Husky_Embrace
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I'm still relatively new to the site, and I do not live here to know all the ins and outs yet. Even so I frequent upon the 'fact' that one person is doing all the submissions. As I read it it isn't just a single category, or only writing. All of them.
I find that doubtful.
It is such a big task to consistently do I wonder if people have facts about this. Even so, here's my position why I find it doubtful.
I did a quick count. In the last 7 days there were 1326 new entries. Pictures, stories, audio, the whole lot. I can't imagine how many have been rejected either. Half that number? Double that? Just to say it is a lot to work through in 7 days. That's 189,43 entries per day, and an unknown amount of submissions rejected.
There's incredible people out there that can do things I can't. The sister of a friend of mine could comprehensively read a thick novel in an hour or two. If you add in a litany of software to aid in all manner of detection, like bad spelling and grammar or AI typed language you can get far. Even so, there's too much that is still on the cutting edge. How do you know if in a NonCon story the non consenter had any pleasure, except reading it? It can be a novella or a long audio book. These kind of tools are still in infancy. They're there, but not as reliable.
After how many stories can you still give it your all? After how many stories does the quality of the check falter?
Then there's a few more damning parts on the "one person does all" theory. Editors Choice and the inconsistency of when things are checked.
The Editors Choice is given when the editor deems it of excellent quality. A must read for others. I would assume that an editor then needs to read the whole story, and be engaged. How many stories are then unfairly passed over as the editor gets fatigued, trusting more on the algorithms to tell what's what.
The other is the inconsistency when a story/audio/poem is checked. Why would such an irregular method be present? Some things can be gleaned, like authors that are well known have better prospects at publishing a story quickly. However, within each category of authors there still seems to be much irregularities. Why did my second story get published compared to someone else also submitting their second story in the same category? Even though I published it later? Or at least, that is what I could tell from the posts made.
My suspicion is that it's a too large site to do this well enough for one person. Sure there might be some outliers in people who can do this for years at such pace, but it wouldn't be logical. At a certain moment freelancers or even paid people should enter the picture. Add a ticket system, people having certain niches they want to check on, and you find much better explanations for the submissions.
With multiple (freelance) Editors you can explain the site much better. The amount of submissions, the irregularities of acceptance or rejection, and the different ways they might react to the same story.
So far my meanderings about a single Editor holding the site together. What are your thoughts? Or do you have facts how it works, showing a single Editor does everything, whether sick, in the weekend or on vacation?
I find that doubtful.
It is such a big task to consistently do I wonder if people have facts about this. Even so, here's my position why I find it doubtful.
I did a quick count. In the last 7 days there were 1326 new entries. Pictures, stories, audio, the whole lot. I can't imagine how many have been rejected either. Half that number? Double that? Just to say it is a lot to work through in 7 days. That's 189,43 entries per day, and an unknown amount of submissions rejected.
There's incredible people out there that can do things I can't. The sister of a friend of mine could comprehensively read a thick novel in an hour or two. If you add in a litany of software to aid in all manner of detection, like bad spelling and grammar or AI typed language you can get far. Even so, there's too much that is still on the cutting edge. How do you know if in a NonCon story the non consenter had any pleasure, except reading it? It can be a novella or a long audio book. These kind of tools are still in infancy. They're there, but not as reliable.
After how many stories can you still give it your all? After how many stories does the quality of the check falter?
Then there's a few more damning parts on the "one person does all" theory. Editors Choice and the inconsistency of when things are checked.
The Editors Choice is given when the editor deems it of excellent quality. A must read for others. I would assume that an editor then needs to read the whole story, and be engaged. How many stories are then unfairly passed over as the editor gets fatigued, trusting more on the algorithms to tell what's what.
The other is the inconsistency when a story/audio/poem is checked. Why would such an irregular method be present? Some things can be gleaned, like authors that are well known have better prospects at publishing a story quickly. However, within each category of authors there still seems to be much irregularities. Why did my second story get published compared to someone else also submitting their second story in the same category? Even though I published it later? Or at least, that is what I could tell from the posts made.
My suspicion is that it's a too large site to do this well enough for one person. Sure there might be some outliers in people who can do this for years at such pace, but it wouldn't be logical. At a certain moment freelancers or even paid people should enter the picture. Add a ticket system, people having certain niches they want to check on, and you find much better explanations for the submissions.
With multiple (freelance) Editors you can explain the site much better. The amount of submissions, the irregularities of acceptance or rejection, and the different ways they might react to the same story.
So far my meanderings about a single Editor holding the site together. What are your thoughts? Or do you have facts how it works, showing a single Editor does everything, whether sick, in the weekend or on vacation?
