Quote by simplyjohn

That really doesn't make any sense. The fact that a moderator has picked the story up, assigned it to themselves, is progress.

Is having a story locked by a mod for a week considered “normal”? The message on the users end leads one to believe it’s being reviewed currently. For a 2-3k word story, 7 days to review it seems rather excessive after it’s supposedly made “progress”. It’d be one thing if it could be pulled back by the contributor. But being locked out of your work for 7 days with zero update or movement is incredibly frustrating and doesn’t seem right.