Story length enforcement

I love this site and I know it is a labor of love for the person(s) who run things and time is limited and I appreciate your efforts but I do feel a bit compelled to suggest that story length requirements be enforced for new stories in order to maintain the quality of the collection.


I have noticed lately that the subjective quality and particularly the length of many new stories being posted is often not even a full page. I remember reading a 10,000 character minimum (~2 pages or so) as a requirement on the submission page and I keep seeing new stories being posted that are not even 5000 characters and are basically little more than a paragraph or two. Without getting into the subjective quality of those stories, the easiest way and the way most amenable to a technical solution is to enforce the length requirements before approving them. I know from experience that writing 2+ coherent pages is tough but I think it is necessary to maintain the high quality or at least the strong effort that goes into most of the stories on this site. 1 page "treatments" (and I am being generous here) are just diluting the rest of the collection.

Agreed, an once we get caught up and the new system up and working that issue will be addressed.

Thanks

T