Djmac1031
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The story still appears on your profile and is still accessible. Looks like yet another glitch, but your story has not been pulled down, unpublished nor hidden.
A brand NEW freaking Bug
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The story still appears on your profile and is still accessible. Looks like yet another glitch, but your story has not been pulled down, unpublished nor hidden.
DEFCOM5
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AwkwardlySet
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This is an elementary-school-level implementation of software.
alohadave
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If a story gets enough reports, it can get pulled.
AwkwardMD
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In the screenshot the OP shared, the story would show up under "Rejected" not pending.
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AwkwardlySet
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Go off and do what, exactly? Build a new erotic story website?
By the way, why do you take every criticism of Literotica personally? Do you have some vested interest that makes you more sensitive to it? And I mean something besides the interest we all have, which is our stories and readership.
And what I said isn't much of a hyperbole, really. Anyone who's ever done software development professionally can tell what an amateur mess of a job this is.
This is their website, and they can do whatever they wish with it, including making this utter mess. It's their right. But I'm also a user, and I'm free to criticize.
Britva415
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Did @DEFCOM5 or anyone https://literotica.com/faq/miscellaneous/report-bugs ?
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One of the things I've learned through giving feedback is watching how authors handle conflict and consequences. Problems and solutions. If two characters have a fight but then are fucking later, talking about how hot each other are and how hard they're coming, then the fight was surface level-only. I'm being brief, but we all know what I'm talking about. Likewise, if two characters fight, and then don't speak for 10 years, that was very serious.
A problem is only ever as serious as the consequences.
If it wasn't hyperbole, if you really believed all the things you say about the site, and if the level of competency required to manage someplace like this were really that low, then you wouldn't still be here. I don't particularly want you to leave, but I can't imagine why you wouldn't if you could.
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Usually I’m arguing with you but in this case I agree. I find the level of unprofessionalism in the IT side embarrassing.
To @AwkwardMD the technical aspects should be the easiest part. They have done a lot of things right as well. Building a community like this is really hard, especially now.
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I'm not a fan of the recent spate of bugs either. I just have nothing to contribute beyond "report bugs", which is such a basic concept that I didn’t think me repeating it added value.
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I'd say that the answer is quite obvious - because there is no real alternative to Literotica. I criticize often, but it's not only Lit that I criticize. I've mentioned many times that all the other websites are worse. Overall, of course. There are aspects that SOL and AO3 handle better. Lit could learn a thing or two from them.
Literotica isn't a common good, and it most certainly isn't a partnership between authors and owners. It's a private website. And as such, I don't have to be respectful or apologetic about it. I also have no ulterior motive for criticizing. There's no other website I'm trying to promote.
You are free to believe what you want about the level of competency with which Literotica's technical side is being handled. I'm also free to form my own opinion. I'd say that some of the AH-ers who are in software development have already commented on all of this mess.
My point is, there's a huge queue of stories waiting to be approved, which should be Laurel and Manu's priority. It's what Literotica is all about. Yet despite that, they venture into this mess of implementation that's creating even more problems. Once again, it's their right. But it's my right to criticize too, as long as this forum exists. I'm certainly not breaking any rules by criticizing.
You haven't answered my question. It's your choice, obviously, but this isn't the first time that you have made me wonder about some special connection you have with Lit.
The way you sometimes act as a spokesperson for Lit. The way you make excuses for them but never criticize them, like ever. The way you act as if offended when someone is harsh in their criticism. Your claim to know the way Lit's AI-detection algorithm works. The way you invest your time in helping other authors who suffer AI rejection...
By themselves, each of these things doesn't look unusual, but taken together?
As I said, you've made me wonder.
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I just did. Will share if the Admins get back to me
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I've always found it curious how you could switch from a belligerent and sarcastic tone to a reasonable and even pleasant one, and then go back to the first, all in the span of minutes, and without any provocation.
Whatever makes you happy, I suppose, but it's not nearly as good a deflection as you think it is.
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No, I am Spartacus.
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@BrokenSpokes said much the same thing to me the other day, that it sometimes sounds like I work for Lit. When most people ask me how I am, I rarely answer with anything about me. I'll explain how my writing is going. If my writing is going well, I'm good. If its going bad, well...
Mostly I think I'm just way more autistic than people realize. Two years ago I had stories pending for 60 days. I made that thread at 30 days, and those stories have posting dates at the end of September. I didn’t understand that Illustrated takes longer until day 50 or so. Some NDs are into trains or bees. I write.
I don't understand complaining. Complaining to my teachers never stopped me from getting bullied. I understand doing. If something bothers me, I do something about it. I take action. i help people when I can, if I can.
Mostly I think I'm just way more autistic than people realize. Two years ago I had stories pending for 60 days. I made that thread at 30 days, and those stories have posting dates at the end of September. I didn’t understand that Illustrated takes longer until day 50 or so. Some NDs are into trains or bees. I write.
I don't understand complaining. Complaining to my teachers never stopped me from getting bullied. I understand doing. If something bothers me, I do something about it. I take action. i help people when I can, if I can.
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I don't understand what I would be deflecting here.
pink_silk_glove
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Agree. If someone complained and it got pulled it would not be in your pendings, it would be in your bouncebacks.
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The direct question I asked about your vested interest in Lit.
I'm sorry to hear about your teachers. I am one, and it gets to me when I hear things like that. Teachers should understand their importance in shaping the environment in the school. Not that mine were great either, but there were a couple of really good ones, and they sure as hell influenced me.
I believe you're wrong about your view of the 'complaint'. As someone who has spent a good deal of his youth in many public, usually anti-government, protests, I know how important it is to raise your voice. Lit obviously isn't a democracy, but all my life's experience taught me that no positive change has ever happened without someone raising their voice.
Who knows, if more people here did it, maybe Laurel would start caring for a change. Or maybe she would ignore it the same as she does now. We'll never know, I suppose.
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Cheerleader. : /
AwkwardMD
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The 80's and 90's were a different time.
I have no vested interest in Literotica.com. i write for therapy. This is where I post my therapy. That makes it important.
I don't matter to Literotica. None of us do. They don't owe me anything, and that makes my use of it a gift. I feel lucky to have this, and get out of it what I can. Someday this will all go away, and I'll be grateful for what I had when I had it.
I have no vested interest in Literotica.com. i write for therapy. This is where I post my therapy. That makes it important.
I don't matter to Literotica. None of us do. They don't owe me anything, and that makes my use of it a gift. I feel lucky to have this, and get out of it what I can. Someday this will all go away, and I'll be grateful for what I had when I had it.
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AwkwardlySet
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As were the fifties and sixties in comparison to them. Times change, now faster than ever, but some truths could be considered universal as they have stood the test of time. But you're also correct that people have grown more complacent and less ready to stand up for anything.
By the way, I was a child in the eighties and a teenager in the nineties. Good times.
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