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That wasn't there when I reviewed him. All of those copy-paste ones are from my reviewing account, as well as the 'Thoughts To Think About'. I'll keep an eye out to make sure he doesn't get the one fanfic on that account.

Although, if he does take my Naruto fic and change the names on it, I'll definitely have proof that he's plagiarising.

• I will not take advantage of Agent Drake's naivety.
  -- Especially not by attempting to use him as a Luxury-distracting method.
  
  - I will not tell Tiria Wildlough that most of the fandom hates her. She's already developing quite a bad case of self-loathing.
  
  - I will not portal into the Nelvana cartoon version of Redwall and attempt to perform gender-reassignment surgery on Pallum.
  -- Even if everyone I know does hate said cartoon, it's still a legitimate canon.
  --- Particularly if I do not work in Medical and therefore do not know how to perform said surgery. Not that many people in Medical know how to perform it on a hedgehog.
  
  - I may not drop the Pevensies into the Spellsinger continuum while muttering "Let's see how you handle it without a god on your side" in an ominous manner.
  
  - Speaking of Spellsinger, I should not introduce Mudge the otter to Luxury.
  -- Nor should I make comments in front of him about "cousin Skipper". Their continua are not in fact compatible, whatever certain badficcers may think.
  
  - An addendum to the earlier "death matches are a bad idea" rules: DC Simpson and Ralph E Hayes should not be portalled into HQ and made to battle to the death.
  -- Real World people should not be portalled into HQ without warning in general, unless they require medical treatment after an RPF fic.

I will not mention 'mating heat' and 'dinosaurs' in the same sentence within hearing range of Agent Trojie.
- If I do, the resulting lectures are my own fault.

The Chronological Restoration Department, which handles historical fiction, decided to come into existence in a For Better or For Worse fic I'm writing. Agent Laurel is working Early American and English history. Anyone else care to sign on? Doesn't have to be full-time.

'Tis bookmarked

I am a PPC Agent, not River Tam. My combat skills therefore DO have limits, and I DO need to practice to acquire skill with an unfamiliar weapon.
- However, just because she has incredible innate combat skills does not mean River Tam is a Sue.
- If she finds out you've been insinuating that she's a Sue, she'll take you to the forking cleaners, mate.

I may not kill Peter Pevensie and install Edmund as High King instead.
- No, not even if Edmund is the more sensible of the two and would therefore be a more suitable king.
- Peter isn't a Stu, honestly.
- I know he's irritating, but still.

On that note, I am not allowed to rip movieverse!Susan away from movieverse!Caspian at the end of 'Prince Caspian'
- Movieverse technically is a legitimate canon, okay?
- And the fact that her name is Susan does not make her a Sue.
-Ripping Susan away from Caspian and substituting Peter or Edmund, while tempting, is not allowed either.
- While we're at it, ripping Susan away from Caspian and substituting yourself is RIGHT OUT.


I am not allowed to take an MP3 player into fics in order to play 'Smack My Bitch Up' when I assassinate Sues
- Ditto 'Battle Without Honour or Humanity'
- Ditto 'Back in Black'
- I am not allowed to play any song when assassinating Sues. That's only one teeny step from having a theme-tune.

I am not allowed to hit Agent July in the head
- She gets concussed enough as it is by herself, she doesn't need help.
- If I have reason to need to stop her from doing something, I should hit her somewhere else instead.

I am not allowed to mention the Kraken from POTC in the hearing of Agent Trojie if I value my own ignorance of invertebrate anatomy.

I am not allowed to pit Jadis the White Witch against the Witch-King of Angmar.
- Not even if I think it would be a bitchin' fight scene.

Building Maintenance do not go armed and are not generally proficient with weaponry in any case. This does not mean I can irritate them at will, as they are EXTREMELY proficient with electricty and explosives and can collapse my RC on me if I piss them off.

It's actually quite sad, considering he shows an iota of skill in writing - his "warning to the unimaginative" is particularly funny, though I wonder if he copy-pasted that.

I also find the fact that he copy-pasted this into his profile amusing - "98 percent of teenagers do or have tried smoking pot. If you're one of the 2 percent who hasn't, copy & paste this in your profile."

I think he's lying.

Also, anyone notice at the end of one of the copy-pasters - "Ninety-five percent of the kids out there are concerned with being popular and fitting in. If you're part of the five percent that aren't, copy this, put it in you profile, and add your name to the list. AnimeKittyCafe, Hyperactivley Bored, Gem W, Bara-Minamino, Tsuyu Mikazuki, Weasel Chick, Revenant666, dragonsroar, foxdude33, FallenLex, Soelle, Happychica, nwfairy, SciFOXcraft279, Arem, Lee Pyro, LovinaHolmes, Ansela Jonla"

Who's that name at the end of the copy-paste? Why, it looks like our very own Ansela! You'd better check your profile, Ansela, looks like he's pillaging from the PPC...

Here, all eight parts.

1. I will not lock Agent Stormsong in a small room with Agent Ansela and her bagpipes.
   
   702. I will not lock Agent Risa in a room filled with reptiles.
   -If I do I will take full responsibility for the resultant injuries
   
   703. Kira Izura from Bleach is not Kira from Death Note. Therefore I will refrain from tying him up and dumping him in L's room with a note saying 'I am Kira'.
   - Tying Kira up and kidnapping him for other reasons is also out.
   
   704. Setsuna F. Seiei is not Yagami Light, therefore I should stop asking him to use his Death Note to kill Sues with.
   
   705. Sentient Gundams do not belong in HQ. Especially not if they are Stus.

1. Bard I of Dale would be most unwelcome in Amara.
   -Or Pern.
   -Or Alagaesia.
   -Túrin Turambar is not to go to any above either.
   687. I will not build a planet around an alien horde.
   688. I will not relentlessly goad an Agent who suffers from the Bloodwrath.
   689. Sonic screwdrivers may only be used for worksafe purposes.
   690. I will not permit Madoc "El Rabioso" Branzillo and Madoc "El Zarco" Branzillo to cross paths.
   691. I will not give Agent Madison a Doctor Who badfic if there are flammables in the area.
   692. I will not try to ride the Corkscrew Cattail.
   693. I will not call Jenny "Jenny Who."
   694. I will not tell any K-9 to "forget it."
   695. I will not let Sir Devin anywhere near the personnel files.
   -Or the medical database.
   696. I will not tell anyone to get their food from Ahnonay.
   697. Jewel the Unicorn is not Charlie.
   698. I will not try to recruit Davros for DoSAT.
   699. I will not send anyone Legendary Badfic disguised as their favorite book.
   700. I will not claim a Ring of Power as my own.

Here's the problem:

It's not hackers I'm worried about; it's butthurt fanbrats.

There are a number of ways to get someone's IP address. For example, it's usually visible to forum admins and blog owners. There are a number of us, I believe, who use different names here than we do where we actually post our fanfic (myself included). I try to maintain a certain amount of separation between this identity and my writing identity, for I think obvious reasons. Revenge reviews are no fun.

Basically, with this system, anyone who has access to my other identity's IP (and there are quite a few ways to get it that I'm not going to go into) can find the connection between the two with a bit of googling. And, honestly, I'm really not comfortable with that.

There's rather a lot you can find out about someone from their IP, by the way. For instance, one of you is from the El Paso, Texas, area, while another one is in Japan. Not necessarily an important bit of information in and of itself, but as one data point out of many, it can help build up a profile of you. As an example, in the process of hunting down a troublemaker, in an hour or so of work I'd found her real name, her parents' names and employers, her employer, the school she graduated from, pictures of her and her mother, and a sufficiently in-depth profile of her interests, hobbies, etc., that I could have posed as her if I'd wanted to. (also, I found that she wrote really really bad slash) What did I have to start with? A FFN pen name.

If we want to look into an alternative, there are a lot of them out there. For instance, GoDaddy has a package for about fifty bucks a year that includes a website, forums, blogging, etc. I'm not sure if it comes with wiki support or not, but we could certainly install our own, something like MediaWiki. A year of that, plus domain name registration, would cost sixty bucks. If we put up a PayPal donation button and a dozen PPCers kicked in five bucks each -- the price of lunch at a fast food place -- we'd have our own site and not have to worry about a sudden crisis when the folks who host our wiki, or board, or anything else, suddenly shut down. Hell, we could run our own fanfic archive for PPC stories.

I only mentioned GoDaddy because I've used them in the past; I'm sure there are other deals as good or better available from other vendors.

With our own forums, we'd have search capabilities, we'd have history, we'd be able to keep spammers out, we could organize things so that the badfic reports aren't all tangled up with welcome messages that are all mixed in with links to new stories, and so on. Sure, this still works, but there are things that would be good to have it do that it can't and won't ever be able to do. Just having a login system that works would be nice, not to mention user profiles, links to our stories, sorting posts by categories, spam suppression, and getting rid of the ads.

I'm feeling like I'm being an annoying, pushy newbie here, barging in and telling all the people whose community it really is, the people who built it and gave it life, how they should be doing things. I'm really not trying to do that. I respect all of you like you wouldn't believe (I've been reading some of your stories for a long time) and I'm not really trying to be an asshat. It's just that if we can have something that fits the needs of the community better than what we have now, if it's more secure for all of us, and if it can be done easily, why not do it?

Tell me to shut up if I'm getting above my place here. Honestly, despite how it may appear, I'm trying to contribute to the community, not to criticize how things have been done since time immemorial.

... Nah. *gazes up towards The Cloud of Arrogance* Yep, he's there.

And yes, a more conventional forum system has been discussed many, many times, but it always gets shot down.

Oops. Clearly I didn't. Sorry about that - I'll send it now *blushes*

I think even that in itself will be instructive. And also amusing. Do post any really funny flames here, yes? :)

if any of my questions make them defensive - particularly if it implies that they know what they're doing is, in some way, 'wrong', or at least disapproved of. *shrugs* I may end up yelled at, but on the other hand, maybe they'll learn something. Or am I just too much of an optimist?

The IP addresses have been on here since the dawn of this version of the board. Other boards have been suggested and some have actually made it into the beta stage, but they all fell though.

I personally would not want to go to another board system, this one works just fine. Old threads get pushed off, there is no bump up of threads, and everything is right here on one page.

Now there are some things that I don`t like (such as the threads having writting under them in the topic lines) but it has worked for a long time (I have been posting since 2002).

So while it has been tried, I would not want to go to another board system. And, I am fine with having the IP addresses showing, since they help to eliminate trolls.

Leto

The benefits of being in a university hall, huh?

... but I'm rather trusting. On the other hand, I'd have no objection at all to creating a new forum for ourselves with a different program/server.

A simple whois won't do very much.

And you're really worried about the security/privacy issue, WC, you could just drop off the board for a few weeks or so until all your posts are gone and then post using a proxy.

...and I also think no-one has ever really given it that much thought. Either we're all too preoccupied or we're too trusting :P