Wrongful Rejection

[Hellball]

My first story just got rejected, with the stated reason being that one of the characters was under 18. This came as news to me, given that the story includes the following two passages:

"Andy was a freshman at the community college across the street. "

"Mamta wasn’t sure what would give her parents a worse heart attack; the fact that she had lost her virginity before getting married, or the fact that she had lost it to a non-Hindu. It was fortunate that she was eighteen, so she could get The Pill without them being informed."

Andy and Mamta are the only two characters who do or even discuss anything sexual. What the hell.

 

[3113]

Mistakes happen, especially as these stories are being read by a person, not a 'bot. Perhaps they saw "freshman" and thought high-school, missing the word "college." Re-submit with a note pointing these things out.

 

[lovecraft68]

Mistakes happen, especially as these stories are being read by a person, not a 'bot. Perhaps they saw "freshman" and thought high-school, missing the word "college." Re-submit with a note pointing these things out.

I'd give a pass if the word college wasn't next to it.

The screening is beyond a joke here. Things like that are blocked and blatant underage-including recently the graphic rape of an eleven year old girl slide right on through. And that was done right out on the open no attempt to be coy, the age was all over it because it was obvious that author was writing it for titillation.

So I find it hard not to do anything but agree with the frustration authors, especially new ones face when they get something rejected then find it all over the site anyway.

Either editors need to be recruited, the posting process should go back to 3/4 days so more time can be spent looking at the stories or they should stop pretending they care about rules.

If someone cares about a rule they created they make the effort to enforce it properly not leave everyone else to do it for them.

 

[PayDay]

Throw in an Author's Notes Disclaimer:
"All characters are over 18 years of age when they engage in sexual intercourse."

Backstory is legal, underage nookie is not.

 

[elfin_odalisque]

Throw in an Author's Notes Disclaimer:
"All characters are over 18 years of age when they engage in sexual intercourse."

Backstory is legal, underage nookie is not.

A bit too narrow. The rules say 'all sexual activity' not just intercourse.

 

[PayDay]

A bit too narrow. The rules say 'all sexual activity' not just intercourse.

'underage nookie is not' Intercourse is not defined as 'the act of penetration only' so no sense in making this complicated.

You're making nuttin outta no thing. OP says characters were over 18.

 

[sr71plt]

The point is that the Web site has the right to follow its own definitions for what it will host, and uses narrow definitions here.

 

[elfin_odalisque]

'underage nookie is not' Intercourse is not defined as 'the act of penetration only' so no sense in making this complicated.

You're making nuttin outta no thing. OP says characters were over 18.

Nookie is old slang for sexual intercourse which is sexual penetration. Also a town in Pennsylvania.

sr is right, the site can set any rules they like and saying all characters are over 18 proves nothing per se.

 

[PayDay]

Nookie is old slang for sexual intercourse which is sexual penetration. Also a town in Pennsylvania.

sr is right, the site can set any rules they like and saying all characters are over 18 proves nothing per se.

Wow.

The OP wrote a story with legal characters. The Laurel(s) might have missed the only two lines in the story that point that way.

My point is valid. You and SR can go fuck yourselves with the 'here's the thing" nit picking. If the OP complied with the rules, as stated, and his story was still rejected, for the reason stated, then an author's note in the resubmission will give the Laurel(s) a heads up as it is read.

For all we knows, based on the OP post, the story could have included all kinds of underage nookie or intercourse or whatever, or he could have alluded to underage nookie.

It's all speculation, so I can speculate.

Nitpicking speculation of speculation is a dick move, dicks.

 

[sr71plt]

So, you're saying that the Web site can't set any submissions requirements it wants--and reject anything it wants to reject for posting? Good luck with that.

 

[lovecraft68]

The site can do what it wants and occasionally someone will say "well age of consent is" but for the most part people don't fight the rule.

What the issue is....is that the screening process is a goddamn joke. Stories like this one (providing the OP is being truthful) gets bumped because there could be a reference "back when I was sixteen" but there's no sexual content its speaking of something else.

But the reaction is reject it and that would be fine, err on the side of caution, sure.

But then you see stories that are blatantly underage being posted and what's the excuse? The excuse is they simply skipped it or weren't looking.

At that point, sure its still site owner, site rules...but it really gets annoying when the person instituting the rules makes little effort to properly enforce them.

Its like me inviting a bunch of people into my house and saying "Okay, no smoking in my house" Then throwing a person out because he has an unopened pack of cigarettes in his pocket, meanwhile right next to me is someone blowing smoke rings.

I think the "rights" the site have are becoming very simply "I do what I want when I want" then of course when a shame thread is started about something just silently slipping in and removing the evidence.

 

[PayDay]

So, you're saying that the Web site can't set any submissions requirements it wants--and reject anything it wants to reject for posting? Good luck with that.

What the flying fuck are you talking about?

That has not even been written, funny how you see it though.

 

[sr71plt]

What the flying fuck are you talking about?

That has not even been written, funny how you see it though.

I'm not surprised you don't understand.

 

[PayDay]

I'm not surprised you don't understand.

Nice try. When I say rhetorical things it's a reference to a fact. You're just deflecting and misdirecting, as always. Deny, blame, project, in any order.

Go write some more serial porn and praise the quantity of it.

 

[lovecraft68]

Nice try. When I say rhetorical things it's a reference to a fact. You're just deflecting and misdirecting, as always. Deny, blame, project, in any order.

Go write some more serial porn and praise the quantity of it.

Wait, he writes porn about cereal?

Uh-oh how old are snap crackle and pop? We don't want any under age stories here.

 

[PayDay]

Wait, he writes porn about cereal?

Uh-oh how old are snap crackle and pop? We don't want any under age stories here.

Icwutyoudidthar..

 

[TxRad]

Wait, he writes porn about cereal?

Uh-oh how old are snap crackle and pop? We don't want any under age stories here.

I do believe Snap, crackle, and Pop are almost eligible for social security by now.

 

[Hellball]

So, if I wrote a story about two legally adult porn writers conspiring together to sneak an underage sex story through literotica's editors, and then having a victory fuck afterward, would that be allowed?

 

[Handley_Page]

Regardless of whatever tiff is taking place in a thread, I think you'd be wise to remember that Lit is privately owned, and as Laurel owns it - she makes the rules.
It therefore behoves any author to bear in mind that steering well away from any suggestion of something "outside" the rules is a damned good policy.

After all, it's not just the later teenager who enjoys sex, is it!

 

[3113]

So, if I wrote a story about two legally adult porn writers conspiring together to sneak an underage sex story through literotica's editors, and then having a victory fuck afterward, would that be allowed?

How about an adult porn writer who is mature and smart enough to post underage stories on sites that allow it rather than trying to fuck with a site that doesn't allow it just because it doesn't?

 

[PayDay]

How about an adult porn writer who is mature and smart enough to post underage stories on sites that allow it rather than trying to fuck with a site that doesn't allow it just because it doesn't?

Amen.

 

[Handley_Page]

How about an adult porn writer who is mature and smart enough to post underage stories on sites that allow it rather than trying to fuck with a site that doesn't allow it just because it doesn't?

Here Here

 

[PennLady]

How about an adult porn writer who is mature and smart enough to post underage stories on sites that allow it rather than trying to fuck with a site that doesn't allow it just because it doesn't?

I'll second that.

 

[Hellball]

How about an adult porn writer who is mature and smart enough to post underage stories on sites that allow it rather than trying to fuck with a site that doesn't allow it just because it doesn't?

I wasn't serious about that, you know.

 

[PayDay]

I wasn't serious about that, you know.

Criminally bad punning always requires retaliation.