I edited a published story. Help please.

[SexyShel]

I edited a published story of mine, sent it in for approval, it has the "pending" status showing, yet it has been 4 full weeks and nothing further has happened. Have I done something wrong ?

Thanks, Shel

 

[old_prof]

Edits get VERY low priority here. Frustratingly so, Four weeks is on the long side (I've averaged about 3 weeks outside of one emergency edit Laurel pushed through quickly), but certainly not long enough to be concerned yet. Hang in there.

And don't be alarmed when it comes out of pending and your old story is still showing. It takes a day or two for teh revision to appear after it's been accepted.
That tends to freak most of us out the first time it happens.

 

[TheLobster]

Also, you’ll get no notification when the edit gets through. The edit request will just disappear from pending. And like @old_prof said above, the actual change in story content may take a long minute to propagate through all the myriad of caches this site runs on.

This is just how it works in Literotica land. The year might be 2026, but we’re still running on cassette tapes and rotary phones.

 

[Lifestyle66]

I edited a published story of mine, sent it in for approval, it has the "pending" status showing, yet it has been 4 full weeks and nothing further has happened. Have I done something wrong ?

Thanks, Shel

Yes, you may have done something wrong.

When you click "Publish", the story goes into their queue to review and approve. As they pick through those in the list to review, they are WORKING to approve stories to go live. If your story was coming up to the top of the list to soon review and they either opened it to review or were about to when you next tried to "Publish" it, you might have screwed up their workflow.

Once you click publish, if you QUICKLY see an error to edit and republish it within an hour or two, it may be "no harm done." But if it's the next day or two later that you edit it, you take the risk of disrupting that review process and causing more work. And the last thing those working on reviews would want to do is re-open yet another of your latest attempts, because they risk having you doing it to them yet again.

It's like the saying "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."

 

[EmilyMiller]

I edited a published story of mine, sent it in for approval, it has the "pending" status showing, yet it has been 4 full weeks and nothing further has happened. Have I done something wrong ?

Thanks, Shel

I’ve had edits take six weeks to get processed.

 

[RejectReality]

Edits are on a "when Laurel has some time after working on the new story queue" schedule. A month is nothing out of the ordinary. Hang in there.

Frankly, unless the edit is to a story you're about to post a sequel to, editing isn't worth the effort. Views drop off dramatically after the first few days. Few are even going to notice the changes. You may as well be humble, take your lumps for whatever mistake you made, and move on.

The only reason I mention the sequel caveat is because people will go back and read the original if you post a sequel, so that can be a problem for the new work if the problems in the original are egregious enough. Even then, I would only edit for story-based inconsistencies or a plethora of grammar/spelling mistakes that are making you cringe. If you accidentally left in a couple of typos, bang your head on the desk, promise to do one more pass over everything going forward, and move on.

 

[NuclearFairy]

My story edit took 6 weeks to go through, and then another 2+ weeks to appear. I say 2+ because I stopped checking after 2 weeks, and then a month later when someone else was having their edit not show up I went to check on mine, and it was finally showing. Don't know when in there it actually properly processed.

 

[old_prof]

My story edit took 6 weeks to go through, and then another 2+ weeks to appear. I say 2+ because I stopped checking after 2 weeks, and then a month later when someone else was having their edit not show up I went to check on mine, and it was finally showing. Don't know when in there it actually properly processed.

That's the longest I have heard of from no longer pending to appearing.

 

[NuclearFairy]

That's the longest I have heard of from no longer pending to appearing.

Yeah, same here, although I think someone in another thread said that their's was languishing for three weeks. But I"m not sure if that was in the pending queue or post pending queue.

 

[old_prof]

Yeah, same here, although I think someone in another thread said that their's was languishing for three weeks. But I"m not sure if that was in the pending queue or post pending queue.

I took that as the pending time. That's pretty standard for pending.

 

[NuclearFairy]

I took that as the pending time. That's pretty standard for pending.

It was in this thread
https://forum.literotica.com/threads/story-edits-disappeared.1647999/
in direct response to me. So, I'm not sure.

 

[old_prof]

It was in this thread
https://forum.literotica.com/threads/story-edits-disappeared.1647999/
in direct response to me. So, I'm not sure.

Does sound like I misinterpreted that when I read it originally. Long ones must be more common than I thought