Shout it out loud: fast approval times

[Lifestyle66]

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.

It may also depend on story length, category, and volume of submission on any particular day.

But I still think consistency and trust that you're not pushing their buttons adds to it. As I said, this is #74 for me, and it's in Loving Wives.

Maybe they're approving my LW stories so fast because they feel sorry for me just knowing I'm being punished enough by those trolls. LOL

 

[metropolinational]

I'm going to try to be the adult in the room and not respond to Britva further. Britva, please PM me if you want to convince me that I'm a terrorist or a pedophile or whatever. I'm happy to talk about it, and I'm curious about how you'd go about it!

 

[metropolinational]

Maybe they're approving my LW stories so fast because they feel sorry for me just knowing I'm being punished enough by those trolls. LOL

same.

 

[Katie_Mae]

Anyway, fast approval times. It's not fashionable to talk about them, with everyone getting worked up about how long they have to wait. But plenty of stories *don't* get stuck or lost. I rarely have to wait more than a day or two, for instance, and I'm sure I'm not the only one here.

Of the 24 stories I've published here, only two I recall have pended longer than 12 hours. The others were done in under 12 hours, including, from memories, my first.

My fastest time was 12 minutes... or less. I submitted a story (over 10k words) got up, grabbed a snack, sat down 12 minutes later and it was approved.

For me, 8-10 hours has been my "normal."

But, yeah, it's not cool to talk about. When people are in pending purgatory, me coming along with "huh? mine was done in x hours?" isn't polite. So, while we always hear about the delays, those of us not currently experiencing delays don't speak up. Giving an impression of pending times which may or may not be accurate.

Certainly the timeframes bandied about as "normal" have never matched my "normal."

There is so little we do know about the back end of "the queue," but, one of the things we do know is stories aren't approved in the order they are submitted. One of my "longer than 12 hours" stories took a month, so I have certainly been in the position of being in pending purgatory while others' stories are sailing right through.

 

[Writer61]

I assume that time differences may have some impact on approval times, or our perceptions of them.

IIRC, Lit Towers is in the US Mountain time zone, which is 8 hours behind me.

That means I am rarely watching the status of a submission during what would be a normal working day in Mountain (or Pacific).

 

[TheWritingGroup]

My last six stories (five parts of Pranked and "Heels Over Head") plus Eddie's "Swarmed" were all approved in between 3 and 6 hours.

OK, technically only the first three parts of Pranked were approved fast, the last two were approved the next day, but I submitted all five parts at once. The way Laurel handled it makes perfect sense, since they weren't going to appear on the same day anyway.

--Annie

 

[mrs_mackenzie]

I've generally found that my stories only need <48 hours to be approved and queued. I don't monitor it that closely and being in a non-American time zone means I am sure I sometimes submit stories at awkward times for moderation.

I don't know whether past record makes any difference, but I do suspect that using something other than standard American English makes it easier to get past the AI screen.

 

[caleb35]

I don't know that I've had any of my stories accepted within 2-6 hours like some people have, but my last couple of submitted stories (including one submitted just yesterday) have been accepted after a day or even half a day following submittal.

 

[OddLove]

My turn. Here's my "Literotica is Actually Good" testimony.

I post in BDSM category which is flooded with submissions because it's in fourth place for most stories, behind taboo, loving wives, and erotic couples. So when my story gets approved and published within a week, I'm pretty happy about it. Sometimes it's only a day or two.

 

[SimonDoom]

It's nice, @StillStunned , to see some good news reported for a change. Based on some of the comments, others are seeing similar positive approval times.

I haven't published anything for a long time, so my approval time experiences are now ancient history and of no relevance to the current debate. I hope to submit something soon and will report on what happens when I do.

I agree with those who say this thread shouldn't be turned into a "how the site should/shouldn't do things differently" debate, because we've had that debate a million times and it's obvious it's not going anywhere no matter how right any of us thinks we are. I'm confident of my rightness all the time, but I've learned at this place that my confidence is of no consequence whatsoever and it's just spitting into the wind.

 

[TheRedChamber]

My 6k LW story went through today in under four hours (albeit going live day after tomorrow), over the American night as well, so I'm not sure who was burning the midnight oil.

 

[old_prof]

I had a noter one approved a few days ago in a few hours. I can't remember my last submission to take days not hours to be approved.

 

[NuclearFairy]

My first ever submission was approved within 30 hours. Since then the only stories I've had take more than two days to get approved were both non-contest stories that were submitted during a contest. Halloween and Valentines day respectively, and they both took ten days to get through. Other than that, yeah 2 hours-2 days seems to be the norm.

 

[ElectricBlue]

My latest is in the queue for the next midnight server run, processed just on 24 hours.