Have to vent about problems with Lit approval process and their shockingly inaccurate interpretations of content!!!

[jaxjack1980]

I have to preface this by saying that overall, I think that the mods who review and approve stories on Lit do a good job. I also realize that they have a hard, thankless task with all the submissions that are posted to the site on a daily basis. In addition, I realize that a majority of my previous rejections have been entirely my fault and own up to my own failures.

But, I have to state that I found a recent rejection of one of my submissions to be so totally off the mark that I have to question if the mod was reading a completely different story or putting their own thoughts into it that had them wrongly interpret what I had written!

Just to sum up my issue, I submitted a story that was not violent, did not contain non/con depictions, or anything written that could be interpreted as blackmail/objectionable content. It was rather a humorous take on a subject I had covered and gotten approved in prior stories. The only thing I can think they flagged was that I mentioned the story was in tribute to an actress that had tragically passed away recently. Agree with the first rejection that said I needed to put it into a different category, but follow-up rejection cited rejection for previously listed issues that were not there. Know I will get push back from naysayers, but just wrote this to mainly get my frustration off my chest. Rant finished and mission accomplished.

 

[AlinaX]

There is only one person approving stories, and I'm guessing she has a lot of scripts/tools to flag up potential problems. As such, sometimes terrible content escapes her notice and gets published, and sometimes perfectly fine content is sent back. Sometimes, resubmitting with a polite note to the editor is all that is needed.

 

[jaxjack1980]

There is only one person approving stories, and I'm guessing she has a lot of scripts/tools to flag up potential problems. As such, sometimes terrible content escapes her notice and gets published, and sometimes perfectly fine content is sent back. Sometimes, resubmitting with a polite note to the editor is all that is needed.

Yes, get that she is busy and overworked but the lack of comprehension of my story was baffling. Silver lining, resubmitted with such content excluded with polite note for her to re-consider my story.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Yes, get that she is busy and overworked but the lack of comprehension of my story was baffling. Silver lining, resubmitted with such content excluded with polite note for her to re-consider my story.

If you could remove content to fix it, you obviously know why it was rejected.

Also, it's contra to Lit policy to depict Non-con with a celebrity, regardless whether she's alive or dead.