Things You Don't Like About Mibba.

135 pages of spam oh god what the fuck.

@ fauvism
Well... we were all complaining about inactivity. So, spammers activate.

@ delirium.
Oops, I regret nothing.

Spam bots being the only "active" fake "members" ._.

The spam!!! It's getting worse! Right there's over 50 pages in the blog section and it got up to over 100 today... not to mention the other sections.

I think the spam is evolving. It's officially making faces.

@ southpaw
and crawling off the pages xD

@ southpaw
They're also coming up with more humanish usernames. i saw two accounts that said imsexy05 and imsexy06. XD

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nearly 11 pages worth of spam overnight. Spam is getting ridiculous now. :(

southpaw:

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I think the spam is evolving. It's officially making faces.

That's actually pretty hilarious.

I don't like how some people complain about the minimum of 100 words of original content in their blog posts. Srsly. The minimum used to be 200 words.

@ kitsch
That and 100 words isn't even that much. Anything less than that should just be put on twitter or facebook.

kitsch:

I don't like how some people complain about the minimum of 100 words of original content in their blog posts. Srsly. The minimum used to be 200 words.

Yo, I agree, though it sucks that I have to think of other things to say, that just gives me more incentive to dish out dirty and juicy things


These flippin' spammers. Like stahp!

Other sites are able to offer bold and italic font options, as well as keeping you up to date with the chapter numbers so that you don't inadvertently give two chapters the same number and then have to re-edit your mistake. Why not Mibba?

Oh, and some accessibility options for we severely visually impaired authors would be nice.

@ John Curzon author
Bold and italics are available on Mibba. You use BBCode which, granted, isn't like having the option there in a text editor but it allows you to change the font style. Here's the code for both:

[b]Bold[/b] - Bold
[i]Italics[/i] - Italics

That so many writers here don't know how to write a log line. A log line can make or break a story for me...and if you don't have one, I probably won't click on your story. I know not everyone here wants to be a pro, but a log line would be so helpful!

@ Aightball
What'a a log line?

@ Black Moon Lady Hina

A short summary about your story, something every writer, pro or not, should know how to write. For instance, here's the log line for my book Rescue Me:

Jacoby has always stood by his husband, no matter how far into addiction Jimmy fell. Now, with Jimmy off his meds, and back on drugs, Jacoby has to decide just how strong his love for Jimmy is.

It's something I would put so that when people searched for my story, they would see this. In theory, that would cause people to click on my story and read it. If a story doesn't have a log line, I'm not likely to take time to click on it and see what it's about. If all that box in the search says is which characters are in it, no thanks. Give me something, give me a reason to click on your story.

@ Aightball
Ah ok. That makes sense. That would definitely be useful for drawing people in but I think a lot of people do write that. I know I add one into most of my stories. :)

@ Black Moon Lady Hina

Many don't. I see things like: featuring [character names] or If Bob can't save the world, what will happen? Rhetorical questions are the death of every log line, query, and pitch, not to mention opening lines. I want to see something that really draws me in and makes me have to click on that story.

@ Aightball
Would you consider writing a tutorial on log lines? You explained it really well, and it's something I'd definitely be interested in learning more tips about. I'm sure tons of people on Mibba would be too