Question for anyone!

[JADED_ONE1969]

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[cheerful_deviant]

I posted a couple of stories about 5 days ago. nothing too taxing and as far as I'm concearned nothing wrong with them. I think they are spelt right,I know they are the right length and I am pretty sure the sentences and grammar are perhaps not perfect but certainly pretty good, in MY opinion.
The problem is that was FIVE days ago and it's nice to have people demanding a story from me but what is the point if I and they have to wait five days for a story.

Anyway just wandered if anybody has a clue why these things take so long?

GW

I think the current wait time is somewhere between a week and two. I assume that goes inot a que, then someone gives each story a read and a thumbs up or down, then it goes into another que to be eventually loaded. Probablly just abacklog in the que.

 

[JADED_ONE1969]

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[starrkers]

NOpe. I've been here over a year and have never had a story post in under six days. My last couple took eight. There is also a contest running at the meoment, that always lengthens the wait time. If you enter the contest the story will be up the next day, everythng else backs up behind contest entries.

 

[Vermilion]

Really I thought it was seventy two hours? or is that a week, I know a working week is 40 hours at least in the Uk. Anyway I thought they had computers to do the sorting?
Oh nevermind the readers will just have to wait.
Thanks anyway.

Gw

computers can't pick out paedophilia reliably and are not always so hot at spotting illiterate nitwits, either. All stories are submitted to a once over by a yooman.
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[sethp]

I posted a couple of stories about 5 days ago. nothing too taxing and as far as I'm concearned nothing wrong with them. I think they are spelt right,I know they are the right length and I am pretty sure the sentences and grammar are perhaps not perfect but certainly pretty good, in MY opinion.
The problem is that was FIVE days ago and it's nice to have people demanding a story from me but what is the point if I and they have to wait five days for a story.

Anyway just wandered if anybody has a clue why these things take so long?

GW

they approve them manually so it usually takes 7 days but could be a bit longer or a bit less.

 

[MagicaPractica]

I think you only hit three days when they know and trust your writing. And even then it still takes two weeks during a contest I think. Patience is the only answer. Good luck.

 

[JADED_ONE1969]

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[Katyusha]

NOpe. I've been here over a year and have never had a story post in under six days. My last couple took eight. There is also a contest running at the meoment, that always lengthens the wait time. If you enter the contest the story will be up the next day, everythng else backs up behind contest entries.

Except for my Christmas story, they usually take a week to 10 days for mine to post.

 

[tickledkitty]

You could write a poem. They only take hours.

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

Damn! He actually asked THE QUESTION

MATH GIRL, WHERE ARE YOU?

 

[Weird Harold]

Really I thought it was seventy two hours? or is that a week, I know a working week is 40 hours at least in the Uk. Anyway I thought they had computers to do the sorting?
Oh nevermind the readers will just have to wait.
Thanks anyway.

Gw

back in the dawn of time when Lit was only recieving thirty or forty stories a day, they could assess and approve the stories in get them posted in 72 hours or less. I have no idea how many submissions they're recieving every day now, but since the membership numbers have gone up by a factor of ten or more, I'd guess the stories submissions have, too.

As the membership has gone up over the last decade, so has the wait for stories to be approved and posted.

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

back in the dawn of time when Lit was only recieving thirty or forty stories a day, they could assess and approve the stories in get them posted in 72 hours or less. I have no idea how many submissions they're recieving every day now, but since the membership numbers have gone up by a factor of ten or more, I'd guess the stories submissions have, too.

As the membership has gone up over the last decade, so has the wait for stories to be approved and posted.

I've been counting about 75 submissions posted every day for months, Harold.

 

[starrkers]

I've been counting about 75 submissions posted every day for months, Harold.

And who knows how many more get rejected each day...

 

[damppanties]

Damn! He actually asked THE QUESTION

MATH GIRL, WHERE ARE YOU?

I thought you'd taken the place of Mathgirl...

 

[fifty5]

There is a waypoint - for all I know, more than one.

If you keep your eye on your Submissions - View page, you'll see that it starts off with your story marked 'pending', with no comments and no views. At this stage, you are just waiting in a queue.

After a while, some (2 so far for my latest) views will appear. I have no idea whether those are conventional Views - your story up on someone's screen - or in another form, say transferred to queues for 2 assessors, but someone actually has, or fairly soon will be, checking the story out.

I seem to remember that there aren't just pass and fail categories, but also a 'referral' meaning the initial evaluators can't make up their minds definitely and want more opinion(s). If so, the views would presumably go up again, with the status still staying on 'pending'

From what someone said earlier, even when the decision has been made, the story just moves into another queue, waiting for the decision to be implemented.

If my description is accurate (it is inference, not inside info) you can see that approval can involve quite a number of different queues:
1. Waiting for readers to be available
2. Waiting in 2 queues for both readers to get down their list to your story
3. Maybe waiting for further readers to be available - and then to get to yours
4. Waiting for the final decision to be implemented.

Also note that all but one of these queues - maybe all, if implementation is done manually - are waiting for busy people to be available.

A week doesn't seem long for all that - and with competition queue-jumpers as well, a fortnight ain't that bad.

But I know that it's a long time to be sitting on the edge of your chair!

 

[gauchecritic]

Well technically he/she didn't ask The Question, which is "How long does it take a story to post?"

Being apparently English or UKish he/she managed a circumlocutory ask and only implied the question by using the phrase 'these things'.

So: "Nothing to see here folks, go back to your homes, everything's under control."

 

[JADED_ONE1969]

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[fifty5]

Is that correct?

Except perhaps in a few details,

No!

 

[TxRad]

Okay here is another one for you what happens if the story that people have been demanding from you actually ends up being rubbish( at least from the readers point of view, and being critical mine too) is there anyway of sending the story back to the holding cell to be changed to what it was in the first place.

Gw

If the story is rejected, they give a reason. Well, they give a broad scope of a reason. You then have to fix what they thik is wrong and resubmit.

The readers get to wait some more and you get to work on your story some more.

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

I thought you'd taken the place of Mathgirl...

Shhhhhhh....I did, but I'm late. So I'm blaming her since she ain't here

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

Well technically he/she didn't ask The Question, which is "How long does it take a story to post?"

Being apparently English or UKish he/she managed a circumlocutory ask and only implied the question by using the phrase 'these things'.

So: "Nothing to see here folks, go back to your homes, everything's under control."

Close enouth to set off THE QUESTION alarms though

 

[Gizzmotick]

Close enouth to set off THE QUESTION alarms though

Okay... I have a different question... not THE question.

What are the criteria for getting an H for a story? My one story (see link below) has almost 20K views, and almost 50 votes.... but no H. Current ranking is 4.36. Is that decent for a first submission.... a non-fiction?

 

[TheeGoatPig]

Fiction or not doesn't really matter to the readers. It is all fantasy to them, since they didn't live it out themselves. There is no number of votes or views that is better than anything else. This place is quite fickle in that regard.

A story has to be rated 4.5 or higher with 10 or more votes to have an H.

 

[gauchecritic]

Fiction or not doesn't really matter to the readers. It is all fantasy to them, since they didn't live it out themselves. There is no number of votes or views that is better than anything else. This place is quite fickle in that regard.

A story has to be rated 4.5 or higher with 10 or more votes to have an H.

That's a H. Not an. H is a consonant.