"Courage and perseverance are important if one is to run anything resembling a news organization...the folks at theOtaku.com have demonstrated themselves to have ample quantities of both."
~ TCJ (The Comics Journal)
"A couple years of experience in the Otaku circle have taught me at least one good lesson--to trust Adam."
~ myO member
"Adam is actually a decently accomplished troll."
~ Allamorph
"The scale of Adam's cunning genius is truly frightening."
~ TimeChaser
I know it's inexcusable that it took us 4 years to fix, but tags now display on world posts.
I found over 2,000 fake spam accounts on theO, created by machines to try and post nefarious links across the site.
I really dislike CAPTCHAs, those images with blurry, hard-to-read text that verify if people are human, but we can't have these accounts swarming the site and causing trouble.
Hm...what to do...
Uploaded a work recently that they want honest feedback/criticism on rather than just compliments? Post the link in the comments and I'll take a look.
;_;
- theO's traffic has been on a roll lately but there's a big mountain left to climb. A ton of returning visitors have come back.
- I have sad news to announce about theO's podcast, will make a post about it tonight.
- I want to give a shout out to tiggerola. She's done a great job every week in welcoming new members to theO and setting a positive tone early on.
- I'd love to make a "Matrix-like" page that displays all incoming member comments on theO and just have it run nonstop. It can stay on my iPad to the side. Then I can shock people by replying to comments only seconds after they post it.
- When theO introduces its next site we're going to have a 'blind submission' period, where people submit works before the site launches. Then when the site launches we'll have a ton of great content ready.
- Someone PMed me asking about the world preview option and why it's different than just reading the text in the text box. Two reasons: (1) Formats styling, and (2) It's MUCH easier to catch spelling/grammar mistakes when you see the text in a different context. Reading in text boxes is painful.
Cheers to you,
