Nate

Went ahead and added four new ranks, although I do like bubblewrapped's a lot. In fact one of those could be a rank...

Previously, one attained the highest user rank after you reached 500 posts. Back when YWS was first created, that worked fine. However, there are now 78 members with more than ...

I like the suggestions from McMourning and Baroness Ink :P Having a rank related to the mascot would be good as a short term thing, but I'm afraid that it'll ...

In the last round of voting, dragon was behind monkey until around the 100 vote mark. Will that happen here? Don't know, but Baroness Ink is right to point out ...

I just don't understand. Don't worry, it didn't happen :P

From The Onion*: Bush Cuts Off Diplomatic Relations With Congress WASHINGTON, DC—President Bush announced Monday that his administration will permanently sever ties with the democratically controlle

Wow... Brad came out in favor of dragons. Wasn't expecting that! I'm seriously shocked. Maybe I'll have a joke mascot poll after this one. Ya know, with options like Pat ...

Tassen brought it to my attention today, but there have been a number of bots spamming the shoutbox area on blogs. This did not affect most people, but those who ...

After two rounds of voting, the candidates for the official YWS mascot have come down to just Monkey or Dragon. Valid arguments can be made for both, but it basically ...

Thanks to you, I can finally count to 5! But don't ever insult something you wrote. Other people may, and maybe they are right, and maybe they are wrong. But ...

Hi, I'm me. Anyway, even if reviews are given with tips, they are all about how you could structure this sentance differently, or how this word is spelt wrong, or ...

Wikipedia is actually really good for that. You shouldn't source it in your paper, but typically the articles will have links to good sources. Plus, it gives you a great ...

Here's the old YWS logo with a dragon in it... Bobo hated it so much that within a day or two, he had a replacement for it (also below):

So hard to choose... I'm sad kangaroo lost :(

The current system of junior writer, writer, senior writer, novelist, speaker of the forum was devised back when YWS first came into being, and back then, the number of posts ...