Sneaking past the editors.
Hello folks..
Can anyone throw any light on the following? Two days ago I put two stories on the site: the second went for editing, as normal. The first, however, "Confession Time", was pasted straight up. Now, this has happened a few times before, but mainly to poems. Just to test the system, I put it through editing and raised the age rating from U to 12. Straight back on..
Intrigued as to what I'd need to do to trigger the naughty words filter, I added a mild expletive. Sure enough, back it went!
Now, "bl##dy h#ll" isn't that awful, but surely it should have activated something? After all, I might have just added a barrage of four-letter obscenity. Worse, I might have pasted up something that was offensive, libellous or just plain illegal! (Under the Race Relations Act, for instance - though naturally I have no intention of doing so!) I might also have included explicit 18-rated material in a story open to all. There are some odd people out there, contributors who like to shock; so what happens to their stories?
I know the editors are snowed under, so how would they spot material that's already been passed onto the site? Are they even supposed to, when there might be a hundred entries in a day? I don't recall anything of mine that went straight in being cherried, and that makes me suspicious that some "lucky" entries sneak straight through unnoticed and therefore ungraded.
Surely everything arriving on site should be pulled aside? If anyone's had similar experiences of pasting up "fireproof" stories, let's hear them.