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Liz
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Wooo! Congrats to Browncoffee, RavenStar, MadMartigan, and all of the runners up - great stuff!

Quote by noll
Btw, I'd be interested to find a tremolo effect where the rate is controlled by the pitch of the sound. So in a way a bit like the tremolo-like effect when two tones are slightly out of tune and you bend one of them. One of my favorite songs has this effect, but it's all synths. I'd like something like that for my bass. Does anyone know of a pedal that has such a feature?


I really like the effect in that music video. I'm not aware of any effect pedal that will dynamically adjust the tremolo rate based on pitch. The closest I've come across would be the Keeley Dynatrem which controls the rate and depth based on how hard you strike the strings.

https://robertkeeley.com/product/dynatrem/

Quote by noll
Unfortunately the album version is nowhere to be found online, just the radio edit, which is a bit of a watered down version as its composition doesn't have the right build up in my opinion. Anyway, the effect is pretty clear, right from the start:


I've got a copy. Check your inbox.
Quote by sprite
if ya need a fix on the down low, i know a guy who knows a guy. C need never know...


He got the good stuff?

Quote by noll
So, I guess you'll be designing and manufacturing your own pedals in a couple of years ;)


That would be awesome. Would love to design and manufacture my own guitar effects.

Picking up a Stone Deaf Tremotron next week. biggrin

She knows what third party hosting is. I think Nicola was asking you for an example of an image that is not displaying correctly on Lush - can you provide a link to a forum post or profile comment for instance that we can look at?

Some photo hosting sites disable hot-linking as it leeches their bandwidth.
Sprite was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no sex or seduction in it, `and what is the use of a book,' thought Sprite `without sex or seduction?'

So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very slutty), whether the pleasure of writing erotica would be worth the trouble of getting up and finding pen and paper, when suddenly a redhead with lovely boobies ran close by her.

There was nothing so very remarkable in that; nor did Sprite think it so very much out of the way to hear the redhead say to itself, `Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late for the lesbian orgy!' (when she thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural); but when the redhead actually took a Rabbit Vibrator out of her backpack, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Sprite started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a redhead with a Rabbit Vibrator, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after her, and fortunately was just in time to see her pop into a kinky sex club.

In another moment in went Sprite after her, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again...




Linkin Park lead singer Chester Bennington has died aged 41, LA County Coroner says.

The coroner said Bennington apparently hanged himself. His body was found at a private home in the county at 09:00 local time (17:00 GMT) on Thursday.

Fuck. sad
Dunno. Never done it.

Reckon I'd be fucking awesome though. biggrin
Quote by NOLAHotGal
I'm having problems with getting different requirements from different mods.

Brandie


We try to keep things as consistent as possible.

If you give us an example of conflicting information with regards to story requirements I can advise accordingly.
Quote by TabbysTales
The girl in my story is 17, nearly 18. So she is a teen. I thought the minimum age on Lush is 16.


That is correct.
Quote by TabbysTales
I'm currently writing part 3 of my Naughty Stepfather series. I'm aware of the rule on Lush, but I was wondering if it would be okay if the mother teaches her daughter how to suck her stepdaddy's cock.

There's no touching or sexual stimulation between mother and daughter. It's just the mother giving tips to her daughter as she's giving a blowjob and having a teabag session.


Sorry, that would not be acceptable. Although the mother and daughter are not having sex with each other, they are still in a sexual situation together. However, if she were giving the daughter some tips over a coffee or similar non-sexual situation and not actually in the room or involved in the action, I don't see that being an issue.
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In the current competition 'Pure Filth' I noticed that once submissions were closed and the voting could be shown, my entry 'Cold Shock' has 23 '5' votes and i '2'. Of course, everybody has their own criteria for voting, but I think that, since the vote average is taken into account for judging (bringing into play the 'popularity contest' factor, rather than solely judging entries based on the words on the page), that competitors shouldn't be allowed to vote on each other, lest an unscrupulous competitor should try to weaken an opponents standing.

Maybe I'm out of line, but I am curious as to how others feel about this.


That's why stories have a weighted average calculated by discarding the highest and lowest scores every ten votes. That anomalous two (being the lowest score on your story) will not count towards the total average once you pass a quantity of ten, which you have.

Hope that makes sense.
Some of you may have recently received a PM or read a forum post from Peri who is no longer a member of Lush. In it she accused the moderating team, and myself specifically, of being "impulsive, trigger-happy and enjoy member-bashing". Anyone who knows me or is friends with one of the wonderful moderators who volunteer their time here to help keep the site running will know that this is nonsense. To claim "prejudice and discrimination" simply for being asked to remove plagiarized content is just stupid.

For those of you that are interested, Peri submitted a poem called 'Hope' which contained a lot of lyrics from the song Mamma Mia by Abba. We do not allow copyright works to be used in publications. This has been covered many times and I won't be going over it again now - you can read Nicola's official post here if you wish:

https://www.lushstories.com/forum/yaf_postst56045_Plagiarism.aspx

Jen, who is one of the most lovely people you could ever wish to meet, brought this to Peri's attention and asked her about it. Peri claimed it was a complete coincidence which does not seem likely due to the fact that the lines were word-for-word identical. When other poems were checked out of curiosity and found to again contain song lyrics by other bands such as Modern Talking, Peri was confronted about it. Peri's defensive response was simply, "Regarding other poems, if you feel the same way, please take action as per Lush Policy".

Our time as volunteers is limited. We are a finite resource that is best served processing the new stories that get submitted to the site on a daily basis. To sift through a member's entire publication history for infringing content because they are not prepared to assist you is crazy. Peri was not prepared to take down herself any other poems with dubitable content and so we took down all of them. This in return resulted in a disgruntled message to the site in complaint, and the messages she recently posted in the forum and sent out via PM containing "Relevant extracts of the reply of Senior Moderator Liz".

The problem with relevant extracts is that they remove a lot of context. To that end, please find below the complete text of the "disgusting response" that I sent.


Hi Peri,

I am writing to you in response to a message you sent into the helpdesk. It relates to the fact that your stories have been removed from the site. You asked two specific questions regarding this which I would like to answer for you now:

1. Do all my stories contain “plagiarized” content? If yes, I’d like to know about it (which line or verse?).

If you have plagiarized song lyrics to use in your publications, then you would know which ones they are. The moderators of Lush have neither the time nor the motivation to trawl through your entire back-catalogue of poems and sift through them for lines you have lifted from songs. We started by identifying one, then two, then three, and frankly that was enough. The examples reported by Jen contained more than just a single line here and there. For example, your poem Hope is approx 50% Mamma Mia lyrics.

2. Can a mod remove stories like that? Not the one she highlighted but all the stories?

Yes. The decision was actually a mutual one following a discussion about the best way to deal with this situation. You were given every opportunity by Jen to assist in identifying the poems with questionable content and yet decided not to, stating only that it must all be a coincidence and that she should 'do what she must'. Clearly, you were not interested in owning up to the misdeed and resolving it, therefore we have removed everything.

I think perhaps you underestimate how seriously this site takes intellectual copyright theft. Taking someone else's work, be it a writer, or band, or whoever, and then publishing it as your own either wholly or in part, is simply unacceptable. We consider it a cardinal sin and most offenders are very quickly shown the door. You should consider yourself extremely lucky to still have your account on Lush.

I trust this answers your questions but should you have any more, you are welcome to message me directly and I will try my best to answer them.

Kind regards,

Liz
Senior Moderator


The moderators on Lush try to be as honest and open as possible, there is no cloak and dagger nonsense going on. We usually don't make a point of publicly providing details when something like this happens, but Peri was a popular member on Lush and based on the content of the messages she sent out, I felt things required clarifying. I hope this has demonstrated the opportunities given to this member to resolve the issue and the frankly extraordinary leniency offered under the circumstances.

Liz
This competition closes in three days and there are currently no stories waiting to be verified in the queue. (Damn fine work by the story mods!)

Now would be an excellent time to get your entry submitted.


Undefeated eleven-time five-division professional boxing champion of the world Floyd Mayweather Jr. and the current UFC Lightweight champion Conor McGregor are facing off in a professional boxing fight on the 26th August 2017.

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I make an effort to take an up to date selfie and thats your response. Shame on you.

And... are you going to change my name to put an underscore in?


Has your username always been like that or did it used to have an underscore?

I could have sworn...
Quote by Verbal
The old avatar--I am not making this up--made it look as if you were suppressing a giggle every time you made a comment on something. I LOVED that effect. I'll miss her.

The new one is nice too, though. smile


The old one will be back. smile

You may have noticed that quite a few moderators are now sporting avatars which show a lovely pair of boobies (ignore Simply_John's...). We pick a theme every now and then for a bit of fun. This week it is 'titties' in honour of our world motorboating champion mod, Dani.
Quote by robjw
It has been sent now , I feel a bit dim for not working it out in the first place ! Thanks for your help. I love your new avatar, although the other one was pretty cute. Robert.


Thanks. Just a temporary swap - fancied changing it up a bit.

Glad you got the PM sent.
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Hmm, nothing in sent items I must have done something wrong. Try again ! Thanks Liz


No worries. You should get a confirmation message displayed when you click the send button. If it was successful, it will be green like this.



If it doesn't work when you try it again, please let us know what the confirmation message says.
Quote by robjw
I sent a private message to someone for the first time. However I'm not sure if it was sent or not . Is there anyway of checking ?


The message would be listed in your sent items.

Quote by MsDirtyLittleSecret
Hey, hey, hey

Quick q: How do you go about changing you "rank" for the forums? I haven't been able to figure it out and it's driving me mad because I'd like to be attempt to be silly and unique ;)

If anyone can tell me how to do this, it would be much appreciated!

Thank you!!


You send a very polite request to Nicola and she makes the change for you. smile
Quote by angelaslater
I used to love listening to the audio stories from my iPhone but for the past year or so it won't download any audio stories. In the box it just says error. I can however listen to the audio stories from another site. There's so many I'd love to hear. Can anybody help xx


Hi smile

The audio player currently being used on the site is a flash object. Unfortunately, Apple's late co-founder Steve Jobs famously bashed Flash for mobile and refused to allow the technology on the iOS platform. That means no iPhones or iPads can run Flash content without using a third-party app. There are a couple of paid-for browser apps still capable of running flash elements I think, but they're not very good.

I will have a word with Gav, our website guru, and see if it might be possible for him to swap out the current audio player for an HTML5 version instead.

Liz
Quote by ivanka_simkiewisz
Are we getting (Live Cams) as a new feature for Lush?


No. I think Nicola mentioned this the other day but I can't find the post.

This is just an affiliate-type link to a third party cam site. It is only visible when you are logged out of Lush.

The financial cost of implementing a live cam element to the site, considering the bandwidth requirements, does not make sense when you consider you can video chat for free with services such as .
Quote by Dani
Yes. I like to wear my pussy out.


Bit late but congrats, Robert! Great job.

L x
*stands up, looking nervous*

Hi, everyone. My name is Liz, and... and I'm an addict.

Everyone: "Hi, Liz."

Hey. So, I've been using effects pedals for quite a while now. At first, it was just a bit of a cheap thrill, but more recently it has started to affect my bank balance. What started off as a few pounds here and there is now quite a bit more. The Mooer and Tone City stompboxes were good to begin with, but over time they became a gateway to harder stuff. You all probably know what I'm talking about. Before I knew it, Boss, Electro-Harmonix, and MXR boxes had become Strymon, Origin Effects, and Walrus Audio masterpieces glimmering in oceanic turquoise, oxblood red, and sun-fire yellow. The only pedals that give me the fix I need now are high-end and boutique.

Stranger #1: "How do they make you feel?"

Oh, don't get me wrong, they make me feel fucking great. I can run some delicious overdrive into my Big-Sky reverb, add a pinch of delay and I am gone for a whole afternoon. They are the most incredible, ethereal, atmospheric sounds you can imagine. If God played electric guitar, that is what it would sound like. Warm, chewy, driven-tube notes with sustain that rolls on and on forever until finally fading into nothingness like a wisp of intangible cloud.

Stranger #2: "Woah."

I know, right? Anyway, my fiancée said that I have to come here to get some counselling and I think that's probably for the best, so here I am.

*sits down and fiddles with sleeve of jumper*