Y'know...

[rabidsamfan]

Sometimes I think that the powers that be need a good loud raspberry.

Just posted an HP fic at ff.n. Posted another one a few days ago.

Seems that the entry blocks for the TITLE and SUMMARY of stories won't accept certain characters.

Like a slash.

Or parentheses.

Or apostrophes.

Hell, I couldn't even use a decimal point in the title of one piece. (Although to be fair it would probably have shown up in the summary.)


And this promotes good use of grammar how?

Comments

[grapeofdeath.livejournal.com]

In all fairness, there may be something going amiss with the code on their site. PHP can be a bugger when it feels like it. (I had similar problems like the above with a database I was creating.)

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

In that case I shall be fair and transfer at least half of my useless outrage to the programmers who wrote the code.

Fie! Fie! I say unto thee!

[gentlehobbit.livejournal.com]

You know, I had to change the name of my drabble and ficlet collection because of that. At Stories of Arda, it is called The Multi-Faceted Mr. Frodo. I had fun with the double alliteration. However, you guessed it. No hyphen allowed at FF.net. So it got changed to ... gosh... I can't even remember. Something like The Many Facets of Mr. Frodo which I don't like as much (while it kept the general meaning and alliteration, the rhythm wasn't was nice).

Why, oh why? Who knows.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

They sure don't explain if you write them a letter about it!

[enabsevol.livejournal.com]

For the most part, that site doesn't seem to be concerned with grammar much at all. There is great stuff there, but looking for it makes my head hurt.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

It's frustrating, because there are some very good aspects to the site. But my patience isn't as great as it once was.

[prim-rose.livejournal.com]

And now they don't have the category of miscellaneous movies? :(

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

They don't?

[prim-rose.livejournal.com]

I don't think so. It confused me when I wanted to post my Pianist fics.

[shirebound]

I've had to get quite creative at ff.net, regarding the use (or not-use) of dashes, slashes, and asterisks. *sigh*

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

It's like they're trying to find ways to cut down the number of users...

*cue mysterious music*

[dreamflower]

Seeing posts like this make me glad I never used ff.net. I tried, when I first started, but the name I wanted was "taken", and I couldn't think of another at the time, so I just never tried again.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

You get a lot of hits from people who wouldn't find your stories otherwise, and it's a very easy submission process. But some of the limitations that got put in place because of people who abused the system are worse than the original problem.

[izhilzha.livejournal.com]

It's not limited to the Titles and Summary, either, although I've noticed it more there. I posted a ReBoot story recently, and the "title" used by one character in the story itself is "Command.Com" ...for some reason the entire word was deleted. I can only think it had something to do with the "." O_o

And yet, I still post stuff there....

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they don't want any links in the text of the story so I can see where the ".com" construction would get sliced and diced.

That's the problem with an unfiltered archive I guess.

[danachan.livejournal.com]

This can be another reason why I don't care to visit or use ffnet anymore. Bah! I remember when I actually liked the site...