Because we are upgrading our software, Eros & Sappho will be closed for submissions at 6 pm Eastern on Wednesday, October 29. Eros & Sappho will re-open by 6 pm Eastern on Friday, October 31.



We will make an announcement here once Eros & Sappho is open for submissions.



Thanks for your support as we continue to improve Sycophant Hex!

Sycophant Hex will upgrade our existing software beginning September 26, 2008. As part of this process, we will consolidate The Burrow, Pureblood and Wolfsbane archives into Lumos. The Burrow, Pureblood and Wolfsbane archives will be permanently closed to new submissions beginning September 26.



Beginning October 1, Lumos will re-open, and will feature The Burrow, Pureblood, and Wolfsbane submissions, along with all general Harry Potter fanfiction. All stories that currently exist in The Burrow, Pureblood and Wolfsbane will be transferred to the Lumos archive by Sycophant Hex staff.




By combining our three smallest archives into Lumos, we will reduce the time and effort needed to sustain our multiple-archive system. Please note that Ashwinder, Occlumency, Eros & Sappho, and Chaos will remain as independent archives.




As always, thank you for your continuing support of Sycophant Hex.

Interested in working behind the scenes at Sycophant Hex? Have a love for the English language and Harry Potter canon information? Then consider joining the Sycophant Hex Admin staff! We ask that all prospective Admins be able to commit approximately six volunteer hours a week. For more information, please go here. Thanks, and we look forward to hearing from you!

When reading very recently posted stories, you may have noticed that we have been a bit more relaxed in our posting standards. This has been a deliberate recognition of the evolving nature of Harry Potter fandom. We are in the process of reviewing our current posting standards, and if we decide upon any permanent changes we will be sure to let you know as soon as possible. In the meantime -- as always -- we appreciate your continued support!

This is a reminder that no submissions depicting explicit sexual acts for characters below the age of 17 are currently accepted at Sycophant Hex. If current questionable material is submitted or directly posted it is subject to immediate deletion. We appreciate your understanding of this matter. For more information, please refer to our Submission Rules.

We are slowly but surely catching up in the queues, but we do ask your continued patience. We have received an increase in submissions post-Deathly Hallows, which we greatly welcome: It seems that the Muse has touched many with the conclusion of the HP series! Again, we do ask for your continued patience, and we pledge in return to look at stories as soon as possible. Thanks again, as always, for your support of Sycophant Hex!

The queues are once again open for submissions. Please use the appropriate DH Spoilers warning when you post any book seven-related fanfic.

Interested in working behind the scenes at Sycophant Hex? Got a knack for grammar and Harry Potter canon information? Then take the SH Admin's O.W.L. Exam/Interview. We ask that all prospective admins be able to commit six to eight hours a week. For more information, please go here.

Please do not use a HotMail account when signing up for membership in Sycophant Hex! Throughout each and every day, SH receives a barrage of bounced email from HotMail. From the content of these bounced emails, we can tell that people with Hotmail addresses have attempted to sign up for SH, but Hotmail has bounced emails with the SH passwords they need to sign on. To sign up for SH, please obtain and use an email address from another free service, such as gmail (mail.google.com). We want you to enjoy your experience at SH, but unfortunately a Hotmail address too often prevents it. Thank you!

At this time, we are once again allowing cross-posted stories. To help keep the queues moving quickly and avoid there being a delay in the story being posted on one of the chosen archives, please follow the procedures listed below:

If you are cross-posting a chapter to more than one archive at the same time, please write, "Note to the admins: Chapter is cross-posted to {archive(s)}," as the first line of the story text. We will remove this note before posting the chapter. This will allow us to process the chapter on both archives at the same time.

If you are cross-posting a chapter that was previously posted to another archive, please write, "Note to admins: Chapter is already posted to {archive(s)}." Please also do this for any submissions that were previously posted to Mage and are now being cross-posted to multiple archives.

If you have any questions, please let us know!

Thanks!
JackieJLH
SH Admin

As most of you know, we asked for volunteers over the last couple weeks to help move the reviews from Mage back to the old archives. A handful of volunteers spent countless hours gathering reviews from Mage over the past two weeks, and many more volunteers signed on to help with transferring those reviews onto the old archives. Tonight, just TWO days after they started reposting the reviews, the last one was moved onto Ashwinder. The other archives were completed over the weekend.

The admins at Sycophant Hex can't begin to thank everyone who volunteered their time enough and did such wonderful work. We never could have imagined that everything would go so smoothly or so quickly.



Many, many thanks to Alienor, beaweasley2, BloodyBrilliantRuthie, Celisnebula, D'Arcy, Emigirl, Grainne, im2sleepy2, jynx67, Katherine Rose, ksianna, Lady Whitehart, LadyJaneGrey, lunafish, lux_astraea, Maddy Riddle, melusin, Pennfana, Shalimar1981, Smo, Soul Bound, southern_witch_69, Sylvana, and tinnidawg. You're all just so fabulous, and we're so grateful to you for everything you've done.



Please, everyone, if you know any of these people, take a moment to thank them for all their work. It is because of them that we are able to say, without any doubt, that Sycophant Hex will reopen for submissions a mere three weeks after the decision to move back was made, instead of six weeks or more, which had been our original estimate.



Everything is still right on schedule for the archives to reopen this Saturday, April 7th, at 2:00 p.m. Eastern time. Please remember, in the meantime, that the queues are still closed, and any submissions made before they are reopened may be deleted.



All of the stories and reviews that were to be moved should now be on the traditional Sycophant Hex archives. Please remember that we were only moving chapters and reviews for stories posted or updated since October 3rd, 2006, so reviews made to chapters that have not been updated during that time were not moved and will need to be moved by the author. If you have any questions about how to do this, please feel free to contact us at magemove (at ) gmail (dot) com. If you have or come across a story or review that you believe was missed during the move, please let us know. You can report any and all issues with story transfers here. Someone will be checking the forums daily to ensure that all reported problems are taken care of promptly; we will do our very best to make sure that nothing is left behind on Mage.



We thank you all for your patience during this time of transition and for your constant support of Sycophant Hex. It truly has not gone unnoticed or unappreciated.

As many of you may have noticed, multiple Sycophant Hex archives have been closed for the time being so that they can be moved onto the Mage program. For updates on this process, please visit our LiveJournal or the Mage threads on our forums. Any questions should be posted in the forums, though please bear in mind that we are all concentrating on the move to Mage at the moment, so we may not be available to answer right away.

Thank you,
SH Admins