Moderated Comments?

[LoquiSordidaAdMe]

Oh no, I've started a tangent. I didn't mean to start a tangent.

 

[holliday1960]

Oh no, I've started a tangent. I didn't mean to start a tangent.

You mention orgasm and childbirth in the same breath and you didn't MEAN to start a tangent? SMH Son, you got a LOT to learn.

 

[yukonnights]

Having been part of a few deliveries, I'd have to say the last thing I'd rate them as is orgasmic. Epidurals are about the best thing since sliced bread was invented IMHO.

That's what I'm talking about, girlfriend. Childbirth is the REASON they invented pain meds, spinal or otherwise.

Pfff, I've sired a couple of young'uns and it just ain't that darn hard

 

[holliday1960]

Pfff, I've sired a couple of young'uns and it just ain't that darn hard

Oh-my-gawd! I... you... Uh-uh! You did not just say that! Eebs... you better get over here---> the inmates are running amuck again! And LOQUI started it... as usual. (Hmm... now that I think about it, Eebs... you had a little something to do with prompting him about his most recent research...) Man, you can tell this is still the Good Ol' Boyz Club... some things never change, do they?

 

[RejectReality]

The comment moderation is still in place because the spam is undoubtedly still coming in. There have been waves of it on other erotica sites as well, and they've kept on coming there, where it's been nipped in the bud here.

Comment spamming is the latest "in" thing, and will remain so until everyone hardens the security on comments enough to make it no longer worth the spammer's time.

Comment moderation is here to stay. That doesn't mean it won't be improved to become less intrusive to legitimate users, but it's not going anywhere.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Pfff, I've sired a couple of young'uns and it just ain't that darn hard

Yukon, sticking it in and shaking it about a bit doesn't qualify as hard labour, exactly.

Wait, Canadians... perhaps it does .

 

[ElectricBlue]

Oh-my-gawd! I... you... Uh-uh! You did not just say that! Eebs... you better get over here---> the inmates are running amuck again! And LOQUI started it... as usual. (Hmm... now that I think about it, Eebs... you had a little something to do with prompting him about his most recent research...)

Loqui has an enquiring mind, which is A Good Thing. He doesn't need my help to get himself into trouble, he's perfectly capable of that, all on his own.

 

[LoquiSordidaAdMe]

You mention orgasm and childbirth in the same breath and you didn't MEAN to start a tangent? SMH Son, you got a LOT to learn.

Well, I guess the whole Moderated Comments question had been answered and was kind of played out.

So yeah, "orgasmic birth". I had a pregnant character who was sort of a free-spirit hippy-chick. Sort of. Having a traditional hospital birth would not have been true to the character, so I went looking for alternatives and came across this one. There are lots of articles and forums and blogs on the subject, and plenty of doulas and midwives who teach classes on it.

It's true, I have no personal experience with the practice, but it sounds like Mrs. Notwise does.

 

[gordo12]

Yukon, sticking it in and shaking it about a bit doesn't qualify as hard labour, exactly.

Wait, Canadians... perhaps it does .

Well when she won't stop knitting.. it takes forever!

Plus you can poke an eye out

Back to the moderation.

I like to check back and see if an author has responded. It adds to the chore when the comments don't get posted for hours or days later.

I'm only commenting on great stories now. I also used respond to readers when they comment on mine, but now they come through in batches and it doesn't work.

That's why I've slowed down. There are long term members here that should be exempted from the moderation unless they start becoming a problem.

 

[redzinger]

Definitely moderation still going on - all my comments are coming in batches, even the ones I make on my own stories.

 

[MagnusRhodes]

Makes me wish they'd add a decent CAPTCHA filter. And not a stupid 'type in these squiggly letters that might be upper or lower case' one. We have the technology...

Does anyone know if there are actual moderators approving comments? Seems batched and random at the same time so I'm at a loss to explain in my limited experience.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Makes me wish they'd add a decent CAPTCHA filter. And not a stupid 'type in these squiggly letters that might be upper or lower case' one. We have the technology...

Does anyone know if there are actual moderators approving comments? Seems batched and random at the same time so I'm at a loss to explain in my limited experience.

To the best our observational knowledge (ie: we don't have a clue) it's a spam/hyperlink finder bot only, not human eyes. Batching is probably tied in with bot run-time, server refreshes etc. The usual stuff, steam driven .

 

[jaF0]

even the ones I make on my own stories.

Patting yourself on the back and spamming the board in your sig?

"7. Please do not blatantly "advertise" for other websites in your signature. We allow non-commercial links to other people's personal websites in sigs, but please do not beg people to click on your link, make it huge and/or flashing, or otherwise be obnoxious.

We do not allow links to any adult pay sites. We also reserve the right to remove signatures which link to sites with numerous annoying pop-ups, viruses, or anything else potentially harmful to people's computers. If you turn your signature into an advertisement, we will ask you to change it. Do not start threads with the URL in the header. "

http://www.literotica.com/support/forum_rules.shtml

 

[jaF0]

There are long term members here that should be exempted from the moderation unless they start becoming a problem.

Rules should not be applied equally as some feel 'special' and above them. Gotcha'.

 

[MagnusRhodes]

To the best our observational knowledge (ie: we don't have a clue) it's a spam/hyperlink finder bot only, not human eyes. Batching is probably tied in with bot run-time, server refreshes etc. The usual stuff, steam driven .

Alright, thanks, that's what I figured given what scant research I've done on these forums. I'm a software guy so stuff like this bugs me. I can't fault reasoning I don't fully understand, but I also know there are better ways.

Seems there are a lot of hidden workings around these parts and I can't help but wonder why. I've always found transparency to be a better approach to keep users from speculating and wasting time by asking pointless questions. But it's also sometimes safer to not divulge the game to folks who may abuse or co-opt it.

I'm new here and missing 20 years of history so I'll just shut up now and assume Laurel and Manu know what they're doing.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Patting yourself on the back and spamming the board in your sig?

"7. Please do not blatantly "advertise" for other websites in your signature.

What's the drama? A commenter's Sig block doesn't appear under story comments, only in the forums; and the site allows off-site promotion of their work in an author's Sig block.

Besides, when I'm logged in, I don't even see the Sig blocks - I can only see them when I'm logged off. Is that just my browser? I don't know.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Alright, thanks, that's what I figured given what scant research I've done on these forums. I'm a software guy so stuff like this bugs me. I can't fault reasoning I don't fully understand, but I also know there are better ways.

Seems there are a lot of hidden workings around these parts and I can't help but wonder why. I've always found transparency to be a better approach to keep users from speculating and wasting time by asking pointless questions. But it's also sometimes safer to not divulge the game to folks who may abuse or co-opt it.

I'm new here and missing 20 years of history so I'll just shut up now and assume Laurel and Manu know what they're doing.

Factor in twenty years for a site cobbled together with now ancient code, coping with millions of users and hundreds of thousands stories in a huge data base, all being run by a couple with some friends. There might be better ways, but that means "send money," and that's not going to happen anytime soon. It is what it is, and the job gets done.

 

[redzinger]

Patting yourself on the back and spamming the board in your sig?

"7. Please do not blatantly "advertise" for other websites in your signature. We allow non-commercial links to other people's personal websites in sigs, but please do not beg people to click on your link, make it huge and/or flashing, or otherwise be obnoxious.

We do not allow links to any adult pay sites. We also reserve the right to remove signatures which link to sites with numerous annoying pop-ups, viruses, or anything else potentially harmful to people's computers. If you turn your signature into an advertisement, we will ask you to change it. Do not start threads with the URL in the header. "

http://www.literotica.com/support/forum_rules.shtml

Err, no. I was responding on my story to several people asking if the story would be continued.


That's also been my sig for years - I haven't edited it in some time. I dunno if anything has changed in the past year, but there used to be bigger and more graphic sigs out there, with a lot more links? Mine was on the smaller side.

Can anyone else confirm this? Do I need to tidy up? Ta.

EDIT: whatevs, taken a line out.

 

[MagnusRhodes]

Factor in twenty years for a site cobbled together with now ancient code, coping with millions of users and hundreds of thousands stories in a huge data base, all being run by a couple with some friends. There might be better ways, but that means "send money," and that's not going to happen anytime soon. It is what it is, and the job gets done.

That's exactly what I figured. And I've been there, albeit on a much smaller scale. Do you know if they accept help? I'm not volunteering, but it occurs to me there must be plenty of technical-minded folks in this place.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Err, no. I was responding on my story to several people asking if the story would be continued.


That's also been my sig for years - I haven't edited it in some time. I dunno if anything has changed in the past year, but there used to be bigger and more graphic sigs out there, with a lot more links? Mine was on the smaller side.

Can anyone else confirm this? Do I need to tidy up? Ta.

EDIT: whatevs, taken a line out.

Your sig is modest and discrete. No need to change at all.

 

[LoquiSordidaAdMe]

Does anyone know if there are actual moderators approving comments? Seems batched and random at the same time so I'm at a loss to explain in my limited experience.

To the best our observational knowledge (ie: we don't have a clue) it's a spam/hyperlink finder bot only, not human eyes. Batching is probably tied in with bot run-time, server refreshes etc. The usual stuff, steam driven .

Eh, I'm not convinced it's automated yet. We know the forums have volunteer moderators. The way that clusters of comments seem to suddenly appear all at once suggests a human reviewer getting to them we they can. Comments seem to take longer to show up on weekends, which is when humans' schedules get disrupted in any time zone.

I'll acknowledge that an automated review that runs in batches when server load is low would appear the same way. But let's face it, this site is not that sophisticated. No disrespect to the folks who built it years ago, but the forums, control panel, rating, and comment systems all appear to have been built from plug-and-play code with minimal customization. Frankly, that part of Literotica's charm - it's not slick and over produced.

Given the apparent level of development, I find it hard to believe that there could be an automated comment review tool that requires so much processing power it can only run when the server load is low. My money is still on human mods for now.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

What's the drama? A commenter's Sig block doesn't appear under story comments, only in the forums; and the site allows off-site promotion of their work in an author's Sig block.

Besides, when I'm logged in, I don't even see the Sig blocks - I can only see them when I'm logged off. Is that just my browser? I don't know.

The reason you can't see sigs when logged on, is because you didn't check or unchecked it at sometime, a box in your profile options that deal with visible post options in your CP.

 

[ElectricBlue]

The reason you can't see sigs when logged on, is because you didn't check or unchecked it at sometime, a box in your profile options that deal with visible post options in your CP.

Thanks Zeb, you're probably right. I'm guessing I turned it off years ago, when I got the shits with all the bright colours, ridiculously huge look-at-me fonts and endless book covers taking up half my screen. The few times I wander in, not logged in, and see the billboards, I can only say thank God I found that button .

 

[redzinger]

Thanks Zeb, you're probably right. I'm guessing I turned it off years ago, when I got the shits with all the bright colours, ridiculously huge look-at-me fonts and endless book covers taking up half my screen. The few times I wander in, not logged in, and see the billboards, I can only say thank God I found that button .

All those billboards seem to have gone recently though - at least on here - that's why I wondered if there had been something done to cut down on them?

 

[KeithD]

All those billboards seem to have gone recently though - at least on here - that's why I wondered if there had been something done to cut down on them?

The system hasn't taken the billboard sig lines down. My previous account, sr71plt, still posts with an array of book covers and will continue to do so. The difference in my book covers and the sig lines of some others is mine aren't links to anywhere. They aren't direct-linked promos.