Comments Latency

[MrPixel]

I've been on LitE for a couple of years, but I mostly publish in the ghost town known as "Group Sex". That means very few comments, and most of my higher-rated stories have none, if you can imagine that!

Well, this morning I had something post to LW. Not my category choice, but it was decided that was where it belonged after review. In the space of eight hours it has garnered nearly 200 votes - holy cow! - but no comments yet. Score is <4.0 doubtless due to the obligatory knee-jerk one-bombs this category is known for, but those will be swept away sooner or later.

To the question I have - I know there are comments lurking, but not visible. What is the typical lag time between comments being posted and their appearance with the story?

I expect comments are moderated, but my experience is problems (personal attacks) are addressed after-the-fact and not before they appear.

 

[Rustyoznail]

I suspect LW comments get special attention, but I don't know the expected times.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Comments have been moderated for the past few years, apparently following a raft of spam ads. Typical delay time is on the order of six to eight hours. YMMV, of course.

 

[HectorBidon]

If you go to the Loving Wives Story Hub (https://www.literotica.com/c/loving-wives) it shows you the 25 most recent new stories, along with their statistics. Today it shows 18 stories that were published today, 1 story that was published yesterday, and 6 stories that were published the day before yesterday. None of today's stories have any comments yet. The story from yesterday has 7, and the stories from the day before all have comments ranging from 16 to 181. So it looks like the comments can start being posted by at least the day after publication. TP suggests the actual delay is even shorter, only 6-8 hours, and she may well be right.

 

[AlinaX]

6-8 hours is typical, but 30 mins - 22 hours is not unknown.

 

[Blind_Justice]

12 hours seems to be the average when I reply to comments on my own stuff.

 

[lovecraft68]

Maybe its me, but it seems comments take longer over the weekends. I left a comment on the story around 8:15 this morning.
Also gave it a five as it was a good piece, but any burn the bastard story gets props from me.

 

[HectorBidon]

So now the first batch of comments has been posted for today's stories. They are all shown as posting "about 4 hours ago," which would have been about 2 PM EST. Yesterday's story and Thursday's stories have some comments that were posted "about 18 hours ago," which would have been about 12 midnight EST. So I would think that the site collects the comments as they come in, but only runs the comment checker twice a day. If you make a comment just before the checker runs, it can be posted with a pretty short latency. I've occasionally seen comments that post in the early morning hours of the publication day—when presumably someone read the story just as soon as it came out and managed to make a comment before the midnight checker run. On the other hand, if you make a comment just after the checker runs, it will have to wait until the next run, which could mean a latency of up to 12 hours.

Note that MrPixel's story has disappeared! Someone must have reported it and it was taken down. So that's at least one feature of the site that works with lightning speed.

 

[MrPixel]

I appealed. We'll see how that goes. I suspect it has a lot to do with the generally toxic nature of LW.

 

[Carnevil9]

I haven't posted to LW in a few years, but when I have, the comments have been abundant, swift, and brutal! But things may have changed recently.

In fact, I have been known to deliberately pen a LW story when I am feeling deprived of comments, just to satisfy my craving for any comments, even vile ones, rather than the none that I had been getting.

 

[MrPixel]

Thanks, @Kumquatqueen . I decided to pull the story. Isn't worth the fight. Sure did generate the comments in its short existence.

I'm tempted to pull the other LW story I posted last December, which is an excerpt of a large work that will never be published here*. I really want nothing to do with LW; it's a dumpster fire threatening other categories. As others have noted, certain elements that troll LW enjoy vandalizing the site once they think they have a "worthy" target.

* - Subplot has elements that clearly violate LitE guidelines.