First, I wanted to congratulate you on your excellent idea for a website. It's an innovative concept to apply the DIGG concept to erotica. And then to award prizes for fiction. Bravo (and I will link to your site on my Story Recommendations site when I have the chance.
Really, I want to take part. But I anticipate some problems in taking part.
First, you are not providing a way for people to find the site of the author himself/herself. There should be a way for a reader/surfer to be able to go to the person's own website. That is an author's main reason for participating in this kind of site.
Second, there is a problem with creating multiple versions of the same story on the Internet. I frequently revise stories. Is there a way that I can update the story on this site after it is published?
A related more important question is maintaining multiple versions. Assuming I have the ability to revise/republish the work on your site, it still is a pain having to keep these two versions synchronized. Even if you are trying to encourage people to post entire stories on the website, you need to make it possible for readers to find the canonical version of the story. I would probably submit my stories if I had the ability to include a link to the canonical version of the story. But you need a URL to click to.
Third, creative commons and this. I would like a way to label/tag a story as creative commons. But you don't have a way to do this. I suppose I could copy and paste the entire license into the story space, but that would be a bummer. It would be great if I had a way to link to the URL.
I can appreciate the difficulties of allowing offsite URL's. You open yourself to spam/misuse by commercial interests (and obviously the adult content business has a lot of that). But you have gone to the opposite extreme. One way to do this is to specify types of URLs which are allowed, and then let people FLAG IT AS INAPPROPRIATE if it links to a site that violates your terms of what a "good URL" should be.
The only condition under which I could see myself contributing would be to begin every story like this.
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You are reading Erotic Notion #14: The Ice Cube by Hapax Legomenon. The most recent/canonical version of this story can be found at this URL: http://www.asstr.org/~99ernotions/99er14.html . This is part of the 99 Erotic Notions story project by Hapax Legomenon, which can be found at this URL: http://www.asstr.org/~99ernotions/index.html This story (like others in the same collection) have a Creative Commons license. More information: http://www.asstr.org/~99ernotions/expandedlegalnotice.html
(story begins here)
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What do you think of this idea? Are you okay with writers who do something like that?
Finally, I was wondering whether the owner of this site (Lush) has any connection to lushus which wrote this incredible short story (now only available through the wayback machine.
I like the idea of this website, and I hope to be able to participate. I hope you can address these concerns.
Thanks .
Hapax Legomenon
99 Erotic Notions
Rookie Scribe
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