Confusing story rejection

[Vermilion]

Um... I just had a story rejected because-

" * Was there an underage (under 18 years old) sexual relationship in my story?"

Which confuses the heck out of me because
a) no specific age was mentioned and
b) I said she was in the last year of school and about to go to college, which would actually suggest she was the age of consent, if only just.

Can I appeal or do I just re-submit or what?

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[CrimsonMaiden]

Um... I just had a story rejected because-

" * Was there an underage (under 18 years old) sexual relationship in my story?"

Which confuses the heck out of me because
a) no specific age was mentioned and
b) I said she was in the last year of school and about to go to college, which would actually suggest she was the age of consent, if only just.

Can I appeal or do I just re-submit or what?

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You should probably mention she is 18 in the story. Senior in high school could mean 17, so they were probably being on the safe side.

 

[mismused]

delete

 

[S-Des]

Why not just add a throwaway line about her being 18? There is a lot of weirdness in Lit's policies. They handle so many submissions, it is to be expected. I've heard about stories being rejected for a handful of errors, while I've read some that I wasn't sure what language was originally intended. If it doesn't hurt the story (and it's the age you were intending anyway), I'd just toss in the age and be done with it.

 

[Vermilion]

It just irritated me. especially since my other recent submission has also just been rejected because of supposed grammar errors. I checked. I had ONE comma outside the speech marks. Agh.
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[Vermilion]

Hmpf. Edited it to say she was one of the oldest in her year. If it gets rejected again I will specifically say she is 18, but it just seems a bit awkward to add it in as an afterthought.
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[Selena_Kitt]

Hmpf. Edited it to say she was one of the oldest in her year. If it gets rejected again I will specifically say she is 18, but it just seems a bit awkward to add it in as an afterthought.
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You can also put a disclaimer at the top:

All characters in this story are 18+

I've done that, when I've written about seniors in high school or younger-seeming characters, and I didn't want to mention age in the story.

 

[Vermilion]

Excellent idea. Will do that then if it does get rejected again.
Thanks Selena
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[S-Des]

It just irritated me. especially since my other recent submission has also just been rejected because of supposed grammar errors. I checked. I had ONE comma outside the speech marks. Agh.
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I've heard this complaint before. It's funny when you read stories that are written so badly (i.e. run-on sentences, paragraphs with 20-30 sentences, grammar & puncuation errors, etc...) that you wonder if they have any standards at all. I try to take a deep breath and not get offended. It has to be tough to run a site this big and have a real life on top of it.

 

[Selena_Kitt]

Excellent idea. Will do that then if it does get rejected again.
Thanks Selena
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You're welcome, Ms. Sexy Red Shoes.

 

[SlickTony]

It just irritated me. especially since my other recent submission has also just been rejected because of supposed grammar errors. I checked. I had ONE comma outside the speech marks. Agh.
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That is incredible. I've seen stories that made it in when they had as many grammar errors as an outside cat has fleas.

I hardly ever mention age specifically in any of my stories. You could put in an allusion to your character buying a Lotto ticket on Saturday afternoon, if it won't be too forced. You have to be 18 to do this.

Come to think of it, in my two-parter about Lot's two daughters, I didn't mention age there, either, but the editors must have liked it well enough to include it even so--they just amended the subtitle to specify that the girls were 18 and up.

 

[drksideofthemoon]

You can also put a disclaimer at the top:

All characters in this story are 18+

I've done that, when I've written about seniors in high school or younger-seeming characters, and I didn't want to mention age in the story.

That's what I do with all of my stories, use the disclaimer at the start stating that all characters are over 18 years old. Leave no doubt.

 

[starrkers]

Annoying.

If you come across a story that's written in seriously poor style, is there any way of bringing it to the editors/owners attention?
I guess it's a real wank to say something like "it's poorly written and lowering the standard here"?
But there are some stories I've seen that I just can't wade through.

 

[Vermilion]

On the plus side I've just had four very positive comments on a poem. Usually poems barely get voted for, let alone commented on. Am chuffed.
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http://english.literotica.com:81/stories/showstory.php?id=293588

 

[minsue]

Annoying.

If you come across a story that's written in seriously poor style, is there any way of bringing it to the editors/owners attention?
I guess it's a real wank to say something like "it's poorly written and lowering the standard here"?
But there are some stories I've seen that I just can't wade through.

Yes, using the "report this story" feature (at the end of the story, in with the links to contact the writer, etc). I don't see anything wrong with reporting a story that you feel is too poorly written to read. Think of it as quality control.

 

[CrimsonMaiden]

Annoying.

If you come across a story that's written in seriously poor style, is there any way of bringing it to the editors/owners attention?
I guess it's a real wank to say something like "it's poorly written and lowering the standard here"?
But there are some stories I've seen that I just can't wade through.

There's a "report this story" link at the end of each story. You can report it that way.

 

[SimonBrooke]

Cut them some slack...

Why not just add a throwaway line about her being 18? There is a lot of weirdness in Lit's policies. They handle so many submissions, it is to be expected. I've heard about stories being rejected for a handful of errors, while I've read some that I wasn't sure what language was originally intended. If it doesn't hurt the story (and it's the age you were intending anyway), I'd just toss in the age and be done with it.

One of the real taboos of our age is paedophilia. If Literotica were seen as a paedophile-friendly web site so many law enforcement agencies would descend on them so rapidly that all that would be left of the servers would be a smoking crater two kilometres across and 500 metres deep.

We do not want this to happen. I think there is a need to challenge at least some aspects of the modern moral panic about paedophilia, but this is not the place.

 

[Belegon]

There have been and continue to be many things that can be said critically about the site...

lets not hassle about the 18 yrs old thing. It's necessary. Lit is one of the biggest story sites on the net, let alone free story sites, and is a wonderful target of opportunity.

I have no problem with disclaimers or with the 18+ rule.

Glad to see that Vermilion calmed when the idea of a disclaimer was put out there.

Let's not hassle people for protecting themselves...

 

[MagicaPractica]

I finally turned seventeen several months into my senior year. I believe I may have been the youngest in my class but I always assumed that most people in their senior year of high school were seventeen. *shrug*

 

[cloudy]

I finally turned seventeen several months into my senior year. I believe I may have been the youngest in my class but I always assumed that most people in their senior year of high school were seventeen. *shrug*

I was still 17 when I moved into my own apartment, and started college.

 

[MagicaPractica]

I was still 17 when I moved into my own apartment, and started college.

Me too.

 

[starrkers]

Me three

 

[SlickTony]

Annoying.

If you come across a story that's written in seriously poor style, is there any way of bringing it to the editors/owners attention?
I guess it's a real wank to say something like "it's poorly written and lowering the standard here"?
But there are some stories I've seen that I just can't wade through.

I usually just give the story the score it deserves. However, the other day I ran across a story that's pretty good in every other respect, except that the writer commits a grammatical error that I see all too often in the stories here, i.e. "taught" where "taut" ought to be used. I said as much in public comments, and he actually wrote me and thanked me for bringing it to his attention.

 

[SlickTony]

One of the real taboos of our age is paedophilia. If Literotica were seen as a paedophile-friendly web site so many law enforcement agencies would descend on them so rapidly that all that would be left of the servers would be a smoking crater two kilometres across and 500 metres deep.

We do not want this to happen. I think there is a need to challenge at least some aspects of the modern moral panic about paedophilia, but this is not the place.

I get so tired of seeing sex with an under-18 person described as pedophilia. Pedophilia, for the umpty-umpth time, is a preference for pre-pubescent people, i.e., real honestoGod children who have not reached puberty, who have not developed any sex characteristics. A 17YO is not a child, except in the strictest legal sense. A hundred years or so ago, such a person would have been working at a job, soldiering, or married and running her own household.

Anyway, society nowadays has a notoriously elastic view of what constitutes a child or an adult. If an under-18 is legally a child, then we ought to quit trying kids (some of whom are prepubescent) as adults.

 

[lipsofanangel]

I'm still waiting to get my first stories accepted/rejected. The more people talk about their submissions getting rejected, the more nervous I'm getting.