My First Story Got Published In Two Days, If That Helps.

[shakespeare_i_aint]

Howdy,

My first story, which had been too long in the making, was published two days after submission. I hit the button last Thursday morning, and when I checked on Saturday morning, it was posted. So, twenty-one thousand word first chapters take two days to get checked and published. The system seems to be working.

Shakespeare_I_Aint

 

[SoCalAshley]

Howdy,

My first story, which had been too long in the making, was published two days after submission. I hit the button last Thursday morning, and when I checked on Saturday morning, it was posted. So, twenty-one thousand word first chapters take two days to get checked and published. The system seems to be working.

Shakespeare_I_Aint

Your case supports my theory that all stories go through an initial screener, done by a computer program, without a moderator ever looking at the story. If it passes the parameters set by the program (as it did in your case), the story publishes within a couple of days. If the story fails the tested parameters, it goes into the pending queue and can remain there for weeks or, in some cases, over a month. See this thread for stories that have been pending for a considerable amount of time:

https://forum.literotica.com/thread...f-your-story-and-when-submitted-here.1641620/

 

[Husky_Embrace]

Your case supports my theory that all stories go through an initial screener, done by a computer program, without a moderator ever looking at the story. If it passes the parameters set by the program (as it did in your case), the story publishes within a couple of days. If the story fails the tested parameters, it goes into the pending queue and can remain there for weeks or, in some cases, over a month. See this thread for stories that have been pending for a considerable amount of time:

https://forum.literotica.com/thread...f-your-story-and-when-submitted-here.1641620/

Judging from many other reactions, it could also be that the first storie(s) of people get preferential treatment. Lower standard and faster publishing will draw new writers in.

 

[iwatchus]

Your case supports my theory that all stories go through an initial screener, done by a computer program, without a moderator ever looking at the story. If it passes the parameters set by the program (as it did in your case), the story publishes within a couple of days. If the story fails the tested parameters, it goes into the pending queue and can remain there for weeks or, in some cases, over a month. See this thread for stories that have been pending for a considerable amount of time:

https://forum.literotica.com/thread...f-your-story-and-when-submitted-here.1641620/

Quick approvals like this have been regular occurrences since I have been watching the process; this is nothing new. But it was also obvious that some human made at least a minimal glance at the stories before they got approved. I can point to one obvious case: One of @FrancesScott's excellent How To from this summer got stalled long enough for her to get frustrated with the process. I think it got flagged for special review because its content was important to be correct. No automated checker would have made that call.

I have seen other slow reviews that fit this categorization. It is well within reason to imagine that Laurel was glancing at the beginning of every single story as a final check. If it was my site, I would want to do that. Scan reading the first few hundred words of 200 stories is time consuming, but not inconceivable to tackle. Originally, she fully read every story and manually inserted the html. Giving up that level of control is hard. The quick check is an easy in between micro-managing the process and fully automated.

 

[SoCalAshley]

I guess we will have to agree to disagree. Until someone from the site gives us a clear indication of what is going on, all we can do is speculate. I think my theory is as good as anyone else’s until proven otherwise.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Judging from many other reactions, it could also be that the first storie(s) of people get preferential treatment. Lower standard and faster publishing will draw new writers in.

I have seen no evidence to support this hypothesis and plenty to refute it.

 

[FrancesScott]

One of @FrancesScott's excellent How To from this summer got stalled long enough for her to get frustrated with the process. I think it got flagged for special review because its content was important to be correct.

And @Laurel personally added a section.

 

[SoCalAshley]

And @Laurel personally added a section.

If this is the story you are referring to (https://www.literotica.com/s/how-to-format-a-story-with-html), it was published on July 31st. This is before all the pending issues began.

 

[iwatchus]

I have seen no evidence to support this hypothesis and plenty to refute it.

The dialogue formatting for my first story was so atrocious, there is no way it should have been approved. It was comically bad. I couldn't decide how to do it, so almost every spoken line was punctuated differently from every other one. (I long ago submitted an edit for it, so don't look for the errors now). Maybe it just slipped through the cracks. But the next one certainly did not.

 

[EmilyMiller]

The dialogue formatting for my first story was so atrocious, there is no way it should have been approved. It was comically bad. I couldn't decide how to do it, so almost every spoken line was punctuated differently from every other one. (I long ago submitted an edit for it, so don't look for the errors now). Maybe it just slipped through the cracks. But the next one certainly did not.

All sorts of things slip through. There was a recent case of a ‘story’ about women brutalizing and killing each other in an arena that even the most ardent fan of sexualized violence agreed was snuff.

 

[iwatchus]

All sorts of thing slip through. There was a recent case of a ‘story’ about women brutalizing and killing each other in an arena that even the most ardent fan of sexialized violence agreed was snuff.

I could just have been lucky. I had seen the first time forgiveness stated a number of times here, and since it fit my own experience, I assumed there was a basis to it. Maybe there isn't. It would fit the speculation of a non-deterministic (or at least incomplete) automatic checker.

 

[FrancesScott]

If this is the story you are referring to (https://www.literotica.com/s/how-to-format-a-story-with-html), it was published on July 31st. This is before all the pending issues began.

I don’t think that @iwatchus was making a point about what might have happened recently. He was making a point about the process.

 

[SoCalAshley]

I could just have been lucky. I had seen the first time forgiveness stated a number of times here, and since it fit my own experience, I assumed there was a basis to it. Maybe there isn't. It would fit the speculation of a non-deterministic (or at least incomplete) automatic checker.

There is no positive spin on this horrible pending issue, but at least I haven't seen any threads saying, "My story has been rejected because of AI allegations," lately.

 

[caleb35]

Judging from many other reactions, it could also be that the first storie(s) of people get preferential treatment. Lower standard and faster publishing will draw new writers in.

My 11th submittal went in yesterday and got approved within hours for publication in two days. There's definitely some weird stuff going on behind the scenes, but I'm not certain that first stories get preference.

 

[caleb35]

There is no positive spin on this horrible pending issue, but at least I haven't seen any threads saying, "My story has been rejected because of AI allegations," lately.

Just out of curiosity, do you think the backup in approvals had anything to do with changes to the screening for AI process? As long as we're all spinning theories on what's going on...

 

[ElectricBlue]

Just out of curiosity, do you think the backup in approvals had anything to do with changes to the screening for AI process? As long as we're all spinning theories on what's going on...

Probably. I suspect the site is deluged with AI junk.

 

[SmilingLez]

Just out of curiosity, do you think the backup in approvals had anything to do with changes to the screening for AI process? As long as we're all spinning theories on what's going on...

An antiquated cms (circa 2000) is my thought

 

[Duleigh]

Your case supports my theory that all stories go through an initial screener, done by a computer program, without a moderator ever looking at the story. If it passes the parameters set by the program (as it did in your case), the story publishes within a couple of days. If the story fails the tested parameters, it goes into the pending queue and can remain there for weeks or, in some cases, over a month. See this thread for stories that have been pending for a considerable amount of time:

https://forum.literotica.com/thread...f-your-story-and-when-submitted-here.1641620/

Ummmm - no. Close. but no. It does go through an initial screener, probably a bot. If it fails the tested parameters they tell you. And they tell you why. It doesn't go "back" into pending, it gets rejected.

I'm seeing preference being given to the Halloween Contest stories. As to why others are getting in is a mystery.

 

[Kelliezgirl]

I could just have been lucky. I had seen the first time forgiveness stated a number of times here, and since it fit my own experience, I assumed there was a basis to it. Maybe there isn't. It would fit the speculation of a non-deterministic (or at least incomplete) automatic checker.

For a long time the opposite was the theory. That new authors received greater scrutiny and that more established types (if they didn't have a record of skirting the rules) were more or less "white listed" and got faster approvals.
All just conjecture of course.

 

[ElectricBlue]

For a long time the opposite was the theory. That new authors received greater scrutiny and that more established types (if they didn't have a record of skirting the rules) were more or less "white listed" and got faster approvals.
All just conjecture of course.

The traditional thought was the site cut new authors some slack in the technicalities such as grammar, punctuation, formatting, but gave closer scrutiny to content compliance. That's been vaguely confirmed by some folk saying their first stories got through with crappy editing, but they got pulled up later on, with rejections for the technical stuff.

Maybe the site figures most new writers are only good for a couple of stories before they stop writing, so why bother with a rejection? Don't know. If it was me, I'd start as I meant to go on, with a minimum standard of technical competence.

I also suspect we in the AH have far higher literary standards than most readers, but even so, the bar's not set very high.

 

[Husky_Embrace]

My 11th submittal went in yesterday and got approved within hours for publication in two days. There's definitely some weird stuff going on behind the scenes, but I'm not certain that first stories get preference.

I'll add that to the data pool. In my opinion it can still be normal variance. It isn't that people with more stories aren't done fast at times. It is that new posters are more consistently done quick. Though true evidence still lacks, so you might be right in the end. There could be no real difference between new posters and longer posting people.

I also want to point out that to my feeling some bigger names on this site also get done faster. This is again understandable, as they have build up a reputation for good, clean stories that need less attention in general, as well as keeping readers that come to the site for these stories.

I've heard that everything is read and signed off upon by one person. I think that's a gargantuan task and would hope they have at least several automated checks. However, even the automated checks are either run by hand, or the results checked by hand. Otherwise we wouldn't see inconsistent timings on the stories being returned.

In the end it's all speculation. I do hope they relieve the strain by getting more people to work on the approvals and maintaining the site. It must be a stressful job to read that many stories, or keep up a big site singlehandedly.