PENDING- STILL STUCK

[TheQuipper]

I originally published a story on June 25th. After a week, I figured maybe the delay was because site managers were busy with the Nude contest.

I took it down and reposted on July 4th ... knowing it would go to the end of the queue ... but also assuming it's because there must have been an issue with the first submission.

Yet, here we are.

It's still in pending with no notes and no response to the 5 or 6 messages I've sent to Support.

I guess I'll just leave it as is but how discouraging.,,.

 

[yano2mch]

Does everything need approval? i can see new users needing it until they have a little repertoire but i don't think they'd do it for people posting a lot of content that's good after they've been submitting for weeks or years.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Does everything need approval? i can see new users needing it until they have a little repertoire but i don't think they'd do it for people posting a lot of content that's good after they've been submitting for weeks or years.

Everything gets screened. Long time authors still get screened, but it's often a lot quicker. For example, I had a short piece go live in 36 hours or so (it was posted in Non-erotic), and my last piece was processed in a similar timeframe - but the release was delayed a couple of days, presumably to spread out the category load.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I originally published a story on June 25th. After a week, I figured maybe the delay was because site managers were busy with the Nude contest.

I took it down and reposted on July 4th ... knowing it would go to the end of the queue ... but also assuming it's because there must have been an issue with the first submission.

Don't assume that. Instead, picture a slow conveyor belt moving steady along with no eyes on your content until it gets to a certain point. Nothing is "wrong" until you get a rejection notice.

Yet, here we are.

Your clock is from the 4th July, not the 25th June.

It's still in pending with no notes and no response to the 5 or 6 messages I've sent to Support.

If it's still Pending, it's not been looked at yet.

Nothing going to Support gets action, so far as I'm aware. I suggest you send a polite PM to Laurel using the envelope top right of this page.

I guess I'll just leave it as is but how discouraging.,,.

Patience is always the best counsel.

 

[yano2mch]

Everything gets screened. Long time authors still get screened, but it's often a lot quicker. For example, I had a short piece go live in 36 hours or so (it was posted in Non-erotic), and my last piece was processed in a similar timeframe - but the release was delayed a couple of days, presumably to spread out the category load.

Fun fun. My avatar image took 24-36 hours to go up. I can see there being a lot more considerations than there used to be when the site first went up... damn... 25+ years ago? (i remember reading stories back in 2000)

Anyways, interesting to know. I'll probably just lurk on the forums for a while before i consider putting anything up.

 

[LeSabreur]

I submitted my first story on May 24th and that same day a moderator sent me feedback telling me that I needed to change the name of the story. On May 26 I did that and resubmitted it.

It sat in pending for weeks. It was resubmitted several times but for many weeks all I have seen is a 404 message, "This work is not available," and cannot see my submission at all.

I have sent two requests to the mods for technical assistance and have received no reply from either. It's a very discouraging situation. I've been active on boards and forums since the Unix dialup days, and have never run into such technical FUBARs on a major site.

 

[yano2mch]

I submitted my first story on May 24th and that same day a moderator sent me feedback telling me that I needed to change the name of the story. On May 26 I did that and resubmitted it.

It sat in pending for weeks. It was resubmitted several times but for many weeks all I have seen is a 404 message, "This work is not available," and cannot see my submission at all.

The first one having a 404 as it's removed would make sense. But not accessing or seeing either one...

From purely a technical point of view, feels like your ticket/story got lost in a pile and they just haven't looked at it, or maybe it was large enough they felt they couldn't give it enough attention to properly mark it good or not. Or maybe they declined it and you never got notified.

From another point of view would be if there's a database or other problem. This is purely speculation though.

This does bring up the annoyances of recent sites though. Youtube, facebook and other sites that will flag content and then not give you a clear reason. I was banned off GoG and they didn't give me a reason. Closest thing i got was 'going off topic'. Meaning they probably just had it out for me. And Facebook banned me even though i was just reposting public information in the news i thought was noteworthy. (guess it's hard to scrape much data from me when i don't put anything personal up)

I'm not saying this is one of those cases. It's just my trust and benefit-of-the-doubt in moderators and sites have diminished a lot in the last 10 years, especially with activists involved.

I hope everything turns out okay.