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estiroseI was just surfing around and ended up reading about fanfiction.net. Now, as far as I knew, you couldn't load documents/post for four days. Apparently, you can't upload any documents for two days (48 hours exactly), and you can't post anything for two hours after setting up an account.
Now, the site has had captcha ever since Fanlib did a tool to lift one's stories off of ffn and put them on Fanlib. I get it occasionally when I'm trying to log in via my cellphone, because said cellphone doesn't do javascript easily. (I don't often log in, though, because I can't log in without javascript, and my cellphone gives me error messages and site functions don't work on it.)
To me, it seems a bit bizarre to let people post stories two hours after they register, but have to wait two days to be able to use document manager (which basically means you can't post anything). The only thing I can think of is to prevent spamming of users via DocX, the document thing used for sending stories to beta readers. But if that's so, why can you start posting a story? It admittedly doesn't let you get very far without anything in Document Manager, but why not let someone post stories up for document manager only, not DocX, for the two days? That way, they'll be ready to post when the two day/48 hour limit is reached.
I've always been confused by the four-day (now two-day) wait to post. Maybe I'm too much of an instant gratification person. (Of course, said limit really doesn't affect me, as I've been registered for seven years on the site; my user number is only five digits.) I'm sure that some wait works, to save readers from spam, but it doesn't stop people from posting sucky fanfics. It just makes them wait x amount of hours to post sucky fanfics. I guess that the two-day wait might save us from some of the new writers posting the stuff they wrote the previous night on a sugar high, but it's not going to save us from accounts that have passed the waiting period from posting said fics.
I guess what I'm trying to say (on a 'feature' that I don't even have to worry about, as I've been a member of the site for so long), is some wait is good. Some wait keeps spam out of our categories and our inboxes. But while I'm glad they cut down the wait, I'm not sure why they keep the wait still for so long.
Thoughts?
Now, the site has had captcha ever since Fanlib did a tool to lift one's stories off of ffn and put them on Fanlib. I get it occasionally when I'm trying to log in via my cellphone, because said cellphone doesn't do javascript easily. (I don't often log in, though, because I can't log in without javascript, and my cellphone gives me error messages and site functions don't work on it.)
To me, it seems a bit bizarre to let people post stories two hours after they register, but have to wait two days to be able to use document manager (which basically means you can't post anything). The only thing I can think of is to prevent spamming of users via DocX, the document thing used for sending stories to beta readers. But if that's so, why can you start posting a story? It admittedly doesn't let you get very far without anything in Document Manager, but why not let someone post stories up for document manager only, not DocX, for the two days? That way, they'll be ready to post when the two day/48 hour limit is reached.
I've always been confused by the four-day (now two-day) wait to post. Maybe I'm too much of an instant gratification person. (Of course, said limit really doesn't affect me, as I've been registered for seven years on the site; my user number is only five digits.) I'm sure that some wait works, to save readers from spam, but it doesn't stop people from posting sucky fanfics. It just makes them wait x amount of hours to post sucky fanfics. I guess that the two-day wait might save us from some of the new writers posting the stuff they wrote the previous night on a sugar high, but it's not going to save us from accounts that have passed the waiting period from posting said fics.
I guess what I'm trying to say (on a 'feature' that I don't even have to worry about, as I've been a member of the site for so long), is some wait is good. Some wait keeps spam out of our categories and our inboxes. But while I'm glad they cut down the wait, I'm not sure why they keep the wait still for so long.
Thoughts?
