My first submission took 3 days for verification. I suppose that was because it was my first submission, because, for the next four stories, the average time was one day, the expected time as I recall reading some place. (One took two days, two took only one day, and one was actually done in less than a day.)
On Monday night of this week, that was the 19th, I submitted my sixth story to Lush. We are now into the fourth day without my having heard anyting about it. I know of nothing in the story that would require any extra time for verification. It looks like it may have gotten lost.
Yesterday afternoon, I sent a PM about this to someone on the staff named 'Callisto'. He wrote back an hour or so later that it was in verification and that he had passed my message on to the moderator who, he said, I would shortly hear from.
It is now day four and I have not heard further.
I hope someone can tell me -- Should I be at all concerned, or is this something that happens every so often. Have I maybe done something wrong. I don't want to complain if this is at least a sometime soccurrence. On the other hand, it would be nice to know what is going on and when I might expect to hear something.
It does look like something is happening to the story. The view count is up to 39. (Yesterday morning it was only about 20, so something is happening.)
Now I lay me down to sleep?
Present tense of 'to lay', object 'me'. Is that right?
perfect
edit: old guy loses again
One, two, buckle my shoe.
This thread leaves me scratching my head. Although I have five stories posted at Lush Stories, and another currently awaiting verification, I am very much a 'newbie' here. I have been a member for less than one month and am very confused by what has been said here.
At least three different terms have been used for someone who might review a story: editor, moderator and verifier. My understanding of these terms is as follows: (These are related to on-line story submission at Lush Stories. Stories submitted for traditional publishing, ePublishing, or other story sites, would likely go through a different process.)
An editor is someone you ask to review your story before its submission. This would be someone of the author's own choosing who would be expected to correct spelling and grammar. In some case they might also be expected to improve the readability.
A moderator is someone who follows forum threads or chat sessions to ascertain that participants post or chat according to established rules. They have no function in the submission, review or posting of a story.
A verifier is someone who reviews a story that has been formally submitted to the site, and either accepts it, (as written), for posting, rejects it with a commentary as to what needs to be changed before resubmission, or rejects it without the possibility for resubmission. This person never makes a change, (punctuation, spelling or otherwise), to the submission itself, but only points out those things he or she sees as unacceptable.
Depending upon their qualifications, as well as authority granted by the site operators, a single individual might perform more than one of these functions, but not at the same time.
Am I understanding this correctly?
