Missing comments

[Spencerfiction]

Why does my story say there are 58 comments on the live feed, 60 comments on my author's page, but only 13 comments on the actual story page?

The latest comments are at least 2 hours old (a mixture of anonnies and named readers shown on my author's page feed, probably most of them critical of my most recent effort), is there a delay in them being published, or have they been deleted?

 

[29wordsforsnow]

Why does my story say there are 58 comments on the live feed, 60 comments on my author's page, but only 13 comments on the actual story page?

The latest comments are at least 2 hours old (a mixture of anonnies and named readers shown on my author's page feed, probably most of them critical of my most recent effort), is there a delay in them being published, or have they been deleted?

There's a small delay, 30 to 60 mins recently, between the comment counter increasing and the comments showing up, which would explain 58 vs 60.

The 13? Mmh, might be your browser's cache, I guess, unless 45 comments came in just in the last minutes, the story pages - from what I've seen - are also lagging behind a bit to be rebuilt.

What experience do others have?

 

[Bramblethorn]

Why does my story say there are 58 comments on the live feed, 60 comments on my author's page, but only 13 comments on the actual story page?

The latest comments are at least 2 hours old (a mixture of anonnies and named readers shown on my author's page feed, probably most of them critical of my most recent effort), is there a delay in them being published, or have they been deleted?

Lit seems to be holding comments for a while before making them visible, probably as part of an anti-spam measure. As the author you should still be able to see the new comments, though.

Go to your "Works" view: https://www.literotica.com/my/#/works/stories/published

Then scroll down to the new story, and click on the blue comment icon over to the right, next to the "Settings" and "Add to reading list" buttons.

If any of them are spam, you can delete them right away. Otherwise wait a few hours and they'll go through.

 

[Spencerfiction]

Thank you Bramblehorn

Found them just as you directed.

 

[Spencerfiction]

21 hours old?

The oldest of the imposter comments was 21 hours old. Look, the story was just a bit of fun written 2 years ago and very roughly edited during a gap between other projects, so I expected it to be commented on. Some of the comments were not very nice, but those that saw it as a bit of fun between 2 old codgers who would be past it were actually very complimentary. Surprised no-one mentioned the GM pot-laced honey and jam, which explains a lot, but oh, well, you put these things together and the bleedin’ obvious gets missed. But that’s Lit for you, gotta love Lit readers/scanners.

So I wonder why 47 comments up to w1 hours were held back from public view. Any thoughts?

 

[ElectricBlue]

So I wonder why 47 comments up to w1 hours were held back from public view. Any thoughts?

As noted by Bramblethorn above, comments get released in batches as part of the anti-spam controls.

 

[Spencerfiction]

Thank you electricblue66. I mean who wants spam nowadays? (Although I do miss those Friday night fritters!)

 

[lovecraft68]

As noted by Bramblethorn above, comments get released in batches as part of the anti-spam controls.

They say its anti-spam, its more than that. Its anything they don't like. Lit used to be a true freedom of speech site that gave authors the ability to delete any comments they didn't like or were nasty etc.

Then they started blocking stories on any topic they didn't like or person they didn't like, mostly political

Now they, not you, are censoring comments.

Mostly for any political opinion not agreeing with theirs or any type of hate speech, but what they deem hate speech.

Still okay to spew raw hate and threats of violence against women though, that is still not only in play, but encouraged, Can't start removing that, you'd lose those valuable Loving wives readers.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Now they, not you, are censoring comments.

Where's the evidence that the process even involves human eyes, and isn't just a collection of word-finder scripts - which is my guess as to what goes on. Maybe human intervention once a bunch of comments have been flagged, but I doubt anybody actually reads all comments.

 

[SimonDoom]

They say its anti-spam, its more than that. Its anything they don't like. Lit used to be a true freedom of speech site that gave authors the ability to delete any comments they didn't like or were nasty etc.

Then they started blocking stories on any topic they didn't like or person they didn't like, mostly political

Now they, not you, are censoring comments.

Mostly for any political opinion not agreeing with theirs or any type of hate speech, but what they deem hate speech.

Still okay to spew raw hate and threats of violence against women though, that is still not only in play, but encouraged, Can't start removing that, you'd lose those valuable Loving wives readers.

I haven't seen evidence of censoring comments for "political content," other than their general policy of not letting author's hangout threads stray into excessively political ground. What does that mean? What are specific examples of this happening?

I'm glad that some regulation of political content at the Author's Hangout is done, because my general observation is that with politics discussions almost always get inane and nasty.

My sense is that they are constantly in a state of barely keeping their heads above water running this site. There would be no time for careful review of comments, or anything else on this site, to ensure compliance with political standards.

I DO find the policy toward comment deletion puzzling, because in all my time here I've deleted only one comment but they've deleted far more than I have. Most of those were vile comments made to my one Loving Waves story (which somewhat undercuts what you've said), but there have been other comments that were very negative but not, I thought, so far out of the park that they deserved deletion. They disagreed, but to this day I haven't quite understood why.

 

[SisterJezabel]

My thought might also be to turn on the new beta viewer of Lit. The old on will often only show a couple of comments and you have to make a few clicks to go back and see all comments. The new version shows all comments in a reverse chronological order.

 

[Spencerfiction]

At least I know where I can find the comments now. I must admit I usually follow named comments (I usually ignore the anons), and several times recently they’ve not been there and I’d just assumed that the comment writer had withdrawn their comment. So I probably have a backlog of comments that I’ve never seen!

I find it oddly amusing that this story, written as a first draft and rejected by me a year ago, and therefore admittedly rather raw and scoring low, gets 65 comments, yet the previous story posted in the last couple of weeks, which was written and relatively better crafted over 4 months, gets a respectively good score and only 2 comments.

Does this mean that shit is more noteworthy than silk?