Betty Pearl's Sissy Stories 20.1
Menu => Active Sissy Stories => Topic started by: Betty on February 13, 2006, 03:01:04 PM
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We survive & are popular by interaction. If you're not interacting with us by contributing a post or comment once in a while, you're leeching from us.
Do not post other people's stories, or add parts to other people's stories without the author's permission. All stories here are owned by the authors. You cannot repost or republish their works without their permission. To protect their anonymity, we will seek permission for you if you cannot contact them. We will actively pursue & take action against anyone who steals or reposts our authors works without their permission. We cannot promise to stop everyone from stealing stories here for their own profit or glory, but if we can't stop them, we will give them a pretty hard time, & may be able to have the site or server carrying the stolen material shut down.
* Story Part Sizes - Parts can be no more than about 8.5k in size. For standard browser text, that's about 2 screens worth here, or about enough to fill 6-8 of those little text boxes you type or paste your part into. It won't be a strict limit. A little over won't matter. Over-sized parts make oversized data packets which can be lost or corrupted during backing it up, archiving, repairs, or retrieving it. Many servers won't even accept oversize data packets, so would make it difficult if we have to move it or us to another server.
* Part Limits - Unlimited. You can continue your story to as many parts as you like. If your story remains active it will stay at or near the top. However, if one gets carried away & cranks out a lot of parts all at once, they will be asked to slow down. Extremely large stories will be judged on an individual basis because I expect some will put up any old boring part to their story just to keep their story on top & running.
* Posting Additional Parts - Post your additional story parts as a reply to your previous part. If there is a comment to your story after your last part, just post your next part as a reply to or after the comment. People who regularly post brief parts of only a short sentence or so just to keep their story on top will have their posts limited, or the story locked from adding more parts.
* Posting Comments To A Story - Comments to a story are welcome. However if a story or this site gets too cluttered with comments, the oldest comments will be deleted first to tidy up the place.
* Registration - During times of very low security risks, & when we aren't getting too much traffic, it may be possible to access all our sites. But during high security risk times or peak traffic, you may not be able to access everything if you are not a member. Most of the time you will not be required to register to view Betty's.
* Sissy, brolita, & ABDL stories, or comments about them only! Talk all you want about other stuff at our main board. This section is for stories. Story-related comments are welcome here, but beware that the oldest related discussions & comments will not stay up as long as the stories themselves to prevent too much clutter.
No Offensive Language or Stories - We can let things go a bit over the top, but go to far, & you'll be warned, edited, or deleted. I don't like it too graphic, our regulars don't like it, our sponsors & donors don't like it. Depending how far or graphic you go, it may be illegal in your country or mine too!
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We agree not to carry, post, repost, or publish the stories outside of our story sites or boards, or sell them, without the permission of the author or their representative.
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Use the banned words at your own risk. In most cases, after you post, the banned word will be substituted with a hint of the banned word instead. So if authors can't figure out another word to use instead of the banned word, most readers should be able to guess the real word by the hint. But if you use a lot of banned words, your story will become confusing with too many hints.
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Part Numbers-Please number your story parts or chapters at the top of each part or in the subject box.
If we do have a crash or data gets corrupted, it can take an eternity to repair, reassemble, & get all the data in the proper order without part numbers. Depending on how severe the failure, the only way to fix it may be to manually do it by hand... 1 part at a time. If data is corrupted, the bots may not know what to do with it.
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I have been noticing that when attempting to send a reply to one of new writer, Jemina 004's
posts that is a red check mark on the remove box. When I click there it is asking if I want to delete my message.
I don't think there is anything I am submitting that is not in compliance with this site's rules. Please advise why there is a red check mark and how it can be removed. It is bugging me.
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testing to replicate the problem
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test post
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Thank you for checking. Also I seem to be the only reader responding to post who doesn't have the "like"
"unlike" under my user name on the left.
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I logged in under a non-administrator account so I can see what it looks like to a regular member. I see no check box. I see an icon of a box with an X in it next to "remove". You click on "remove" if you want to remove what you just posted... if you change your mind.
For a limited amount of minutes members can delete or modify/edit (or correct) the posts they just made. People do tend to change their mind after they post something, or need to fix a typo.
But don't wait too long after posting to delete or change it. After a post it up for a while it cannot be changed anymore. It remains permanent, & archived during the next back-up saving cycle unless I personally deleted it.
Here's what I see on the right side of the screen if I was a regular member. No check box. It's an icon indicating clicking on "remove" deletes the post. But it will always ask if you're sure first so you don't accidentally remove something.
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Thanks so much for looking into this. Also, I don't know why I don't have "like or "unlike" under my user name
when I post something. Everyone else who is submitting responses seems to.
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If you're seeing something different, your browser settings are off, or it's out of date.
You may also be using an un-supported browser or OS. We support almost everything. But we do not support Microsoft Edge, Explorer, or Windows 10, & don't plan to. They're too intrusive to our sites, & invade privacy too much to be trusted at private, or sissy/ABDL sites.
Many private, personal, & underground sites don't support them either for the same reasons.
Betty's will still function good enough if you must use them, but some special functions may not work, or work properly.
You're better off at least getting a better browser, most of the rest of them are better & safer. We support all other versions of Windows except W10, most versions of Linux, Mac, & almost any smart phone. We even have a separate special version of Betty's & Stories made just for phones or small tablets. Our system is even smart enough to send you the best version of our pages for the device you're using automatically (I made that).
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"Like" is a rating system much as "Like" on Facebook. But only myself & a few moderators or members can usually give like or unlike points (Karma). The option is not available or not always available for most regular members.
The "Likes" (Karma) I give are purely by mathematics & statistics. The more recent "reads" they get to their posts, the more likes they get. The more recent traffic they bring to the place with their posts the more Likes they get too.
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Uh, it's the fact that you're looking at your posts from your account, isn't it? I can see a LIKE UNLIKE under your name, and cannot see it under mine.
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Thanks again for your quick and thorough reply. Unfortunately, I did make the switch to Windows 10 and use
Firefox mostly to access the site. Given this, I guess I am lucky just to be able to access the site and post
responses. It is an excellent site and I plan to keep supporting it regularly from here on.
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I believe here, I currently temporarily have it set for a lot of people to be able to use the "like" function if it's working right. But you can't vote for yourself, so you won't see the option for your own name.
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(posting under my test account)
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I see that there are well over 100 guests currently reading stories. I don't understand why you are allowing guests to view any stories, not just the new ones. In your effort to bring back this site to full viability your service must be by subscription only. I think $12.00 per month would be reasonable. There are so many from all over the world who simply love reading and contributing stories here. I would find it very hard to believe that most could not afford $12.00 per month. That is a small amount for the great entertainment this site provides.
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Our authors posted in the good faith & promise that their work will be read by many for free, for a very, very, long time. Those who want a fee charged for their work, they are already trying to sell their stories at Amazon, or some other home publishing service.
Currently though, only our recent story section is viewable for non-members. Our older stories & other features require a membership to view. If you log out, you'll see there isn't much here except recent stories. That may change depending on support in the future.
Although 99.9999% of our visitors never donate or contribute anything, almost about 1% of our registered members do contribute something... either a useful post, story, share a link to us, recommend us, or donate.
Besides, we're officially a non-profit support group & archive supported primarily by donations. To charge something, we loose that status along with all the benefits & legal protections that status provides.
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I'm curious! What do the different little icons next to each thread signify? Most of them seem to be a present with a bow, or different emoticons. Are they connected to hits for each thread, or posts, or?
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Administrators, moderators, & even temporary moderators have the option of attaching the icon to any post. Whatever icon selected on the first post is the icon displayed for the entire thread at the board's index page. Most of our regular members also have the option to attach an icon to their own post. If it's the first post of the thread, that icon is also displayed for the thread.
There is also a default icon, which posts automatically for the first post of a thread. The default icon was the bow, but the bobby pin is our current default icon.
Half of them are just nonsense decoration. But smiles, bulb, question mark, or exclaimation points can be an indicator of the the topic too.
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Betty, it's really time for you to consider revising your rule regarding maximum post length.
Even the most bargain-basement commercial webhost in the year 2020 does not have the sort of problem you mentioned. If the server is using SQL, the export is all one file anyway, and even if each page is being saved as HTML (a truly ancient practice from the late 90's), no webhost in the world will have such an issue. It's text. The only way you'll have a file size problem with a serious webhost these days is if you're uploading multi-gigabyte video files.
Doing the math, is it that each page shouldn't be more than 64k for some archaic reason? The comedy of errors required for that to be a requirement or a problem cannot possibly exist any longer.
I am posting my stories in four places: here, FM-site, DeviantArt, and Archive of Our Own (AO3). FM requires a bit more work due to its elaborate categorization system, but the other two are just copy, paste, tag, and go. This forum requires people to wait 180 seconds between posts. Therefore, to post a 44KB chapter here with 8KB parts takes fifteen minutes if I'm carefully watching the clock.
I know that time-consuming and baroque rituals based on decades-old practices are a common feature of the genre, but perhaps forcing the authors to do such things might be a bit much...?
I can't imagine that the average FM poster, let alone the college students who post on Fanfiction.net and AO3, would be anything but put off by such a rule. (Well, that and trying to read light-colored text against a background of a light-colored dress. But that's even more of a problem for older readers.)
Also, the lack of firm rules on comments (and comments to comments) means that criticism may or may not produce the general effect of throwing elemental sodium into a lake.
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Betty, if you've provided guidance before regarding posting pictures/images in a reply could you give a link to it. Just tried posting an image using the "insert image" icon and couldn't. Wonder if the image was too large, wrong format, etc. Could you provide some guidance if not previously posted? Thank you.
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Betty, it's really time for you to consider revising your rule regarding maximum post length.
For speed, efficiency, security, & our own encryption, we use database driven sessions, not file based sessions like you would do for images or video. Images & video cannot be database driven, only text, code, & scripts.
Large databases are easily stored & run on the servers. But if a database crashes, gets corrupted, lost, or hacked, a backup copy of the database is uploaded to the server from another server or from a hard drive in my home. These are uploaded to a database in lumps of pieces at a time, called packets. They can only be a limited size set by the servers.
Oversized packets, like that of a long story part, stop the upload, fail, & abort, or it tries to cut up the story part into smaller packets, so it goes through. That usually doesn't go well, & results is a corrupted part with bits missing, strange symbols turning up in the stories, or gibberish in the story part.
I can sit down & take hours to manually rewrite the data base for each oversized story part into comfortably small packets that will work & not corrupt. But I really don't have the time or ambition to do that with every oversized part that appears here. Perhaps paid teams of a dozen or so staff familiar with coding & data bases can do that daily coding at mega-sites like FMania, & DeviantArt. But I'm working & running this all alone, so won't be scheduling those many extra hours of tasks to do every day or several times a week.
Comparing us to them is quite ridiculous anyway. There is no comparison. You're comparing a multi-million dollar well staffed mega-web company, to a simple SMF forum run by 1 person with their pocket money. It's like comparing a visit to your friend's house to a visit to Disneyland & seriously wondering why your friend don't have a roller coaster & theme park for you. You come here to visit your friends, you go there to visit Disneyland.
On the other hand, over the past 26 years, how much down time have they had compared to us? We may have had sections of our sites down briefly, or limited access to members only during transitions, upgrades, or security threats, but we've never been down entirely in 26 years. Even Google & Yahoo can't make that claim. So as odd as the system seems to an outsider, it works efficiently, securely, & reliably.
In it's current form I can load the database from here onto any fresh clean installation of SMF forums, or with simple conversion to any PHPBB, or Vbulletin forum with all the stories, & memberships intact in under an hour... except very long parts may get corrupted by breaking them down to smaller packets so they upload to the database server.
I find I get no corruption or problems if I keep the entire part in 1 big data packet. But if it's too big, the database transfer is rejected due to oversized packets.
Web servers also don't stay the same over mere months, or change their policies, raise their prices, fall out of favor, or just decide they don't want sissy sites or stories on their equipment anymore. I may have to jump to another server at a drop of the hat. Stories has jumped between 3 different servers in the past year & had to be rebooted from a backup database several times in just 2020. Most of the time you don't notice it because it's quick & seamless.
As for readability, I get lots of compliments on our nice, sharp, high-contrast text. It compares better than most since the trend these days is for grey or pale grey text on white... incredibly hard to read. And staring down a bright white lit up screen with dark text very long has already proven to cause a lot of eyestrain. My eyes hurt, get sore, & start to loose focus if I spend a lot of time on Facebook. Most of us don't have that problem here. The background is very dark so shouldn't interfere at all with the pure bright white text (not colored).
If it isn't, you may have your browser, DPI, or screen calibration set wrong.
The design gives a uniqueness to us, & gives me a chance to express some artistic flare, creativity, or imagination beyond just a boring grey, blue, & white generic BBS, plain FMania, or totally dark DeviantArt. I have to see these every day for 26 years. I need them to be pretty.
Facebook, many browsers, & other sites came out with night or dark mode so the screen doesn't overwhelm the room or your eyes in the evenings & mornings. But with the body of the text in pure white here, it can easily be read outdoors in bright light too.
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Betty, if you've provided guidance before regarding posting pictures/images in a reply could you give a link to it.
It's pretty much the web standard for any independent, or privately run, & underground forums or websites. JPGs only. No more than 60KB in file size per picture. You can post up to 6 pictures per post by clicking on "more attachments" but the total size of all attachments combined cannot exceed 120KB. No larger than 800 pixels wide by 600 tall.
Use Irfanview or similar image tools to compress the file size if you need to without shrinking the image size too much. I find saving the image in a quality setting of 70-75 compresses the image nicely without losing any noticeable quality.
https://www.irfanview.com/
Seems to be working fine from my end. Please let me know if it's still not working for you.
We don't get many pictures here for stories. Betty's Pub, our main site is geared more for pictures. They can be up to 100kb there, up to 8 pictures per post, & 200kb total per post. 800x600.