CHANGES COMING TO STARS: As some of you know, our server hosting company limits us to 200 emails per hour sending out which includes Chapter/Author update emails. Usually, this isn't an issue unless really popular authors post around the same time. However, Robo-Spammers have been bombarding us with fake accounts for the last few months, some using real peoples information/emails addresses. I've deleted about 4,000 of these accounts this week alone. They've been eating up all our allowable emails since each person who registers, get a "confirmation" email notice with their username/password.

Because of the way our base software is set up, we can't set up a more robust captcha system. So while it will create more work for me (Kelly), we've made the decision to remove the self-registration system completely. New readers/authors will need to email us to request creation of an account; details are on the Register a New Account tab on the main page. This will hopefully help with weeding out new spam accounts and help with the story alert issues as well.

Jenn is working on tweaking some of the skins to include a new Simplicity Dark that was requested.

Please feel free to share and thank you for being a part of the STARS Library Family!!

~Jenn & Kelly

If you need to contact the Admin Team: please email admin@starslibrary.net

 

1. Info about Banners, Story Titles and Summaries: Story titles and banners can be seen by everyone including minors!!! Any words stronger than damn, to include but not limited to derogatory names for men or women, cannot be in your title.

Titles and/or summaries that include adult language or lemons, and banners that are too adult in nature, include nudity or partial nudity, or include strongly adult language WILL BE EDITED OR DELETED without notice! This means the banner or language, not the story

Anything showing breasts, butts, penis, etc cannot be in your main story banner/summary area. Reasonable bathing suits are fine (no thongs). You are MORE than welcome to put them in your chapters since you have to be logged in AND have age certification statements checked for anything T rated or above which these things would be on.

2. Stories with Sexual Content: Just a quick reminder to authors with lemons in their stories:

Underage sex is fine so long as both parties are underage, but adults having sex with underage children/minors (below the age of consent for the country/state of the story) is considered pedophilia which is against our terms of service/submission rules. Stories violating this rule will be deleted.

In general, the age of consent in most states/countries is 16. The only exception would be a Romeo/Juliet defense where they had a prior relationship while both were underage at the time before one became an adult.

3. Ratings Questions:

Authors often ask how to pick a rating for their stories. Our ratings are K, T, M, and NC17. If you compare them to movie ratings, it would look something like this:

K = G Clean. Something...