Bardlands
‡ Bardlands ‡
Authors' Review
‡ Authors' Review ‡
- Are the rules and terms of submission easy to find?
Yes, they are in the side menu and linked to on the front page.
- Do they supply a beta reader for authors?
There is a beta reader category on their message board, but there are no posts on it.
- Are they polite about rejecting fics?
They are emphatic that they will delete fics that violate their policies...I would not confuse this with rudeness, though.
- Do they remove author's notes or copyright notices without asking the author first?
The author seems to be in control of the upload process. However, their program is incompatible with my browser so I could not upload a test fic to find out if stories are screened...
- Do they ever archive fics without permission?
No.
- Are they prompt about removing fics at an author's request?
I can't find out if the author can delete their own stories, or if they need an admin to delete stories for them.
- What is their plagiarism policy...do they investigate or do they take a complainant at their word?
They say that they haven't had anyone break their rules yet, so their procedure is unknown.
- Do they update at least once a month?
They seem like they get updated fairly frequently.
- Do they make it possible for readers to leave feedback?
If there is a way, I missed it.
- Is their location stable, or do they move frequently?
They've moved once.
Note: it is possible to run an open round robin story with their story interface.
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Reader review
‡ Reader review ‡
- Is the site attractive?
No, it's very boring looking, very... blah.
- Is the site easy to navigate? (can you get to all the main sections from every page, or do they rely on the 'back' button an awful lot?)
Yeah.
- How selective is the archive? (Are you likely to find a good story?)
Anyone can archive.
- Are they a specialty (ship or genre centric) or general (only ratings restrictions) archive?
They ship R - NC-17 (and not just HP).
- Is it easy to navigate within multi-chaptered stories?
Yup.
- Are there search engines? Are they easy to use?
No search engines.
- Are the indexes (author, title listings) clearly laid out?
Yes.
- Are stories appropriately labelled if they require warnings?
Yup.
- How many pages do you have to search through to get to the first story?
Third page once you get to bardlands.net.
- Is it easy to leave feedback?
You have to go to the Message Board.
side note - to get the menu you have to press x and to close it z
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