Deeker's Message of the Week

December 1, 2002

Volunteers Still Needed

Last week I put out a notice asking volunteers to take their time to review the stories they read and note the contents of these stories based on the list that I provided. So far the response has been slow, but I am hopeful that once people see which stories have been done and how the format works the responses will increase. Special thanks to those who have helped me with this project so far. Your time and effort is much appreciated.

For more information on this, please read this page.

Changes Being Made to Story Lists

Some significant changes have been made to the stories lists:

As noted above, some of the stories now have Content Codes to help readers to select the stories they wish to read (or to indicate which ones to avoid). The Content Codes are similar to the ones used by DPF's story listings, using single letter codes to quickly identify the general content in each story. Please note that the codes used for this site's stories are NOT the same as the ones that DPF uses!

Some may ask why I use my own set of codes instead of adopting DPF's system. Several reasons:

Some of the codes used with DPF's system pertain to story content that is either not represented at all or is too insufficienly represented by the stories on this site to warrant their inclusion.
Some of DPF's codes would be superfluous, that is, virtually all of the stories on this site would be represented by these codes.
Using my own set of codes allows for pointing out story contents which are not included in DPF's codes.

Please also note that while DPF's codes are for the most part mnemonic (the letter used corresponds to the first letter of the content's description) my codes do not attempt to adhere to this standard. Instead, my codes are grouped together by certain categories:

Age group of diaper boy(s) in story (5-8, 9-12, 13-17, 18+)
Type of diapers used
How diapers are used/worn
Other people involved in diaper changes or observation of boys wearing diapers
Sexual situations
Purposes for wearing diapers
Miscellaneous

This is an ongoing project. Originally I was going to postpone posting the new story list format with the changes mentioned above, but in doing so, I have put off the project indefinitely since there is no way I could keep up with the work that needs to be done in order to complete this project and also keep up with adding new stories. Therefore, the results will not appear complete for the time being. In the interest of ensuring that all future stories submitted have codes included with them I have added new drop-down menus to the Contributed story submission form as well as the True Account submission page.

In order to make room for the Story Content Codes, the email addresses of the authors are no longer listed. My reasons for eliminating the email addresses of the authors are many:

Most contributors do not want their email addresses to be shown in the first place. This left many of the rows in this column blank (and yes, I know that most of these rows appear blank now as no story content codes are listed for most stories, but I am aiming to get them all filled in eventually).
Email addresses tend to go out of date. Chances are most email addresses that were listed were for accounts which are no longer active.
Spammers abuse web pages with email addresses on them by collecting addresses to build their spam lists (Assholes!)
Few people use these addresses to contact the authors.
Columnar space is freed up on this page to make room for more useful information such as story content codes.

If you currently have a story listed and you want people to be able to contact you directly, please let me know and I will include your email address at the top or bottom of your story's file (please indicate placement of email address if you have a preference, otherwise it will appear at the top). If your story is in HTML format the email address will appear as a clickable link.

For future story submissions, please be sure to do one of the following if you want people to be able to contact you:

Include your email address in the story file itself, either at the top or the bottom.
If sending the story via email, make an explicit note in your message that you want the email address to be included with the story.
If using the Contributed Story submission form or the True Account submission form, be sure to check the box that indicates that you want your email address to be shown.

Top Ten Story Downloads for Week of 11/24/02 to 11/30/02

Rank	Title	Section	Hits
1	Bruce	Contributed Stories	1681
2	Matt	Contributed Stories	1609
3	Dennis #2	True Accounts	1156
4	Ken's Story	Contributed Stories	460
5	Curiosity Kills	Contributed Stories	407
6	Mike's Accident	Archived Stories	320
7	Campfire Stories	Contributed Stories	297
8	The Kellys Come to America	Contributed Stories	267
9	Aaron	True Accounts	206
10	David #2	True Accounts	204

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Have a good week, everyone! Stay happily and thickly diapered!

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