Recent content by packbat

If I remember from researching Mastodon's algorithms for trending hashtags, links, and posts, a spike above the historical activity level was the main criterion - perhaps the Scribble Hub algorithm is similar, then. We do often like and comment a lot, including in the cases we've seen a fic...

This is kind of half a technical question, but: has anyone else binged a fic, only to see it show up in the trending list the next day? I'm wondering how sensitive the algorithm is, and whether one dedicated reader can be enough to set it off.

There are a few different answers to "what is bad grammar". Grammar is, at a base level, how words are combined to mean more than just their individual meanings next to each other. If you've ever tried to communicate a complex concept using nothing but emoji, the lack of grammar is why that...

Ooo - that'd probably be really indicative to someone who knew what was up with that downtime! I wonder if PHP changed its handling of non-ASCII characters or something.

That makes a lot of sense - looking at the activity page for someone who uses a lot of emoji (it feels weird to link to them directly given that this isn't about them), it looks like comments from morning US Eastern on January 18 and before are affected, and from morning US Eastern on January 19...

We were rereading Coded and noticed that, in the chat sections where some of the characters signed their messages with emoji, those emoji were missing and replaced with question marks. Something similar seems to have happened in the comments sections - from context, I'm guessing not all...

Update: Edited the review and it went up basically right away. Still don't know what rule it was breaking, which is frustrating - it would have been nice to get a note or something.

All right - I will assume that, unless the review is outright deleted, that it's just stuck in the queue. Thank you!

How long should we wait before we are concerned? Or will rejected reviews be deleted?

We recently wrote a review that seems to have never been made public, even after a few days - is there some way to tell if this is just a delay or if there are edits we need to make?

My personal ranking as a reader is: A good cover. No cover. A bad cover. A plagiarized cover. A GenAI cover. I imagine a good cover will draw in more eyes than no cover, but a lot of the best stories on the site don't have a cover at all.

It's definitely not advertised, I think - found out about it when trying to figure out what the "Psychological" genre meant. I figured it was here or Suggestions, yeah - hopefully it can be moved if it's in the wrong place?

I was looking around the site for stories that caught my interest, noticed the "Autism" tag on one, and decided to check it out - I'm autistic myself and I have seen a number of stories on this site portray neurodivergent characters (people whose minds work differently than our society expects...

We're currently working on a story with one of those long summarize-the-concept titles, and we pretty quickly found ourselves using a truncated version of the title to refer to it. I think that's the big disadvantage of the longer titles: "Non-Player Character" (a novel we read a few times and...

We don't rate stories unless we give them a fair trial, and we don't stick with a story unless there's something to keep us in it, so yeah - we're not helping with the rating inflation issue. ...but, if we do end up rating a story, we're basically asking ourselves "does this fall short of 5...