Comment moderation taking too long (comments suddenly stopped coming since 2-3 days)

[ghastly_lump_of_meat]

Everything was normal on day one of posting a new story: people commented on it, and my first reply (a comment I made on my own story) took about a day to appear, which seemed fine.

After that, I posted a couple more replies thanking readers for their suggestions and asking them some questions; they were benign comments, nothing ban-worthy.

But it's almost 3 days now and I'm seeing no new comments (not just my own, I'm not seeing ANY new comments on my story). The only exception was a recent one from a reader who has already posted over 200 comments, which I believe does not go through moderation.

This has never happened to me before, especially my own comment not being approved after almost 3 days.

And I know for a fact that some readers have already left comments.

I'm a little worried. I needed the readers’ feedback on some questions to help me start the next chapter, but now I’m stuck waiting.

 

[Bramblethorn]

It's probably not you. Comment moderation seems to come in waves, likely when the site is getting too much comment spam.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Everything was normal on day one of posting a new story: people commented on it, and my first reply (a comment I made on my own story) took about a day to appear, which seemed fine.

After that, I posted a couple more replies thanking readers for their suggestions and asking them some questions; they were benign comments, nothing ban-worthy.

But it's almost 3 days now and I'm seeing no new comments (not just my own, I'm not seeing ANY new comments on my story). The only exception was a recent one from a reader who has already posted over 200 comments, which I believe does not go through moderation.

This has never happened to me before, especially my own comment not being approved after almost 3 days.

I'm a little worried. I needed the readers’ feedback on some questions to help me start the next chapter, but now I’m stuck waiting.

Given that a standard metric is one comment per thousand views (except in LW), I wouldn't be holding your breath for story construction via comments. Don't you have your own direction for the story?

 

[ghastly_lump_of_meat]

Given that a standard metric is one comment per thousand views (except in LW), I wouldn't be holding your breath for story construction via comments. Don't you have your own direction for the story?

Of course I have my own direction, but earlier feedback showed readers were split on a certain topic, so I just wanted to use the comments to address that issue.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

That isn't what comments are for. It isn't a discussion or suggestion forum.

 

[Actingup]

Comments seem a little slow at the moment, consistent with the story approval queue growing and an outage the other day. They might be trying to have a holiday, or something's happened in their lives.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Everything was normal on day one of posting a new story: people commented on it, and my first reply (a comment I made on my own story) took about a day to appear, which seemed fine.

After that, I posted a couple more replies thanking readers for their suggestions and asking them some questions; they were benign comments, nothing ban-worthy.

But it's almost 3 days now and I'm seeing no new comments (not just my own, I'm not seeing ANY new comments on my story). The only exception was a recent one from a reader who has already posted over 200 comments, which I believe does not go through moderation.

This has never happened to me before, especially my own comment not being approved after almost 3 days.

And I know for a fact that some readers have already left comments.

I'm a little worried. I needed the readers’ feedback on some questions to help me start the next chapter, but now I’m stuck waiting.

There was a story side outage last night for quite some time. No readers = no comments.