I have had a story waiting in pending for nearly 2 weeks. I have got 3 more chapters to the story already written and sitting in drafts. The delay is unacceptable. If something isn't done I will have to take my work elsewhere just so it gets posted sometime in my lifespan. It is unacceptable for the approval process to take anywhere near this long. Something needs to be done. Whatever system changes they made to cause this need to be reverted or whatever is wrong with the new one needs to be fixed NOW. This used to be a great site, but this is ruining everything.
Approval is rediculously delayed and it needs to be fixed by any means necessary
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As i said, my latest has been sitting in pending for 2 weeks with no response to any of my attempts to reach the mods regarding what is going on, and I already have the next 3 chapters ready to go. This is AFTER it was sent back the 3 times because it had a "link" in it, which it does not and never did. I've literally got people asking me what is going on in the comments and begging for the new content.
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That is a very long time. I've had a story take up to about 7 days to be published, but no more than that. Have you reviewed the submission carefully to try to figure out if an issue with the submission may be causing the delay?
Keep in mind there are no "mods." There's just Laurel -- the one person who reviews and vets stories for publication. I'd suggest trying to PM her.
Keep in mind there are no "mods." There's just Laurel -- the one person who reviews and vets stories for publication. I'd suggest trying to PM her.
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I see six more or less typical comments hinting at wanting a next chapter. I see those types of comments quite often on various stories by various writers.
The wierd thing about approval is that for some people it takes days, for others a very long time.
Some people have claimed that established authors get approved quicker.
Also, as I always say, there are so many stories posted per day. If all stories were approved quickly, then everyday there'd be a massive dump of stories and that wouldn't be good.
Some people have claimed that established authors get approved quicker.
Also, as I always say, there are so many stories posted per day. If all stories were approved quickly, then everyday there'd be a massive dump of stories and that wouldn't be good.
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I don't think that math quite works out. Assuming a steady and relatively stable number of stories being submitted every day, the speed with which they are approved and published should make no difference to the number that get published each day.
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Sounds like it might be a weird formatting glitch - for some reason I have never been able to upload documents and have them accepted. Eventually I just kept to copy and paste with a bit of italics in html, and they are accepted within a couple days.
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Another thought would be to go ahead and submit those. Add a message for each one in the Note To Admin section that there is a chapter held up in pending. That might kick things loose.
Otherwise, just be patient. I only see one story up so I don't see how anything, let alone everything is being ruined.
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That wouldn't be surprising. Established authors don't break the rules, submit grammatically correct stories in a reasonable format. Their stories are easy to check.
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Uploading a document seems to take much longer than cutting and pasting into the editor to be approved.
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Two weeks without any notification is too long. Something got hung up. (Sometimes the author hasn't taken the last step of actually submitting it.) Two weeks is justification for asking the sole submissions editor, Laurel, directly about the delay. She's only reachable via Private Message (upper right on this page. If you don't have PMs turned on, you do that via "User CP," upper left on this page.)
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PM sent
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I’ve never had a problem with uploading but I’m perfect, at least in my own distorted mind. In all seriousness my first stories took several days but then they went to 2/3 days. I think, as has been said, the more you write the better you (hopefully) become and the easier to check.
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I think if I was one of the owner-managers of this free-to-post, free-to-air site, and someone complained that the service I was offering was unacceptable, I would be inclined to advise the complainant not to let the door hit them on the arse on their way out. 
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I think if I was one of the owner-managers of this free-to-post, free-to-air site, and someone complained that the service I was offering was unacceptable, I would be inclined to advise the complainant not to let the door hit them on the arse on their way out.
Another way to look at is its free to post site for us, which makes money for her.
So when the people who make the owner money are the ones who get crapped on, its not wrong for them to say something.
I think the difference in our opinions is I don't have anything on my nose when I post here and feel the need to constantly defend the indefensible.
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Well, more people might post dreck, which would benefit no one.
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Laurel has said that there's quite a queue.
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It would surprise me if that explained the 2-week delay in the OP.
There were 130 new stories today. That's a lot compared to the pre-pandemic norm, but the day and the day before my "Quarter to Midnight" story was posted there were more than 180 new stories. If the queue is long, then maybe a few days at 180+ stories/day is what's called for.
Haven't other people reported 2-3 day delays? My last story went up on 5/24 with a two-day delay.
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My stories almost always take 4 days from submission to publication. They might take one day less or one day more. But I would estimate that of my 37 published stories all but 3 or 4 fall within the 3-5 day range. 2 days is almost unheard of for me. The only time I had a story approved that fast was when I submitted it for a contest right at the deadline.
Some people say one's story gets published faster if you cut and paste into the submission field, and I don't do that. I upload my story as a word or rich text document, and I wonder if that slows it down. I might try the other way and see what happens.
I don't think it's because Laurel doesn't trust me, because my stories are usually pretty clean in terms of mechanics and I've only had one turned away for a content violation (alleged bestiality), and I convinced Laurel that she was wrong on that occasion (i.e., aliens that come to the Earth and look like penis-shaped ocean worms are not the same thing as ocean worms).
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I cut and paste straight out of LibreOffice.
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