NotWise
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He might if he had any stories published.
Any point asking for a sweep, Manu?
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Yes, that happens. I did one story where the protagonist was a sexual submissive. After some thought and discussion, I posted it in Romance, with a clear warning that although it was a love story, it also contained elements of BDSM. (No chains, no whips, no humiliation, just a definite dom/sub relationship.)
I got one comment saying in effect, “Yeah, I read the warning and although the story was well written, I don’t like BDSM, so I’m giving it a 3.”
Whatever. (To their credit I guess, the individual did have the the integrity to include their name.)
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Absolutely wrong. There are sweeps at the end of every contest and event and random other ones in between. While I don't appreciate the bombers during the time their votes exist, I do know they'll disappear shortly.
And I'm definitely one of those little guys.
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I've never asked for anything like a sweep. If they happen, they happen. Now I do delete stupid and hateful comments some of the time. If they don't make me laugh, I delete them. I really like the ones that show they didn't even bother to read the story, just spit out a comment about something complete different.
ElectricBlue
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This is rubbish. The sweeps go through the whole story file, and clean the garbage out of every story, regardless whether it's in a contest or a collection. Authors can monitor and delete any comment they choose - there's been no evidence yet that the Comment Moderation system is anything more than a spam detection process.
Chloe is good at generating content and marketing herself, others aren't, or don't want to, but I don't think there's any preferential treatment.
To attack an author just because they are successful in generating content and feeding their fan-base is the politics of envy and just muck-raking for the sake of it, and not in the spirit of the AH.
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Nope. I delete comments I don’t like all by myself, just like everyone else can do. As for bad ratings, I suck it up like everyone else here. The sweeps clean out the one stars and very occasionally I’ll benefit a little from that. Like everyone else. I’ve reported blatant trolling a couple of times and Laurel responds as she does with everyone else. Sometimes. As for big
, you got me mixed up with someone else. I do okay but there’s writers here with far more views and followers than me. I work at my writing and I respond to comments and feedback and I work to promote myself a bit as I have the time but that’s it. Organizing a couple of story events does a little for ones profile but that’s about it. I don’t have any “in” with Literotica that’s for sure. Ratings? I attract a few trolls like everyone else but not that many. I don’t worry about them anyhow. No point.
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(1) My short tenure here agrees.
(2) Some pretty nasty comments have gone through and been posted, very early I had a troll post something like. "I read this story and liked it so I went to your profile, you are a sick puppy. Now I am going to find every story you wrote and give them one star. Lit should ban you." (Only in meaner language). At the time I had maybe 5 stories up, the other 3 in I/T each got a nasty "One star, you should be banned' comment, so I figured it was just one troll. (The fact he missed the one in BDSM showed his intellectual level)
Several nice people posted comments to the troll, basically telling him to go away. I never deleted the trolls nasty comments, but they were removed, it must have been done by the moderators, the comments referencing the trolls comments were left in place.
(3) Like mom used to say "they are just jealous because they don't have..." She also told me that mean people deserved my pity, not my scorn because "wouldn't it just be awful to go through life like that?"
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Don't like the votes your getting, you can always turn off voting. Piss them off to no end. You can also turn off comments, now that really pisses them off.
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Why do you write? Why do you post here? Is it for the comments from trolls? Is it really for the votes?
I write for myself. If someone happens to like what I write I'll take that to heart. If someone doesn't like what I write, I could give a rats ass what they think.
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I write because my lovers and me, we hide in plain sight in the vanilla world.
It's nice to acknowledge them and say how important they are to me, even perversely though I seem to be coming out using nicknames to anonymous strangers. (It still feels good though.)
As a newer author I have recieved some feedback from readers that was helpful, although much is not, one obviously younger reader asked why in a story that said it took place in 1978 we went to the library, we should just have Googled it. Ah, youth, forgive them for they know not what they do. To me the votes and comments are feedback that allows me to fine tune my delivery of the story I was going to write anyway.
I don't do this as a living, I tell the story's that I want to tell, I just also want people to want to read them. I am sneaky too, I wrote a 3000 word story just to get thousands people to read a two sentance passage. An idea that was maybe one percent or 35 words of that story. I just finished my second 'His Honor...' story, that storyline came from a friendly challenge issued by someone who sent a PM comment on a post I had made.
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People who can, do. People who can’t, ...People who hate, ...
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Yes, that happens, but only after the comment has been posted in the first place. The pre-screening doesn't seem to cull them, which is why I reckon it's more a spam spotter than a key-word finder. I reckon Laurel runs the whole comment file through a hate speak filter on a regular basis and then does a purge - or reacts to someone reporting a comment.
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Not sure what my comment had to do with your question/statement? I was talking about my own commenting and how I've slowed down because of the moderation. Perhaps you quoted me by mistake
What I said had nothing to do with my stories and the comments there
Obviously I write for myself and considering I've only ever deleted one (stupid) comment out of hundreds, I care little about the trolls.
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Not sure what my comment had to do with your question/statement? I was talking about my own commenting and how I've slowed down because of the moderation. Perhaps you quoted me by mistake
What I said had nothing to do with my stories and the comments there
Obviously I write for myself and considering I've only ever deleted one (stupid) comment out of hundreds, I care little about the trolls.
Then let me ask, why do you comment or vote? Do you comment to give advice or to critique the author's story or delivery of the story? Do you comment to let him know about typo's and misused grammar?
Personally, I only comment on a story if it is truly outstanding. As for the other stuff, I really don't care. If it's to bothersome, I click the back button. If the story is still readable I finish the story. Seeing as how I didn't pay a penny to be able to read the story why should I even criticize it. They posted it for free, I read it for free. Although I do comment if they asked me too. I then let them know what they need to improve on as much and nicely as I can.
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I used to try to provide some feedback if I felt they'd gone astray somewhere. For instance a recent story (Amazon) I read talked about somebody being searched by the Secret Service before they could see the President. This was in the 1860's. The Secret Service didn't take over guarding Presidents till 1901. That kind of error.
For the most part nowadays I'm sticking with stories showing a high (4+) rating and my comments are usually complimentary (enjoyable) or no comment at all (eck). I also don't bother commenting on stories where the existing comments are over 50. Usually what I want to say has been said.
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I like to have comments on my stories but it’s well known it’s only a minority of stories that get many comments and they are either many complimentary comments or many not complimentary and unconstructive comments.
I like to tell a writer that I have enjoyed their story and that it’s been worth the effort they’ve put in. Any criticisms I make of a story are always accompanied by what I hope are constructive comments. I’ve received pm’s thanking me in many instances. If I can’t say anything good about a story then I don’t comment and I also don’t vote. I would never give a story a one or two vote. I leave that to others.
I don’t believe any writer that says they aren’t bothered about praise.
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I used to try to provide some feedback if I felt they'd gone astray somewhere. For instance a recent story (Amazon) I read talked about somebody being searched by the Secret Service before they could see the President. This was in the 1860's. The Secret Service didn't take over guarding Presidents till 1901. That kind of error.
For the most part nowadays I'm sticking with stories showing a high (4+) rating and my comments are usually complimentary (enjoyable) or no comment at all (eck). I also don't bother commenting on stories where the existing comments are over 50. Usually what I want to say has been said.
Good. That is my feeling also. I rarely leave a comment, let alone a bad comment. Unless, like you stated, they have good off the rails for some reason.
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Interesting... now go take a look at the comments on one of mine. No need to read the story, unless you want to. But if I were you, I would read the comments first. Let me know what you think of the comments.
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Wow, don't know how I missed that one. It seemed like the vast majority of the commenters were on board, very few dissed the writing. It was an unexpected violent ending.
As someone said you gave the BTB crowd an orgasm with that one and they were there to applaud.
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If you really feel this way then you shouldn't care about anonymous comments and votes. You should be completely indifferent, and not advocate for doing away with them. You are being inconsistent if on the one hand you say you write for yourself but on the other hand you want to impose heavy-handed controls on who can comment or vote, which affect the rest of us.
I am very clear in my mind about my writing purposes. I write because I like to write, and I write stories that please me and conform to my ideas about how stories ought to be. But I publish my stories here, as opposed to just saving them on my hard drive or shoving sheets of paper in a drawer, because I want people to read them. I want to connect with readers and I want to know how they react to them. This is a perfectly normal reaction, and it's the one that, I wager, most authors here have. I see no contradiction between the two positions, and I think those who suggest otherwise are proposing a false dichotomy.
If you don't like anonymous comments, suck it up and ignore them, or delete them, or set things so anonymous people can't comment on your stories. But don't dictate how things happen for the rest of us. I want anonymous comments and I would greatly regret if the system were set up to prevent them.
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Agree. I don't understand why people bitch about anon comments all the time. The site provides several ways to control them (do your own deletes, turn the bloody comments off), so just use the controls. It's not hard. Some of my most intelligent and moving comments have come from anons. I can't see myself ever turning them off.
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I wouldn't provide negative critique at all in any means unless the author had explicitly asked for it (No, simply posting the story isn't a request to be taught how or what to write). Developing one's writing is not a requirement for posting stories to Literotica and assuming it is is assuming beyond what you should expect thanks for.
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I too have trouble with the categories for many of my stories. I like anal but my my stories are never just that. I also like some aspects of BDSM. My newest and as yet unpublished is full on BDSM so I used that category.
One person told me that my writing is too romantic. This is a person who is close to me. He told me this personally. I have struggled to write for him as he always wants something over the top as in pushing my limits. Dirtier, nastier. That sort of thing. Whatever it is he wants, I haven't gone there yet.
I've also gotten the comment that my writing can get too porno.
Thing is, I don't consider myself to be a romantic person. I guess some would think that though based on the things I do in real life. Such as making sure that people are comfortable, remembering their likes and dislikes and wanting to pamper them.
This latest comment made no sense to me at all. I will quote it.
"Weak Start" Okay... I get that. I disagree. Hehehe. But this next bit?
"Use of things like suddenly saw a post...really! Why yse suddenly.
Then writing like we were thinking is wet."
Three sentences and one typo? There's even a spell check thing on here. If that person can't be bothered to double check what they wrote, perhaps they shouldn't be leaving comments!
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Same. I will try to read stories when the person asks for feedback unless the category is too far from what I'm interested in. I hate it when they don't give us the category in advance. Then I start reading to discover that it's sci fi or something else that I'm not into.
If that's the case, I will read at least a few paragraphs to check for grammar and if I see glaring errors, I will tell them, but I won't leave a comment at the story itself.
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