Pending??

[AwkwardMD]

Mistakes are not what makes something look like AI. @AwkwardMD is the local expert. In my experience reading student work, varying sentence length is the best way not to look like AI. But I have not read your stories so I can’t say what caused the problem

Lit's AI Detector is looking for something specific. It's not mistakes, purposeful or otherwise, and sentence length should not trigger it whether they are uniform or varied.

I have no doubt that this serves you well out in the real world for spotting students, but Lit's system does it differently.

 

[AwkwardMD]

The common belief is that purgatory is actually waiting for a manual review, which sometimes take a very long time to happen.

I'm sorry it happened to you.

I have to ask. Do you use Grammarly? That does count as using AI to write your story.

If you are truly not using AI (there absolutely are false accusations, that is unfortunately unavoidable if the site wants to keep AI generated stories out), there are threads here about what to do.

I also do not/no longer believe the pending purgatory had anything to do with manual reviews. Lit has always rejected any flagged story out of hand, and waited for a resubmit to invest time in a manual review.

You can see this in incorrect underage rejections. Including a 16 year old character will sometimes get a story rejected, but when you resubmit with a note and the story is accepted without changes that shows you where the manual review is happening.

I do not have an answer for the long pending times right now. I suspect it is related to the BTS swaps that are happening related to author feed activity. We are clearly all being transferred from one system to a middle waiting area, and then to a final area where everything works. My best guess is that long pending stories are related to that, although I still suspect it is a bug and not the designed intent of this multi-phase transition.

EDIT: i always suspected that waiting to do the manual review saved Laurel an unholy amount of time checking flagged stories that really were out of tolerance. I've personally had nearly all of my rejected stories published after an immediate resubmission.

 

[old_prof]

I also do not/no longer believe the pending purgatory had anything to do with manual reviews. Lit has always rejected any flagged story out of hand, and waited for a resubmit to invest time in a manual review.

You can see this in incorrect underage rejections. Including a 16 year old character will sometimes get a story rejected, but when you resubmit with a note and the story is accepted without changes that shows you where the manual review is happening.

I do not have an answer for the long pending times right now. I suspect it is related to the BTS swaps that are happening related to author feed activity. We are clearly all being transferred from one system to a middle waiting area, and then to a final area where everything works. My best guess is that long pending stories are related to that, although I still suspect it is a bug and not the designed intent of this multi-phase transition.

EDIT: i always suspected that waiting to do the manual review saved Laurel an unholy amount of time checking flagged stories that really were out of tolerance. I've personally had nearly all of my rejected stories published after an immediate resubmission.

Interesting. I believe you have much more actual knowledge than my pure speculation, so I assume you are right, In trying to build a new mental model for me, I'm trying to understand why many of the purgatories end up as AI rejections (and occasionally content rejections).

 

[Britva415]

under their own FAQ the powers that be stipulate that they don’t have an AI Policy

I don't see this as ironic. The absence of a policy doesn't mean they can't still refuse what they think is gen-AI work

 

[Dark_Logan_]

If there are no rules why is there a rule book?