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Site Functions & Features
Basic Instructions to help you using our service.
Registration & Submission Guidelines
How to submit your stories and let them show up on this website.
Terms of Service
Disclaimers and general terms for members and visitors.
About Us (Coming soon...)
Site history and staff team introduction.
FAQ
If you still have questions after reading all the features above, maybe you can find your answer here.


Buffy & Spike Diaries uses a horizontal navigation layout:

1. Top Status Bar
Displays date & time, visitor's identity and provides links to login and register.

2. Menu Panel
  • Home - Link to front index page.
  • Browse - Browse and read fictions from our fiction archive. Simple search functions are provided on this page.
  • Specials - This page is similar to Columns at Fanfiction.net. Visitors can read selected essays, reviews and writer interviews...etc. This page also contains information on activities and contests made by B/S Diaries. Updated on a periodical basis.
  • Extras - Any other fan works and goodies such as icons, wallpaper, skins and games will be featured in this section. Open for submission. Also feaures Challenges.
  • Search - Allow visitors search stories using detailed filters.
  • Forum - Link to The Fine Line, a forum for discussion on the ship & anything.
  • Links - Selected links to sites recommended by our staff members. Links are added by invitation only.
  • Guides - Helps on how to browse, register, upload and enjoy this website.
  • Contact - Information on how to contact us.

    3. Main Body
    Main portion of the page displays all the text information.

    4. Footer Bar
    Displays Copyright information.

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  • In order to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of our work, the new B/S Diaries has implemented a member system. To submit a story, first please register with us. Registration Form can be found by clicking the link at the front index page or by clicking the link on the Top Status Bar.

    Rules and Regulations

    General:

    1. B/S Diaries is a selective archive, which means the staff members reserve the rights to decline any entries with inappropriate contents and / or ideas based on our editor's decision. As the official BtVS Fanfic guild zone the team will try their best to satisfy every single fellow writers, yet at same time they have the duty to ensure every story featured on this website will bring readers the joy of reading and free from any legal trouble.

    2. Please spell-check and if possible, proofread the story before submission. The editing team will NOT beta or spell-check any entries. Entries with scrambled grammar, poor word choices, or more than 5 typos will automatically result in a decline. If an entry has really good contents but suffering from grammar errors and typos, the editor will notify the writer for a revision.

    3. Entries will be reviewed on a ratio between entertainment value and literal value. Fictions: 80% entertainment, 20% literal. Articles: 25% entertainment, 75% literal. By default articles will have a more strict review standard and must be passed by every editor on the team.

    4. Declined entries will be deleted on a bi-monthly basis. Please save a copy of the entry before submission.

    Fictions:
    1. Stories will be divided into 4 ratings:
    G-PG13 for general audience, R for mid-level violence, bold language and sexual content, NC17 for mature & explicit violence / sex scenes, and a new rating: X for extremely dark and hardcore pornographic contents. Members are encouraged to submit entries with all ratings but stories rated X will bring a heavy risk to this website and thus there is a rare chance for editors to pass them. Editors reserve the right to alter an entry's rating upon review.

    2. Carried from the old system, B/S Diaries does not accept WIP (Work-In-Progress). However, under new management, members can submit Unfinished Series. Which means, as long as the writer wrap each chapter in some types of ending tone (like the real BtVS show, each episode can also be viewed individually) editors can happily accept his/her unfinished story.

    3. B/S Diaries doee not accept any fictions based on real person.

    Articles:
    1. Each entry must be at least 500 words in length.

    2. Every article, unless it is an interview or an news report, is required to state a clear point of view or a statement from observation.

    3. BE OBJECTIVE - that is the key difference between an essay and a plain opinion or a journal entry. Columns are exceptions.

    4. If a reader strongly disagrees with the view stated in any featured essays, he / she is encouraged to write an counter-article debating with the original author.

    5. If any reference or resource is quoted, please state it in the end of the article.


    Registration
    Please provide your desired member ID, your name, email and age group. After successfully registering with our system, your password will be sent to your by e-mail. After logging in for the first time you can choose to edit your password and other information using the Edit Profile function on User Panel. Should you encounter any trouble during registration, please feel free to contact us using our Quick Service by clicking Contact on Menu Panel.


    Submission
    After logging in, you can submit your story by clicking Submit a Story under Personal Submission Station from User Panel. The major difference between our system and the popular Storyline script is that members submit story information (such as title and summary) along with the story or the 1st chapter of the story. Fill in all required fields (marked in * ) correctly first, then choose to preview or to add it directly into your inbox. Please notice that we don't allow any types of HTML to be placed in any of the fields. If you do need certain texts to be bold or italic, please use our UBB click-box listed above the field. Then from your Submission Inbox you can choose to add later chapters, editing it, or submit it to us within 24 hours. After you submit your story one of our editors will review it within a day. Once we approved your story, we will add it into the archive. The result will show up on your Submission Outbox immediately. For updating Unfinished Stories: Please email your new chapters to us intead of submitting using our system, we are working on a new feature to allow such updates in the future. Note: currently this feature is not steady enough to open to the public, please understand and use our email system to submit fics.

    If you feel uncomfortable with out submission system, please use the email provided on Submit Others to submit your story. Our editors will review your submission sent via e-mail attachments ( .doc / .txt files only). However, this task requires more labor on our side and please forgive us if the approval period is relatively longer: 48 hours. Also, keep each chapter under 10,000 words.

    To submit a review or an essay, please use the Submit an Article feature on Personal Submission Station. the approval period for an article is 24 hours. This feature is fully working right now so please take the advantage and enjoy.

    To submit other types of works, please e-mail us directly to submission@bsdiaries.com. Please keep your attachment under 300KB. The approval period is 72 hours.

    If your entry is added, you will receive an acceptance notice by e-mail. If unfortunately, we are unable to add your work, you will receive a decline notice by e-mail by the end of a editing cycle.

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    Acceptance of Terms

    Thank you visiting BSDiaries.com. BSDiaries.com provides its service to its visitors based to the following Terms of Service (TOS), which may be updated from time to time. The BSD Staff Team will notice every member about every changes via mailinglist and forum annoucement. All events and activities occured after the update must obey the updated TOS, while earlier events may or may not be affected based on the nature of the update. Updated TOS can be found on this page or by clicking the link listed under Member Panel once logging in. Failure to accept these terms will deny a visitor the right to submit works to Buffy/Spike Diaries by not allowing him/her to create an member account. Failure to observe the TOS will cause deletion of a member's stories, articles, forum posts and other works and in some cases will lead to the banning or termination of his/her member account. In servere cases, a member's IP location might be traced and blocked for system security.

    Description of Service

    BSDiaries.com provide services for writers and readers to post and read stories, articles, other types of fan works and communicate with other authors and readers through forums. Unless explicitly states, all future features shall fall under the terms of the TOS.

    Please be aware that 20-30% contributions on this website contain content not suitable for people under 17. Stories that contain mature content require a statement that you are of age to legally read the material providing the fact that editors gave them the correct censor rating. It is the reader's obligation to read and/or leave areas that are misrated or allow adult content. If a reader is below the age of consent as indicated, BSDiaries.com is not responsible for any results caused by his/her reading but will apologize and remove content under the condition that the entry is misrated and brought to the attention of BSDiaries.com staff.

    Contributions to BSDiaries.com contain unpermitted use of copyrighted materials. BSDiaries.com will try the best to serve the fans and avoid offending the official parties. But if offense is seriously taken, please contact us and BSDiaries.com will understand the decision and do necessary changes.

    Visitor & Member Obligations

    In consideration for the use of the Service, one must agree to:
    1. Abide by the rules that are posted for different sections such as but not limited to the submission rules and the forum rules;
    2. Respect the requests made by BSDiaries.com Staff Team as applicable to your actions on the site;
    3. Honestly verify your age of consent when going through the NC-17 and/or X screen window and check for updates and update notices of the rules in pages on this website.

    Author Account Security

    A member is responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the password and account, and are fully responsible for all activities that occur under his/her password or account. BSDiaries.com will not be responsible for any fraud use of ones' account caused by client factor such as not logging out when a computer will be used by people other than the member himself/herself..

    BSDiaries.com has the non-exclusive rights to publish any submitted and accepted writing on this website and sometimes in print-by-request. The non-exclusive publishing rights ends when an entry is removed. On special occasions BSDiaries might ask for semi-exclusive rights such as timely-release during contests and projects.

    Termination

    BSDiaires reserves the right to remove one's account without prior notice under emergency circumstances. One can remove his/ her account by sending the staff team a termination notice.

    Links & Resources

    BSDiaires.com is only responsible for links listed under the Links section of this website. Links on author's profile page is not in any way verified to guarantee the content and/or nature of the destination website being linked. If one is offended by any links found on the profile page please notice the staff team for further consideration.

    Copyright Complains

    If anyone believe that his/her work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide BSDiaries.com with the following information by email:

    For Copyrights on Business/Official Parties:

    1. An official electronic signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest;
    2. A detailed description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed and its url;
    3. Your name, title, address, telephone number, and email address;
    4. A statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf.

    For Domestic Copyrights:

    1. Your name and e-mail address.
    2. The url of the piece that you have the copyright for, the date that the entry was posted, and the title of the piece.3.The url of the piece that you feel is in violation of your copyright, the date the alleged infringed piece was written and the title the alleged infringed piece.
    3. Details on the nature of the copyright infringement.

    BSDiaries.com will consider and act accordingly with all correctly received information..

    Violations

    Please report any violations of the TOS to BSDiaries.com Staff Team by e-mailing them to abuse@bsdiaries.com.

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