Unauthorised editing

[Writer61]

Our policy has always been to either publish a work as-is or send it back to the author if it doesn't fit our guidelines in any way.

That is good to know. Thanks for the confirmation.

 

[BeechLeaf]

Thank you, Laurel. It's a huge relief to know it's not intentional, and that you're still looking out for us.

 

[StillStunned]

I get the feeling the intern is back on coffee duty.

Thanks for sharing, Laurel!

 

[Actingup]

Thank you to those who brought this to our attention.

We're sorry you're experiencing this issue. Our policy has always been to either publish a work as-is or send it back to the author if it doesn't fit our guidelines in any way. We would never edit an author's words except to remove spam. I'm not sure what happened, but I can assure you that beyond the fact that it against our policy, we are also lack the time needed to do that type of editing on the hundreds of stories posted daily.

A massive thank you for replying to the thread. A few public interventions go a long way.

 

[liliput1]

Confirming @BeechLeaf, I also see only up to part 8 on your Profile.

It does appear in a story search for "maddy on the move", with the New tag and publication date of today ... but does not appear in the New Stories list that I can find.

@Manu? @Laurel?

This is a known limitation of Lit and caching of pages. If you follow someone you get an alert when it publishes, the story is accessible from the alert but not yet from the Works page.

 

[jsmiam]

I’ll try hard to make this sound positive, @Laurel

The tiniest shred of open communication caused an outpouring (13 likes and counting) of supportiveness, after years and years of what’s basically inexcusable silence and arrogance from you.

I’d call it undeserved supportiveness, but you got it nonetheless. How about a re-evaluation of your ways, and make that reply the new norm?

 

[jsmiam]

And in case anyone’s wondering, that WAS my positive sounding version. ;-)

 

[ElectricBlue]

I’ll try hard to make this sound positive, @Laurel

The tiniest shred of open communication caused an outpouring (13 likes and counting) of supportiveness, after years and years of what’s basically inexcusable silence and arrogance from you.

I’d call it undeserved supportiveness, but you got it nonetheless. How about a re-evaluation of your ways, and make that reply the new norm?

That's unnecessary, the worst slam I've seen in a very long time. What does your comment contribute to what's gone on? Nothing that I can see.

 

[PennyThompson]

I’ll try hard to make this sound positive, @Laurel

The tiniest shred of open communication caused an outpouring (13 likes and counting) of supportiveness, after years and years of what’s basically inexcusable silence and arrogance from you.

I’d call it undeserved supportiveness, but you got it nonetheless. How about a re-evaluation of your ways, and make that reply the new norm?

Yeah, gee, I can't imagine why Laurel doesn't spend all of her time responding to Authors' Hangout posts, it would be such an edifying and productive experience to get this kind of reply to every single thing she posted

 

[Voboy]

I’ll try hard to make this sound positive, @Laurel

The tiniest shred of open communication caused an outpouring (13 likes and counting) of supportiveness, after years and years of what’s basically inexcusable silence and arrogance from you.

I’d call it undeserved supportiveness, but you got it nonetheless. How about a re-evaluation of your ways, and make that reply the new norm?

I don't necessarily disagree with your overall message, but I'm not sure it's helpful here, and I know it's not necessary to post it publicly. It's a virtue signal.

 

[Stanfield2025]

I’ll try hard to make this sound positive, @Laurel

The tiniest shred of open communication caused an outpouring (13 likes and counting) of supportiveness, after years and years of what’s basically inexcusable silence and arrogance from you.

I’d call it undeserved supportiveness, but you got it nonetheless. How about a re-evaluation of your ways, and make that reply the new norm?

I'm glad someone said it. All I'll add to it is a phrase from ASOIAF I constantly find to be relevant.

Words are wind.

 

[AwkwardlySet]

That's unnecessary, the worst slam I've seen in a very long time. What does your comment contribute to what's gone on? Nothing that I can see.

But it was necessary. If he hadn't said it, I would have. And his post was criticizing but reasonable and polite. It's good to see that there are people with sane reasoning here still.

It's a sad sign of the times that everyone's first reaction to Laurel's surprising post was to shower her with thanks and ass-kissing, after she made her first post in the AH in many, many months.

There was a time not so long ago when the forum was going completely nuts out of frustration because we didn't know what the hell was going on with submissions, and she never replied to that. Not a single sentence to let us know what's going on or to reassure us. People were editing, resubmitting, restarting their queues in frustration because they didn't know what to do, because no one was offering any guidance, any helpful information. But now she decides to post on this absolutely tiny issue where somehow "got" was changed to "gotten," and she's automatically the people's hero.

I don't know if you've noticed, but both Laurel and Manu seem to find the time to post on the forum when it's something that's important to THEM. We tagged them both a gazillion times on the issues we thought important, without any success. But yeah, now they supposedly reacted because AH-ers tagged them.

You know, the spine is a characteristic of more evolved species. I don't know why so many here prefer being an invertebrate.

 

[Stanfield2025]

But it was necessary. If he hadn't said it, I would have. And his post was criticizing but reasonable and polite. It's good to see that there are people with sane reasoning here still.

It's a sad sign of the times that everyone's first reaction to Laurel's surprising post is to shower her with thanks and ass-kissing, after she made her first post in the AH in many, many months.

There was a time not so long ago when the forum was going completely nuts out of frustration because we didn't know what the hell was going on with submissions, and she never replied to that. Not a single sentence to let us know what's going on or to reassure us. People were editing, resubmitting, restarting their queues in frustration because they didn't know what to do, because no one was offering any guidance, any helpful information. But now she decides to post on this absolutely tiny issue where somehow "got" was changed to "gotten," and she's automatically the people's hero.

I don't know if you've noticed, but both Laurel and Manu seem to find the time to post on the forum when it's something that's important to THEM. We tagged them both a gazillion times on the issues we thought important, without any success. But yeah, now they supposedly reacted because AH-ers tagged them.

You know, the spine is a characteristic of more evolved species. I don't know why so many here prefer being an invertebrate.

Took the words right outta my mouth.

 

[liliput1]

I’ll try hard to make this sound positive, @Laurel

The tiniest shred of open communication caused an outpouring (13 likes and counting) of supportiveness, after years and years of what’s basically inexcusable silence and arrogance from you.

I’d call it undeserved supportiveness, but you got it nonetheless. How about a re-evaluation of your ways, and make that reply the new norm?

I'm having trouble imagining what scenario would result in accidental edits on the staff's end or some sort of auto-correct-on-save issue on the author's end without noticing it.

The work involved continues to increase. Lit is a labor of love, so we are happy that it continues to grow

The whole vibe here is of a Red Queen Problem - running faster and faster just to keep in the same spot. The current spam problem is, I surmise, part of that.

One of the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People is 'sharpen your saw'. Really you could probably dump some of the others and just keep this one.

As a neurodivergent person I struggle to even start tasks that piss me off, and the way I cope is that I invest some energy into making the task less obnoxious every time I do it. The fact that I'm moving the needle helps motivate me to keep going, and reduces the pain, because now I know it's transitory rather than the level of Hell I get to inhabit. At first that makes me fall behind, from the Red Queen perspective, but months or a few seasons in I'm pulling ahead, and then people start getting curious. This place is a marathon not a sprint. Make the old tasks easier to make space for the new ones that always show up.