my submissions are being ignored

[princeShaka]

All this sound and fury from the OP about the alleged rrrrrrrraaaaycism!, and in the end it turns out to be a mundane AI rejection?

2/10, would not read the thread again.

Except its not. As i told you I have done the AI check and made sure I got it down a zero and resubmitted.

 

[princeShaka]

Someone reported your story as AI-generated, or a machine algorithm picked it up for same.

I am not saying that's true. I'm saying that's the implied reason for its removal.

I did the AI check and made sure to get the results down to zero and they still came back with that. And they had done their own check so that again is nonsense - a pretext.

 

[princeShaka]

I’m sorry to hear. No one knows precisely what is going on and the site won’t tell us, but many, many people have had the same problem, including authors who have won competitions this year, including authors who have a long track record here, including me FFS. It’s not the site singling you out for poor treatment, it can happen to anyone.

Please also disregard any advice around use of the submission textbox vs uploading a document. There are multiple examples of both working and both failing to work. The method of submission appears to be irrelevant.

As above, the best advice (based on the experience of many people here - but not informed by any site guidance) is to delete and resubmit. But… there are still instances where the resubmitted work falls into the same black hole, so this is not guaranteed to work.

PMing @Laurel had absolutely no effect for some time, but it now seems to occasionally work now, though without any actual response, so worth trying.

Please don’t believe anyone who tells you that they definitively know what is going on and how to fix it. No one knows, all I’m doing here is offering the best crowdsourced advice.

Good luck.

It utter nonsense. Are they only working with established writers with them. But they have done nothing but treat me bad for months.

 

[princeShaka]

Your English isn't very good in your posts here. In fact, I'm not sure you understand the message you got from the site explaining why your story was taken down. The story you linked on Medium is very different in it's use of language, and it has a lot of em-dashes. And models like gpt-5 use a lot of em-dashes (more often than most human authors).

I don't know what "done AI check" means, but I think what you mean is that you used AI to help you write your story. And then you used an AI detector that you found online to repeatedly review and revise your story until your story passed without any flags.

That's against the rules. They caught you breaking the rules and took your story down. Manu's AI detector is probably a lot better than the detector that you found online. You have not removed all the "AI fingerprints" from your story like you think you have. Unless you're going to write your own story, I think you should give up trying to post here. Alternatively, you're going to have to be a lot smarter about breaking the rules.

Also, earlier in this thread, you accused Laurel and Manu of being racist. I think that's ridiculous, but I'm not a person of color, and if that's what you believe then why would you poDj

Your personal experience is irrelevant to those having problems. You don’t have a secret sauce, no one does. You have just been lucky.

It’s like “my grandpa smoked all his life and lived to be 98.”

Find someone else to argue with, I’m done.

It is striking how many people around this page make posts just to be nasty.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I did the AI check and made sure to get the results down to zero

What do you actually mean? If you're using Grammarly or similar, then you're using AI to help write your story, which is against Lit's policy.

and they still came back with that. And they had done their own check so that again is nonsense - a pretext.

Your rejection is because the site suspects you are using AI tools to assist your writing. Don't.

Racism has nothing to do with the problem, so you shouldn't keep coming back to that.

My suggestion would be to rewrite your story from the beginning, don't use any grammar checks, and resubmit a completely new document.

 

[ColtonWrites]

Except its not. As i told you I have done the AI check and made sure I got it down a zero and resubmitted.

I did the AI check and made sure to get the results down to zero and they still came back with that. And they had done their own check so that again is nonsense - a pretext.

What do you mean by an "AI check"? Are you using an AI model to tell you if your work sounds like its written by an AI? Because that isn't going to work - those tools are worse than flipping a coin on their success rates. In fact, it means that you changed your work to make an AI happy - which quite likely increased the chance it got flagged when you submitted it.

I promise you, its not racism. There are plenty of stories with positive interracial relationships getting posted here every day. I had one published this week that includes two.

 

[darwin1859]

It is striking how many people around this page make posts just to be nasty

Look up 'projection'

 

[TheWritingGroup]

I promise you, its not racism. There are plenty of stories with positive interracial relationships getting posted here every day. I had one published this week that includes two.

My recent novel has Black/White and Asian/White sex and was published immediately, within hours.

--Annie