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TheLobster said:
Six minutes between the thread being posted and @StillStunned adding his three paragraph reply.

Impressive, most impressive...
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A very welcoming reply it was as well. Guess people making their first ever post should know all these things.

Just imagine if the OP was in the know, he could have broken that post into multiple 750 word clinkers and bragged about it.
 
lovecraft68 said:
A very welcoming reply it was as well. Guess people making their first ever post should know all these things.

Just imagine if the OP was in the know, he could have broken that post into multiple 750 word clinkers and bragged about it.
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You know what? It was a very welcoming reply. Someone posts a massive story in two posts, my immediate concern is to tell them to make a back-up because it's going to be deleted from the thread. Someone posting for the first time doesn't know that. I do. That's called useful advice.

Presumably you didn't see the posts. They were massive walls of text. The maximum character length for forum posts, I suspect, without any breaks. I didn't read them. No-one would. My advice? Break them up into shorter pieces. That way people might read the story.

And then the basic question: for your very first (and second) post in the forums, with an account created several years earlier, why cold post your story forum-side instead of story-side? The OP went to some effort to write their story. You'd expect them to look into the publishing process.

Based on the OP's immediate decision to remove their posts, I assume they took my advice and copied the text to submit it story-side. They could have taken a moment to reply to my input, but I can't fault them. If AH Mod had stumbled across the post, it would have been gone before the OP had copied it.

So you might think I was unfriendly, or sarcastic, or whatever, but I gave the OP the practical advice they needed. I wasn't rude, or mocking, or disrespectful in any way. If they'd stuck around there could have been more back and forth, but they didn't. Hopefully they'll get their story published, and come back to the AH happier for the experience.
 
StillStunned said:
You know what? It was a very welcoming reply. Someone posts a massive story in two posts, my immediate concern is to tell them to make a back-up because it's going to be deleted from the thread. Someone posting for the first time doesn't know that. I do. That's called useful advice.

Presumably you didn't see the posts. They were massive walls of text. The maximum character length for forum posts, I suspect, without any breaks. I didn't read them. No-one would. My advice? Break them up into shorter pieces. That way people might read the story.

And then the basic question: for your very first (and second) post in the forums, with an account created several years earlier, why cold post your story forum-side instead of story-side? The OP went to some effort to write their story. You'd expect them to look into the publishing process.

Based on the OP's immediate decision to remove their posts, I assume they took my advice and copied the text to submit it story-side. They could have taken a moment to reply to my input, but I can't fault them. If AH Mod had stumbled across the post, it would have been gone before the OP had copied it.

So you might think I was unfriendly, or sarcastic, or whatever, but I gave the OP the practical advice they needed. I wasn't rude, or mocking, or disrespectful in any way. If they'd stuck around there could have been more back and forth, but they didn't. Hopefully they'll get their story published, and come back to the AH happier for the experience.
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Most of us caught your honorable intent, but I'm not 100% the rogue 'a' isn't a remnant left behind by the mod when the posts were deleted.
 
ShelbyDawn57 said:
Most of us caught your honorable intent, but I'm not 100% the rogue 'a' isn't a remnant left behind by the mod when the posts were deleted.
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When the mod deletes a story, they replace it with bolded text saying something along the lines of "Don't post complete stories in the forums".
 
Is the 'a' a short or long vowel sound? Some of those Germanic languages do odd things with a's
 
In American English alone, there are at least twelve ways "a" could sound. "Long and short" only barely scratches the surface.

Henry Higgins captured something like seven of them in just one of Eliza Doolittle's utterances.
 
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