Quote Originally Posted by shdowrnnr
Is this "filtering" of stories the reason there hasn't been an update on the front page with new stories?
Who knows? The site has been screwed up for better than two weeks, and no one seems to have noticed, which tells you something about the rank and file that claim to belong to this site. My guess is that the webmaster is running so scared right now, he hasn't the faintest idea about what to do. For example he claimed in his missive dated Oct. 14th, that within a week authors would be notified about which of their stories were to be removed from the site. That obviously has not happened.
I also happen to think that he has been given some very bad advice about what is attracting the feds to sites such as his. If you read the Gonzalez handout, and he's the hatchet man for this witch hunt, you'll notice that child porn, whatever that is defined to be in this day and age, is not on his list of interests when it comes to the written word.
I think that Jinn just listened to the whinners and holier than thou types who spend most of their time wringing their lily white hands at those of us who are providing most of the muscle for this site, and bought into their agenda. Now he's screwed, because that doesn't seem to be the agenda of the guy running the witchhunt. What is however, is the stock and trade of this site. So it looks like we, the readers and authors, are the ones getting screwed. Also overlooked in the noise is the fact that Jinn's livlihood is hanging in the balance. If he has to gut the site to appease the feds he has to find some new way to make an honest living, and that probably means no BDSM Library since his advertisers will be running as scared as he is. It would be very interesting to hear from a few of the authors who are also hanging in the balance.