What's the Hold UP?

[Rob Conner]

I keep running into the same problem recently. It takes forever and a day for my stories to get posted.

I checked on my submission list and 14 People had read my story and it was still pending. WHAT THE HAY?

Is there some problem with getting them posted. No rejection notice. I just resubmitted it in a different form. I hope this works.

To be real honest this is starting to piss me off.

I had a discussion with some folks over feedback about spelling errors etc. I hope this has Nothing to do with the slow posting.

I think I write pretty good quality stuff. My ratings are high and I get lots of feedback.

I hope this problem can be fixed.

Thanks for the vent space
Rob Conner

 

[minsue]

I don't know much, Rob, but I might be able to clear up a couple of things at least.

First, the Editor's Forum involves volunteer story editors. This is not the same as the people who run the site, though it often seems to be mistaken for such.

The number of views simply indicates the number of times anybody, including you, have clicked on your submission. Even if it is only momentarily, and it is highly unlikely that 14 people have read it.

There does seem to be even more of a delay than usual in posting stories recently. Trust me, you are not the only one waiting. I've no idea, but my best guess is that the volume of stories being submitted has gone up recently. It certainly seems that way to me when I check the new stories pages.

Hope this helps!

- Mindy

 

[HawaiiBill]

Problem?

I hope this problem can be fixed.

Sure. Cool your jets! Did someone ask you to submit a story? If so, write them a note and ask them why the world hasn't flipped cause your copy is in.

If no one asked for the story and you submitted it of your own free will without deserved expectations of being among the favored in the world you have no complaint. And, if you have no complaint, then we have no problem.

 

[Rob Conner]

BIll***BITE ME!

See mr. Bill You Have it ALL wrong!

I submit my story for free.

They collect advertising revenue.

They make money.

Little overhead for them.Big profits.

All I request is decency and respect.

People send me e mail all the time wanting me to write more.

SO I've removed this story from the site.
I'll try again to post it.

So if i'm impatient blame my readers

Rob

 

[minsue]

Re: BIll***BITE ME!

See mr. Bill You Have it ALL wrong!

I submit my story for free.

They collect advertising revenue.

They make money.

Little overhead for them.Big profits.

All I request is decency and respect.

People send me e mail all the time wanting me to write more.

SO I've removed this story from the site.
I'll try again to post it.

So if i'm impatient blame my readers

Rob

Removing it and re-submitting it means you have to start all over again at the end of the queue. I'm not sure that was the best course of action, Rob.

 

[HawaiiBill]

See mr. Bill You Have it ALL wrong!

Awquitchurbellyakin. You're the one with the imaginary problem and we're the ones who "have it all wrong." Grow up.

 

[Rob Conner]

Are you sure Mr. Bill?

Mr BIll

Are you sure I've got it wrong? Maybe I misunderstood the question?Maybe the person asking the question made a mistake in style, form or content or mispelled something?

Maybe someone replied to the wrong question? Maybe the right person replied to the wrong question? Stranger things have happened.

Maybe the question answered was not the question asked? Hard to reply under those circumstances. At least with some amount of accuracy.

Maybe the answerer is a pomus know it all? Maybe not?

Who knows what evil lurkes in the hearts of man? The shadow does? Or is it Mr. Bill?

Have a good day in Sunny Hawaii. Don't let the mongoose get you?

Rob

 

[snooper]

TUT, TUT ...

Children. If you can't play nicely together then play separately.

 

[Rob Conner]

Okay. I'll Be Good. Maybe?

Okay.

I'll try to be good. But I really can't promise 100%.

I am upset that someone would dismiss my concern as bellyaching wthout attempting to understand my point of view.

Plus I thought this site was about freedom of expression.

But if I hurt anyones feelings I am sorrry.

But the sitution doe bother me.

Life is tough,and I'm a big boy, so I'll get over it.

Have a good day!

Especially Mr. BILL! No hard feelings.

Rob

 

[minsue]

Have a flower?

 

[Tanuki]

It takes about 2-3 weeks these days, my story did - I'd almost given up on it. Long queue and not enough site reviewers, that's all - be patient, and don't resubmit unless you want to wait another 2 weeks!

 

[HawaiiBill]

I am upset that someone would dismiss my concern as bellyaching wthout attempting to understand my point of view.

I understand your point of view. To me, it is childish.

We held a conference and discussed your complaint. Everyoone suggested you send your story to The New Yorker. Experience what it is like for writers in the real world of commerce and publishing. You have no idea. When I asked you if someone requested a story from you, it was intended to get you to think about that. Did they? Do they owe you?

 

[race_1962]

I agree with Rob Conner. Like Rob, I have had a lot of great feedback on my stories and it frustrates the hell out of me to take over a week to see it on-line. Especially when there are days that only 4-5 stories are being posted.

Eroticstories.com does this in 24-48 hours. From now on, that is where I will post. This is bologna. Having an idiot like Hawaii Bob tell us to quit be childish is not cutting it.

Hawaii? Probably named himself that because of all of the Hawaiin Punch he drinks out of his mom's fridge, since he lives in her basement in Jersey. ;-)

 

[snooper]

... days that only 4-5 stories are being posted. ...

Name one!
Usually there are at least 25 and sometimes many more than that. And Weird Harold and others keep insisting that every one is checked by a single individual who uses the Lit name Laurel.

 

[HawaiiBill]

Having an idiot like Hawaii Bob tell us to quit be childish is not cutting it.

Hadn't noticed it before but there seems to be similarity between "Northern Indiana" and "East-Central Georgia." Can't be the water as there are different aquifers at work so what can it be?

Whatever the cause, a lack of humor is a symptom. Another would be inability to stay on track in a discussion. Short-term memory loss, it's called.

I'm trying to teach you something. Tried that with my brick wall the other day with the same result. But for the last time, there are tons more writers than there are editors. Has something to do with ego. Writers think what they produce has value in the same way children want to show mommy what they just created in the toilet bowl. It's okay, just part of life.

Editors, however, are what make literature work, a word that seems foreign to this discussion. Successful writers don't have time to worry about what others in the editorial food chain are doing, they are busy doing their job, WRITING!

I pretty much quit writing many years ago. I'm an editor now for something like forty years and still getting paid for it, by the way. Hawai`i is a good place to do that. It's so far away from Indiana -- and Georgia!

 

[race_1962]

I am too busy to play little games with Hawaii Billy-Bob, but I want to say just one thing.

Stories on here are porn. People read them and get off on them either alone or with someone else. This is not like working on Shakespeare.

What is frustrating is little men like Hawaii Bob who create these titles (Editor) for themselves and act self important. Ask yourself, what are you really accomplishing? World peace? Cure for cancer? No, you are providing a bottleneck to beating off material.

So, get off your high horse Bill and realize that you are really not that important, just like the rest of us, self included. I am just here to have some fun and share erotica with others, so quit giving me and others a hard time.

 

[HawaiiBill]

Get this straight

I am just here to have some fun and share erotica with others, so quit giving me and others a hard time.

This is the Editor's Forum. Unclear to me who let you and that other dude in here in the first place but it's more of a mystery why you stay where not wanted. So you come in here, both of you, and bitch. You are giving others a hard time and just don't like it when you get it right back. There are other places where writers can compare notes. Go there.

 

[Rob Conner]

Did we bruise your ego? Tough!

I have avoided posting anything to this thread to let the heat die down so we can have a meaningful discussion about what is going on.

But Mrr. Bill, an obviously small minded, self important excuse for humanity has continued to attack anyone who disagrees with his position.

THAT IS NOT WHAT FREE SPEECH IS ALL ABOUT!!!

That is what this site is supposed to be about. A place for individuals to post their writing that would not be welcome any where else because of small minded people.

Mr. Bill has assigned himself a superior position so that he can look down upon others who actually contribute Erotic literature to the site, not just edit.

You seriouslly need help with your low self esteem problem. That or get a life and do something that you can really be proud of.

I MOST CERTAINLY DO NOT NEED A SELF IMPORTANT JERK LIKE YOU TO TEACH ME ANYTHING, EVEN IF YOU KNEW ANYTHING WHICH I DOUBT.

I must admit I do live in a little podunk town of about half a millon plus in the metro area. Not much important goes on here but we do have this little golf tournement in april. I think it's called the MASTERS. We only have two full time 4 year universitys, several community level ones and of course the Medical University for the state. Hey we even wear shoes on Sunday.

I hope you understand that being a bigot has nothing to do with race or location. It has to do with attitude. Your's sucks.

I will not post to this thread again. I think enough is enough.

I do thank Race 1962 for his support.

Rob Conner

 

[HawaiiBill]

Goodbye

I don't know what is the matter with this nation but, out here in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, we have manners that forbid trespassing.

Every now and again -- by accident -- anyone can sort of find himself or herself in a strange place. The usual thing to do is find a door and depart. But we just had a break-in here by a person complaining to people who have nothing to do with whatever he was griping about. Waiting a little while to get his story posted, as I recall. He was told nicely that this wasn't the place to raise that point but he insisted.

I got tired of it and told him to stop bellyaching in public and he gets upset. With me! Am I missing something here?

This nation is in trouble. That kind of trouble evidences itself in loss of community. Literotica is a community. People who complain with no cause and blame others without reason are a symptom of deep problems that are dangerous to healthy and positive thinking and feeling.

Before coming to Hawai`i, I lived in Texas. That used to be a good state. It changed over the years and I could no longer stand to live there. The complainer reminded me of the problems in Texas which my friends and relatives still there tell me have pretty much destroyed my home state.

So if you see a person quick to jump on an attitude problem of that type, hurting innocent people in the equivalent of their own homes, it's probably me. Now we can be peaceful again and
if any were offended by my attitude, please forgive.

 

[Syndra Lynn]

Eroticstories.com does this in 24-48 hours. From now on, that is where I will post. This is bologna. Having an idiot like Hawaii Bob tell us to quit be childish is not cutting it.

So fucking go already. We ain't gonna miss you.

 

[minsue]

So fucking go already. We ain't gonna miss you.

Dayum, woman! You're so sweet on the poetry board that you nearly gave me a heart attack!

 

[Syndra Lynn]

Dayum, woman! You're so sweet on the poetry board that you nearly gave me a heart attack!

Some people just piss me off.

You aren't one.

 

[minsue]

Some people just piss me off.

You aren't one.

I'll try to keep it that way! Have a flower?

 

[canstretch]

Hadn't noticed it before but there seems to be similarity between "Northern Indiana" and "East-Central Georgia." Can't be the water as there are different aquifers at work so what can it be?

You said, "aquifer".

Have a friend of a friend who spends their winters in Hawaii working at one of the hospitals as a travel nurse. That's how I plan to finally get out and see everything this country has to offer after I graduate from nursing school.

Anyway Bill, I'm jealous, must be incredible cups of coffee in the morning. Can only imagine.

I just submitted my first story w/o the consult of one of you guys. I guess I wouldn't know where to start w/ my questioning. I usually received high marks for papers I've wrote for college (grammer, spelling, composition, etc.), but could more than likely need pointers w/o knowing it. Sounds hot & all good to me after reading through my story a few times, but always better to have someone who knows what the heck they're doing proof it. How do I go about doing that?

Also, being new to the posting thing, if my story is in microsoft word and I "grab" it from the browse option. Is that going to be an acceptable format. After reading through the guidelines set forth, I gathered that it would be, but just checking w/ the veterans.