Excellent addition Gav.
It should hopefully cut down on all the childish drama and ridiculous "he said, she said" messages I / we get on a daily basis (and for the most part, ignore - this is an adult swim site, not kindergarten).
Please keep reporting any issues you find with it. It's obviously preferable that someone doesn't find out you have them blocked, if discretion is the order of the day, for example.
Gav said something is up with the Mongo database, and is looking into it.
Normal service should be resumed shortly.
Apologies.
I've asked Gav to fix this up as an option, as it's been a pet peeve of mine for a while. If you're mid story, and you want to be totally uninterrupted, a black box pinging up, can really throw you off.
I've asked Gav to comment on this.
We had a database outage a few weeks ago, that might have been the cause of the hiccups.
Are you seeing any happen in the last week or so?
I don't think it's when someone deletes their account, as that should purge all their comments and scores automatically.
That's not the case for me. I'll need to check if it's Admin related.
Unfortunately something like intuitive keyword matching isn't going to work:
"Samantha sucked the juicy grapes into her mouth seductively, one by one, while her Chihuahua watched on. Her therapist looked on eagerly."
When someone joins, they are meant to have read our site terms, which clearly advise what is or what isn't allowed:
Story submissions
"I agree not to post stories which feature underage people / minors. I also agree not to submit stories which include content pertaining to , abusive situations, , graphic violence, totally unwilling participants, drugging, dangerous sexual acts, snuff, or sex with animals ( )."
We could put that warning on the submit story page, however that would be rather clumsy.
The vast majority of people who submit stories here, are aware of the type of stories we publish, and what we do and don't allow.
You'd have to have either not read our terms, be rather insensitive, or deliberately be doing it, to break our prohibited content rules.
As to the 60% comment, that figure doesn't represent the % of offerings which get published here. It's roughly the right figure in terms of those stories which get rejected on first read through. The vast majority of authors will take note of the comments from our verifiers / editors, and make changes accordingly. Most of those corrected drafts get published. I'd guess only 5% don't make it, where the content is absolutely not for this site, or the author gives up / some other reason.
Thank you Ravenstar and Nymphwriter for responding.
At the moment, a turnaround time of 3 days is typical. There are currently 50 stories in the queue, and that's usually the case most days now.
@ TantricDrummer. We implemented that a few years ago. There were 2 reasons I removed it:
1) The system became abused in a very short space of time. People were dumping half-finished work on the the volunteer editors, expecting them to clear them up.
2) Some authors submitted work which broke our site rules - / snuff stories / beastiality etc. Those are banning offences, and volunteers shouldn't have to deal with that kind of thing.
So, we don't differentiate between volunteer editors and verifiers. We have one team who in effect, perform both roles. They will typically do a light edit on pieces which need it. Stories which have an abundance of problems, get sent back to the author.
Gold members have their stories put to the very top of the verification queue, and are given more editing time by our verifiers / editors. Depending on the time of day, and any issues which may arise with a story, the turnaround time is usually less than 12 hours.
Milik's Platinum Card is behind the bar.
Go for your life!
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(actually, a great deal more than most)
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