If you are having difficulty staying logged in to the website, please check the URL in the location box. The site must be accessed via www.ewpub.org, and not www.ewp.org. This is because of the nature of cookies. Also, if you do not have cookies enabled in your browser, you will never be able to stay logged in.
Actually, it does work, but it doesn't do anything that is immediately visible. The rating button runs a script that changes your rating of the story, and then immediately reloads the chapter navigation menu. You might notice that the list of ratings goes blank for a second, and then it comes back up with the rating you chose highlighted. This is the indication that the rating has been entered.
If you registered on the forum, your username and password will still work, but ONLY on the forum. Because the forum is a complex program written by others, there was no easy way for us to merge the two. You will need to register separately with the site itself. We are sorry for this inconvenience.
Whether as a reader or as an author, if you are having problems getting the website to operate, you should contact the administrator. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES should you post a technical issue to the EWP Forum!!! The administrator can be reached at admin@ewpub.org.