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Publius68

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I know we've discussed the mystery of comment moderation before. If we solved the riddle of why some seem to post immediately, while others obviously seem to go through a moderation queue, I missed it. I just know there is a queue whenever I see a sudden burst of three or four comments from varying people all "posted" within ten minutes of each other after radio silence for a few days. Sometimes the queue seems to be hours long, sometimes days.

But the last few days have been ridiculous. Since I started my latest series, I've had an intermittent stream (Har! Old man joke!) of comments come in, but in disappointingly small numbers. I've gotten spoiled. But then, something happened in the last day or so, and I'm deluged with comments, mostly short ones, some from regulars but mostly from newbies, all in bursts. And they are mostly about old stories.

Am I suddenly generating that many new readers going through my back catalog? I could see some of that, but this is a lot. (I'm tickled pink, though) Or has whoever is in charge of the moderation queue just gotten back from vacation?
 
I am an avid commenter (#9). My comments are almost always posted immediately. However, if I make a second comment on the story within a short while, it tends to be held up (I guess until moderated) for a while.
 
Publius68 said:
I know we've discussed the mystery of comment moderation before. If we solved the riddle of why some seem to post immediately, while others obviously seem to go through a moderation queue, I missed it. I just know there is a queue whenever I see a sudden burst of three or four comments from varying people all "posted" within ten minutes of each other after radio silence for a few days. Sometimes the queue seems to be hours long, sometimes days.

But the last few days have been ridiculous. Since I started my latest series, I've had an intermittent stream (Har! Old man joke!) of comments come in, but in disappointingly small numbers. I've gotten spoiled. But then, something happened in the last day or so, and I'm deluged with comments, mostly short ones, some from regulars but mostly from newbies, all in bursts. And they are mostly about old stories.

Am I suddenly generating that many new readers going through my back catalog? I could see some of that, but this is a lot. (I'm tickled pink, though) Or has whoever is in charge of the moderation queue just gotten back from vacation?
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Whoever is in charge of moderation? You do know that there is one person handling about 300 new stories per week. We have assumed that much of it is done through scanning programs because that is the one way such a situation could be tenable.

The analogy I have used is that it's like an ocean liner with a crew of two. One person steers from the bridge and the second (the IT guy) is down in the engine room. It's amazing that it works as well as it does.

Lit writers gather in the first class dining room to discuss the activities of the crew, other writers, the readers, the scoring, their rejection notices, and various other issues of importance:

https://designintrospective.wordpre.../03/ss_normandie_grande_salle_c3a0_manger.jpg

(That is actually the dining room of the SS Normandie in the 1930's.)
 
I moderated a similar site for a couple of years, and I completely understand why some comments get delayed. The delay is to weed out comments that are personal in nature or intended to make some point unrelated to the story instead of comments about the writing and content of the story itself. I've seen and deleted comments along the lines of, "You don't deserve to live after writing something like this", as well as comments such as, "Only a (fill in any political party or organization) would write garbage like this". Attacks like this do nothing to improve a writer's skills or the story content on the site and would likely drive some authors away.

What I've found is that my "named" commenters usually get their comments posted quickly. Commenter's I don't recognize or who are just "Anonymous" are sometimes delayed until the site refreshes.
 
I guess I still find it nearly impossible to believe that our two heroes actually do all that we ascribe to them by themselves. Surely they have some confidential help who keeps themselves totally anonymous out of self-preservation... (Hmmm... maybe there is a story there...)
But I was just observing that the moderation effects seem to have changed lately, as if a larger than usual backlog had built up and was being worked through. That, or I just have been receiving a huge new influx of comments all at once. I was wondering if others are experiencing a sudden wealth of responses.
 
Publius68 said:
I guess I still find it nearly impossible to believe that our two heroes actually do all that we ascribe to them by themselves. Surely they have some confidential help who keeps themselves totally anonymous out of self-preservation... (Hmmm... maybe there is a story there...)
But I was just observing that the moderation effects seem to have changed lately, as if a larger than usual backlog had built up and was being worked through. That, or I just have been receiving a huge new influx of comments all at once. I was wondering if others are experiencing a sudden wealth of responses.
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I don't think reader behavior has changed much over the years. Usually comments come in at zero to four on most stories. Loving Wives will of course generate many comments, although some of them are surprisingly positive. Occasionally a story in another category will gather more interest. I will respond to comments with at least a "thank you" plus some other details but that is usually the end of the conversation. The readers move on quickly to something else.
 
NoTalentHack said:
I wrote up what's probably going on last year:

https://forum.literotica.com/threads/and-now-instant-comment-posting-seems-to-have-disappeared-again-🙄.1585548/post-96876082

There's some more evidence further on down for the theory.
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Just curious - have there been any comments from the Engine Room on how this works? The more I understand how this site works (I'm up to about a half a star understanding now... Lit rating 0.5), the more I find it difficult to believe that it all works on such thin strings and wire!
 
Actingup said:
Just curious - have there been any comments from the Engine Room on how this works? The more I understand how this site works (I'm up to about a half a star understanding now... Lit rating 0.5), the more I find it difficult to believe that it all works on such thin strings and wire!
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No, and I doubt there ever will be. If they’re trying to fight spammers (and, in other areas, people that try to rig votes, etc.) describing how the system works would be counterproductive.
 
I am getting better at leaving comments to stories that I have read.
Mainly as a calling card. To let the author know I have invested in the story.
 
By the way, on this topic, the number of posts by commenters has not been updated in over a week.
 
lc69hunter said:
By the way, on this topic, the number of posts by commenters has not been updated in over a week.
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I don’t think the “most favorited authors” list has been updated in months, either. Or maybe I’m just completely misunderstanding how that list should work.
 
MY comments take awhile. Sometimes a few hours, and sometimes no until the next day. What bugs me is that we have to wait for our own comments to be posted on our own story section. I can understand a waiting period if we comment on someone else's works, but n our own?
 
LonRivers said:
MY comments take awhile. Sometimes a few hours, and sometimes no until the next day. What bugs me is that we have to wait for our own comments to be posted on our own story section. I can understand a waiting period if we comment on someone else's works, but n our own?
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To avoid perverse incentives. If I were a spammer and wanted to spam here, then stealing a flash story from somewhere else, posting it onto the site, and then spamming in my own comments would be one option IF authors were always allowed to post in their own comment sections.

I think it's about 100 comments on stories (yours or others) before you're fast-tracked for immediate comments. It's not too onerous, and it removes one additional headache for the admins.
 
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