Stories not showing up in search

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Posting my stories here, I've only ever gotten good feedback and reception on two of them, and that was before I deleted and re-integrated them into my big anthology of fics. I didn't think too much of it at the time, maybe it's just bad luck, just the nature of the beast to be ignored in a sea of other authors. But when I looked up my fics on the search bar for the first time just now, they don't show up period. I've been a member for a little over two years now. I'm not a troll and I'm not looking to spam anything. I just want my stories to actually be reaching people.

Also, looking over this again and apparently this might be the wrong subforum for this topic? If that's the case, my bad.
 
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Posting my stories here, I've only ever gotten good feedback and reception on two of them, and that was before I deleted and re-integrated them into my big anthology of fics. I didn't think too much of it at the time, maybe it's just bad luck, just the nature of the beast to be ignored in a sea of other authors. But when I looked up my fics on the search bar for the first time just now, they don't show up period. I've been a member for a little over two years now. I'm not a troll and I'm not looking to spam anything. I just want my stories to actually be reaching people.

Also, looking over this again and apparently this might be the wrong subforum for this topic? If that's the case, my bad.
Were your stories approved? Keep in mind you can have a cover be approved while having a story be rejected. See if you can post a link to your story, and then message an active moderator to see if your story has been rejected. If it has been rejected they should give you a reason as to why.
 

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I have report it for you, It should be moved with a mod comes online


Seems to be, I had a look, one from 2023, is also not searchable.
I have a story that wasn’t approved and I can’t search for it. However I can still post links to and shows up in my stories on my profile in the main site.
 

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Were your stories approved? Keep in mind you can have a cover be approved while having a story be rejected. See if you can post a link to your story, and then message an active moderator to see if your story has been rejected. If it has been rejected they should give you a reason as to why.
I fed my story links through an empty browser where I'm not logged in and it shows up.

e:f;b
 
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I have a story that wasn’t approved and I can’t search for it. However I can still post links to and shows up in my stories on my profile in the main site.
WUT!?!?!



I had no idea that happened, I thought stories that don't get approved get straight-up nuked.
 

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I fed my story links through an empty browser where I'm not logged in and it shows up.

e:f;b
If I post a link to my unapproved story you can read it as well.
WUT!?!?!



I had no idea that happened, I thought stories that don't get approved get straight-up nuked.
It depends on why they are rejected I believe. Mine was rejected for ’not being a story’.
 

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If I post a link to my unapproved story you can read it as well.

It depends on why they are rejected I believe. Mine was rejected for ’not being a story’.
Yep, that's what I meant by e:f;b, heh-heh!

If it helps, I didn't receive a message that any of my stories were ever rejected for everything or broke any of the rules. They just went up, no problem. Is there a place I should be able to check for mod rejection slips or anything like that?
 

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Yep, that's what I meant by e:f;b, heh-heh!

If it helps, I didn't receive a message that any of my stories were ever rejected for everything or broke any of the rules. They just went up, no problem. Is there a place I should be able to check for mod rejection slips or anything like that?
IDK, I only got my answer after sending a few emails…
 

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Oh yeah, that could be the reason.



Check if you fall under any of the prohibited submissions


I can maybe see that I broke some of the rules without realizing it, but looking at my stories, there are other people looking at them. It's just that that number is tiny, and I can't find them in the search bar. I haven't gone advertising my stuff to anyone else here on ScribbleHub, I can only think that all my stuff went through.
 

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I can maybe see that I broke some of the rules without realizing it, but looking at my stories, there are other people looking at them. It's just that that number is tiny, and I can't find them in the search bar. I haven't gone advertising my stuff to anyone else here on ScribbleHub, I can only think that all my stuff went through.
If you view a chapter multiple times, sometimes it will add to the view count, same fore the main page or stats. Also, your first chapter will probably be read by a mod to see if there is prohibited content. Also, if you have an approved story, people can find your rejected stories by going to your profile and clicking the Series tab.
 

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Ur name explains why they arent appearing in search :blob_melt:
What can I say, I'm a smut writer and I want people to know exactly what I'm about!

And funny thing, I can actually find myself in the member search, heh!
 

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What can I say, I'm a smut writer and I want people to know exactly what I'm about!

And funny thing, I can actually find myself in the member search, heh!
There is nothing in darkness, light a torch and bring light to ur faith :blob_melt:
 
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