New rules: Limit for published stories

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A few months ago, we introduced specific rules for AI-assisted stories, as the sheer volume submitted was starting to overwhelm our approval team. As AI enables authors to produce a large amount of text with comparatively little effort and time investment, it could inundate us with AI-generated material.

The issue of AI-assisted writing has sparked numerous discussions within the team and with authors, and has, frankly, upset authors, readers, and team administrators. All opinions are valid in their own regard; there is no easy “right or wrong” there. It’s impossible to find a solution that satisfies all positions.

Up until now, if AI was detected in a story, we limited the number of chapters and new series an author could submit, and we enforced that an author must have been registered with the site for at least a year before they could publish an AI-assisted story.

We will now drop these restrictions in favor of a general rule that limits the number of stories a single author can publish:

  • Any author can only submit one new series every other week, i.e., 14 days have to pass before a new series can be started.
  • Within an ongoing series, an author can only publish a new chapter every 3rd day.

We reason that without AI assistance, no one can write at such a high speed that this limit would cause an issue.

Exceptions can be made, of course, and the author simply needs to notify us if they require a specific accommodation for any reason.

Story challenges are also exempt: If the deadline of the challenge approaches, we will allow more chapters to be published so that the author can complete their series within the given challenge timeframe.

The foremost reason for this rule change is that it’s not possible to detect AI with 100% certainty. Therefore, using AI involvement to enforce a rule like this, while you cannot be sure if you missed AI assistance or falsely perceive one where it hasn’t been used, seems unfair, and it has also caused a lot of discussions and distress in the past.

I believe these new rules won’t affect authors who don’t use AI, so I see this as the best solution for everyone.

Authors do not have to take care if they comply with this rule. If an author attempts to publish a new story or chapter too soon after their previous story or chapter, the system will notify them and automatically delay the publication. The author will then see a message like this:

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Could I double check , are we talking publish as in hit the publish button which sends for approval , or publish as in when the last chapter or series was made available on the site as approved / published ?

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Thanks for this explanation! I have a few questions for my situation.

  1. I have an 8 chapter story I want to publish week-by-week. I had originally planned to submit all 8 chapters about 10 days in advance of the first publishing, with ‘publish on’ dates spaced out one week at a time. Should I now, instead, hit ‘publish’ every 3 days with the proper ‘publish on’ date applied?

  2. I worked on that 8 chapter story for ~1.5 years (I was a slow af) and I’ve now sped up significantly now that I’ve got my writer mojo back. I’m working on a series that’ll be much shorter, but will probably be finished long before all 8 chapters of the main story are out. How does the ‘new series’ thing work? Within 14 days of the last chapter of any other series I have? Or within 14 days of the first chapter of my latest series? Or is it an exemption kind of thing/the approvers will be flexible?

Finally, if I need an exemption, to whom do I reach out? Directly to admin@gaykinkystories.com?

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That is another question I was gonna ask as have one last chapter of my current story to post , but I have another chapter of a previous series where I was two chapters in then got distracted for a few months lol :joy:. So would the third chapter of the older series be 3 or 14 days after this last chapter as it’s not actually a new series

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From my understanding of the rules, the 14 days refers to the start of a brand new series, and is 14 days from the publishing of the original chapter.

In the scenarios you are describing above, you can post multiple chapters in a month, but you must wait 3 days in between approvals. So you can, in effect, publish any combination of two chapters per week.

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I’m already working on an update that will manage the delay automatically. We’re definitely not going to ask the authors to pay attention this rule manually.

And I also don’t want to make the approvers to have to check for this. This would be the exact opposite of what we want to achieve.

The mechanism will work like this:

The author can publish any number of chapters or new series at any time. But if they would be too fast for the rules, the publishing will be delayed automatically by the system for the correct amount of days. The author will be notified of this of course, so they’re not confused.

The approvers are not even going to see a story which is delayed this way. So the queue won’t be overwhelmed even if an author would start to flood us with stories. Their stories would simply automatically trickle into the queue as the rule allows.

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1.) Just publish the story as you want (maybe just wait until I’ve uploaded the update, which I plan to do tomorrow). As I’ve just explained before, you can publish all chapters all at once, but the chapters will automatically be added to the approvers’ queue after a three day delay each.

You can still define a manual “publish on” date as you want, that doesn’t interfere, as long as it’s not faster than the rule allows.

2.) The initial start of a series matters. When you’ve added the last chapter to another series doesn’t matter at all, you could publish a chapter to an existing series and a all new series at the same day, as long as you haven’t published an all new series (or single-chapter story) in the last 14 days.

3.) Yeah, an author can always write to the admin@gaykinkystories.com for any kind of inquiry, inlcuding asking for a special kind of publishing.

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I’ve just uploaded the announced update. The site will now automatically delay any story publication that would be too close to the same author’s previous chapter or series.

In such a case, the author will see this message right after they’ve clicked the “Publish” button:

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They don’t have to do anything, the publication of their story will automatically be pushed back to the shown date.

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This is perfectly reasonable, in my opinion. Thanks for the heads up and thanks for all of your hard work in running this website.

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I just submitted an edit to an old chapter and it told me it will be delayed ? Does that mean any edit is treated as a new chapter and resets the three day rule ?

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No this sounds like a bug. I’ll fix that, don’t worry. There are just too many cases to take care of.
Don’t worry, I’ll approve the edit anyway, it might take a day or two until I can get around to fix the bug

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That’s no worries thanks :folded_hands: it wasn’t a big edit , just adding a surname to a characters name when they was introduced . It looks like it’s changed the date of that chapter to today and put it back to the front of the site.

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Damn it.
That’s what you get if you don’t test sufficiently. Do you remember the proper publish date it had?

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it was the 1st September I think . Chapter 2 was the 8th so I reckon it’s correct

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“We reason that without AI assistance, no one can write at such a high speed that this limit would cause an issue.”

I can and have written insane amounts in a day, once I get on a roll. Considering how small stories are on this site usually, I see this as very limiting and just punishes people who would never use AI at all. Do what you have to I guess, but… eh. I can’t say I agree with it.

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In what way do you think that the limits would affect you? You can still click “Publish” on multiple stories or chapters at once; just their actual publication will be spread out over time.

In case of a series that actually works in favor of the author, as the series will be pushed back up to the top of the list with each new chapter. Publishing all chapters at once is simply not a good idea. One chapter every third day is about the most effective way to publish a series.

You’ve so far only published a single series on the site a year ago, 6 chapters over the course of 14 days. With that limit applied, it would just have been 18 days instead.

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Glad the challenges are exempted. I actually took a day and a half off work last week to ensure I could wrap everything up with my Halloween submission. Granted, I also had zero intention of it being 25 chapters, but I guess that’s what happens when some chapters have seven different versions! (And zero AI was used … I am shocked I was able to pump out over 2k words a day and manage at least one sweep of editing. It did help that I broke my toe near the beginning so had an extra hour each day not driving to/from work.)

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Yeah, it would be unfair to have a dead line and enforced publishing delay at the same time. This rule is not meant to be written in stone. If there’s any good reason for an author to publish faster or a bunch of stories all at once, we will always be able to accommodate them.

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