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!

Greetings! Welcome back to Imperial Literature in this time of change. My thanks to Ironfist for all his work.

We are currently getting dozens of new member registrations per day. It is my belief that most of these are spam. For example, who creates a user name like “vkqalspuy” from the email address xacxbmcjm@gmail.com?

From now on, if I am alerted by the system that someone with an apparently random user name and/or email address has registered on the forum, I will delete their user profile.

It is usually obvious to a human being (if not to an anti-spam script) whether an account is real or fake. My apologies to anyone who is inconvenienced by this but to be honest, nobody really will. It saddens me that there are so many spam bots simply trying to ruin other peoples’ user experiences. A sad indictment of today’s world where some people can only make themselves happy by taking their anger and depression out on people they don’t know.

I will probably set up a system requiring all new member registrations to be vetted by myself or Ironfist. At present, new members cannot contribute posts on the dashboard.

I’m not sure why we are being so bombarded with spam accounts but investigations are underway and if this can be traced back to an individual, as the indications are showing, then action will be taken.

That is all.

Greetings! I’ve been away for around a week due to winning an all expenses paid, Club Med holiday to the Algarve along with a small number of my work colleagues. Needless to say I won’t be forgetting to put sun cream on my shins again.

In the meantime we have more old friends and new arrivals on Imp Lit along with a bumload of spam posts which will hopefully now dry up thanks to some technical fiddling (oo-er).

This update’s story is Deal with the Daemon by Maugan Ra. Thanks to Jorawar1 for submitting this on Maugan Ra’s behalf. I have been unable to contact the author but if you’re him and you have a problem with your story being here, leave a comment after the story and I’ll delete it all.

On the forums we have Matters of Protocol by Von, an updated Balticus story by Ryan 987, plus the first two parts of Marneus Calgar’s Barmy Army: Famous Five in Five Up Shit Creek.

I’d like to talk about the submitting of fiction to this site.

I’ve (finally) reorganised the Pending queue, which was a mess of unready or empty posts, and added a spam blocker since the site’s existing spam software seems to have packed up after last month’s update.

PLEASE ONLY SUBMIT FOR PUBLISHING WHEN YOUR WORK IS FINISHED AND LEGIBLE. Make sure you get feedback on your story in the Work In Progress section of our forum, particularly if you aren’t that experienced as a writer. I will be moving items back into Drafts if they are unfinished or not of an acceptable standard. Don’t take this the wrong way.

IF YOU SUBMIT SOMEONE ELSE’S STUFF, MAKE SURE YOU HAVE THEIR PERMISSION AND YOU PROVIDE THEIR NAMES!

I’ve gone through adding [40K] and [WH] tags to upcoming and recently posted stories. Please make sure your story titles start with:

[40K] for any fiction set in the Warhammer 40K universe. This includes Necromunda, Dark Heresy, Inquisitor, Gorkamorka and so forth. It is acceptable to use [BFG] for Battlefleet Gothic instead if your story is entirely spaceship-based.

[WH] for any Warhammer, Warhammer Quest, Mordheim etc stories. There is no need to distinguish between Warhammer and Storm of Magic or Monstrous Arcanum; they’re all Warhammer so they all use the [WH] tag.

[HH] for Horus Heresy stories. [30K] is not really acceptable considering you’re writing Horus Heresy stories, not Warhammer 30K.

[20K] At present I am still working on the Warhammer 40,000 prequel and would prefer others not to set stories in this universe. Yes, I have been asked about it several times. I’m still working on the background and the mythos and it will be months at least before there are more than a handful of finished 20K stories.

The following story needs work and has been moved back to the Drafts queue:

The boy who belived (“believed”) by Jorawar1

The following posts were empty have been deleted:

The Grey Knight: story by Chapter Master Onyxius

Arctura by Ryanb987

If you’re reading this, you ARE Imperial Literature. Thanks for coming here. What are you waiting for? Get posting on the forum!