.
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I agree, totally. If our terms stand up against the laughable right to be forgotten law, which is neither well thought out, nor enforceable, then that's grand. As an example of how stupid the law is, I just quoted you. If you delete your account right now, my quote still remains as a matter of public record and is attributed to you. To truly be forgotten you'd need to hunt down every person who quoted you on a forum, every person who downloaded any story you wrote, or copied a line of text you wrote, and so forth. A joke!
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I agree, totally. If our terms stand up against the laughable right to be forgotten law, which is neither well thought out, nor enforceable, then that's grand. As an example of how stupid the law is, I just quoted you. If you delete your account right now, my quote still remains as a matter of public record and is attributed to you. To truly be forgotten you'd need to hunt down every person who quoted you on a forum, every person who downloaded any story you wrote, or copied a line of text you wrote, and so forth. A joke!
Even if our Ts and Cs remain binding for publication after an author exercises their right to delete, we'd still need a system in place for after that N month period. So something like I suggested (or an equivalent) where people's names and winning story titles are ferreted away for retrieval on official competition pages, would still be required.
My 200th story.. a young nurse gets down on her knees for an older man to make his day
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But the right to be forgotten shouldn't apply when you sign something giving away your right.
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Some European admins actually expect Xenforo to come up with a way to literally remove all the quotes.
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it is fairly easy to leave without having your stories disappear... change your email to a dummy account... Delete the dummy account... remove your avatar and profile details.
Please browse my digital bookshelf. In this collection, you can find 125 full stories, 10 micro-stories, and 3 poems with the following features:
* 30 Editor's Picks, 82 Recommended Reads.
* 16 competition podium places, 11 other times in the top ten.
* 23 collaborations.
* A whole heap of often filthy, tense, hot sex.
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Yeah, that would work, provided your intention behind leaving is not because you're somehow embarrassed to have written them or someone has found out and linked your real life persona with your secret Lush life and has threatened you in some way.
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Sorry to be contrary, but I think there's a case to be made that the writer should have control of their own material. Stipulating that it has to stay on the site for up to a year is fine. Even five years, if it's stipulated up front. But author's rights should return to the author eventually. Publication rights to the story should not be held in perpetuity by Lush. The writer of the story should be able to do what they like with it.
You can’t truly call yourself peaceful unless you are capable of violence. If you’re not capable of violence, you’re not peaceful. You’re harmless.
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i control everything. including you.
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i control everything. including you.
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Bumping up other entries is not viable. As stated, it wasn't earned.
The problem is that an author has that right to be forgotten so by keeping their stories around against their express wishes is legal hot water. The Ts and Cs about granting the site usage for 12 months probably won't fly if it was contested against GDPR, for example. Not sure. Don't know any lawyers.
Probably the best option, on deletion, is to reassign any comp title and author to a placeholder user account or stash the metadata in some placeholder table. Then, when rendering the comp lists, if a real entry is missing, look it up in the placeholder table so the name and title can be preserved, with no link to the actual story. Maybe a (story deleted by author) line as explanation.
That also makes it possible to manually add the few entries that have been deleted already to this database table to backfill the existing gaps. We know all winners as they're announced in a forum thread so it shouldn't be too onerous as a one-time exercise.
Do check out my latest story:
Festive Flash competition: The Ghost of Christmas Past
And my other stories, including 5 EPs, 24 RR's, and 15 competition top 10's including my pride competition winner: On Oxford Street, This Gay Girl Found Pride While Playing With Balls
Quote by Verbal
Sorry to be contrary, but I think there's a case to be made that the writer should have control of their own material. Stipulating that it has to stay on the site for up to a year is fine. Even five years, if it's stipulated up front. But author's rights should return to the author eventually. Publication rights to the story should not be held in perpetuity by Lush. The writer of the story should be able to do what they like with it.
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The only thing to do to make sure the competition story entries stayed on site for all to see, would be to require authors to allow us to publish the stories ad infinitum. Not just for 12 months. They retain the rights to their story, but it doesn't prevent us from keeping them published. They would be free to publish them wherever else they wanted.
Please browse my digital bookshelf. In this collection, you can find 125 full stories, 10 micro-stories, and 3 poems with the following features:
* 30 Editor's Picks, 82 Recommended Reads.
* 16 competition podium places, 11 other times in the top ten.
* 23 collaborations.
* A whole heap of often filthy, tense, hot sex.
Quote by Meagananne1986
Control of one's life is the biggest lie the devil ever told. You don't get a choice to be born or not and you don't get a choice to die or not. Everything else in-between is often determined by our reactions to others or by how others react to our actions. Too many people and too many variables in-between birth and death to control our destiny.
You can’t truly call yourself peaceful unless you are capable of violence. If you’re not capable of violence, you’re not peaceful. You’re harmless.
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you do know that i am the devil, yeah?
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That is correct. An author always retains the rights to the ownership of their stories.
A mechanism was meant to be put into place to make sure they were on site for 12 months as part of the competition rules (which writers accept when entering).
But even if we devise a system which keeps them on site for 12 months, what happens after that? They disappear, and we are stuck with the same problem.
As has been rightly said above, a 4th place or 5th place being bumped up doesn't sit so well as they weren't originally in the top 3 story judges' selections.
Which leaves us with a minor headache and is the reason it's been left like this, in a far from ideal state.
The only thing to do to make sure the competition story entries stayed on site for all to see, would be to require authors to allow us to publish the stories ad infinitum. Not just for 12 months. They retain the rights to their story, but it doesn't prevent us from keeping them published. They would be free to publish them wherever else they wanted.
If a writer has an issue with the latter, they shouldn't enter competitions here. We give writers exposure to millions of people. Their competition stories would probably not have been written were it not for the competitions being run.
Both writers and the site should benefit from us running competitions. Not one or the other. Generally the relationship is beneficial and works well. But our policy could probably do with a revision.
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It is annoying when members who have placed in competitions leave.
I asked Gav if he could make it so that their stories remain, however he said that a story requires a corresponding database member entry or there's nothing to hook it to. Something along those lines.
I'll ask him to take a look at it again once he's made the site transition in the next fortnight or so.
It looks untidy apart from anything else.
We discussed another option of moving everyone else's stories up a place should it happen, but it became too complicated.
