The Problem with Literotica

[TheNovelist2000]

Nah, you clearly weren't polite enough. Have you not seen what some of the veterans said? Have you not seen the likes on those posts? Go stand in the corner.

Apparently, the last line is not supposed to be polite. I had already given up by then. I like standing in the corner though.

 

[M_K_Babalon]

It’s unlikely you will hear from people here, since many are in the ‘trusted commenter’ group and have their comments posted instantly.

I’m not, though, and my last comment took almost three days to appear. It was on a Halloween story, too, which you’d expect to take precedence, while the contest is ongoing, over comments on some other random stories.

Before that, it would always be just one day maximum before my comments were posted, usually somewhere around early morning in the US.

I thought if you turned on comment moderation, it was up to the user to review, not Laurel.

 

[MillieDynamite]

I don't know what that does. As far as I know, we can't see comments until they are posted to the stories.

I thought if you turned on comment moderation, it was up to the user to review, not Laurel.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I thought if you turned on comment moderation, it was up to the user to review, not Laurel.

Correct. The site reviews Comments for spam content, html links and so on, but I don't think it moderates the actual content on the first pass.

There's been evidence over the years that the site runs a hate speech finder (regularly or irregularly, I don't know) - folk have reported foul comments disappearing. But, that also happens when a member deletes their account or gets banned - their comments disappear - so that might be a site action, but might just have been accounts being deleted. Either way, comments do get removed.

The site has given authors the capability to moderate comments left on their stories, using whatever criteria they choose, and many do so. There used to be a type of victim shaming against authors who did delete comments, although that's largely diminished more recently. Whether that's because more people do curate commentary, or because there's less tolerance for unnecessary scumdom, or more people being more sensitive, I wouldn't have a clue.

At the end of the day, though, Delete is always an option.