Shout it out loud: fast approval times

[StillStunned]

So anyway, fast approval times...

 

[metropolinational]

Just want to clarify, I am not suggesting that they should allow illegal content. I am suggesting that, like the rest of the internet, where illegal content is also illegal, you don't need a manual moderation system to control that. You can just have a reporting system, post facto, which already exists here. The only manual system needed is to review the reports.

Anyway, just about every story I have submitted here got approved within 48 hours and published 24 to 48 hours after that. Given they are reviewing each story by hand, I can't imagine them doing it faster. I have no complaints in that regard.

 

[YmaOHyd]

I think my last two have sat in Pending for two to three days and gotten a D+2 release, where they get a publication date two days after approval rather than one.

 

[TheLobster]

So anyway, fast approval times...

It's been 2-3 days for my last dozen or so stories, and I don't think I've had a week+ beyond my first five-ish.

Lately I've been getting the same thing as @YmaOHyd, where the publication date is a day or two after approval, but I think that only happened to my I/T stories which is obviously a very crowded category.

 

[YmaOHyd]

It's been 2-3 days for my last dozen or so stories, and I don't think I've had a week+ beyond my first five-ish.

Lately I've been getting the same thing as @YmaOHyd, where the publication date is a day or two after approval, but I think that only happened to my I/T stories which is obviously a very crowded category.

Mine have been in Anal and Non-Erotic, neither of which are very active.

 

[TheLobster]

Mine have been in Anal and Non-Erotic, neither of which are very active.

Anal can certainly get rather crowded and tight, not sure about Non-Erotic though.

 

[YmaOHyd]

Anal can certainly get rather crowded and tight, not sure about Non-Erotic though.

The category New page has stories from ten days ago on it. Anal's New page is seven days. T/I, Loving Wives and EC go back one day with a few stories from the 13th, and Sci-Fi/Fantasy only has stories from today.

 

[TheLobster]

The category New page has stories from ten days ago on it. Anal's New page is seven days. T/I, Loving Wives and EC go back one day with a few stories from the 13th, and Sci-Fi/Fantasy only has stories from today.

Welp, I guess my jokes are a little too high-flying today (but definitely not high brow)

 

[lovecraft68]

Yes. Bad punctuation, especially around dialog, is a common rejection point.


This was my point that there is an argument to be made for raising the standard. In reality, I think that ship has sailed long ago. All of us feel that. I'm not a fan of LW, so I don't see the weird ratings that exist very often. When I was just a reader, I just ignored anything below about a 4.3 and focused on the H stories.

Know what would be funny? If the site decided to have a quality standard and some of the people here who think they're so good start having their stories booted.

That would be priceless.

 

[Britva415]

Why does anything need to be moderated at all? Why?

If if were my site, I wouldn't want AI slop, teenybopper jailbait stories (or much worse), rape, or snuff on it either.

Site operator gets to make the rules. I'm sure you can find an unmoderated place if you like.

Oh yeah - saw your list. You already have.

 

[lovecraft68]

I don't think the site moderates for bad writing, per se, but they do reject stories that fall below a certain level of proper grammar, punctuation, formatting, etc.

But its like any other 'rule' some will get the boot, others fly on through.

 

[metropolinational]

Oh yeah - saw your list. You already have.

Is this about me? I have no idea what you mean, if so.

 

[metropolinational]

If if were my site, I wouldn't want AI slop, teenybopper jailbait stories (or much worse), rape, or snuff on it either.

Site operator gets to make the rules. I'm sure you can find an unmoderated place if you like.

To clarify, for the tenth time, unmoderated does not mean you allow illegal content. Facebook, X and Instagram don't allow illegal content. They rely on reporting to eliminate the bad content. It's how the whole internet works.

 

[Writer61]

Facebook, X and Instagram don't allow illegal content. They rely on reporting to eliminate the bad content. It's how the whole internet works.

Apart from X

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

I love how we get into these debates on how things 'should' be on Lit like we have any control. What a waist of time, and thank you all so much for taking @StillStunned's request not to turn this into a bitch session to heart. This was such a fun thread for like 16 posts... .

 

[metropolinational]

Anal can certainly get rather crowded and tight, not sure about Non-Erotic though.

I've never published there, but I assumed Anal would take a bit longer to get inside. Even with proper preparation, I would certainly expect getting in there would be a slow process.

 

[Britva415]

Is this about me? I have no idea what you mean, if so.

Everywhere else on the internet, I can publish instantaneously. X, Youtube. Facebook, even my own damn rinkydink websites

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

I love how we get into these debates on how things 'should' be on Lit like we have any control. What a waist of time, and thank you all so much for taking @StillStunned's request not to turn this into a bitch session to heart. This was such a fun thread for like 16 posts... .

 

[Britva415]

To clarify, for the tenth time, unmoderated does not mean you allow illegal content. Facebook, X and Instagram don't allow illegal content. They rely on reporting to eliminate the bad content. It's how the whole internet works.

What's wrong, though, with a site operator wanting to get out in front of it rather than catching up with reports after shit has already polluted their site?

You have to wAiT a LitTlE WHiLe?

Besides: Not everything is going to be caught and reported by users. Now we're talking about real reliabilities and risks.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

What's wrong, though, with a site operator wanting to get out in front of it rather than catching up with reports after shit has already polluted their site?

You have to wait a little while?

Besides: Not everything is going to be caught and reported by users. Now we're talking about reliabilities and risks.

Actually, now you're hijacking what was supposed to be a nice fun, light-hearted thread about something positive, and arguing with someone you don't know; hello @metropolinational, about something neither of you can do anything about.

 

[Britva415]

Just want to clarify, I am not suggesting that they should allow illegal content.

Yeah, you actually are. You're suggesting that they allow it and trust it all to get reported so they can scrub it after it's too late.

 

[Erozetta]

I think the fastest I've had a story approved was a few months ago with like 45 minutes between submission and approval for a BDSM story.

I'm guessing I hit submit just in time to get cleared with a batch.

Longest was my chain story which seemed like it languished for a month or so before being approved.


(Edits: I'm typing on my phone without my glasses on and basically can't see shit.)

 

[Lifestyle66]

I think the approval times may depend on how experienced and dependable the author has been in the past.

If they are reviewing an author's work and have found questionable material or passages which "push the limits" of their rules, then I'd imagine the moderators take a closer look or schedule it as a lower, more time-consuming one to review.

But if an author publishes consistently on story arcs which don't come close to their rule limits and have been doing so for dozens of submissions, then they may do just a quick pass and approve those stories to save time.

I submitted my latest story "Fantasy Renewal" yesterday, and it has just been approved to publish later this evening after 23 hours! But this is my 74th story, and I only had two kicked back four years ago when I first began posting here.


One other suggestion to those of you having issues with delays is that if you KNOW you have something close to their limits such as close to underage, and you think you have addressed it enough, then in the Note to Admin, WARN THEM of it, and spell out where it is and why you think it should pass! Save them time and the reviewer might be more generous!

 

[Dancefactory]

Yes, approval is fast, hard and powerful. My stories keep coming and coming! Oh god!

 

[YmaOHyd]

I think the approval times may depend on how experienced and dependable the author has been in the past.

I don't think that's the case; there are authors who've gone straight from winning contests to getting caught in Pending Purgatory, and other folks who've had difficulty after fifty or a hundred stories. Me, my entries in the last two contests have sailed through despite being an author here less than a year, an eight-month gap between submissions, and generally pretty low readership. There's no reason to fast-track me. I'd bet it's mostly luck of the draw.