My first bomb

[dirk2024]

Readers score stories, based on what the story does for them. They're not going to sit back and think, gee, I wonder what the author was up to, I'll score on the basis of their writerly persuasion. That's an author-centric view of the scoring system, but has nothing to do with the way a reader responds.

Yeah, there you go. I think a one bomb under those circumstances is shitty behaviour. Fucking back click and leave the author and his story alone. You punished the author because of your squick, when he was writing his story.

I merely did what you said readers do. I scored it based on what it did for me. Your words.

 

[dirk2024]

Look, I would be lying if I said I wasn't a little bit horrified when I read that comment about onebombing, that's essentially an author's nightmare, but:

I kinda want to buy them a beer for just coming out and saying it bluntly like it is. It might not be a NICE perspective to hear, but I'm glad we got to hear it. It's better than wondering where those 1 star ratings are coming from.

I'm not happy about the whole thing. What I read or the way I reacted. But I'm human. I wouldn't even had read the story had that kink been properly tagged.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I merely did what you said readers do. I scored it based on what it did for me. Your words.

My words were in counter to your earlier post, where you were wanting readers to score stories without bias, to score stories on the basis of their literary merits, to read into the mind of the author and rate them for the things the author was trying to get across. You wanted an author-centric rating for your stories.

Whereas in fact you rate stories with your own bias, which was my point in the first place - readers rate stories using their own criteria, which has nothing really to do with the quality of the writing itself, but their reaction to it. On the principles of your opening argument, you should have conquered your squick, and given the story a score on its own merits, for the quality of its writing. If the story was that good it repulsed you so much you had to quit, you should have given it a five, not a one.

 

[Rob_Royale]

This has taken a very interesting turn.

 

[dirk2024]

My words were in counter to your earlier post, where you were wanting readers to score stories without bias,.

Whereas in fact you rate stories with your own bias, which was my point in the first place -

#1 - that was me with some nirvana-esque ideal.

#2 - I admitted that you were right.