Referring to fake website?

[MamasChastityBoy]

Hi everyone!

I've just hit a Literotica milestone - my first rejection (yay! I think? Yay!) Since the story contained no banned content and no underage stuff (unless referring to mother/son incest is now usually interpreted as underage content), was over the required length, and was my usual quality of writing, I have to think that the reason was down to a plot point revolving around a fictional website. No full web address was included, just a name, and the website isn't real.

Has anyone got any advice for what to do here? Do you think a prominent disclaimer at the head of the story might resolve the issue, or am I likely going to need to strip that plot point out, or at least leave the fake site nameless?

 

[HeyAll]

Submit it again and leave a note in the Note section for the approver.

 

[CoffeeWithMonkeys]

Did you not get a reason for the rejection?
When I had a story rejected for grammar, it told me exactly what was wrong, I didn't format all of my dialog the correct way.

 

[RejectReality]

What you think is a fake address may be real. Half of the crazy things you can think of have been parked by someone for some reason.

What is a harmless or nonexistent site today could be something illegal tomorrow, and then your story will be here pointing to it.

Your best option is not to refer to your fictional site by an actual name. Refer to it by a category. Social media site. Dating site. Advice site. News site. Etc.

What usually triggers this is having .com, .net, or dot com, dot net in the text. So don't say Facebook.com. Say Facebook. Say something like "I went to the McDonalds website." That will typically go through, but your best bet is still not to give it an actual name in the text. ( Especially since you've already been rejected for a URL once. You'll probably be scrutinized a bit more on that front than most submissions )

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Or make it Literotica.

 

[ElectricBlue]

...a plot point revolving around a fictional website. No full web address was included, just a name, and the website isn't real.

That's enough to get it rejected. Read your rejection note, it will explain the problem.

Remove all text that looks like any kind of 'dot com' or web link format. Clean your text up, and resubmit with a note to the Site Editor.

 

[Weird Harold]

No full web address was included, just a name, and the website isn't real.

Anything that could be a website in the future will trigger a rejection as if it were already an actual website.

 

[Bramblethorn]

What you think is a fake address may be real. Half of the crazy things you can think of have been parked by someone for some reason.

What is a harmless or nonexistent site today could be something illegal tomorrow, and then your story will be here pointing to it.

Yep. And a spammer could make this happen deliberately: trawl through the hot lists, look for any story that mentions a fictional website, and then register that site.

Your best option is not to refer to your fictional site by an actual name. Refer to it by a category. Social media site. Dating site. Advice site. News site. Etc.

What usually triggers this is having .com, .net, or dot com, dot net in the text. So don't say Facebook.com. Say Facebook. Say something like "I went to the McDonalds website." That will typically go through, but your best bet is still not to give it an actual name in the text. ( Especially since you've already been rejected for a URL once. You'll probably be scrutinized a bit more on that front than most submissions )

Yeah, all this. I think it depends a bit on the nature of the website; I've had one go through with several mentions of Facebook but I suspect mentions of a rival erotica site are more likely to be taken as spam, even without the .com.

 

[Darkniciad]

Yep. And a spammer could make this happen deliberately: trawl through the hot lists, look for any story that mentions a fictional website, and then register that site.

It was probably not done on purpose, but there are at least two phone numbers in old NES games that point to or pointed to phone sex lines years later. Who Framed Roger Rabbit is one of them.

 

[HandsInTheDark]

>I have to think that the reason was down to a plot point revolving around a fictional website. No full web address was included, just a name, and the website isn't real.

That shouldn't have been an issue. But if it's supposed to a sexually oriented site... Lit rebrands some cam-site's offerings and I imagine those providers don't want people hunting around for anything else. In other words it might not be the name as much as the sort of site it purports to be.

I've had no problem making some references to Literotica itself, even when they were digs at content. That might be the safest way to go.

Or go the old school route:

The folk at L*******.com hooked me up with a luscious little webcam slut, and...

 

[MamasChastityBoy]

I wound up just dropping the name and putting in a note at the end that it's a fictional website, which is a shame but the easiest fix. MotherKnowsBest will just have to recur as That One Website or something like that, since those three words without anything else (no www., no .com, etc) are enough to get it rejected.