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Thanks for the response, but I think the rank fits.

Hey, guys! Idk if anyone who needs this post is in the forum or will see this, but!! All categories except flash and micro require a minimum of 1000 words. Literally wait times are hard enough and I’d hate anyone to wait so long just to be told they didn’t write enough. 😣 I try to check for those and return them as soon as possible but save yourself (and us) the time. ❤️

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All categories except flash and micro require a minimum of 1000 words.

And the poetry categories, I believe.

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And the poetry categories, I believe.

Yeah I missed the adjective there. Story categories. I’m sure they’d know what I meant, but thanks for catching the few who wouldn’t

The single most striking thing Ive noticed since my return is the massive increase in stories submitted to the site.

When I was modding, a heavy Que might have 30-50 stories and THAT was considered an emergency.

But I've been watching the front page over the last week, and there may be as many as 500 new stories processed and released by the team. They just keep coming in waves.

Just in the last hour or so there were probably 10 or more moved out, and I have a feeling even then, they come in faster than its possible to process them.

Hats off to you guys. That is a hell of a job you all are doing

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The single most striking thing Ive noticed since my return is the massive increase in stories submitted to the site.

When I was modding, a heavy Que might have 30-50 stories and THAT was considered an emergency.

But I've been watching the front page over the last week, and there may be as many as 500 new stories processed and released by the team. They just keep coming in waves.

Just in the last hour or so there were probably 10 or more moved out, and I have a feeling even then, they come in faster than its possible to process them.

Hats off to you guys. That is a hell of a job you all are doing

Thanks for the pat on the back. I modded a Baker's Dozen over the past several hours and feel like I barely made a dent. However, I want to express my appreciation to the authors who have voluntarily reduced the frequency of their admissions. It does help us, AND it helps readers have time to enjoy stories from their favorite authors.

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Thanks for the pat on the back. I modded a Baker's Dozen over the past several hours and feel like I barely made a dent. However, I want to express my appreciation to the authors who have voluntarily reduced the frequency of their admissions. It does help us, AND it helps readers have time to enjoy stories from their favorite authors.

That is a good point and I'm probably one of the offenders. It's a tough choice. As I have more time than I ever have to write, I'm creating at a pace I never managed before.

So, what to do? The chances of submissions dropping is unlikely. One thing that has helped me is the ease such programs as the basic free version of Grammarly allows me to edit my dyslexia n a way I never could before. Before I left, I sent every work to Jwren to edit and that took a week by itself.

The result was I was lucky to write more than one a month and had dozens in an unfinished state.

When I returned I had 121 stories published in 10 years of writing. I've produced 15 since I've returned and have another ready to go after my current gets passed

Perhaps I need to follow up on a plan I've long considered and transition to Amazon with a portion of my stories.

I love writing too much to stop, but I also completely understand your point of overloading the team and the front page.

You make a profound point.

The popularity of this site and its success has resulted in this volume. When I first started I submitted at least one story a week. I have deliberately cut down on what I submit. I also am aware that my story will take time to be published

“Patience is a virtue

Search it if you can.

You will find it in a woman

But seldom in a man”.

Not my words honestly! But something we should master and stop haranguing the Moderators.

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The popularity of this site and its success has resulted in this volume. When I first started I submitted at least one story a week. I have deliberately cut down on what I submit. I also am aware that my story will take time to be published

“Patience is a virtue

Search it if you can.

You will find it in a woman

But seldom in a man”.

Not my words honestly! But something we should master and stop haranguing the Moderators.

I wasn’t giving the moderators any trouble. I actually started this with a compliment I made a point of understanding what tech Goddess was talking about

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That is a good point and I'm probably one of the offenders. It's a tough choice. As I have more time than I ever have to write, I'm creating at a pace I never managed before.

So, what to do? The chances of submissions dropping is unlikely. One thing that has helped me is the ease such programs as the basic free version of Grammarly allows me to edit my dyslexia n a way I never could before. Before I left, I sent every work to Jwren to edit and that took a week by itself.

The result was I was lucky to write more than one a month and had dozens in an unfinished state.

When I returned I had 121 stories published in 10 years of writing. I've produced 15 since I've returned and have another ready to go after my current gets passed

Perhaps I need to follow up on a plan I've long considered and transition to Amazon with a portion of my stories.

I love writing too much to stop, but I also completely understand your point of overloading the team and the front page.

You make a profound point.

Oh goodness, I don't think I've ever been accused of being profound before, LOL.

I've been guilty of being too prolific with my submissions here in the past. Funny how the longer I am a story mod, the more time I try to wait between submissions. I keep writing stories, but these days, I hold onto them longer, which will work in my favor for times when I don't have time to write. LOL! (Remember when I was releasing episodes of The Office Whore every other day? I think I've only submitted four stories this month.)

One thing I do and have suggested to authors who have an archive of stories is to share links to older stories on their profile page. It helps satisfy those readers who want more from you and who may have missed older works, but it doesn't put any added weight on story mods' shoulders.

Whatever you do, don't stop writing. It's lovely to have you back here!

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The popularity of this site and its success has resulted in this volume. When I first started I submitted at least one story a week. I have deliberately cut down on what I submit. I also am aware that my story will take time to be published

“Patience is a virtue

Search it if you can.

You will find it in a woman

But seldom in a man”.

Not my words honestly! But something we should master and stop haranguing the Moderators.

Milik and I have been friends for a while now. I took his words as a compliment. And I don't at all feel harangued!

But I do appreciate you and other authors who have backed off a bit while we have needed your understanding and grace to get caught up. It truly does help!

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Oh goodness, I don't think I've ever been accused of being profound before, LOL.

I've been guilty of being too prolific with my submissions here in the past. Funny how the longer I am a story mod, the more time I try to wait between submissions. I keep writing stories, but these days, I hold onto them longer, which will work in my favor for times when I don't have time to write. LOL! (Remember when I was releasing episodes of The Office Whore every other day? I think I've only submitted four stories this month.)

One thing I do and have suggested to authors who have an archive of stories is to share links to older stories on their profile page. It helps satisfy those readers who want more from you and who may have missed older works, but it doesn't put any added weight on story mods' shoulders.

Whatever you do, don't stop writing. It's lovely to have you back here!

thank you, and I appreciate you understanding. I don’t mind waiting a week between stories coming up that was never a problem for me. I’m a little bit confused about how they’re being processed. Whether I should post it early so that it’s ready to go in a week or wait a week to post and then wait another few days for to get processed. That’s a little confusing to me, but I guess I’ll have to work that out. It’s kind of new for me, though cause I’ve never been this far ahead which is a good thing on its own.

I’ve looked into Amazon publishing and I may start writing some other stuff on my off time and post on there. We’ll have to see how it goes.

But thank you for being a friend and understanding where I was coming from

Milk the Red. Apologies. I honestly was not referring to you. I was meaning in general. I hear a lot of things about publishing times and other complaints. You are NOT one of those and I know you do not harangue anybody. The quotation was meant to be humorous and I’ve caused offence 😞

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Milk the Red. Apologies. I honestly was not referring to you. I was meaning in general. I hear a lot of things about publishing times and other complaints. You are NOT one of those and I know you do not harangue anybody. The quotation was meant to be humorous and I’ve caused offence 😞

Thank you for this and for you reaching out. You were defending the team and that was both Noble and proper to do.

And my apologies to anybody who thought I was being less than polite. And I appreciate Techgoddes for explain explaining some things.

i am submitting a story next week. why hasn't it been it been published yet? rage quits

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i am submitting a story next week. why hasn't it been it been published yet? rage quits

This discussion is having the desired effect! I was messaging the Tech Moddess last week about story submissions (and redheads, because, duh) and I am now waiting three days after a story gets published before submitting my next story.

I submitted a story today and then saw that it had been assigned to a mod pretty quickly. My thoughts were, "Ooh, that was faster than I anticipated! ... Or maybe they parked it somewhere to get it out of the queue temporarily because they think I'm submitting too fast. Either way, I'm okay with it." Now that I know assigning a story to a mod is used as a queue management technique, I don't get frustrated when my story is in limbo for a couple of days and then gets released back into the queue. 😄

Afternoon Folks. Not sure if this is the correct place to ask but here goes. Was writing a story in Drafts yesterday, no I'm not submitting it for a while. I had about 300 words saved. I added about anothet 400 later. I save as I go along, I found that out the hard way once. However today the latest 400 words have gone 😞 I'm trying to write today but can't save or Preview my work. Does anyone know if there’s a problem on the site? Thanks.

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Afternoon Folks. Not sure if this is the correct place to ask but here goes. Was writing a story in Drafts yesterday, no I'm not submitting it for a while. I had about 300 words saved. I added about anothet 400 later. I save as I go along, I found that out the hard way once. However today the latest 400 words have gone 😞 I'm trying to write today but can't save or Preview my work. Does anyone know if there’s a problem on the site? Thanks.

Please see the last 4 posts here:

https://www.lushstories.com/forum/lush-help-desk/story-posting-might-be-temporarily-wonky

Could you also please try the actions I recommended to moasan.

Thanks for your response. I checked everything you said. I see there were issues a few days ago but it looked as though it had been rectified. I know of the backlogs so Ive no plans to submit just now. I just wanted to add to my story while I remembered it! I'm not very techminded and I write directly on the Lush page. Was gutted when I lost my work last night😞

I have a question please. I know being a mod and approving stories is probably a thankless job. For myself I always say thank you to whomever approved my story. My question is this. Lately when I send in a story it sits there a few hours like normal then maybe 12- 15 hours later it says "Your story has been sent to a mod and its too late to recall it" Okay I get that but then why does after a few days go back to "Currently being reviewed" I don't mean to be a pain I am just trying to understand why it does that. Thank you for your time.

Hi Aanna. Thats happened to me a couple of times too and like you I wondered about it. I've seen a few forum posts about it. One said that sometimes a Moderator takes it, but can get bogged down with really long stories, so returns it. Another post said it was a way of reducing the queue. I can understand the first but not the second. I guess Lush is a victim of its own success.

Wouldn’t it be beneficial if Lush had a place for people to apply for story moderator? That may alleviate the backlog. Just saying.

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Wouldn’t it be beneficial if Lush had a place for people to apply for story moderator? That may alleviate the backlog. Just saying.

It is not normally something you apply for. An existing mod decides you are a good option and then they decide to extend an invite. Most sites I am on work that way. Opening moderation to an application process just opens the door to a raft of unsuitable applicants (e.g. people with agendas and axes to grind seeking the power) wasting the mods and admins time.

Well, that’s understandable. It was just a thought.

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It is not normally something you apply for. An existing mod decides you are a good option and then they decide to extend an invite. Most sites I am on work that way. Opening moderation to an application process just opens the door to a raft of unsuitable applicants (e.g. people with agendas and axes to grind seeking the power) wasting the mods and admins time.

That’s understandable. It was just a thought. Thank you for clarifying that.

Okay maybe an applications is not the right way but there has been a back log it seems since June. Is that how they do it here wait for a mod to invite someone to be a mod? Maybe they need expand the search. I can think of a couple of people here that have been here for sometime and write good. Maybe ask some of the veterans here for there input. The Mods have enough to do it seems to me. Lets take off some of the things off there plate and maybe make 1 Mod in charge of seeking help here. Just a thought. Just trying to be helpful.

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Okay maybe an applications is not the right way but there has been a back log it seems since June. Is that how they do it here wait for a mod to invite someone to be a mod? Maybe they need expand the search. I can think of a couple of people here that have been here for sometime and write good. Maybe ask some of the veterans here for there input. The Mods have enough to do it seems to me. Lets take off some of the things off there plate and maybe make 1 Mod in charge of seeking help here. Just a thought. Just trying to be helpful.

Have a read of page one of this thread and see my questions there and the answers they received. It is a starting point.

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I have a question please. I know being a mod and approving stories is probably a thankless job. For myself I always say thank you to whomever approved my story. My question is this. Lately when I send in a story it sits there a few hours like normal then maybe 12- 15 hours later it says "Your story has been sent to a mod and its too late to recall it" Okay I get that but then why does after a few days go back to "Currently being reviewed" I don't mean to be a pain I am just trying to understand why it does that. Thank you for your time.

Let me show you. The queue is split into 3 tabs. The main one, my personal one (obvs everyone sees their own) and then what anyone else has locked. We can click between the tabs.

Sometimes, to move stories out of that main queue, we 'lock' stories and it moves tab. So anyone logging in and looking at the main queue won't see it.

We do that when we're about to verify, but also if we're discussing one, or an author has submitted something 3 seconds after something has been verified and we need them to wait a bit. We use it as a queue management tool. We might verify it ourselves, or move it back. That's when you'll see different messages, so really, I wouldn't pay too much attention to the message.

Premium authors go in at the top, but if we're not careful with the queue, non premium can end up waiting more time than we're comfortable with, which is why we need to manage it. We're just constantly busy these days, so we need to actively manage the queue more than we used to.

Okay. Thank you Jen for letting me know that I do appreciate it.😊