Does this website have a shadowban?

[JuliusIncestus]

I tried to post a story a year ago, but there's no link and no readers. I tried to email the admin on the gmail address, but I got no response. I tried to message one of the mods, but no replies there either. What's going on?

 

[RepresentingWrath]

Stories should be manually approved by Tony. He is the owner and the sole moderator of the site. As for what exactly happened with your story, I don't know. It was a year ago.

 

[Representing_Tromba]

That is odd. Could it have been rejected and you didn't realize it? Perhaps it was lost among the masses since it was really busy a year ago?

 

[AmbreaTaddy]

Just checked his profile and there isn't any stories listed, so it was probably not approved

 

[beast_regards]

A year ago? Like, an entire year? That's probably too late to care.

The stories are manually approved by the single administrator here, and I am not entirely certain if you receive any kind of notification should they be rejected, so I suppose it might be what had happened.

If you were actually banned, you would receive a notification your account has been blocked.

 

[Valmond]

I’d say delete the story, then resubmit it. Just to be on the safe side, I’d also recommend going through it one more time to make sure things check out with the rules and all.

A submission should not take more than 48 hours from what I know.

 

[Lysander_Works]

Did you delete your account and make a new one with the same email? I don't know what happens to content if an account is removed on its own, so I could be wrong, but this is also a question to ask.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

I hear Lamont Cranston can still post but nobody can see it so maybe The Shadow has been banned?

 

[JuliusIncestus]

Stories should be manually approved by Tony. He is the owner and the sole moderator of the site. As for what exactly happened with your story, I don't know. It was a year ago.

How do I get in touch with him?

A year ago? Like, an entire year? That's probably too late to care.

The stories are manually approved by the single administrator here, and I am not entirely certain if you receive any kind of notification should they be rejected, so I suppose it might be what had happened.

If you were actually banned, you would receive a notification your account has been blocked.

I haven't received a notification of a rejection or a ban

Did you delete your account and make a new one with the same email? I don't know what happens to content if an account is removed on its own, so I could be wrong, but this is also a question to ask.

No, this is the first and only account I have with SH

 

[RepresentingWrath]

How do I get in touch with him?

I haven't received a notification of a rejection or a ban

No, this is the first and only account I have with SH

@Tony

 

[RiceballWasTaken]

I tried to post a story a year ago, but there's no link and no readers. I tried to email the admin on the gmail address, but I got no response. I tried to message one of the mods, but no replies there either. What's going on?

Checked out your page and I don't think the story got approved. What was in it

 

[JuliusIncestus]

Checked out your page and I don't think the story got approved. What was in it

Incest/breeding, but no underage characters or noncon.

 

[RiceballWasTaken]

Incest/breeding, but no underage characters or noncon.

might be because of the incest thing lol

 

[NtrAddicted]

There is a shadowban. I have a story with about 55 chapters. It had been approved and I was posting about 5-7 a day to update it completely. I was shadowbanned, the story didn't appear in the tags or in the search. Maybe they identified it as spam? I don't know, but I had to delete everything and I'm reuploading it little by little

 

[Ruti]

Maybe they identified it as spam? I don't know, but I had to delete everything and I'm reuploading it little by little

Most likely, from what I've heard posting multiple chapters within an hour alot triggers some anti spam stuff

 

[Dec]

I was posting about 5-7 a day

You should post preferably 2 chapters a day, separated by multiple hours in between. If you plop a lot of them in a short time, you will not be listed on the front page by the system to not "hog it" for yourself.

There is a shadowban.

It's not a "shadowban," just a simple unlisting to allow other authors to be visible. Shadowban is for translations - they exist, but you can't find them via website search, nor do they show on the main page but are still accessible via direct link.

 

[JuliusIncestus]

might be because of the incest thing lol

I thought incest was allowed?

 

[Lysander_Works]

I thought incest was allowed?

Your honor? My client is clearly insane. Please go easy on em.

~ In all seriousness though idk if incest is allowed as a fiction. Something you will have to ask about.

 

[Dec]

I thought incest was allowed?

idk if incest is allowed

SH Content Guidelines say nothing about incest per se but mention illegal sex acts. Some stories include it and were not removed, so I guess it's a gray area.
If it was initially approved then it should be okay.

Are you able to reach the story via a direct link? If not, then it was never published. Try doing it again.

 

[JuliusIncestus]

illegal sex acts

If this website is based in the US, then fictional incest is not illegal, but I’d love to reach out to the admin. The only problem is that he doesn’t answer DMs or the gmail.