Okay, seriously: what's with the delay in publishing my story?

[LaBlancheTraversee]

I'm getting a little frustrated.

There's already been a batch of stories approved today in the genre I wrote for, and I submitted yesterday at noon (Boston). Moreover, my story is a revised edition of a story I submitted now almost a week ago edited for content, so there ought not to be any rule issues.

I know it's technically supposed to take 3-7 days, but it has never taken that long in practice and didn't take that long previously even for send-backs.

 

[LaBlancheTraversee]

I should add that, if memory serves, my stories have usually been published the next day. Please correct me if I just got exceptionally lucky ...

 

[AwkwardMD]

You got exceptionally lucky. Historically, most of kine post in 48 hours, and some of my friends have waited upwards of a week (depending on the number of pending submissions).

Give it a few more days.

 

[SimonDoom]

I've been publishing stories for two and a half years. Typically it takes 3-7 days for my stories to publish, with 4 or 5 being the norm. And I have a solid track record because I've never had a story rejected. I had one story publish in 2 hours when I submitted it on the eve of a contest deadline, but that was a one time thing.

So, you were lucky before.

 

[LaBlancheTraversee]

Hm. Okay, thanks for clarifying!

 

[KeithD]

One day delay only happens when you've entered it in an ongoing contest. I post in various accounts, some quite active some largely dormant. I have one submitted in a dormant account that still doesn't have a posting date after two in an active account were submitted later, one published and one with a publishing date. Obviously, the less active you are submitting stories that aren't found to be problematic over time, the longer it's going to take to have them posted. That said, again, next day posting just doesn't happen outside of active contests. There's only one submissions editor and over 100 submissions every day of the year.

 

[Voboy]

Also, the edit/resubmit sent it to the back of the queue. Like a brand new submission.

 

[LaBlancheTraversee]

Well, it seems that the staff are more productive nowadays, for my story just got published ... appearing near the bottom of the 20 or so stories published in Incest/Taboo today. *facepalm*

Oh well. One compromises, no?

 

[SimonDoom]

I submitted a story nearly six days ago that has not yet been published. It's one of the longest wait periods I've experienced. I'm curious because it's not that long (about 12K words), was submitted in .rtf format, and has no special formatting.

 

[KeithD]

I submitted a story nearly six days ago that has not yet been published. It's one of the longest wait periods I've experienced. I'm curious because it's not that long (about 12K words), was submitted in .rtf format, and has no special formatting.

Yep, one of my side accounts is seven days into a posting delay on a noncontroversial story. In that time two have been submitted and posted in my main, most active account. All of them were submitted cut-and-paste into the text box.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Well, it seems that the staff are more productive nowadays, for my story just got published ... appearing near the bottom of the 20 or so stories published in Incest/Taboo today. *facepalm*

Oh well. One compromises, no?

Staff? There isn't a staff. There is one person who vets all the stories and it's her site and she can post them when she damn well pleases.

The FAQ says 72 hours, any sooner than that and your lucky. Any longer than that and... well you could complain but, that might put your story to the back of the queue... again.

 

[WoolyWorm]

I've also had one pending for nearly a week--the longest I've ever waited. It's an I/T story, and there's been a glut of those posted over the past few days, so I'm assuming there's a backlog.

If it stays stuck in pending for too much longer, I may delete it and resubmit it for the Summer Lovin' contest. I'd originally started writing it with that in mind, but then I decided it was too short and too lightweight (it's pure stroke) to be a good first contest entry. It also has some potential 1-bomb triggers. But maybe it'll end up in the contest after all.

 

[KeithD]

It's summer. Let's give Laurel some slack. She could just shut down to take her vacations. It takes nine months or more to get something published in the mainstream.

 

[LaBlancheTraversee]

It's summer. Let's give Laurel some slack. She could just shut down to take her vacations. It takes nine months or more to get something published in the mainstream.

I've got another idea:

A tiered premium service, giving access to higher publishing priority and other benefits. With the money, Laurel could hire an intern and take holidays, both giving her some much-needed rest and allowing stories to be published more quickly! Everyone wins.

(edit: In addition to giving Laurel slack, of course. )

 

[LaBlancheTraversee]

I hate the title of this thread, by the way. I sound like such a bitch. *ugh*

Oh well. As they say on the farm:

"By hazard bitchiness is a river to the sea of robust conversation."

 

[KeithD]

I've got another idea:

A tiered premium service, giving access to higher publishing priority and other benefits. With the money, Laurel could hire an intern and take holidays, both giving her some much-needed rest and allowing stories to be published more quickly! Everyone wins.

(edit: In addition to giving Laurel slack, of course. )

Fantasize as you want (although it gets irritating to read proposals on the discussion board that no one on the discussion board can do a damn thing about). Reality is what exists here.

 

[SimonDoom]

I've got another idea:

A tiered premium service, giving access to higher publishing priority and other benefits. With the money, Laurel could hire an intern and take holidays, both giving her some much-needed rest and allowing stories to be published more quickly! Everyone wins.

(edit: In addition to giving Laurel slack, of course. )

No no no.

One of the really GOOD things about this site is that there's no premium service. You don't pay for anything.

I suspect Laurel could do more to monetize this site, but I don't have any inside info. That would be a better way to get money than to start carving it up into free and pay segments. That would be a very bad idea. The free nature of Literotica is part of what makes it so much better than some other erotic story sites.

Waiting a few days for publication is not a big deal. I've been waiting 6 days now for my story to publish. I'm eager for it to do so but I can't see any basis for really complaining that it hasn't.

 

[Voboy]

Literotica would die if its members were expected to pay. Because paper trail.

A great many users are here because they don’t have to explain to their spouses that they’re here. A paper trail makes that all the harder, and there are plenty of places to go for porn.

Laurel seems to understand the Mark Cuban Rule of Monetization: pigs get fat. Hogs get slaughtered.

 

[LaBlancheTraversee]

Fantasize as you want (although it gets irritating to read proposals on the discussion board that no one on the discussion board can do a damn thing about). Reality is what exists here.

Jesus, brah. Did someone piss in your cornflakes?

 

[TxRad]

Jesus, brah. Did someone piss in your cornflakes?

Nope, he's just giving you the facts. No one on these boards can do a damned thing for you. We've all mostly learned these facts and learned to live with them.

As for Laurel getting help, money is not the problem according to her. Finding someone who does things the way she wants them done is the problem.

 

[KeithD]

Jesus, brah. Did someone piss in your cornflakes?

I'm allergic to people who arrive and ten minutes later they're telling everyone how the place should run. Cool it and sit back and watch how it goes here. One way it goes is that the owners do their own thing and at their own pace and rarely look at the discussion board, so when you are telling folks how this place should run to please you personally, for starters, you're talking to folks who can't do a damn thing about it.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

And wouldn't change the way things work now. I wouldn't change a thing about Lit. Even if I could. It works very well the way it is.

 

[LaBlancheTraversee]

and ten minutes later they're telling

(1) More like five years and multiple stories later, but what are a few pesky details between friends?
(2) I was making a suggestion, not a demand. For an alleged author, you sure have difficulty telling the two apart.

 

[KeithD]

(1) More like five years and multiple stories later, but what are a few pesky details between friends?
(2) I was making a suggestion, not a demand. For an alleged author, you sure have difficulty telling the two apart.

12 days on the discussion board and two "Give me what I want right now!" threads. Let's be honest. You even had the demanding icons going for you. 4 stories in five years is pfffft, honey. Certainly not the deed to the site you seem to think you own by coming on like gangbusters. If you'd like to tell the site owners how to give you the service you think you deserve, the best way to reach them is using the address Laurel in the Private Message system (upper right of this page if you have PMs turned on--through the "User CP" upper left if you need to activate the system). I'm sure they'll hup to for you as well as they do for the rest of us.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Literotica would die if its members were expected to pay. Because paper trail.

A great many users are here because they don’t have to explain to their spouses that they’re here. A paper trail makes that all the harder, and there are plenty of places to go for porn.

This. Also, finding and keeping porn-friendly payment services providers can be a considerable headache.