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And very thankful I am not on this thread other than posting this, and my two are:

Nymph

Poppet

Quote by kiera
Cool finally got a mention..thank you Nymph xo..send me the bill lol xo

Quote by adagio_sabadicus
Off the top of head, I have many I think worthy of listing...just a couple I will list.

Mysteria...we have different styles, yet she has no fear writing with me
Nymph...certainly one of Lush best
Sindycane...what a mind
Strangerlyd...a genuine caring person
Green Man...knows how to tell a story
Chica...very sensual writer
Ruthie...an accomplished scribbler
Avrgblkgrl

Quote by Mysteria27
I told him on page one he was my favorite.....

Giggles,
Xo

Quote by stephanie
If I'm ROYALTY then I'm the Princess Margaret of Lush Stories!!! (The BRITS will get that!!!) Basically, everyone hated her! (I kinda fancied her, actually, but she HATED Irish people!!) SHE REALLY DID! (I so would have, though...)

And LENINGRAD only started picking up HITS after a gravelly-voiced fucker read it out loud...

xx SF

Quote by stephanie
(After 11 pages I finally get a mention...)

xx SF

Chuckepoo: "I meant THE OTHER STEPH..."

Me: "... ... ..."

Quote by LaylaJune
I understand why someone would "follow" a writer, since you get notifications when a new story or poem comes out. But is there some purpose to "following" someone who does not write? I often see that and I can't quite figure out if I am missing something. Any insight, anyone?

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At the risk of opening up a can of worms with regard to Recommended Reads (RRs), a couple of thoughts. It possible that I haven't thought them through and that there are good reasons for these ideas not to work, but on the surface, I think they might be good suggestions.

First off, I'd like to sidestep the whole --in my my mind ridiculous-- "RRs are arbitrary and capricious" line of argument; this is not what my suggestions are about.

I will say that I like RRs. I like the pat on the back I feel when I get them, and I also like the bump in views they usually give the stories that I've managed to get them on. I also like reading them; I am rarely disappointed by the RRs I read, and I've discovered a lot of authors I like that way.

Since often an RR, awarded at the time of story approval, does seem to correlate to an increase in views, it would appear that in that regard the Recommendation aspect of the RR works in the way it was presumably intended. It's a recommendation, and very often people follow the recommendation.

I have noticed, however, that very often, RRs can be awarded after the fact, sometimes considerably so. Competition entries can't receive RRs for example until after the competition is well over. Other times a moderator might read a story considerably after it went up, like it, and give it an RR.

As far as I can tell the stories in the Recommended Read tab on the main page are sorted by the date the story went up, not by the date they were awarded RRs. For many stories, these are one and the same, of course.

However, if an RR is awarded after the fact, especially if it's weeks or even months after the fact, it would seem sort of to nullify the "recommendation" aspect of the RR. That is, getting an ex post facto RR might be a very nice validation for the author, but it doesn't really recommend the story to many if no one knows that it's been recommended. There isn't an obvious mechanism for the public to know about this new recommendation.

I hit the RR tab fairly often, especially if I'm behind in following the front page, but I certainly don't scan back in the RR list for page after page to see if something three months old has suddenly popped up with an RR today.

So, my first suggestion is that the RR tab be sorted by the date the RR is awarded. That way, if you're hitting that tab, the newest RR awards would be at the top, and you might discover a gem that you otherwise might easily miss.

My other suggestion, and this one I'm less sure about, has to do with a comment I saw on a story left by a mod, something along the lines of, "if this story didn't already have an RR, I'd have given it one as well."

Using the analogy of the video at the video store that has five different staff picks stickers on it (Jerry's pick, Amy's pick, etc.), would it be possible for RRs to have multiple RR badges? Not to indicate which mod picked it, but simply to indicate that multiple mods thought it good enough to be an RR. So the first RR might be blue, the second another color, and so forth.

Maybe this is how an RR turns into an EP, so perhaps this is a silly suggestion, but I thought it might be interesting.

Curious to hear people's feedback.

Quote by MadMartigan
I have an idea.

And a spring break with which to write.

Quote by simplyjohn
I am sure this must have come up before.

Could we receive some sort of notification when a friend deletes their account?

Quote by LaylaJune
Some way of indicating whether or not you have "liked" a comment to one of your stories. It is not a big deal, but I sometimes can't remember, between looking at my phone and looking at my computer, whether I have already "liked" something.

Quote by simplyjohn
I havent seen any of that .. I have seen myself and one other member suggest an alternative and in addition point out the merit/gain of such a change. As always it Gav's/Nic's call but I just feel at times that Gav, when it comes to the effort to code, probably has better things to do. Thats just my personal view.

I would like two vending machines in each chat room that are free to gold members. One for salted peanuts and the other for tea/coffee please.

Thats enough from me ..

Quote by Mysteria27
It would be really really nice if you could edit your comments on stories. So many times I make mistakes and I need to delete the whole message and start again.

It's even more annoying when typing on a phone.

Please, Please, Please could an EDIT button be made.

Hugs,
Mysteria
xo

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This is the what the Shirley Jackson Award looks like. So perfect!

Quote by Dani
I know Gav's been playing with the block feature for a while, but can the block be two-fold? By that I mean, if you have someone blocked, then you shouldn't be able to send that person PMs.

It's rather foolish to go through the effort of blocking someone only to send them scathing PMs to which they can't respond.

Quote by RavenStar
You know, I had almost the same thought. Then I realized it was too much like a trophy for participation.

Then, you have all those writers who have loyal sheeple followers, who would support a shiny bit of poop if it fell out of their ass.

Then, you have the forum wars over someone not supporting their "friend's" story for a reader's choice.

The same way that the voting system is very clearly inflated, a reader's choice award would come to mean nothing. A bit of polished tin.

Besides, if members wanted to recommend a story, there are already at least three different ways to do it: in their blog, in their signature, in the Promotional forum. Isn't a meaningful, heartfelt review of a story you absolutely loved worth more than some award? I think so.

, as a member, not a mod. (I'm allowed)

Quote by BethanyFrasier
RR's should be granted after 10 regular members hit a RR button on a story, not at the whim of one single mod.