How much is too much?

[KennyCelican]

Uh... Uh oh.

I mean, I haven't been cow-banned on RR yet.

Yet.

Although I'm using my 'Volume One' cover here on SH because the 'Series' cover over on RR looked, as one reader said, 'kinda young'. The new cover is a tiny bit more Anime and looks more 'freshman in college' than 'senior in High School'.

As for Plot Holes if Volumes were dropped... I dunno, man. That would be weird. The Diary is broken into Volumes, yeah, but I literally break the Volume at each Solstice and Equinox, because that's ninety-ish chapters and two hundred to three hundred KWords. Okay, one is like three thirteen and the first one is one seventy-seven, but still. In print they'd be solid chunky books.

But my 'adjustments' so far have been:
- replaced all possibly negative references to 'white people' with IRL references used by brown people when white people are listening, because someone said a brown girl from the hood calling school shootings 'white people bullshit' was 'Racist Against White People'.
- Redacted all mentions of specific numeric age from everyone except one character's daughter, who is not involved in any spicy scenes except as a 'dammit, guess we're done here' ending because she's (as of this month) three years old, and thus Not Involved In That.
- Rewrote all scenes where age had been redacted out.

Of course, they also went from 'can't be the main focus' to 'mustn't be more than fifteen percent of the chapters', which... Honestly if they're saying 'chapters dedicated to adults doing adult activities' that still gives me like a hundred fifty chapters to work with, and so far I've only done, like, five, and at least one of those fades to black before anything really explicit happens. If they're saying 'any chapters where sex is mentioned or implied', I'm cooked, and just waiting for the cow ban.

EDIT to note that 'Senior In High School' ranges from 17 to 19 where we are, and sometimes goes older than that in inner city schools.

 

[Humanistheart]

What’s delisted mean? What do you mean manually reorder? As opposed to what? thx

Thanks. That’s odd. So if I add a chapter between previously posted ones they’ll delist the series?

 

[KennyCelican]

Thanks. That’s odd. So if I add a chapter between previously posted ones they’ll delist the series?

I'm curious about this too, because I do my alt-POV chapters out of order, and after releasing them I later slide them into their proper end-of-volume spot.
Except Halloween ald-POV Days, but those are different.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

If I understand correctly, it means you will be "ignored" by the system for one full cycle (i.e. after a day, new stuff will register as new but during that day, nothing will).

 

[Ai-chan]

I recently read that dropping chapters too fast can wind up with some kind of 'shadow ban'.

Serious question - how often is too often?

I'm trying to bring my story up to speed with the site I posted it originally, but it updates once a day there, and it's been going a while, so catching up is gonna take a while. My intent was to drop one an hour until it was caught up, but if there is some kind of 'no more frequently than this', I'd really like to know before I launch... Which since I intended to launch just after midnight tonight, now has me a touch worried.

Have I managed to YET AGAIN stumble into a new and exciting way to mess up my fiction launch on an entirely new site?

Tony clarified to Ai-chan last year. This is a myth. There is no shadow ban, only shadow dicks. You either get banned or you're not. The reason why you sometimes don't see your uploads is because when you upload all at once, only your latest chapter gets shown. If you unupload that chapter and reupload, that new chapter isn't shown on latest chapter list.

You can even upload a whole 200 nodes of a gamebook on the site in an hour and you won't get shadowbanned.

 

[Dec]

So if I add a chapter between previously posted ones they’ll delist the series?

I'm curious about this too

No.
It works like this;

1. you publish the chapter
2. after a while (usually instant-to-5-minutes-after), the published chapter appears on the main page in "Latest Updates"
3. you now decide to move that chapter, changing the order. Two things happen at the same time:
   • moved chapter is removed from "Latest Updates" list
   • everyone who already marked it as "read" now has a mess in their reading list, showing every chapter after the moved one as unread, even if they read it before

I have no idea if there is any effect if you move them when they are scheduled, but logically, there should be none, because it is not yet published.

If you add a chapter normally (without moving it later) in between already published chapters, it will appear as "read" to everyone who has the story on their reading list and read chapters that are listed after the new chapter. And it will not show in the "Latest Updates" list.

 

[KennyCelican]

For what it's worth, I did notice something earlier today. Not sure if it's a glitch, or relevant, or what.

I had Shipgirl go through and check to make sure I didn't miss any chapters when uploading them as drafts. She noticed two were missing.

I added them, then shifted them into their correct positions in the list of drafts.

When I saved the resort (note, no published chapters had changed at all) my most recent published chapter went missing from the 'recent' list.

When the next scheduled chapter posted, it showed on the recent list normally.


Now, it's possible I missed it on the recent list, or something else I was doing bollixed it up, but short version it seems like saving a re-order just removes the most recent from the recent posts list on the front page. Which is fine, I don't intend to do that very often anyhow. But figured someone might want to know reordering (even reordering drafts) right after publishing a chapter might be contraindicated.