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25 weeksThe Day of the Dead Anthology22 comments · 4,620 views
The Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos) is a now-famous tradition from ancient times that has been a huge part of Mexican Culture through the centuries. Like so many things in Mexico, it's influenced strongly by certain aspects of the Aztec people.
It has shaped the way those of us with that heritage look at life and death in many ways, and most importantly on the remembrance of, and honoring the deceased. We traditionally decorate little altars dedicated to the memories of those that passed away… but it's not a somber occasion.
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25 weeksJinglemas 2023!30 comments · 5,793 views
Jinglemas is the annual tradition on Fimfiction to exchange stories around the holidays with users on the site. This single event allows all Fimfiction users to come together and celebrate the reason for the season. Ponies!
Enroll in this Secret-Santa-style gift exchange to request a holiday themed story, to be written secretly by another participant during the month of December. And in turn, you will be tasked with writing someone else's request. Then all the stories will be exchanged at Christmas! Simplicity itself! Thanks to the hard work of the Breezies, everyone will be ensured to get their gift!
You only have until November 24th to Sign up!
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49 weeksPSA: Using AIs to Write and Publish Stories in Fimfiction698 comments · 23,838 views
Hello everyone, this is a PSA (Public Service Announcement, for those of ESL) to put to rest consistent questions about using AI to 'write' stories and publish them here. This is not intended as a poll or a request for feedback. It is exclusively a clarification on an already-existing rule.
People ask: "Can I, oh great and powerful D, post a story or chapter that I got ChatGPT to write for me?!"
And the answer, my friend, is... No.
Absolutely not. Not in a thousand years!
Because you didn't write it.
It is not your creation. You are NOT the author. In fact, you are the opposite.
There seems to be some confusion when interpreting the following rule:
Don’t Post (Content)
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77 weeksJinglemas 2022!62 comments · 12,445 views
Jinglemas is the annual tradition on Fimfiction to exchange stories around the holidays with users on the site. This single event allows all Fimfiction users to come together and celebrate the reason for the season. Ponies!
Enroll in this Secret-Santa-style gift exchange to request a holiday themed story, to be written secretly by another participant during the month of December. And in turn, you will be tasked with writing someone else's request. Then all the stories will be exchanged at Christmas! Simplicity itself! Thanks to the hard work of the Breezies, everyone will be ensured to get their gift!
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104 weeksPhishing Awareness167 comments · 15,419 views
Have you ever found yourself in a situation like this?
And then you magically find yourself in a suspiciously familiar site, except that you're not logged in, and it requires you to do so?
Well. Don't log in. This is a scam, and a cheap one at that.
There've been recent attempts to obtain Fimfiction users’ personal data, like passwords and/or emails through links like the one I'm making fun of above. And a distressing amount of people don't seem to know what phishing attempts are.
If you HAVE entered a site like this and put in your data, make sure to follow these basic steps at least.
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116 weeksAll Our Best [Royal Canterlot Library]115 comments · 18,243 views
As should be obvious from 15 months without a feature, life has taken the Royal Canterlot Library curators in different directions. While there’s still plenty of awesome stories being written in the My Little Pony fandom, we’re no longer actively working to spotlight them, and it’s time to officially draw the project to a close.
Thank you for all of your support, suggestions, and comments over the years. We’re grateful to have been able to share seven years of exemplary stories with you, and give more insight into the minds behind them. In the spirit of the project, please keep reading and recommending fantastic fics to friends—the community is enriched when we all share what we love.
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120 weeksJinglemas 2021 has come to a close!20 comments · 9,893 views
Jinglemas had 114 stories written and exchanged this year!
You can read them all here, in the Jinglemas 2021 folder!Jhoira wrote The Hearths Warming Eve Guest for EngageBook
GaPJaxie wrote Twilight and Spike Hide a Body for Telly Vision
SnowOriole wrote The Armor Hypothesis for BaeroRemedy
snappleu wrote Words Said So Often That They Lack Any Meaning for Trick Question
NeirdaE wrote Starlight and Trixie Direct a Play for Moosetasm
Ninjadeadbeard wrote Garland Graveyard Shift for NeirdaE
Roundabout Recluse wrote Apples to Apples for Ninjadeadbeard
MistyShadowz wrote The Times We Shared for NaiadSagaIotaOar
Petrichord wrote A Gentle Nudge for Angel Midnight
Jade Ring wrote Past, Future, and Present for Frazzle2Dazzle
Jake The Army Guy wrote The Big Talk for Dreadnought
The Red Parade wrote Heart Strings for Franso
Greatazuredragon wrote A Hearth’s Warming Question for GaPJaxie -
151 weeksReunions: A Swapped Roles Contest!57 comments · 16,400 views
Okay guys here's something fun presented by Nitro Indigo.
Presented by me, I guess, but I digress.
Swapped Roles Contest
Last year, I (Nitro Indigo) noticed that there was a surprising lack of roleswap fanfics on this site. To fix that, I decided to run a roleswap contest over the summer themed around secrets. While it didn’t get many entries, it nevertheless attracted the attention of some big authors and was the origin of two of my favourite fics. Overall, I think it was a success, so I’ve decided to run another one!
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224 weeksMinor Rules and Reporting Update747 comments · 15,912 views
Hope everyone is enjoying the new year.
Some small changes have been made to our rules as well as to the reporting process.
Rules
"No attacks directed at individuals or groups due to race, gender, gender identity, religion or sexual identity."
This better clarifies our previously ill-defined hate speech rule and includes groups as well as individual attacks.
"No celebration, glorification or encouragement of real life criminal activity."
This includes past, present and potential future crimes.
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226 weeksJinglemas 201928 comments · 8,392 views
There's truly no time like the holidays. What's better than copious amounts of food, quality time with family and friends, hearing the sweet sound of Trans-Siberian Orchestra on repeat, and unmanagble financial stress from our capitalist overlords?
Gift exchanges of course!
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Kinghty is getting tired of making these type of post
just to clarify: what's tagging? i know it can mean different things on different sites so i'm just making sure.
Huh, had no idea that even went on.
is this retroactive?
Tagging? I didn't know people even did this here.
Thank you. It was getting obnoxious.
150889
I don't even know. Just some dumb people spamming people with pms/messages "tagging" them with a link to a blog post or something.
Praise the mods you posted this before I became infected.
Seriously people, this site is for fanfiction, not playing games. My notifications flare enough as it is.
So, should we report anyone who continues to tag?
150896
okay just making sure
Wait is it like that stupid #YOLO crap I see on my facebook or is it something completely different?
150903 Different concept that yields the same reactions. Just be glad you don't know about it and keep it that way. You don't need to know about it.
150904 Alright but humour me and tell me what it is.
150889
In this particular context, it's usually a chain questionnaire or the like. Someone sends you a number of questions, you post your answers, and then you pass it along to others, frequently with a "tag, you're it" comment - hence the name.
I can see both sides of the issue, and from here forth I will abide by this updated rule.
150906 Let's say I "tag" you.
By the power of chainmail you are forced to fill out some sort form on your blog and send it to X amount of other people or the ghost of Abraham Lincoln will haunt your nightmares or something.
Now, I pray that did not harm your sanity.
I did it because I was drunk, but I'm glad it's a bannable offense now. Now I don't have to think about it.
150909>>150910
Thanks guys... Now I better get some holy water so that Abraham Linconlog ghost doesn't come around.
150911 Just saying, it might not hurt to delete that blog post.
cool
150915
Good point. But I liked my answers to those questions.
Ahwell, no point in having it anyways so I guess.
So to everyone in this thread, enjoy the following picture.
fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2012/154/9/d/nigel_thornberry_pony_by_darkwingxjonathan-d52797v.png
150903
From what I gather, imagine it like those random chain posts that fly around deviantArt that people 'tag' each other with.
Oh crap, I don't truly understand the concept of 'tagging'. I don't want to accidently tagging someone and banning myself from FIMFiction. (I think I may have done it one time) I don't want to disappoint my trackers by getting banned.
In one day I got two messages on my profile where I was being 'tagged' and deleted both of them. I really wasn't looking forward to it becoming a common occurrence, so it's nice to see it being stopped forcefully.
seems a liitle over-the-top for just a game, dont you think?
Banning because of tagging?
i didnt do anything, but still, just feels like anyone will make any excuse to get banned now...
150917
That hurt my soul.
150933
It's not a game. It's chain mail, which is equivalent to spam.
If this wasn't stopped, next thing you know we would have those god awful annoying messages, "99% OF MEN R AFRAID OF KIDS SHOWS, PUT THIS IN UR PROFIEL IF UR 1 OF THE 1%"
150939 that too, is a little over-the-top.
Still dont see what the deal is, every day, I'm waiting for anyone to say anything to me. Heck I welcomed being tagged, cause others saw me, then went to my story. I got a extra squeeze out of my story.
So I still say banning's a little excessive. The way I see it, Now we're making any possible excuse to kill off most of the users here, by banning them for any possible offense. It's SOPA all over again.
besides, those kinda things would usually go in a profile info, like most do.
Normally I'm impartial to these things, but this time, I am honestly thankful. It's bloody annoying.
Cheers mate.
150941
Can you imagine how many times people with several hundred followers would get tagged? I don't even want to think of the people in the top ten watched.
It's a stupid game. And threatening ban is the only real way to stop people from doing it.
150945 Threatening ban seems to be the only way people go about it.
The amount of bannable offenses went up 3 fold recently, and it just seems like he likes finding little things to ban people over. There are other means of getting rid of something without killing off a buncha people off the the site.
Say what you will, but seriously, I'm kinda sick and tired of seeing "You will be banned" for something that doesnt even seem like a problem in the first place.
If anything, he should tell them just 'tag" and have the others put it on their profile info. not a blog. fix that up real quick.
not trying to be that guy, but really, banning people left and right will get you nowhere, watch this, I'll be banned for pointing something out next time.
Oh, good! I got tagged earlier, so THANK YOU I guess?
I was kind of looking forward to it though... Oh well! dl.dropbox.com/u/31471793/FiMFiction/Trixie_lolface_1.png
150949
I don't mind fimfiction having rules to keep from having stupid things overrun it. Large images were annoying. These chainmails are annoying. Roleplaying was annoying. Knighty is trying to keep the site quality from degrading through placing rules to keep out irritating or spammy posting habits. It's what makes the difference between a good site and a bad site. And it is something I am fully in support of.
150955 Look, I never said having rules are bad, but Banning people for just about everything under the sun is just as bad.
Roleplay isnt annoying. I dont see why it is to anyone, helps me get inspired to write. In fact, Roleplay was the only real reason why I write.
Big pics are fine and dandy if you wanna downsize them. gimp works. photobucket works.
The amount of rules dont make a good site: the people in the community do, and how they interact with eachother. Gathering together like this, even if arguing about something so trivial as banning for the smallest of reasons.
Nothing against Knighty here, but if banning wasnt a common thing, I would'nt have a problem. It just feels like everything can be fixed by a alternate means, like tagging can be moved to a profile instead of a blog. Or pictures can be auto-sized or something.
anything to stop seeing "You will be banned". It's just more work for the admins that they cant afford.
150958
There's no plausible way to have tagging without having it be chain mail.
Lots of people do find roleplay annoying, so banning it from things that don't explicitly allow it makes sense.
Banning isn't a common thing. These are very simple rules.
I recently got a comment that had 40 gifs of ponies clapping on one of my stories. It broke the comments section of my fic. No joke.
Thank goodness. It always makes me sad when I just rudely ignore somepony who jes' wants to include me in some such thing, perhaps wants to see what I'll say- and yet, there is no way I'm gonna respond. Even if I made time to answer all the questions, how am I going to go and pick out ten ponies to bug with that stuff? It's like Amway or something- happy to see an aggressive response to it.
Write stories, not lists of questions. yeesh.
150959 There are plausible way: Profiles. They're there. Nobody uses them. Tags could work, or maybe, not answering them would be easier? Nobody said you had to reply to "Spam".
If roleplay is annoying, I havent found one person that told me they did. Seriously, the only ones who make it annoying are the kids who dont know how to roleplay right, being that they arent supposed to do it on a story comment. Do it in PMs, group like mine, or a profile.
Banning reasons went up 3 fold over the course of a week. If they were simple rules, why complicate them by finding everyone that made said post, banning them, and so on? Look at me, I was tagged 5 times, guess what? I didnt reply. I simply asked them to stop and "Holy mother of fuck! They listened and apologized! Why, That's absurd!" Seems like my answer is more simple then banning multiple people over the same offense, cutting the people that visit this site down by X amount of people, and lowering the amount of people in your community.
Well then, sucks to be you. Block the person if you didnt already. You must've had a kid do it. Or a Troll. Either way.
I was part of an administration before. I have 5 years experience. I found multiple ways to avoid having to ban people: By making rules stating what isnt smiled upon, and showing how you can still have them, without making the site angry at you for doing it.
I understand this isnt my site. I understand Knighty owns it, I'm just pointing out there are better and "Less work" ways to go about "Annoying" things like this.
150949 Why do you care. Just don't break the rules.
When you signed up, you vowed to follow this site's rules and customs to keep the place fun and enjoyable for majority. Let him ban those who showed major disrespect to him by disobeying the rules set.
It may not be a problem to you, but if he had to make this blog post it must have been a problem to someone else.
150958
Everything under the sun? This shouldn't even NEED to be a rule, it's just common sense.
150972 Roleplay wasnt a real problem, but somebody made it a problem anyway.
I care because it applies to anyone, including me. Sure I dont do it, but I'd hate for these kinda things to go on. This will only mean that there will be more rules, with more bannable offenses, and so on.
I'd like to see who complained when all they had to do was ignore the tag. Who said you had to reply to everything? Certainly not me.
Again, never said that I didnt agree to everything. If I didnt like it, I would'nt be here, I'm just saying there are SIMPLE ways to make less work for yourself if you're an admin, without having to smash the banhammer a buncha times over the dumbest of crap.
Like I stated here. 150970
150974 Nothing against you, Knights, but I'm just saying there are other means of avoiding more work than what you have on your plate.
I'm not disagreeing with you, I never said I did. I'm just finding simple ways to dodge more work, that's all. Plus, it's my "Opinion". Cant I have one?
Also, Not trying to be a smartass, but if it was common sense, I think everyone would be following this rule, without it even existing.
Knighty, dont take it personally when I say "Everything under the sun" It's just how I talk. It's my view. That's all, bud.
Let's all not think I'm here to be that guy, I'm on your side, I'm just saying there are simpler ways. If they didnt follow before, then I would say ban them. But it seems like everyone listens to you anyway, whether banning is involved or not, I would take that advantage.
So Please, PLEASE, Dont take things the wrong way with me. It's just a personal view I have. It doesnt do anything to hurt you, and I get to say something. it's what a blog is about: stating something, and the community talks about it. Please dont threaten to ban me (If you were thinking about it) for having an opinion. I'm just being productive on the site like everybody else. :(
Aw.
I got tagged twice and didn't get to answer them...
Meh, back to fimfiction chat with me.
'Tagging' is the act of using a hidden ground unit to place a small, well-disguised transmitter beacon on a target or location. The beacon transmits low frequency signal pulses...
[Dramatic Space Opera Voice]
...Which are homed in on by the Orbital Friendship Cannon in order to place pinpoint accurate rainbow strikes on any would-be spammers that DARE to disturb the happiness of this website.
[/Dramatic Space Opera Voice]
...Oh wait, you mean the OTHER tagging!
150899
Yeah... I was having that notification flaring problem too..
[sarcasm]i.imgur.com/VFK19.png [/sarcasm]
Finally.
Fyaying, finally.
I don't want that stupid shyay in my notifications...
what if a person who made a story wants to have fun with his watchers and makes sure it stays within his watchers because i got one this morning from someone i was watching and it was fairly fun
150981 I love it when people are active and voice thier opinion. Also Knighty thanks for this, I was starting to get annoyed with all the tags.
151039 I hope that's not sarcasm... :<
People seriously tag on a site like fimfiction?