Let's be honest, this is just going to inconvenience the million people who come here to read all the extra chapters TheSanti has of HP&TBWL after learning that ffn only has half of them. And I'm okay with that.

 

Damn I've been figured out already.

 

This is very true.

 

Well this is unfortunate but also understandable, is it possible to simply be a dlp supporter and gain entry to WBA?

 

Heh, as a passive member for almost three years, I feel like I can't really complain - I should have posted something, but each time I felt my comments are not significant enough to really contribute to the discussion. It's like... if Martin, Abercrombie and Hobb had a forum to discuss early versions of their stuff, I'd be delighted to snoop, but afraid to make my presence known. DLP is, toutes proportions gardées, something like this in the fan fiction world
It was pretty convenient, allowing me to get fresh, interesting stories straight from the source, ffnet is great for following stories you already like, but it's DLP where you find best recommendations. All the cliche garbage doesn't make it here. If an author is brave enough to subject his work to DLP peer review, it's probably at least an ambitious attempt at good fanfic.
It was suggested on reddit that intended victims of this measure were people that registered this year... so maybe I could slip through?
If not, I'll have to try to earn the privilige, or maybe finally stop reading that much fan fiction
Anyway, I'm outraged at all the outrage on reddit (and probably in other places I'm not following), it's not everybody's right to be everywhere...

 

Obviously this is not a solution, only a single step towards a possible solution. The best way to deal with this would probably be for the mods to only grant access to members on a case-by-case basis. Examine the user's activity on the forum, then decide if they get access to WBA. The problem with that is because DLP is a fairly large community, it would take the staff an insurmountable amount of time to accomplish (even if you take into account that at least a few hundred people would just be ticked off the list right away).

TLDR - I'm with the mods on this one. Swallow the inconvenience. This is DLP. Deal with it.

 

QFT because I'm out of thumbs.

 

Alright then.

I've been a long time lurker here, and DLP is one of several sites I tend to check in on fairly regularly, so I'll admit to feeling some annoyance this morning when I discovered my sudden loss of privileges. That said, I wasn't aware of the plagiarism problem, and after reading this thread (and, more importantly, Narf's reddit post), I can't really fault you guys for taking such an action.

And it managed to force me to post after all these years. So there's that.

If any mods are feeling generous, I'd be grateful to have my access restored. If not, I suppose I'll spend some time tomorrow hunting for some likely threads to post in.

 

Wheeeeelp. It is inconveniënt for me but understandable for you to do so. i did not know plagiarism whas that bad a problem on DLP. How long has this been going on??

 

https://forums.darklordpotter.net/showthread.php?t=29716

This thread documents the latest instances, but there was one earlier this year IIRC.

 

Ok..... Fuck my inconvenience. It is indeed bad -_-

 

Oh well, let's just make this the official lurkers starting their way to 25 post thread (;
First things, first: Hello everyone, I am the lazy "mute" that has been reading your post for the last 4 years.I understand that WBA is a place to review and criticise not to enjoy early updates. I fully support any measures to help stop plagiarism.

All in all I concur with this sentiment:

But to address something that has come up:

Does posting links from reddit and imgur make me more likely to/better at review/ing a story? After 4 years I get the feeling that quite a sizeable amount of people, active on this forum, have never posted a single review.
So no, WbA is not for authors, it is for all DLP Members who have made more than 25 posts.

But just food for thought:
Maybe WbA access should be restricted to having written 1-5 reviews in the Review section of this board.
Also what about new authors who come here, because they heard DLP is the place to get good critique? I remember quite a few new stories started by members with a post count below 25.

Edit: first post: all messed up formating, check!

 

I'm probably getting too involved in this, but in for a penny...

Probably not. Trying to review something makes you better at it, unless you're a born genius reviewer. The point is, there's a whole other subforum to hone your review skills, available to all registered members - the Library. It's exempt from necroposting. You can pick any story you like and review it. If you're here just to read, I can't believe you can't read a few oneshots from a category that interests you and share your thoughts.

Yeah, no. Mods disagree with you.

EDIT: Also, why the font and color dude?

 

Regarding reviews: I know, thats what I proposed... have you even read my post?

Regarding WbA access: apparently not since all "muggles" have <25 posts and I haven't seen anyone with more posts than that complain. (What I meant was that you can now probably lurk in WbA after having posted 25 times)

Regarding Format: I know I messed up.. :facepalm
I can't seem to preview my posts. Also can't change colour/font to standard.

 

Spacegnom: Formatting looks good now.

Agree with what explorerswb said. It's a little annoying, but I can definitely understand where you guys are coming from, especially after talking to Taure about the plagiarism issue on IRC.

Talking about IRC, does the DLP IRC channel see much action? It was dead when I tried visiting, but sometimes that's just how it is from time to time.