Update on Thrown Back
🕑 Added 2023-10-18 21:49:33 +0000 UTCChapter 30 of Thrown Back has been removed for violating Patreon's Community Guidelines. I tried to edit the post to remove anything offensive, but that apparently wasn't enough, and I don't want to play 'Guess what's wrong with this post' if they're not going to just tell me. For now, Thrown Back will be going on a short hiatus until I can rewrite chapter 30 and figure out what to do going forward. You can still find the complete PDF and Epub files over on the discord in the Restricted-Section. Because I've been dealing with this, the next post will be a little late. Sorry for the delay. Oh, and please don't use the i-word in the comments. I don't want this post taken down too.
Discord Link: https://discord.gg/s94YR99QBN
Comments
Douglas Braning
I'm confused, I just read chapter 30 off Google Drive I cannot see anything offensive at all. Hell, it is one of your more tamer chapters in this story đ€·ââïž
Professor Quill
I may start doing that.
Advent12
I donât know if itâs a work around or not but one of the authors i subscribe to puts a docx file for people to click on. Iâm using iPhone and I can open those files from the Patreon app. Donât know about pdf or epubs though.
Professor Quill
If you didn't get my message on discord, just scroll down the channels on the left side until you see restricted-section
anders
I am not the discord buff. I am now in the channel. But I can't find the chapter. Maybe as just a scribe I am not entitled?
Kant B. Write
It was probably someone made a complaint for some dumb reason by claiming the story had something that wasnât actually there and the Patreon just removed the post without verifying
Matthew Cortland
Iâm perfectly happy with the way to access the chapter that youâve provided. (As someone who is also in the creator side of patreon, theyâre making a number of poor decisions seemingly designed to meet the expectations of the vc backers - itâs not clear to me youâd ever find out what they require in this instance.)
Tim BlĂŒmel
Just keep the Chapter on Discord and upload a "Chapter 30" on Patreon saying so. Then you can move on to the next chapter.
orthodox1057
"You (ought to) have read the guidelines and terms of service, you know what you did! If you don't, figure it out!" They are like an upset girlfriend.
James Blaauw
There is nothing in the chapter I read that would be guidelines at all. Nothing in that makes sense. Maybe wait a day and try again. If not know that the family minders being used in such a way is something I haven't read before and I've been reading FF since I was 12 about 18 years ago. Keep it up Professor đ
Rogue
Nah, donât waste your time on doing that. You gave us a way to read the original chapter, so thatâs enough. If they donât want to provide feedback on why you âcrossed the lineâ, then fuck them. You have more important things to spend your time on than trying to make them happy.
Kasikan
Better to just keep the chapter on discord or somewhere else and move on to the next chapter. Trying to rewrite it to fit their guidelines would ruin the story. Just keep a link on here for discord or where ever you posted it to point people where they need to go to read it.
Apallo Berryman
Also I don't know about the others, but I get an email every time you post which contains the full contents so the whole removal for violations is pathetically useless.
Apallo Berryman
There is nothing wrong with the chapter. Don't go wasting your time and energy looking for a reason that doesnt exist. I'd say either some stupid algorithm decided your chapter was wrong or someone reported you for a malicious reason. There is nothing in the chapter that wasn't present before in other chapters. And overall this is a work of literature for gods sake people can write horror stories of toture and slavery and not get banned. And its certainly not the sex scenes that caused it 'cause that was mild compared to others.
Professor Quill
Already there.
Matthew Ferry
I'm surprised this hasn't happened sooner with the way patreon is. He may want to consider moving over to SubscribeStar.
Caimbeul
Your probably going to need to upload it else where
Daeron Targaryen
Hmm, thats odd when your other chapters haven't been removed.
rlmsbpjpp
Dont know how quick the censors pickup on the content with patreonâŠ. But the way I get around this with other forums is to post a bit of it at a time. If they take paragraph 1, then try paragraph 2 and so on until you find the content they find objectionableâŠ. You could even go down to sentence by sentence though thatâs obviously a far more time consuming endeavor⊠it rarely takes me going paragraph by paragraph or even sentence by sentence though⊠usually what Ill do is split the post in half or thirds, if they take the first half then I know its in the second half and if they reject the first half, well I know its in the first half⊠whatever portion they reject I split that portion in half again and repeat until either something jumps out at me as "oh that's probably what they're complaining about or I am down to paragraph-by-paragraph and/or sentence by sentence and can figure it out. I've almost never had to rewrite something from scratch... Usually its enough just to modify a few things enough to get it to pass. Of course now I'm wondering if there's some sort of automation that can be done to read the list of paid subscribers every month and tie them to discord accounts and then have a "restricted-section" channel (sort of like you have now) or set of channels per story that's locked to invite only/subscribers you can post to... Then your posts to Patreon would only be to inform us a new chapter is up on discord and Patreon would only be used as a payment processor.
Teklife
Seen a few other creators lose chapters due to inter family content. Which is weird because it doesn't happen to everything
Teklife
Did the chapter have any Harry and Lily?
Alatoic
Damn, really hate when they dont tell the creators where the issue is, so it can be corrected instead of just guessing.