Lazeez's Corner

As I work on the moderation end of the Clitorides Awards site , I've become aware of something. Many of the nominated stories are no-sex stories. As in not a bit of sex in them. The clitorides awards were created to promote the erotica writing community; even the name 'clitorides' is a reminder of that. So my question to the community is: Should no-sex stories be eligible for the awards?

Hello everyone, Back on February 15th, 2007, Souvie posted the following in message on Usenet in the ASSD group (alt.sex.stories.d) id Message-ID: <dqk9t2tihhc7as6cf8qv704v44utjfqttk@4ax.com>: > I will not be running the awards next year, someone else has taken them over. I'm sure everyone'll find out eventually. In the meantime, it's been fun. :) > I'm going to email Kenny and see if he wants me to do the Silver Clits for the time he's been away, and it's possible the person who's taking over the GCA will be taking over the SCA (depends on what Kenny says). > Now that I have no legitimate excuse not to write, I still won't be writing. It's not fun right now and if and when the fun returns, maybe then I'll pick my pen back up. Well, time has come to reveal that I'm the one who volunteered to try to handle the awards. I'm sure many of you have already known or guessed that little fact. I registered a domain for them, it...

This post is now old and irrelevant after the various changes over the years. I've implemented some important changes in the story delivery mechanism today. The new system has the ability to deliver long stories or long chapters in multiple pages. Explanation: Storiesonline is a busy site. Very busy site. In order to keep the site running smoothly and responding as fast as possible to readers' requests, the reply time for those requests must be kept short. The servers have limited numbers of connections. So the faster each reader got their file and their browser disconnected, the faster the server could respond to another reader. In order to keep connection times short, I tried to keep files as small as possible. That meant for long stories that took a while to reach the readers' browsers, I used to divide the story into chapters and long chapters into sub-chapters. That's why some stories have 'Chapter 1A', 'Chapter 1B' etc... While the old way was perf...

Looking for a story that is supposed to be on storiesonline, but of course, can't remember the author or the title: The main character is hired or rents a house. That night he and the house move back in time. The next night he goes back to the present. The owner who lives nearby comes by and tells him that this happens and sometimes the person living in the house doesn’t come back. The owner’s sons come over and clear more of the land around the house and the house and the cleared land goes back. As he picks up travelers the house grows with the need. It becomes as large as a castle with underground garage and target range. Appreciate any pointers

It's been ten days since the implementation of the new voting system, so I thought I would keep everybody up-to-date with how things are shaping up. First thing to report is that voting is up. The number of basic votes cast per day added to the number of TPA votes cast per day is about 30% higher than the previous week's number of basic votes cast. So it seems that many people were not using the old system and were encouraged by the new one. So for those who were afraid that the new voting system will lead to people moving away from voting, rest assured, it didn't happen. Second, the voting form wording change is affecting scores mildly. The median of votes cast after the change is lower. It currently stands at 8.00 compared to 8.82 prior to the change. Of course, the Q Score is compensating for this difference and the Q Scores are more consistent. The number of TPA votes is about 30% of the basic votes number. So, it's quite high. I didn't expect it to be this high...

Well, it's done. Today, I implemented the display changes to show the new system in action. You can read the previous entries in this blog to see how these changes came about. First change is the voting forms. The old form has been redesigned with the new look and the wording has changed. It's very close to the temporary change that I implemented at the beginning of December, but with one major difference. The 10 is no labeled like before; the current version says 'Most Amazing Story', which makes it more attainable. Another change is the reversal of the order of the grades. It used to be that the 10 was the first item under the mouse, now it's the furthest one. This is a subtle change, but one I implemented to encourage readers to think before they cast their vote. The second change is the availability of the Expanded voting form. I designed the system to switch easily between the two forms and be able to set the default from within the form itself. This functional...