Grumbles

[amberfocus]

It's been 15 hours since I sent Hunger Moon in to Teaspoon and still it's not up.  In that time they've updated all of four stories.  Anyone want to place bets that by the time they update it'll be buried in an avalance on pages 2 through 5?  So annoying.  Obviously they can't keep up with their rules.  Even when they do put stuff through it's obvious by the typos (even in the summaries sometimes) that they aren't actually reading them first.  Which was the whole big reason why they went to moderated status, all the spelling and grammar issues that had been cropping up.  If they're not going to read them for that, then what's the point of modding?

They'll probably update right after I post this, too.  *whine whine*

Also, DH won't be home until Thursday.  On the bright side, that means a full week of extra pay.

I'm still sick.

And I'm cranky.

Edited to add:  Ha!  I was right.  The minute I post this, there it comes up on Teaspoon!

Edited again to add:  And 15 minutes later it's on page 3.  Can I call them or what?

Comments

[rebeccaclark.livejournal.com]

Teaspoon has become ridiculous. They won't post anything of mine, even though I know it's correct (and other people agree) because I have "incorrect speech pronounciation". I can't put it in any of the ship comms over here, either, because it isn't ship. Best thing I've ever written and it's collecting about three readers. Grumble...

Poor you being ill and alone (apart from kids, but they're not really helpful...)!

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

Ship comm stories don't have to be romantic, they just have to feature the two characters that are shipped prominently in the story. So an action adventure story with Rose and the Doctor as main characters can go on Time and Chips even if they aren't all lovey dovey. If it's Nine, you could put it in Hearts in Time. And there's always DW Fiction.

I didn't know you wrote so I went for a looksee. If you are talking about your Christmas Invasion rewrite I read about halfway through the first chapter (I'll finish it later and leave a comment) and I have no clue what they are talking about by incorrect speech pronounciation. I'd email them back and ask them what they mean by that because I certainly don't see it. But from what I've read so far this could easily go on any of the comms I mentioned above.

[rebeccaclark.livejournal.com]

Thank you :)

[irishlullaby.livejournal.com]

The moderation thing, I think is the leading cause of why hardly any of the actual good writers are getting any reviews or reads, other than by the ones that have a specific fic or author on their alert list. And the stuck ups don't seem to care because apparently someone made a comment to one of the new mods and they pretty much told them that if they wanted their fics to be "instantly posted" they needed to go to fanfiction.net

I'm not sure but I htink one of the people on my flist is buddies with one of the mods that isn't as big of a stiffler about things. I odn't know, if I can get a hold of this person on my flist I will see if maybe they can say something to that mod and that mod talk things over the others.

I doubt it'll be any good because, as I said, it's become apparent that most of the new mods just enjoy having a power trip, and taking away the moderation makes them give up said power they feel they have.

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

Oh, I doubt anything will ever change. I just have issues with their selective reinforcement of their rules. It's been three weeks since I've posted an update of Hunger Moon and I hate that it got buried immediately. Same thing happened last time. In fact, I'm almost never on the front page for more than five minutes at a time anymore. More paranoid minds than mine would say they are burying me deliberately. Okay, I've thought it. I've noticed it with other long-time popular authors as well. And seems like the same five or six newbie authors are on the front page all the time. Which I don't begrudge, because a couple of them are really good and need the exposure, but it's starting to look like a pattern. It's starting to feel personal.

I'm just glad I have LJ, even if their rich text editor is buggy. Otherwise I'd be tempted to give up.

[taliah-rose.livejournal.com]

I'm really not loving teaspoon anymore either, their shoddy treatment of authors really makes you feel like giving up. I much prefer to go to the author's lj if they have one, you get a much better sense of the person who is writing too.

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I like the back and forth you can have in comments here. It really doesn't allow for that there.

[dragonmom64.livejournal.com]

I almost never look at Teaspoon for new stories anymore. I think almost all of the authors that I read regularly over there have a journal here, and I've friended them. That said, I do like to reread my favorites over there because it can all be on one page.

And yeah, when I first heard about the new mods and how things were being handled, my first thought was----someone's on a power-trip.

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

I do like to try to keep up with it because there are some new up and coming authors there that are good, or have the potential to be good with a few more stories under their belts and they have no idea that LJ even exists. Of course, that's part of why I've started doing fic recs, too, so those that have left Teaspoon mostly behind can find the good new stories, too.

[ehmi.livejournal.com]

Interesting. I thought it was weird that the first time I tried to post to Teaspoon it took them 4 days to say I did something wrong, and I couldn't figure out what it was, then I reposted it, and literally 30 seconds later I got an e-mail that said it was approved. Didn't make sense at all.

Problem is, I don't really know how to use LJ much except to read other people's stuff, and I only figured that out by stumbling around. I wouldn't know how to post the story here. *shrug*

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

I think it depends on how busy they are and which mod looks at it. There's is one that is far more picky than the others. And there are plenty of days when I'm sure they just send through a massive update without ever reading at all. *sighs*

Well, I know that you already figured out how to post stories here, since I've seen that since you posted this. Lots of bumbling around when I first started here back in January, but I did eventually figure most stuff out. You will, too.

[kerravonsen]

It's heaps better than the Fiction Alley waiting time, though. The Fiction Alley FAQ says one has to wait a week!

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

I have no experience with them. A week would drive me crazy. And as much as I complain about Teaspoon, I still think they're the best archive for Doctor Who on the net.

[doctorsdiva.livejournal.com]

I've signed up for Teaspooon but haven't posted anything yet. Having read their rules really carefully and then looked at some of the fics they let through, I can't see any correlation between the two *frowns* I read all the new stuff that's in my particular interest areas ( Nine, Ten, post JE, Rose, Jack)and it varies so much, from absolutely brilliant, our glorious Amberfocus for example, to downright inane. I am considering not posting there when I eventually am ready.

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

Speaking of...I'm still working my way through your fic. I hope you don't mind waiting a bit longer. I'm doing it in my spare time and there hasn't been much of that lately.

[doctorsdiva.livejournal.com]

No problem, I'm not in any hurry. :)

[lady-dree.livejournal.com]

Like Ehmi, i had trouble the one (and at this point ONLY) time i submitted to teaspoon. 3 days later, i got an email from the mods saying my summary was too long (*snarks*), then 4 days after a resub I emailed admin. They said they'd see what was wrong, and my story was posted about 30 mins later. They never told me what the actual problem was, but my story ended up on page 3 when it finally did go up.

I've only had the one sub, and it's had about 600 hits, which i'm happy with, but i'd be seriously cracnky if i were you. I'm feeling your pain, in a 'halfwat across the country' kind of way. and wishing you lots of chicken soup and tea and DH lovin.

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I had them once delete an entire story when they only meant to delete chapter two because it had a typo in it, right after the mod changes happened.. And they did not tell me they did it. I had to ask what happened when the story just disappeared. So I've been cranky about them ever since.