Is this a record?

[Writer61]

I now have eight stories pending. Three for over a week (and one of those is a resubmit after two weeks).

It's getting frustrating.

 

[Writer61]

I take that back, returning to my 'works' page after posting the message above, I see that four of them now have a publishing date. Annoyingly, it's the four that I submitted a couple of days ago, and one of them is out of sequence, but I'll take it.

The backlog works in mysterious ways.

 

[AwkwardlySet]

Can you share a bit more detail, like the submission dates and which ones you resubmitted?

 

[Writer61]

From 'The Rise of Laura':
#2) On the road, first submitted on 16/Oct, withdrawn and resubmitted on 29/Oct, still pending
#3) In the studio, submitted on 29/Oct, still pending
#4) Goes private, submitted on 29/Oct, still pending

 

[AwkwardlySet]

From 'The Rise of Laura':
#2) On the road, first submitted on 16/Oct, withdrawn and resubmitted on 29/Oct, still pending
#3) In the studio, submitted on 29/Oct, still pending
#4) Goes private, submitted on 29/Oct, still pending

And the ones that did get a publishing date?

 

[Writer61]

From 'Adam at Large':
#1) Down under, submitted on 5/Nov, due to publish 7/Nov
#2) All Aboard, submitted on 5/Nov, due to publish 8/Nov (in a different category to #1)
#3) Entertaining Ruth, submitted on 5/Nov, due to publish 7/Nov (same category as #2)
#4) French Connection, submitted on 5/Nov, due to publish 7/Nov (same category as #1)

As I said, the backlog moves in mysterious ways.

 

[Writer61]

And the ones that did get a publishing date?

See above, I pressed enter too soon.

 

[AwkwardlySet]

From 'Adam at Large':
#1) Down under, submitted on 5/Nov, due to publish 7/Nov
#2) All Aboard, submitted on 5/Nov, due to publish 8/Nov (in a different category to #1)
#3) Entertaining Ruth, submitted on 5/Nov, due to publish 7/Nov (same category as #2)
#4) French Connection, submitted on 5/Nov, due to publish 7/Nov (same category as #1)

As I said, the backlog moves in mysterious ways.

These four, are they resubmissions or freshly minted stories? I'm trying to discern some pattern here, as we can only rely on our own wits. No help is coming.

 

[ElectricBlue]

From 'Adam at Large':
#1) Down under, submitted on 5/Nov, due to publish 7/Nov
#2) All Aboard, submitted on 5/Nov, due to publish 8/Nov (in a different category to #1)
#3) Entertaining Ruth, submitted on 5/Nov, due to publish 7/Nov (same category as #2)
#4) French Connection, submitted on 5/Nov, due to publish 7/Nov (same category as #1)

As I said, the backlog moves in mysterious ways.

Good things come to those who wait .

 

[Writer61]

These four, are they resubmissions or freshly minted stories? I'm trying to discern some pattern here, as we can only rely on our own wits. No help is coming.

All newly minted. I had three of them as drafts for a week or so, waiting for 'The Rise of Laura' stories to drop, but got frustrated when I completed #4, and submitted them all at the same time.

Why these made it through moderation before 'The Rise of Laura' stories is strange, I wonder if there is some variation on 'only tackle the backlog after the recent stuff is done' at play.

 

[AwkwardlySet]

I think you should try resubmitting one of your long-pending stories. There are reasons to hope that it will go through as quickly as the four stories that were already published. Your call, of course.

 

[Writer61]

Update: all the stories now have a publication date.

Eight stories approved in less than a day = maybe still a record.

 

[AwkwardlySet]

It all just proves that there is some innate bias in the way Literotica operates now. It's as if you've crossed some hidden threshold, and now your stories are being rapidly approved. The only thing that comes to my mind is the number of submissions you've made. I see nothing else.

If that's Laurel's criteria, then what? We are all supposed to spam the site with 750-word stories until we enter the privileged group? It's absurd.

But anyway, I'm glad you solved your problem.

 

[Writer61]

It all just proves that there is some innate bias in the way Literotica operates now. It's as if you've crossed some hidden threshold, and now your stories are being rapidly approved. The only thing that comes to my mind is the number of submissions you've made. I see nothing else.

Not sure that is the explanation.

My previous submission was approved in three days; the first of this batch was stuck for two weeks before I resubmitted it, and then it was approved in a week.

I don't see a pattern.

 

[Robeth123]

Not sure that is the explanation.

My previous submission was approved in three days; the first of this batch was stuck for two weeks before I resubmitted it, and then it was approved in a week.

I don't see a pattern.

I may hold the record of 50 days before resubmitting. I have 8 pending and no dates. Consider yourself fortunate.

 

[SimonDoom]

Update: all the stories now have a publication date.

Eight stories approved in less than a day = maybe still a record.

Congrats. If that IS a record, it's a nice one to have. But I'm sure it was a pain to wait.

One week is not much of a delay. My historical average has been 3-4 days, but I've had a few stories take a week, and I had a story just one year ago that disappeared down the rabbit hole for several weeks until I sent Laurel and Manu some DMs, and they checked into it, and it was just a glitch.

 

[CalBishForNow]

The only thing that comes to my mind is the number of submissions you've made. I see nothing else.

I have a total of 25 stories, the last four each took only 3 days from submission to publication, and they were all within the past 2 months, so I'm pretty sure it's not as simple as "more than X", because some writers with a lot more stories than me have complained about the problem.

I'm inclined to guess that the problem is tools used by some writers but not others resulting in false positives in the AI detector or other automated systems, or causing things to get stuck in the queue beyond human review indefinitely, but I have no idea what that could be.

 

[cw5523729]

It all just proves that there is some innate bias in the way Literotica operates now. It's as if you've crossed some hidden threshold, and now your stories are being rapidly approved. The only thing that comes to my mind is the number of submissions you've made. I see nothing else.

I don't see how that "proves" any such thing. It's been pointed out numerous times that many well established authors have wound up in the black hole and other not-at-all established authors (like me) soared right through.

 

[Writer61]

I'm inclined to guess that the problem is tools used by some writers but not others resulting in false positives in the AI detector or other automated systems, or causing things to get stuck in the queue beyond human review indefinitely, but I have no idea what that could be.

If it were false positives, stories would have been rejected.

 

[ElectricBlue]

It all just proves that there is some innate bias in the way Literotica operates now. It's as if you've crossed some hidden threshold, and now your stories are being rapidly approved. The only thing that comes to my mind is the number of submissions you've made. I see nothing else.

If that's Laurel's criteria, then what? We are all supposed to spam the site with 750-word stories until we enter the privileged group? It's absurd.

You keep looking for patterns that imply malice. I'm a project manager IRL, and it's a rule of thumb in that world to never assume cunning when incompetence or fuck up will do nicely. Sometimes shit just happens, someone pressed the wrong button, tried a new piece of untested code, and the whole thing falls over. It doesn't mean it was evil, or there was motive, or the button push was personal, aimed only at you.

You're the kind of person who stands at a bus stop and thinks, "Oh the bus driver will see me, know it's me, and he's gonna drive right on past," which he does, but you don't notice that the bus is full, or it's on the way to the depot, or the bus doesn't stop at that stop, or you're in the wrong queue in the first place.

There's a myriad reasons this glitch is happening, if it's even happening at all. For every person who says, my story is delayed, there's someone else says, well mine went through yesterday. It's random, and that's what random means, there is no pattern of behaviour.

Plus the smug 175 fucks every day who say, "Well, look at me, I must be special, because my story just got published." They're not special, they just got published, whereas the other poor random few who didn't, might just be at the wrong bus stop, and some other fucker stole the sign. It's not malice, it's Literotica, and there's A Broadway Musical coming out soon.

Carry on .

 

[cw5523729]

Plus the smug 175 fucks every day who say, "Well, look at me, I must be special, because my story just got published." They're not special, they just got published, whereas the other poor random few who didn't, might just be at the wrong bus stop, and some other fucker stole the sign.

Wait, so I'm not special? Way to burst my bubble! Do you want to tell me that Santa Claus isn't real either?

On a serious note, you could not have said it any better or in more awesome of a fashion [Insert slow clap here]

 

[AwkwardlySet]

You keep looking for patterns that imply malice. I'm a project manager IRL, and it's a rule of thumb in that world to never assume cunning when incompetence or fuck up will do nicely. Sometimes shit just happens, someone pressed the wrong button, tried a new piece of untested code, and the whole thing falls over. It doesn't mean it was evil, or there was motive, or the button push was personal, aimed only at you.

You're the kind of person who stands at a bus stop and thinks, "Oh the bus driver will see me, know it's me, and he's gonna drive right on past," which he does, but you don't notice that the bus is full, or it's on the way to the depot, or the bus doesn't stop at that stop, or you're in the wrong queue in the first place.

There's a myriad reasons this glitch is happening, if it's even happening at all. For every person who says, my story is delayed, there's someone else says, well mine went through yesterday. It's random, and that's what random means, there is no pattern of behaviour.

Plus the smug 175 fucks every day who say, "Well, look at me, I must be special, because my story just got published." They're not special, they just got published, whereas the other poor random few who didn't, might just be at the wrong bus stop, and some other fucker stole the sign. It's not malice, it's Literotica, and there's A Broadway Musical coming out soon.

Carry on .

I believe my post was misunderstood somewhat. When I said "bias," I didn't mean intentional bias towards me or anyone in particular. I don't think any of that is personal. I meant that Laurel seems to have picked some specific, and frankly, very unfair-seeming criteria for whitelisting authors.

From our side, it just looks like some stories are being approved expressly, while others remain in pending hell for some unknown reason. The glitch you're talking about likely exists, but that's not the only issue. The most probable explanation for the extreme difference in queue times is glitch + some arbitrary whitelist, and while the glitch may not be, the whitelist most certainly is a kind of bias.

 

[cw5523729]

I believe my post was misunderstood somewhat. When I said "bias," I didn't mean intentional bias towards me or anyone in particular. I don't think any of that is personal. I meant that Laurel seems to have picked some specific, and frankly, very unfair-seeming criteria for whitelisting authors.

From our side, it just looks like some stories are being approved expressly, while others remain in pending hell for some unknown reason. The glitch you're talking about likely exists, but that's not the only issue. The most probable explanation for the extreme difference in queue times is glitch + some arbitrary whitelist, and while the glitch may not be, the whitelist most certainly is a kind of bias.

Who exactly do you have a white-list that isn't intentionally biased toward any particular person? Isn't that the definition of a white list?