The Terms of Service are now available. Please take the time to read through them carefully, and if you have any concerns, please contact us.

--sicokitty on August 02, 2006 07:30 pm 12 Comments

The TOS will be going up sometime today or tomorrow in order to avoid anymore confusion. I'm sorry, it's really unacceptable that this has not happened yet, I hope you can all accept my apology on this.

Feel free to hold off posting anymore stories until you have seen the TOS.

--sicokitty on August 01, 2006 08:07 am 0 Comments

I figured out how to redirect stuff! Yay me. So now everything that was linked to the old server, automatically redirects to the exact same page on the new server. Pretty neat huh?

Obviously, if you've linked to fics on journals and such, it would be advisable to edit them with the new server links, because eventually my old host will kill my old subdomain.

Also, I'm sorry about the downtime today. Something seriously odd happened with mySQL, I really don't understand exactly what, but it appears to have resolved itself, let's just hope it doesn't happen again!

--sicokitty on July 28, 2006 07:18 am 4 Comments

It's our first challenge Tuesday!!

We've only had a couple submitted so far, so this week I'm taking one user submitted idea, plus an idea of my own that I had saved for the 100th member celebration, which never happened due to the crazy amount of challenges being posted. So please, remember to submit a challenge idea, we need heaps more!

Now on to the challenges!

2036, submitted by TV_buffy.

Jim In Charge, submitted by sicokitty.

--sicokitty on July 25, 2006 11:02 am 8 Comments

Hi guys!

Just a few words about the challenges.

They are really fun, and I think we can all agree that we are having a BALL with them, but we don't want to overwhelm our authors either! So from now on we're going to have a system in place where all challenge ideas should be submitted through the "Contact Us" button on the top menu. Every Tuesday, one of the admins will post one or two of those challenges and post a news item about it. When submitting challenges, please take the time to become familiar with challenge themes already posted. Themes that are very similiar will most likely not be posted, so try to be really creative with it, and come up with some great ideas. I think the Zombie challenge is an excellent example of thinking outside the box.

So from now on, it would be very much appreciated if we could do this. :-) Also, from now, challenges from non-members will not be accepted, and will be deleted. This must be a bug in the software, as the challenge feature should only be available to members. eta: The bug has been fixed, you must be logged in to add a challenge.

If you have any troubles, let me know! Thanks guys! :-)

--sicokitty on July 22, 2006 10:22 am 20 Comments

Wow, we're two members short of a hundred! That's awesome. A hundred members!!!

I added a new skin today, it's called Safari, it's by no means safari like though, ha! It's heaps darker than the current one, so it may not be for everyone, but check it out anyway! You can change skins through your personal information panel. Let's pretend like that never existed.

The challenges have been fantastic! So many good stories have come out them, and we have two new ones that need to be mentioned, Steam and Zombie Attack.

For anyone who is new to writing, and is looking for someone to beta their work, check out our group of beta volunteers, you can contact any of the volunteers through their profile, they're only too happy to help.

--sicokitty on July 20, 2006 05:32 am 4 Comments

Hi everyone!

I hope you're all finding the new categorisation a little easier to follow. It's pretty obvious at this point that the administrators have decided to allow the other pairings to remain on the archive. We weren't comfortable with excluding them, but we still need to reiterate that this site remains primarily a Pam/Jim archive. I hope all your concerns with the integration of other pairings etc have now been addressed, and that the new system gives them the same respect with regards to categorising that we gave the Jim/Pam fics.

For the "Other" category, your moderator will be swestworld, and she will be your first point of contact in regards to any issues in that category.

The submission rules have also been updated- all authors should read these before posting any more stories. The administrators reserve the right to edit the submission rules at any point if they feel that something isn't working out. We have the members' best interest in mind, and will do our best to take on any comments/suggestions, if we do need to make any major changes to the rules, but ultimately the final decision rests with the administrators.

Please understand that when we jumped on this venture, we did not expect it to grow so quickly in the space of a few days. We are most definitely still learning, and we hope you can approach us with a level of understanding to that. All suggestions so far have been greatly appreciated, and we'll do our best to take them all on board.

Quick note about adding categories to your story: when you do so, please ensure that you've added both the upper level category (Jim and Pam or Other) and the subcategory (Past, Future etc). You're able to add multiple subcategories if you're not sure your story fits in one specific subcat.

Have fun with it, guys! Don't forget to check out the recent submissions to the Rain challenge, they're great!

ETA: Sort by rating has now been added as an option to the category search. If you run into troubles using it, do let me know.

--sicokitty on July 15, 2006 08:47 pm 1 Comments

I just thought I should let you know there are two more challenges just demanding to be responded to.

Rain, which opens up all kinds of doors for a wet Pam/Jim fic.

Road Trip, uhh backseat action definitely comes to mind.

I hope that gives everyone some fresh ideas!

--sicokitty on July 13, 2006 09:58 am 55 Comments

I just wanted to touch on a few of the topics being discussed in the comments on the previous news item.

I honestly meant no harm with my comment about not wanting slash fic on here. I wasn't trying to exclude any specific genre of fic, it was a natural instinct for me to not want it, since it quicks me out. So I'm sorry about that, I didn't really think before I typed that out.

So we can go with one of two options:

1) We make this site strictly Pam and Jim

or

2) Under the current General category, we open up two sub categories, General Canon, for other canon pairings and General Non-Canon(or fanon, whichever makes more sense to everyone). That way, if you want to read it, you can, and if you don't, you just don't click on those categories. Because I do agree that it isn't fair to exclude certain genres, and that fanfic is a creative expression, and not everyone writes canon. I've read some pretty good non canon stuff myself, so I wouldn't want to discriminate against that.

I really want to try to cater to everyone, and keep everyone happy and comfortable about posting here.

Now the validations thing again.

I think the best point someone brought up about why we should have them validated, is to ensure they are properly rated and categorised. Plus we really do want to make this a quality fanfic site, but no, not to the point where heads would explode or anything like that. For the most part I think we like pretty much everything we read, and that there are only a handful of poorly written fics. What I would like to do though, if we get to the point where a fic does get rejected, that the author is at least offered advice on how to improve their work, and possibly try to hook them up with a good beta reader.

Or what we could do is rather than have each story wait for validation, which honestly, could become a pain, is just have the co admins go through the archive regularly and ensure that the fics are properly rated etc and meet the standards of the archive. I think that might be an easier alternative, just because I would personally hate to have to wait for my fic to be validated in order for people to read it. I don't want any authors turned off from wanting to post their story here.

Thanks again for all the feedback, there are obviously a few things I didn't think of, so this has been great!

I'll be contacting the people who offered to help in a non techie way today, to see if they are still willing to help. If you haven't put up your hand yet, and you want to help out with validating fics, let me know!!



--sicokitty on July 11, 2006 02:53 am 11 Comments

Yay we're up!

I have not done anything in regards to setting up the categories and genres as yet, because sorting gives me a headache. Please feel free to make suggestions, in fact, I insist!!

The current submission rules are the ones that came with the software. I would appreciate it if all authors could take the time to read through it, and give me their feedback on what needs to be added/deleted.

Lastly, I would love it if a couple people would be able to come on board as co admins to assist me with setting things up, and the daily running of the archive, although I think it should pretty much run itself. I would prefer if the co admins were authors or very active readers. I need keen eyes to pick up the things I know I'll miss. If you want to help out, use the contact form to email me, or drop a comment on this news piece.

Yay!! Write some stories!

--sicokitty on July 09, 2006 11:03 am 11 Comments