Imperial Literature

Greetings!

After all the anti-spam measures, I confess that I forgot to edit the roles for genuine members of the site, which is why most of you have not been able to post. I wondered why everyone was silent despite high bandwidth use :\

This should now be fixed. Any technical gremlins you may still have with posting should be resolved today.

Greetings!

There are two new stories up. These have been rattling around in the Pending queue for years, mostly because they were not in a particularly fit state to publish, but I tidied them up and submitted them at long last.

There is a new Marneus Calgar Christmas Special which is undergoing final re-writing; this should have been the 2011 Xmas Special, but I was unable to complete it back then. Keep your eyes peeled for that.

I am planning to breathe new life into Imp Lit which will begin either this month or January.This will include new fiction and new members from other websites. If someone feels they can devote more time to this than me, be advised Imp Lit is still up for sale.

Finally, I’ve made extensive improvements to the spam filters so we’ll see how that goes. You can no longer add tags to forum posts but you CAN add tags to your stories. If you submit fiction, PLEASE add as many tags to it as you can, since I shouldn’t have to do this for you!

Greetings.

From today, all potential new members will need to have their requests authorised personally by an admin such as myself. This comes about due to dozens of spam registrations which followed a recent update to the site’s software. (So that’s a good software update, thanks a lot WordPress.) The announcement I am making now is common sense and I shouldn’t have to explain myself twice.

To avoid being rejected and permanently banned from this website, please ensure your username meets the following criteria:

* It is not gibberish. Some members have difficult names, which is a different thing entirely, but no human would call themselves zvycykayo for example.

* It is not just a number.

* It is not offensive in any way. This kind of username is pretty rare, but if you want to announce to the world that you’re a dick, do it on Facebook rather than here.

* It is not an attempt to promote or sell something.

Your email address should also meet the following criteria:

* It is not gibberish. NOBODY uses gaz.cy.shdkdy123@hotmail.com.

* It is not full of period signs (.): Some people have a full stop in their username, for example andy.mcnabb@hardbastards.co.uk. Nobody uses loads of them. Refer to the “it is not gibberish” point for an example of this rule.

Any membership applications which fail to meet these simple and common-sense requirements will be rejected out of hand and a permanent ban will be enforced. There will be no warning or second chances.

Greetings all. My apologies for the recent outage.

While Imp Lit’s forum is quiet most of the time, there has been a significant increase in the amount of traffic to Imp Lit over the previous months. While some of this is no doubt due to recent spam attacks, there seems to be a higher than average number of people visiting the site.

Good news for all those who are hoping to get their stories read. People may not be commenting – that’s not unusual on the internet these days, I’m afraid – but hey, at least your stuff is being noticed

I have increased the amount of bandwidth available to Imp Lit by a significant amount. I’m in the process of learning the tools necessary to monitor and control traffic. A big thanks also to Ironfist, who has helped me out on this and other matters. All hail the hero Ironfist!

To those who have work in progress fiction on the Dashboard

Please take this opportunity to get onto the dashboard and copy/paste any unfinished stories onto your computer. If Imp Lit goes down for any reason you run the very real risk of losing your stuff. This also goes for finished stories which are now in the archive. While these would be fairly easy to retrieve should the worst happen, there’s no point in taking chances. I cannot be held responsible for any fiction that gets lost without being backed up by its author!

That’s not to say I expect further problems, this is just common sense.

What are you still doing here? Get your stuff backed up, then get those stories finished!