Publishing timelines are a bit hit and miss at the moment.
Pending issues (site owners say there is no bug) have been recorded as early as 2003 (search the tech support forum or even this forum since bug reports get dumped in the ah - if you don't believe me), so you're looking at ~ 23 years (documented by members who have no reason to lie) without a fix.
I've had stories stuck in Pending Purgatory while other submissions were approved in normal time, so I don't think that's as big of a factor as some think.
It's not a 100% correlation. I had a slow approval in August (23 days), but the next worst was 1/3rd of that, the others in Aug & Sept were only one or two days.
Actually, my holiday contest entry last year was one that got stuck. I pulled it after the contest, so it's waiting for another attempt next month.
Every time you pull a story, you start again. Two weeks for a new author isn't unusual, so you have to be patient. See the sticky up above, and multiple threads on the issue.
True. This happened to a couple of mine last year.
Wrong approach. I simply send a polite DM to Laurel asking her to look for any cracks, and my stories were both published within hours afterwards. They key is to wait the requisite fifteen days before pinging her.
It isn't just advice, it's literally the site's stated service level.
Beyond 30 days, you want to "start again" because for whatever reason something made you get stuck and exceed the service level.
Agree. I was reacting to the OP's "two weeks". A common feature of these pending threads is that folk report pulling and resubmitting every week or two, which isn't a long delay, it's a shorter delay, repeated.
Agree this too, but how many times do we have to say, go read the FAQs? It appears people don't know how to do that. So all we can do is repeat the same advice every time - and get the haha emoji again from the little puppy dog who follows me around
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Is there a FAQ that says this? I wrote a couple days ago that we could really use a sticky for the "what to do after 30 days" instructions, since Literotica doesn't say what to do. All they wrote was what not to do before 30 days, while they simultaneously say there is no bug and also silently tolerate the post-30-day workaround .how many times do we have to say, go read the FAQs? It appears people don't know how to do that. So all we can do is repeat the same advice every time - and get the haha emoji again from the little puppy dog who follows me around
There is an entry for that in the FAQ. However, it seems to be a bit outdated and a week long wait is the baseline used in it. It also redirects people here for current information.
That doesn't say anything about what to do if it has been beyond the promised 30 days, which is what we were talking about.
You should probably take your own advice.
Of course you won't, because you can't. That information simply isn't discernible from those version numbers.
No, but it does answer the question that was asked. That answer is "No," by the way.
How do we Message Laurel? From where?
Top right of this page, click on the envelope, and start a new Conversation, addressed to Laurel.
