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by Magical Maeve @ 01/19/07 12:31  
It is stated quite clearly on the submissions page that we do not allow stories in multiple categories. You are allowed to choose one category for your story and that is where it needs to stay. We usually pick up multiple category stories at the submission stage and reject them.

However, it has become apparent that some of you are editing your stories into multiple categories after validation. This is NOT allowed. Please be aware that editing your story into multiple categories could put it at risk of deletion from the archive. If you have a story straddling categories, please edit it back into one. Thank you.
Comments
dancingcarrot21 written on 02/15/07 10:24

That makes perfect sense. Kudos on cracking down.


Vivvie written on 02/15/07 20:56

I don't see why we can't submit our stories into more then one category. But, in this case, I won't fight the power and submit my stories into more then 1 category :]. But I would like to know why we can't do that. But I agree with Kerichi, unless you are colorblind, you should be able to see the BIG BOLD text. So, I guess I am kinda nuetral in this case.


songbook99 written on 02/15/07 22:30

Kerichi, while changing the wording from 'submit to' to 'published in' might make sense for some authors, it may not make sense to the new authors, whom we seem to have more problems with when it comes to submitting to multiple categories. If they're not clear on the submitting to only one category part when it says 'submit to', changing the wording to 'published in' won't help.

Vivvie, the reasons multiple category submissions aren't allowed has been stated in other responses by other mods already. The two main reasons are that multiple category submissions usually span the bounds of two categories handled by different mods and that allowing multiple category submissions would make the organization of the site practically ineffectual and useless.


Vivvie written on 02/16/07 6:50

Ohhh.....I get it.

I'm new. Didn't know that, so excuse my rather nieve comment there. Didn't get it. Thanks songbook99!


Lily_ Evans written on 02/24/07 11:41

I'm glad that you enforcing the rule too! It's bad someone to break it, and it's very clearly written.