Yes, please only submit one at time. The queue is very busy most days with over a hundred submissions awaiting review.

We're trying to get through them as fast as possible, but sometimes processing times vary, depending on how long stories are and how much work or feedback they require.

As you can appreciate, the volunteer mods balance what they do here with their family time. Sometimes we get a bunch of 10k stories land at once and each takes a good half hour or more to read. Other days we have a glut of Flash pieces and can whip through them comparatively quickly.

Hope that answers your question.

In honour of the last vestiges of the Island Getaway competition...

Get your entries in before the closing date in a couple of days.

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This seems unrelated but I have liked some comments on stories and the likes seemed to have disappeared after a time.

Yes, an irritation. It's been raised with the dev team on a number of occasions. No fix as yet, sadly.

Looks like a forgotten rule in dark mode. I've reported it to the dev team. Thanks for raising this wee bugette.

Yes, as long as it's not chapter N of an established series, you can link it if it's related by characters, world or concept. Only once the results are announced can you make any further chapterisation.

I've got a few spare moments now so if you're at a stage you can attach each one and resubmit, I'll shove them back on the site straight away. Otherwise, it'll have to be much later or you'll have to sweet talk another mod as I'm going out in 15 mins.

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When editing the covers, would I need each chapter to be taken down and reapproved with every edit? I added the cover back to the chapter currently under review.

Yes, unfortunately. I was hoping a faster route might be if you could find a willing mod who would run through each chapter and attach the same pic from your album, but I just tried it and it only allows me to pick from my media album. I can't see a way to associate a URL with your story either, otherwise we might be able to hack it and assign the given URL of the already-uploaded image.

The only potentially faster route would be to let one of the dev team link the stories to the image URL at the database level. The trouble is getting hold of them as they're super busy at the moment.

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Wanted to make sure there wasn’t something weirdly against the TOS or reason it disappeared before I did.

Not as far as I can see. I can't even figure how any of that would happen.

Very odd. There's no reference to it in your media folders, and no note on your account about it being removed, and as you say, there's nothing wrong with the cover itself. It's like it never existed. How strange.

Not sure what to suggest aside from asking one of us to relink them with the reuploaded image. There are a lot of parts aren't there?

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support the mods when they do act. One of the most common reasons I find for mods hesitating is them getting blasted when they do take action. Damned if they do and damned if they don't is a recipe for frustration and mod burnout.

💯

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On my profile...

Let me stop you there. Do you honestly think that anyone who serially sends dick pics is going to read anyone's profile? In the same vein that anyone who intends to steal your property isn't going to be dissuaded by the sign on your lawn that says "Please don't burgle me."

Calling it out works.

Good. Then let's encourage that behaviour. I don't use the chat rooms so I'm not much use here. As far as I understand, moderator presence in rooms doesn't go down well, so this may have to be a grassroots initiative that the decent men here adopt.

We could certainly add encouraging words to the Ts and Cs or AUP docs, but see the point above about nobody reading them. You should see the number of story submissions we get that violate the most basic and common-sense site rules, clearly stated.

So no it isn't taken seriously.

That's disappointing and I'm sorry you feel this way. We do investigate all reports. Sadly, there are site members who goad people into sending pics and then report them for doing so. Also people who share pics with others and then report them when the photo appears on the internet. Wastes our time, but we have to investigate.

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How to improve this situation...

Your list has been noted. Some of it would require development effort as we do not have the toolset or granularity to be able to effect them. The banning tools we have are very basic at present.

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does this mean that every report is then filed with police since it is a sex crime?

No. In the same way that not every one of the few thousand daily sexts that fly between teenagers are reported; there'd be no kids left in schools.

See what Georgia said about our stance.

Not really sure how much free time you think the mods have around our day jobs, and I doubt the police would care. A few weeks ago, two thugs smashed the patio window in my neighbour's house at 4pm and entered, while they were in. Caught on CCTV. Police called: "Nothing we can do. Case closed. Get better locks." Seriously.

But if we can work towards being tougher on site offenders, as you suggest, it should help reduce this frankly pathetic behaviour. Combined with encouraging people to block, report, and support those in public spaces to call out the twats, we can improve the site for everyone.

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This post has had 28 likes and 145 views.But only 4 comments from men

That's a better ratio than my stories get! What's your secret? 😎

I guess many men are majorly insecure. The whole "size matters" thing is still prevalent in endless movie quotes and the media at large, exacerbating this need to overcompensate. You've only got to look at how many blokes splash out on a penis extension sports car as a symbol of how successful they are. Doesn't explain the people with delusions of grandeur who send out ropey, wizened worm shots in the vain hope that someone likes it.

Presumably, such men think the more pics they send, the more chance they'll have of scoring pussy. In reality, I suspect it has the opposite effect, but when it's so easy to spam your wang on a porn site where the perpetrator wrongly assumes everyone here is gagging for it, a single "hit" from a few hundred is going to seem good odds.

I honestly don't know what we can do beyond advising people to block and report these people. I'm not sure where the "slap on the wrist, then nothing" view comes from. Reports of harassment of a member against a single other user, let alone across multiple members, are dealt with seriously and the member suspended/banned in most cases.

If you don't think mods are being harsh enough with suspensions, we can review how we deal with offenders. I'm all for weeding out vermin.

There are also members, seemingly with vastly needy egos, who start or spam as many threads as possible with pictures of themselves, and we clean them up as soon as we spot them, or they're reported. Unfortunately, many individuals see this cat and mouse behaviour as a sport. Never often enough to be a serious threat, but it's low-level irritation. At the expense of getting blowback for being Draconian, it's getting to the point I'm seriously considering hitting the Nuke button on a few accounts because such behaviour is not in the spirit of the site as an inclusive space for people to enjoy themselves.

Please work with us to help stamp out harassing behaviour. I'm not entirely sure how I, or any man, can step in and call out bad behaviour in an IM conversation between some dickpicker and his prey. We don't sit around combing people's conversations! The only reliable thing to do at present is for the victim to block and report them, and someone can then take action. Happy to consider other feasible options if you have any ideas.

As a man, I don't get it. If I approached a woman in a bar, I wouldn't greet her by flashing my knob. So why is it different here or online? Baffles me.

If a woman really wanted to see my junk, I figure she'd ask.

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making minor edits... I have read posts and/or PMs cautioning authors to not copy/paste the entire revision because then the mod has to review the entire story.

That's true.

To augment what AvidlyCurious said, we do have a story differences feature, which sometimes works depending on how big the original story is, how many changes have been made, how long ago it was submitted, and which way the wind is blowing. Stories from before the switchover to lush v2 for example—and some newer ones that contain formatting styles brought in from some word processors—sometimes send it into an infinite loop, meaning we have to read the whole story again.

If you give an indication in your mod note of the rough number/extent of changes you've made, it may mean a moderator who is pressed for time could know to grab your story and whip through it. Assuming the diff feature works, of course. That's not to say anyone should make false claims in the hope of being looked at faster! We're pretty good at spotting people gaming the system.

Please bear in mind that if you are resubmitting frequently and hogging precious moderator time, we may sideline your story for a short while to give people further down the queue a look-in. We're trying to balance fairness with speed, while maintaining quality standards and it takes time. It may also be that the moderator grabs a story with every intention of reading it, and they get sidelined in real life and can't get back to it for a day or so. Any number of factors can influence the time it takes.

Rest assured, as AC says, it will be processed in due course.

Edit: and coincidentally re-approved while I was typing this.

Dunno about y'all but I used to cheat in those Choose Your Own Adventure books that you used to get by sending off tokens from the back of Weetabix boxes.

I'd read up to a choice and stick my finger on the page as a bookmark, then skip ahead to each option and read. If it resulted in the character coming to a grisly demise, I'd jump back to the branch point and try a different path.

More efficient than starting again from scratch!

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Thank you for this. I was scratching my head trying to figure it out.

It's not just you, it's not very intuitive. And it does have quirks, for example if the URL contains spaces then it borks everything. Or if you use "paste as plain text" by mistake, then it obliterates the highlighted text.

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Experience is a must to write credible erotica, in my humble opinion.

Dammit. Knew I was doing something wrong in my stories. That explains it.

We used to have a multi-ending feature, but it was so under-utilised that it got dropped when the site was redesigned. No idea what happened to the few stories that did use it.

Depending how long the story is, you could maybe split it at the branch point. And at the cliffhanger ending of the main part, offer a "choose your own adventure" style option:

If you think Peter should jump into the ravine, read "My Killer Story - Alternate Ending 1"

If you think Peter should run back to the main road, read "My Killer Story - Alternate Ending 2"

...

Then, submit each ending in quick succession and link them as a series so they're collected together and clearly signposted in the title that they're alternate endings. Or seek a willing mod who will allow you to submit all the parts at once so they can all be locked and approved in one sitting.

In the Author Note of each ending, clarify this further by informing people that it's a continuation of the main part and they should read that first, just in case someone lands on the ending directly from a search engine.

The difficulty here would be that the individual endings are all "chapter 2" of the same story and must therefore abide by the rules of being a decent enough length (ideally 1k+ words) on their own merit. If your endings are all really short, that wouldn't work.

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I have a two part story about an island I wrote a few weeks ago but it needs the third part to be complete

Competiton entries have to be standalone stories. If the story is previously published in any form, or is a continuation of an already-published work, it is not admissable in the competition.

But as long as it's not actually been published, you can carry on writing it and submit it as a single piece, as long as it meets the brief and is entirely under the word limit.

A quick one that I threw together after finding the incredible naughty cover pic that screamed "write a story, write a story!"

So I did. And Whore is the result.

The action is quite rough and raw - necessarily - so if you prefer fluffy erotica, look elsewhere. But otherwise, please dive into the dirty world of deepthroating and submission. It's only 1K words long, so if you have five minutes, please give it a whirl. I value all feedback.

Have fun.

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I'm not sure if the link above will still be correct once the edits are approved.

The final URL remains the same after publication. The story is just pulled temporarily off the site while the changes are being moderated. All sorted for you now. An excellent story.

struts in proudly

160 inches.

squints at the scale on the ruler

Dammit. Millimetres.