• An addendum to Rule 3 regarding fan-translated works of things such as Web Novels has been made. Please see here for details.
  • RIP @Silver Swallow
  • We've issued a clarification on our policy on AI-generated work.
  • Due to issues with external spam filters, QQ is currently unable to send any mail to Microsoft E-mail addresses. This includes any account at live.com, hotmail.com or msn.com. Signing up to the forum with one of these addresses will result in your verification E-mail never arriving. For best results, please use a different E-mail provider for your QQ address.
  • For prospective new members, a word of warning: don't use common names like Dennis, Simon, or Kenny if you decide to create an account. Spammers have used them all before you and gotten those names flagged in the anti-spam databases. Your account registration will be rejected because of it.
  • Since it has happened MULTIPLE times now, I want to be very clear about this. You do not get to abandon an account and create a new one. You do not get to pass an account to someone else and create a new one. If you do so anyway, you will be banned for creating sockpuppets.
  • Due to the actions of particularly persistent spammers and trolls, we will be banning disposable email addresses from today onward.
  • The rules regarding NSFW links have been updated. See here for details.

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    forum.questionablequestiong versus questionablequesting

    They're both aliases for the same backend. This is basically an accident, and it's somewhere on my todo list to just make one of them redirect to the other. But there's no security problem, it's just mildly inconvenient if you switch from one to the other and find yourself logged out.
  2. alethiophile

    Clarification regarding AI policy

    We encourage authors to tag for however they use AI in their writing process. Also, you are allowed and encouraged to ask authors to tag for AI if appropriate. The reason we aren't making this a rule is because we have no reliable way of determining whether a work is AI-generated or not, and so...
  3. alethiophile

    Clarification regarding AI policy

    Since it's come up several times, we're issuing an official clarification on QQ's policy on AI-generated writing and images. QQ has no rule against the use of AI tools, or posting the outputs from those tools. However, users are still responsible for ensuring that everything they post follows...
  4. alethiophile

    Problem with some images from https://postimages.org/ posting.cc likely due to ratr limits or something else related to your image proxy.

    As you surmised, it's a problem with the image proxy. Specifically, the hosting site is not letting QQ's server download the image for proxying purposes, which may happen for any reason or no reason. Unfortunately, I have little ability to debug this. (And just turning off the proxy is not a...
  5. alethiophile

    Strange log in issue

    This is a known problem, and I mean to fix it next time I have the time to mess with that layer of the site.
  6. alethiophile

    Rule 3 Addendum - Translations of Others' Works

    If someone says "Chinese" without any further elaboration, they presumably mean Mandarin. This is a common usage. Saying "Indian" without any elaboration could refer to Hindi, but I haven't actually seen anyone use that.
  7. alethiophile

    Search Function Doesn't List Member Name

    Apparently this is a known bug in one of Xon's addons. I've just changed the settings to work around it.
  8. alethiophile

    Rule 3 Addendum - Translations of Others' Works

    There's definitely a problem with original works disappearing off the Internet. I highly endorse the use of downloader tools to keep your own copies of such things; archival is an honorable practice. For cases where the original author is dead or unreachable, it's possible we'll make exceptions...
  9. alethiophile

    Rule 8 Initiative Thread

    Those rules are indeed still in effect, so the thread will remain pinned. If we later reconsider the issue and change the rules in place, then that will be announced separately.
  10. alethiophile

    Google Drive embeds seem intrusive

    Good point. I found the correct options and disabled all the Google sites. I also disabled embeds from Tiktok, which came up a while ago, cc @magic9mushroom.
  11. alethiophile

    favorite quotes or quotes you created yourself

    It's not automatically against the rules to quote a politician, but this is just a bunch of political commentary. Let's not.
  12. alethiophile

    Can I get a Rule 1 clarification?

    @ziggy, you have been warned multiple times to drop this issue. Instead, you decided to drag it out into the public forum. We are not addressing this further, and ignoring staff warnings will get you a week off the site. For the benefit of public readers, this post is a continuation of a...
  13. alethiophile

    Way to toggle an individual post's font color?

    You could do this using a user style in Stylus or similar. It would require a bit of manual fiddling to get it to apply precisely.
  14. alethiophile

    The SFW image thread

    Let's drop the derail about inflation and its causes, please.
  15. alethiophile

    Security of TikTok embeds

    Someone up-thread suggested Privacy Badger. I just tried it with uBlock Origin, basically the standard; it doesn't block it by default, but you can add the custom filter: ||tiktok.com^$3p Note that uBlock Origin, and maybe others, might have problems in Chrome due to the upcoming Manifest v3...
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