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[sr71plt]

I know this is the list, I'm not arguing that. Just I remember someone saying that being on the monthly available editors list made a person eligible -- but I'm not sure if that's true.

If it's true shouldn't it be noted in the rules statement? (It's not.)

 

[estragon]

RodenAddison has posted "Video Pick-up", a blast from the past.

 

[estragon]

The spam on this BB is getting to be too much.

 

[lovecraft68]

I don't write and post here to win contests or get high ratings.

Then consider your time here a success! Because you have managed neither.

 

[sr71plt]

Which seems to mean so much more to the "nose-in-everyone-else's" business you than it does to me.

 

[Darkniciad]

The spam on this BB is getting to be too much.

There's a major surge of message board and blog comment spam, since email has become less effective.

It has the added benefit of linking to the spammer's website where Google can find it, and every link is another tick on the spammer's Google rating.

That's one of the spam databases I use. In a year, the spammer submissions have gone up from just over 50,000 to over 400,000 montly.

Lit is actually getting off easy compared to a lot of sites who haven't put the protections in place that we have here. Imagine a dozen or more such spammers per day, with dozens of posts each -- if you're lucky.

My own little website with its limited traffic gets an average of 5-10 spam registrations per day ( thankfully, all blocked by my spam databases ) and those are just the ones with humans in control. The old standard controls such as email verification and Capcha are blocking uncountable automated registration scripts.

 

[estragon]

Dark, thanks again. I suppose there's very little that can be done to arrest the flow of spam. It's so cheap that even one sale out of a hundred thousand messages is profitable.

 

[estragon]

Back on Topic

RodenAddison has a lengthy Second Year follow-up to "Wild Things Have No Names"; it's a real smorgasbord, something for everyone (almost).

 

[estragon]

How-Tos

Two of them today.

"Observations of a Picky Reader" by Barns10 is a really good read-and-heed. That which everybody knows (or should know) can’t be told too often.

And Jehoram’s “The Right Editor” is an idyllic essay, rather than a “How To” as billed, because Jehoram doesn’t tell us how to find, and secure the services of, a paragon equivalent to the one whom he describes and with whom he works. A consummation devoutly to be wished, but hard to achieve. Would that it were as easy in the doing as it is in the telling.

 

[estragon]

Nachtexe’s Luciferella is a good laugh, and VampGirl1991’s “Deal With It” is a good refresher.

Jett73’s Chapter 4 of Salt and Vinegar is a fine finish to a well-told story; good work!

 

[Jett_73]

Thanks

Jett73’s Chapter 4 of Salt and Vinegar is a fine finish to a well-told story; good work!

Thanks estragon, and for your comment on the story too. Much obliged.

 

[estragon]

Get this spam bullshit off my thread! Free speech I don't mind; let anyone say whatever they like, wherever they like, whether here or anywhere else, and I'll do likewise. But spam isn't protected speech.

 

[estragon]

My previous post referred to three spam messages, now removed. Thanks to the mods or proprietors. We've been suffering from an infestation of spammers.

 

[estragon]

More Good Stories

Three really good writers, for all of whom it’s a real pleasure (in the truest sense of that old cliché) to copy edit, have three hot stories up.

MoJo48 has Ch 4 of “Lady of My Heart”, a hot, well-drawn Lesbian fantasy.

SilkStockingsLover has “Gangbang Submission”, something for all her fans and getting good reaction.

And RodenAddison has “Wild Things Have No Names”, a series that has produced a fine response; plenty of good hot sex.

On the coming attractions list (pun intended), DG Hear, MFG, won’t let illness stop him, as he works on his next series. I respectfully request thoughts and prayers for one of the best storytellers. Get well soon!

I like How-to’s, especially intelligent, well-written ones, and Kael01 obliges with “Into the Abyss: Vaginal Fisting”. “Once more unto the breach, good friends, once more”.

Keep writing, guys!

 

[CarlusMagnus]

I like How-to’s, especially intelligent, well-written ones, and Kael01 obliges with “Into the Abyss: Vaginal Fisting”. “Once more unto the breach, good friends, once more”.

Oh, if only it had been anal fisting. It would then have been appropriate to declaim "Once more unto the breech, dear friends..."

 

[Jett_73]

Oh, if only it had been anal fisting. It would then have been appropriate to declaim "Once more unto the breech, dear friends..."

Hmm, you may be onto something there since further into the famous speech Shakespeare has Henry V say,

Then lend the eye a terrible aspect;
Let pry through the portage of the head
Like the brass cannon ... ​

 

[estragon]

Good Stories

on the horizon.

RodenAddison has a new fairytale (no, it's neither GM nor NonH) in the works. Good clean fun.

DG Hear, MFG, won't let health issues defeat him. He's just finished what appears to be a six-chapter classic feel-good. Déjà vu, maybe? So what, the view was great.

And some great news from SA Penn Lady: she's finished "Rhythm and the Blue Line". Can hardly wait to read the last chapter.

 

[PennLady]

And some great news from SA Penn Lady: she's finished "Rhythm and the Blue Line". Can hardly wait to read the last chapter.

My best to DG Hear, but I have to clarify -- I haven't finished Rhythm & the Blue Line, just finished the next chapter. Looks like there will be two more after that.

 

[estragon]

My best to DG Hear, but I have to clarify -- I haven't finished Rhythm & the Blue Line, just finished the next chapter. Looks like there will be two more after that.

SA Penn Lady, I couldn't be happier to be wrong! More of SA Penn Lady's latest series? What could be bad?

 

[estragon]

More good news today (5/9). Two good new stories. Girl With Boots is back with “Wordless Submission”, and the title says it all. The girl is in the game.

And LitteraryWench makes a hot debut with “Ay, There’s a Wench”, bonking to the Bard. Welcome to Lit, Wench.

 

[estragon]

StangStar06 has a new story, "Divorce and Future - Passed", an interesting plot with some deft humorous touches. Mechanicals need work, but there’s a good story here.

RodenAddison concludes his very successful “Wild Things Have No Names” series with Ch 4. It was a pleasure to read and copy edit, and I recommend this as a hot, sweet story.

 

[estragon]

Otazel’s “Wartime Memories” is a cute story with plenty of local colour and a cute ending. A good read.

RodenAddison has the Evil Sock Fairy striking, and he’s got another really good hot story, with a light humorous touch. RA is a writer worth following.

Geronimo_Appleby’s “Bettina’s a Back-Door Girl” is a hot rearguard action, replete with run-on sentences, but Geronimo saves it all with a delightful phrase: “The slide of santorum stained the bedcover.” Taking political commentary to a new level?

 

[estragon]

DG Hear, MFG, has posted the first of a six-chapter series, "Reflections".

DaYeKen is back with "Recycling Day", a bittersweet tale more bitter than sweet. Not for everyone, but I liked it.

 

[estragon]

Not a Lit story, but the "Scandal in Belgravia" episode of the BBC's "Sherlock" series was really good. While most of the plotline strains credulity to the breaking point, the thought of Irene Adler as Domme is a real turn-on, and Ms. Lara Pulver has the face to make the role believable. I wish farfromcd and Rassendyll were still posting their Sherlock Holmes parodies--this is good material.

 

[estragon]

DG Hear, MFG, has the first three chapters of his six-chapter "Reflections" series posted, and the comments are generally favorable, although the voting is below 4.5 throughout.

Eagerly awaiting the next chapter of SA Penn Lady's "Rhythm and the Blue Line", and Ilmonamour's next in her "Running Into Coverage" series.