cheshiregrin's dashboard

Could you change the critique button icon? I was thinking about the way people respond to marking a comment "critique" and how I feel about doing it. I realized that the red flaming button makes me shy away from it. Also, seeing it is a bit daunting. It brings up all the unpleasant memories of red ink on my assignments in high school. Also, the flame makes me think of "flaming" which is just all out bad and not ok.

There has been a lot of talk lately about giving critique, accepting critique, etc. Some people findi t very uncomfortable to receive, others hesitate to give critique because it isn't received. I know you are working on stuff about inviting criticism and that, but I think we need a new and friendlier icon for leaving a "critique" comment. After all, the point of doing it is usually to help the author improve and encourage them. Especially with the new ability to edit stories at any time.

I guess this sort of piggybacks on something already mentioned, but It would be awesome if we could click on the "see my stories" link and be able to see stories in one list, with branches/chapters either under the stories they are in or separate. I was looking earlier today and I found it really hard to just find the stories I've started. Wherever this would be easiest to add, it would be a really nice addition, especially for those highly prolific people (or even for those of us who are less so but have bits of things in various places. I know that chapters are technically put under stories in some of the coding, so maybe it wouldn't be too difficult to get a listing of stories with chapters filed under those stories and stuff on other works separate. Of course, that is assuming that the code does not work counter-intuitively on this.

Is it possible to edit or add to the tags for a story after the initial creation?
I don't always know where my stories are going when I first write them and I know other stories have taken interesting turns since creation. So can tags be added later, at least by the original author? This would include flagging a story as Mature. I really hate the idea of "reporting" my own story and getting the advisory on my profile just because I realized I wanted to use a bit of profanity or include a bit more than a hint of violence, sexual conduct, or tasteful descriptions of nudity. I understand that removing tags could be problematic since there could be someone working on the story at that moment, under that tag, but I would love to be able to add things in. And I especially would like to be able to flag my own story as mature if I realize it is going that way.