New Pinned Thread "Story Pending For More Than 72 Hours."

[Voyeurkenneth]

I feel kinda ridiculous creating this thread, but I wanted to call out something that sorta gets buried toward the bottom, for those that might miss it:

"If your story is not in your Pending Stories folder, Drafts Folder, Sent Back folder and has been pending for fewer than 15 days, please do not click on or alter the submission in any way as that will further delay its publication."​

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It seems that the act of merely CLICKING on a pending story will shoot one's pending story back to the bottom of the review queue. Interestingly, this tracks with my experience, when I'd submitted edits for two existing stories at the same time. #1 went through as expected (~15 days), while #2 languished in pending (I'd dumbly clicked on #2, but DIDN'T SAVE an edit).

EDIT: Link to Pinned Thread: "Story Pending For More Than 72 Hours? Please Read.".

 

[SDaddy666]

Sorry, what?
Two things:
- first off, if the story is neither in either of these 3 folders, it can only be in the published folder. So that's a first confusing point.
- Secondly, and I'm sorry to be asking because my english isn't as good as I want it to be and I have a hard time understanding this but, are you saying that if we simply open a pending submission by clicking on the pen, just to check something out, but without making ANY changes, that pushes our story back ? Damn that should be clearly mentioned.

 

[Voyeurkenneth]

Sorry, what?
Two things:
- first off, if the story is neither in either of these 3 folders, it can only be in the published folder. So that's a first confusing point.

Good point. Totally went over my head when I first read the post.

Secondly, and I'm sorry to be asking because my english isn't as good as I want it to be and I have a hard time understanding this but, are you saying that if we simply open a pending submission by clicking on the pen, just to check something out, but without making ANY changes, that pushes our story back ? Damn that should be clearly mentioned.

That'd be the implication based on the post.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Sorry, what?
Two things:
- first off, if the story is neither in either of these 3 folders, it can only be in the published folder. So that's a first confusing point.
- Secondly, and I'm sorry to be asking because my english isn't as good as I want it to be and I have a hard time understanding this but, are you saying that if we simply open a pending submission by clicking on the pen, just to check something out, but without making ANY changes, that pushes our story back ? Damn that should be clearly mentioned.

If you make any changes and save them…

Based on having 143 stories published here (including the RJT ones).

 

[SDaddy666]

If you make any changes and save them…

Based on having 143 stories published here (including the RJT ones).

makes sense, but the post is confusing

 

[Britva415]

If you make any changes and save them…

Based on having 143 stories published here (including the RJT ones).

I don’t know. The announcement seemed to be pretty clear about “don’t even click on a Pending one.” I don’t have experience with this, myself. I guess you’re saying you do?

 

[Voyeurkenneth]

makes sense, but the post is confusing

Seems the mod made the edit to address your first question. It now reads:

"If your story is in your Pending Stories folder and has been pending for fewer than 15 days, please do not click on or alter the submission in any way as that will further delay its publication."

 

[PapaRomantic]

If you make any changes and save them…

Based on having 143 stories published here (including the RJT ones).

This seems very clear to me...

If the story is pending, "please do not click on or alter the submission in any way."

 

[EmilyMiller]

I don’t know. The announcement seemed to be pretty clear about “don’t even click on a Pending one.” I don’t have experience with this, myself. I guess you’re saying you do?

I’ve even made changes, then thought better of it, and closed the window without saving. Made no difference. I seem to recall on story getting approved like and hour after my abortive editing.

 

[TheLobster]

If merely clicking on the story in your Pending folder changed anything meaningful about it, it would be a pretty gross violation of basic web standards. It would definitely qualify as a bug, no matter what the site says.

 

[EmilyMiller]

I don’t know. The announcement seemed to be pretty clear about “don’t even click on a Pending one.” I don’t have experience with this, myself. I guess you’re saying you do?

As clear as:

"If your story is not in your Pending Stories folder, Drafts Folder, Sent Back folder and has been pending

which is not possible unless it’s been published, you mean?

I’m relying on actual experience.

 

[EmilyMiller]

I’m relying on actual experience.

But, hey, do whatever seems best to you.

 

[SDaddy666]

If merely clicking on the story in your Pending folder changed anything meaningful about it, it would be a pretty gross violation of basic web standards. It would definitely qualify as a bug, no matter what the site says.

you can open it, add it to a series and close it without saving and it will still be added to the series so idk.
would be great is some staff could confirm or not

 

[Actingup]

I’ve even made changes, then thought better of it, and closed the window without saving. Made no difference. I seem to recall on story getting approved like and hour after my abortive editing.

I agree - I’ve done the same. I think that what they mean is that if you enter that editing mode, you’re playing with fire because you might inadvertently delay your story. So treat it as parental advice.

 

[AwkwardlySet]

Honestly, I am surprised Lit is publishing this info. I wonder what triggered this sudden bout of transparency.

 

[Voyeurkenneth]

@EmilyMiller @Actingup

Nice, your experience is good to hear.

Perhaps the example I cited was an outlier (to be fair, mine was for a STORY EDIT aka a non-priority). And I should note I was obviously speculating when I said "will shoot one's pending story back to the bottom of the review queue." I don't know that for sure. No one does, except Laurel herself. But it'd explain why one of my Edits stayed in Pending for 6 weeks. Could be a coincidence. Or a glitch. Or chalk it up to mysteries of the queue. For the record, I deleted my Pending edit and resubmitted it as a new edit, and it was promptly processed in the expected ~15 days.

 

[Britva415]

Honestly, I am surprised Lit is publishing this info. I wonder what triggered this sudden bout of transparency.

I was going to say that the announcement makes pretty clear what most of the issues are when they happen. As such, it will probably save them lots of time if people get told to just read that rather than get told to PM Laurel.

I for one would never have suspected that people are putting “EDITED” into the title when the story hasn’t even been published yet - with or without a previous rejection, but, I have to read between the lines and imagine that, yes, yes they have.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Considering the errors and lack of clarity, I think that thread needs to be sent back as suspected AI.

 

[Voyeurkenneth]

Okay, time to put this to bed . Apologies for the conspiracy theory!

New edit by the mod:

"*** To Clarify: Simply clicking on a pending work will not send it back to the queue. However, we have had numerous cases where an author believed that they had "only clicked" on a pending submission but in fact inadvertently saved or otherwise altered it - thereby sending it to the back of the queue. For this reason, we recommend not clicking on or otherwise opening a submission form unless you intend to make changes."

 

[ElectricBlue]

I’ve even made changes, then thought better of it, and closed the window without saving. Made no difference. I seem to recall on story getting approved like and hour after my abortive editing.

Correct. If you look but don't change anything, don't click to save anything, the story will stay Pending. Clicking anything at the bottom of the Form pulls it back to Draft, which I reckon is 99% of the problem people have. That, and not editing tightly in the first place.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Honestly, I am surprised Lit is publishing this info. I wonder what triggered this sudden bout of transparency.

Sick to death of receiving PMs, then finding the story is still in Draft?

 

[EmilyMiller]

I agree - I’ve done the same. I think that what they mean is that if you enter that editing mode, you’re playing with fire because you might inadvertently delay your story. So treat it as parental advice.

Yeah - you might do something stupid obviously I would never do anything stupid, but a hypothetical author of sex romps might.

 

[AwkwardlySet]

Sick to death of receiving PMs, then finding the story is still in Draft?

Yeah, but that has been happening for ages, so why now specifically? And a week ago, there was that post from Lit also about story submissions.

Either they are unusually swamped with submissions and PMs about them, more so than even on those days when 400+ stories were published, or we are witnessing history here.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

And the daily dozens of threads here and on support and elsewhere.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Okay, time to put this to bed . Apologies for the conspiracy theory!

New edit by the mod:

"*** To Clarify: Simply clicking on a pending work will not send it back to the queue. However, we have had numerous cases where an author believed that they had "only clicked" on a pending submission but in fact inadvertently saved or otherwise altered it - thereby sending it to the back of the queue. For this reason, we recommend not clicking on or otherwise opening a submission form unless you intend to make changes."

At least we know one of them is reading our ranting drivels here.

How are those Kitties anyways?