The SCOURIES reader – for both fans and serious scholars…

[IrezumiKiss]

Instead of wasting our words, time, and energy, let's make this our site. Let's make this a better site. Let's make this a writer's site. Let's eradicate the bashers, get ride of the multiple identities, and just write, read, and vote on stories.

You ain't even SEENT bashin' yet. Shoulda told yo' boy to stay on his side of the street where he was nice an' warm an' dry, like a joey inside his mama's flea-bitten pouch. Now he's gon' get WET!

We are or should be indebted to Scouries for carrying the torch of this site.

The only "torch" that fucker is carrying is the burning sensation of hemmorhoids three feet into his rectum!

Now, if everyone who has posted their shit here does not apologize to Scouries and thank him, then I will make sure that Big Louie pays you a personal visit.

How 'bout I go get a medium-sized Mason jar, scoop it full o' fat, bloodsucking leeches straight out of the Okeefenokee swamp during high tide and have him stick his dick in it, telling him that a sexy Tinkerbell-type fairy will give him the best magical blowjob of his life if he does?

How's THAT fer some thanks? Give my regards to Big Looie!

 

[Onida]

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[Darkniciad]

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Been there, tried that. Scouries doesn't need anyone to feed him to survive and continue flinging poo. He has hundreds of imaginary friends that keep his spirits up and vote on his stories daily to sustain him

There's no way to stop everyone from falling into this train wreck anyway. He's so offensive that there's always going to be someone who's never encounted him before, or someone new to the forum that doesn't know he's a taco short of a combo plate, and he's going to offend them. They're going to respond, and the circle continues.

May as well bat the village idiot around and get some entertainment value out of him that way. He's not good for much of anything else ( at least until he's six feet under serving as fertilizer )

 

[sr71plt]

Been there, tried that. Scouries doesn't need anyone to feed him to survive and continue flinging poo. He has hundreds of imaginary friends that keep his spirits up and vote on his stories daily to sustain him

There's no way to stop everyone from falling into this train wreck anyway. He's so offensive that there's always going to be someone who's never encounted him before, or someone new to the forum that doesn't know he's a taco short of a combo plate, and he's going to offend them. They're going to respond, and the circle continues.

May as well bat the village idiot around and get some entertainment value out of him that way. He's not good for much of anything else ( at least until he's six feet under serving as fertilizer )

I agree to the extent that silence feeds him and lets him claim status in the presence of occasional readers (all of that barf about being paid royalties by the site, for instance, and being the keeper of some sort of lists). Interestingly enough, it seems the only thing that makes him falter is to hold a mirror up to his face--not with nasty language and claims as outrageous as he makes--but with the simple, straightforward truth--that he can't be taken as a serious writer and to have anything remotely approaching whatever numbers he gives here believed by anyone and continue to be the clown he exhibits.

So, beyond not being interested in following any group decisions on who to shun/ignore as a group activity, I think an occasional "here's a mirror; look into it, Scouries," is as good an answer to the Scouries game as anything.

We will now hear from Shitting Bull and other Scouries alts, I assume.

 

[Darkniciad]

I agree to the extent that silence feeds him and lets him claim status in the presence of occasional readers (all of that barf about being paid royalties by the site, for instance, and being the keeper of some sort of lists). Interestingly enough, it seems the only thing that makes him falter is to hold a mirror up to his face--not with nasty language and claims as outrageous as he makes--but with the simple, straightforward truth--that he can't be taken as a serious writer and to have anything remotely approaching whatever numbers he gives here believed by anyone and continue to be the clown he exhibits.

So, beyond not being interested in following any group decisions on who to shun/ignore as a group activity, I think an occasional "here's a mirror; look into it, Scouries," is as good an answer to the Scouries game as anything.

We will now hear from Shitting Bull and other Scouries alts, I assume.

I think Shitting Bull is someone else actually - I always have. Different flavor from the scouries spawn. Have my suspicions now that someone else has exibited several of the characteristics that SB and another alt ( the name of which I can't remember right now ) have been spouting off for quite some time.

Oh, and what the hell...

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Comments:

FINALLY!!!! TOO MANY WRITERS ON THIS SITE LIKE SCOURIES AND xxxxxxx WRITE INCEST AND THINK THEY CAN JUST GET AWAY WITH NO STORY AND DUMB CHARACTERS BECAUSE ITS INCEST. THEY NEED TO LEARN HOW TO WRITE FROM YOU. snip

Scouries will say I wrote it myself, of course, but I certainly got a smile out of it. I consistantly outscore him and earn more votes per read than he does in his own category, and I'm just a mediocre storyteller. He's supposed to be the greatest author on the face of the planet *laugh*

 

[sr71plt]

I think Shitting Bull is someone else actually - I always have. Different flavor from the scouries spawn. Have my suspicions now that someone else has exibited several of the characteristics that SB and another alt ( the name of which I can't remember right now ) have been spouting off for quite some time.

Hmmm. Two wasting time and energy like this? Now, that's depressing.

 

[Darkniciad]

Hmmm. Two wasting time and energy like this? Now, that's depressing.

I'm sure you can deduce who I'm talking about. Think about the most common thing Shitting Bull spouts off, and then think about who's recently started frothing about the mouth with the same sort of silliness. The other alt is cut from the same cloth, so much so that the posts are identical without any attempt to hide it.

That one hasn't been used in a while, though. Maybe somebody forgot the password for it.

 

[scouries]

who is onida?

Who the hell is this Onida babe and what’s she got against me? I go out of town to visit some new friends for the weekend and come back and find her quite hostile post.

Hell, I couldn’t remember ever communicating with her before but when I clicked on the threads posters list I found she had posted on my thread 13 different times in the past. Checking some of the old ones this morning I found they weren’t very complimentary but nothing special. She’d only joined LITEROTICA in May 2007, was clearly an ALT, and so I never responded to her.

I even checked my final Scouries 2007 Whiners Club List (POST # 1778) and found I’d left her off it due to her Altness.

Then I clicked open a post she’d made on my thread NINE months ago and it suddenly became quite clear. It was made just a day after she’d joined the site.

POST #433, by Onida 06-02-2007, 06:51 PM: DK, can I be you when I grow up?

Nice try lady!

jrs

 

[Daniellekitten]

Nice try Scouries, but she's not me. I don't use alts. If I have something to say to you or anyone else, I'll say it under this name. You and your "friends" can't do anything to me to hurt me anymore than what you already have so, rail away and I'll just call you the stalker you are. Enjoy!

 

[IrezumiKiss]

Who the hell is this Onida babe and what’s she got against me? I go out of town to visit some new friends for the weekend and come back and find her quite hostile post.

Hell, I couldn’t remember ever communicating with her before but when I clicked on the threads posters list I found she had posted on my thread 13 different times in the past. Checking some of the old ones this morning I found they weren’t very complimentary but nothing special. She’d only joined LITEROTICA in May 2007, was clearly an ALT, and so I never responded to her.

I even checked my final Scouries 2007 Whiners Club List (POST # 1778) and found I’d left her off it due to her Altness.

Then I clicked open a post she’d made on my thread NINE months ago and it suddenly became quite clear. It was made just a day after she’d joined the site.

POST #433, by Onida 06-02-2007, 06:51 PM: DK, can I be you when I grow up?

Nice try lady!

jrs

"Scouring" the bottom of your encephalitic creativity barrel again, eh, Scouries? Hey, I wanna play, too! Scoot yer ass over...

POST #666, by scouries 09-09-1999, 11:59 PM: Miss Marmelstein, can I be YOU when I gwow up?

Bwahahahahaha! This is fun!

 

[scouries]

cloudy, why?

cloudy, cloudy, cloudy…

And we'd been doing so well. Then I go out of town for a few days hoping to get a little break from AH land…

…but who do I find waiting in GB land for me? Just itching to make some cheap posts about me.

I thought you and I had finally decided not to bother each other any more. That we were going to let bygones be bygones. We don’t like each other but so what? Live and let live and all that. I hadn't thought of you in weeks for crying out loud.

So what happened? Did you get out of the wrong side of the bed? Didn’t have anyone else handy to pick on?

C’mon hon, you stay on your threads and I’ll stay on mine. And I’ll even forgive you this once,

jrs

 

[cloudy]

cloudy, cloudy, cloudy…

And we'd been doing so well. Then I go out of town for a few days hoping to get a little break from AH land…

…but who do I find waiting in GB land for me? Just itching to make some cheap posts about me.

I thought you and I had finally decided not to bother each other any more. That we were going to let bygones be bygones. We don’t like each other but so what? Live and let live and all that. I hadn't thought of you in weeks for crying out loud.

So what happened? Did you get out of the wrong side of the bed? Didn’t have anyone else handy to pick on?

C’mon hon, you stay on your threads and I’ll stay on mine. And I’ll even forgive you this once,

jrs

I haven't said shit about you other than you aren't an AH'er.

As if I care what you think about me.

and I quote:

Nope, not an AH'er by a long shot. His thread got moved to the AH by the dumbass SF forum mod.

We got bored with him rather quickly, which is why he's over here now. You'll get bored quick, too.

 

[scouries]

c + d

c i said i forgave you...

and now you darkboy… WTF - Post’s #’s1909, 1916, 1925,1934, 1962, 1964, 1972, 1974, 1978, 1980, 1982, and the one you made in GB land about me. Talk about overkill.

OK, I’ll admit it, I shouldn’t have brought up the math thing again on post 1919. I know it’s a sensitive subject with you. But remember, you’d already started taking potshots (posts 1909 and 1916).

I did like the comment you posted though – I wonder what you’re mom charged you for that one?

But posting in GB land like that. You make all of us in AH land look bad. It reflects on all of us.

Surely you gotta have better things to do than this toilet humor. At some time you’re going to have to break out of this making ugly posts every time you’re ordered to.

I saw this afternoon when I was walking on South Beach that all the students from Indiana are on spring break this week – all hoping to get drunk and laid. Why don’t you take a week off and start planning for adulthood. You never know, it may just be right around the corner.

jrs

 

[scouries]

stalking? who is?

QUOTE: …and watch the stalking, they do have laws about that as well.

Yes they do ma’am! And on POST #1753 I tried to address the “stalking” and “harassing” issue. Clearly I didn’t address it clearly enough for you. Since then, in the following posts, you’ve continued to raise it in your continuing ABUSE of me. Frankly I would have preferred ignoring your comments but I’ve been advised by counsel to forcefully challenge these false characterizations.

#1917 ‘stalking’
#1920 ‘stalking and harassing’
#1930 ‘stalking’
#1933 ‘stalking’
#1984 ‘stalker’

So I will. On this thread on which I’m the THREADMASTER and on which in the first post I asked the following – PLEASE DO NOT POST REPLIES ON THIS THREAD – it appears as of today you’ve now posted 123 times under your old name and now another 8 times as dk 2!!

On my Literotica’s All-Time ‘most Votes Recieved’ List thread on the Story Feedback forum I’d like you to read the following numbered posts (of which I’m again THREADMASTER) :7, 12, 16, 18, 20, 22, 26, 33, 38, 40, 44, 47, 56, 63, 65, 69, 71, 73 – eighteen posts! Guess who by? These are just some of the 47 you’ve made on that thread.

-You’ve also attacked me and BFW on your blogs. Cruel, ugly stalker like attacks.
-You’ve also misrepresented my words again and again in public pronouncements.
-You’ve questioned my honesty, my numbers.
-You tried to highjack my 1000+ VOTE thread.
-You’ve sent out hundreds of PM’s and e-mails attacking me.
-You’ve sent out your army of little buddies to post insults on my thread.
-You’ve criticized my writing.
-You continue your backroom plotting against BFW, sarahhh and I and anyone else you dislike.
-Your friends have repeatedly used ALTS to attack me.
-Stalking me, your friends have gang banged the ratings of my stories (and those of others) down.
-Your friends and followers have repeatedly posted ugly comments on my stories (comments I’ve left up as a testament to the harassing tricks of your AH friends).

Guess how many posts james r scouries has made on a thread in which you are the THREADMASTER? That’s right – a big zero.

Guess how many times I’ve insulted you on a blog? Again, a big zero.

Guess how many e-mails or PM’s or IM’s I’ve sent to anyone concerning you? Yup, not a one. I wonder what your hard drive will show about your activities.

Guess how many times I’ve contacted our leaders to complain about you. ZERO! I wonder what LITEROTICA records will show about you.

You want to know who the STALKER is? Get a mirror.

Miss K, I’m posting this only on the advice of my attorney. He has advised me to make it 100% clear to you that I find your past actions reprehensible and actionable and that I expect you to cease and desist in your cruel attacks immediately.

I’ve always felt (and repeatedly said) that you are one of LITEROTICA’S better authors. I know that you’re a good person at heart. Now its time to step up to the plate and prove it.

But the days of scouries being the nice guy, the softie, the pushover are quickly coming to an end. Future attacks will be actively met and repulsed. Lies, crude characterizations, and innuendo will no longer be allowed to fester – they’ll be met head on. Accuse me of something and you better be ready to back it up. I learned that this weekend over there in GB land.

james r scouries

and that goes for you too ACE!

 

[sr71plt]

In the interest of balance, fairness, and common sense (and with a slight appreciation of the ridiculous), I do wonder why Scouries wouldn't be qualified to post in AH (Authors' Hangout). He has had a story posted by Lit. as recently as 5 February 2008. The one who brought this up, on the other hand . . .

 

[Daniellekitten]

QUOTE: …and watch the stalking, they do have laws about that as well.

Yes they do ma’am! And on POST #1753 I tried to address the “stalking” and “harassing” issue. Clearly I didn’t address it clearly enough for you. Since then, in the following posts, you’ve continued to raise it in your continuing ABUSE of me. Frankly I would have preferred ignoring your comments but I’ve been advised by counsel to forcefully challenge these false characterizations.

#1917 ‘stalking’
#1920 ‘stalking and harassing’
#1930 ‘stalking’
#1933 ‘stalking’
#1984 ‘stalker’

So I will. On this thread on which I’m the THREADMASTER and on which in the first post I asked the following – PLEASE DO NOT POST REPLIES ON THIS THREAD – it appears as of today you’ve now posted 123 times under your old name and now another 8 times as dk 2!!

On my Literotica’s All-Time ‘most Votes Recieved’ List thread on the Story Feedback forum I’d like you to read the following numbered posts (of which I’m again THREADMASTER) :7, 12, 16, 18, 20, 22, 26, 33, 38, 40, 44, 47, 56, 63, 65, 69, 71, 73 – eighteen posts! Guess who by? These are just some of the 47 you’ve made on that thread.

-You’ve also attacked me and BFW on your blogs. Cruel, ugly stalker like attacks.
-You’ve also misrepresented my words again and again in public pronouncements.
-You’ve questioned my honesty, my numbers.
-You tried to highjack my 1000+ VOTE thread.
-You’ve sent out hundreds of PM’s and e-mails attacking me.
-You’ve sent out your army of little buddies to post insults on my thread.
-You’ve criticized my writing.
-You continue your backroom plotting against BFW, sarahhh and I and anyone else you dislike.
-Your friends have repeatedly used ALTS to attack me.
-Stalking me, your friends have gang banged the ratings of my stories (and those of others) down.
-Your friends and followers have repeatedly posted ugly comments on my stories (comments I’ve left up as a testament to the harassing tricks of your AH friends).

Guess how many posts james r scouries has made on a thread in which you are the THREADMASTER? That’s right – a big zero.

Guess how many times I’ve insulted you on a blog? Again, a big zero.

Guess how many e-mails or PM’s or IM’s I’ve sent to anyone concerning you? Yup, not a one. I wonder what your hard drive will show about your activities.

Guess how many times I’ve contacted our leaders to complain about you. ZERO! I wonder what LITEROTICA records will show about you.

You want to know who the STALKER is? Get a mirror.

Miss K, I’m posting this only on the advice of my attorney. He has advised me to make it 100% clear to you that I find your past actions reprehensible and actionable and that I expect you to cease and desist in your cruel attacks immediately.

I’ve always felt (and repeatedly said) that you are one of LITEROTICA’S better authors. I know that you’re a good person at heart. Now its time to step up to the plate and prove it.

But the days of scouries being the nice guy, the softie, the pushover are quickly coming to an end. Future attacks will be actively met and repulsed. Lies, crude characterizations, and innuendo will no longer be allowed to fester – they’ll be met head on. Accuse me of something and you better be ready to back it up. I learned that this weekend over there in GB land.

james r scouries

and that goes for you too ACE!

Keep me out of your posts and I won't say another word on your cute little thread here. It's all I ask, but you've constantly try to bait me and denigrate me. I haven't sicced anyone on you or you little buddy BFW. I won't do that and I've asked on both my blogs that my fans leave you and yours alone. I ask now that you leave me alone and I'll be so happy not to post here again. But everytime I see my name in one of your posts, you give me permission to post here.

I couldn't care less about any lists. I'm working at being published, not to be popular on some erotic website. I'll leave that for you and BFW. I actually wish you a lot of luck, you've made a lot of enemies here, I'm not one of them. Hate takes too much out of me and I'm too busy to have that happen. So, for the last time, leave me out of your posts and I'll stay out of your thread.

 

[Darkniciad]

I'm perfectly content with reality, scouries, but you have fun fudging the numbers to preserve the delicate balance necessary to validate your dreary existence

You really need to decide whether the site owners are out to get you, or paying you royalties. Both of those delusions popping up within a few posts of each other all the time is almost too sad to be funny.

One of these days, you're going to finally push the button one too many times, and a single post from on high is going to send your whole little fantasy world crashing down around your ears.

Everybody has their limits of tolerance, and you'll find that out the hard way in time.

Keep on pushing, because I'm looking forward to it.

Oh, and you can keep me out of your posts all you want. I'll still show up to point out your lunacy and laugh at you. I'm an ass like that, and proud of it.

Toodle-Loo.

 

[sr71plt]

You really need to decide whether the site owners are out to get you, or paying you royalties. Both of those delusions popping up within a few posts of each other all the time is almost too sad to be funny.

Yes, I think this is one of the most humorous aspects of this circus.

 

[RoyHaroldSchererJr]

I'm perfectly content with reality, scouries, but you have fun fudging the numbers to preserve the delicate balance necessary to validate your dreary existence

You really need to decide whether the site owners are out to get you, or paying you royalties. Both of those delusions popping up within a few posts of each other all the time is almost too sad to be funny.

One of these days, you're going to finally push the button one too many times, and a single post from on high is going to send your whole little fantasy world crashing down around your ears.

Everybody has their limits of tolerance, and you'll find that out the hard way in time.

Keep on pushing, because I'm looking forward to it.

Oh, and you can keep me out of your posts all you want. I'll still show up to point out your lunacy and laugh at you. I'm an ass like that, and proud of it.

Toodle-Loo.

I have been reading this thread for the past several days and your posts stand out the most to me. You can't possibly believe half of what you say, and the other half is pure fabrication.

 

[Darkniciad]

I have been reading this thread for the past several days and your posts stand out the most to me. You can't possibly believe half of what you say, and the other half is pure fabrication.

A scouries thread, and the new Alt is accusing me of fabrication and delusion?

There isn't a laugh track long enough for that.

So, when do you intend to reveal that you're "scouries' attorney" anyway? *chuckle*

 

[scouries]

more winners!!!!!!!!

Heck, I go away for a couple of days and all of a sudden …

[size=+2]Literotica Author Awards[/size]
June and July 2007 Reader's Choice Award Winners ​

JUNE 2007 WINNERS

Sci-Fi A Stitch in Time by MarshAlien Ch. 4 - 10 Comments, 51 votes, 4.96 rating, 7 pages, part of a 38 page story

Gay When Irish Eyes are Smiling by TomNJus Ch. 7 - 17 Comments, 51 votes, 4.84 rating, 4 pages, part of a 25 page story (Tom Collins and 3113)

Mature Mr. Rob and the Witches by Ahabscribe Ch. 2 - 16 Comments, 160 votes, 4.87 rating, 3 pages, part of a 5 page story

JULY 2007 WINNERS

Novel Warming the Ice Princess by J-Stroke Ch. 5 - 3 Comments, 56 votes, 4.95 rating, 7 pages part of a 36 page story

Sci-Fi Backscatter by hammingbyrd7 - 17 Comments, 117 votes, 4.94 rating 27 pages

Novel Snapshots by mjl2010 - 9 Comments, 70 votes, 4.93 rating, 7 pages

*figures are as of March 11, 2008.


[size=+]Dear LAUREL[/size]

First off let me just say I’m glad to see you’ve finally started to catch up in awarding the monthly prizes. Three months cleared up in just one week. Well done! Can we expect to see all of 2007 caught up in the next few weeks? And is there some plan now in place to make sure the 2008 winners are announced on time?

As to the winners of the June and July prizes I’m sorry but I again must protest. On post # 1928 of this thread (page 78), where I commented on the May winners I noted the following:

-No way to verify the results
-Sweeps of votes well after the close of the contest
-Complete loss of credibility
-Winners often later chapters of average stories
-Called ‘Readers Choice’ Awards and yet the winners regularly have pitiful reader participation numbers

The June and July winners highlight these same problems yet again and perhaps even more than the May winners did.

As of today the two winners have 51 and 56 votes respectively and the June second place winner had 51 votes also. Since 50 votes are supposedly needed to qualify for the contest is it really credible to believe that these ‘READERS CHOICE WINNERS’ have only received 1, 6, and 1 vote respectively in the seven or eight months since? Not the most naïve person in the Literotica World would believe that.

In fact, one of the winners started a thread just recently complaining about the shenanigans that were going on with his vote totals. Did any of these three winning stories really have the required 50 votes? And to put these low vote totals in perspective my two June 2007 stories now have a combined 1076 votes.

And ma’am, four of the six winners are later chapters of longer stories and all of us understand what that means. You get rid of the people who don’t like it in chapter one and then your scores rise in later chapters. The other two winners, accomplish much the same thing by being overly long, one seven pages, the other twenty-seven!

In fact, if you wanted to read all six complete stories we’re talking about some 140 LITEROTICA pages!!!

They may be wonderful stories – I’m sorry I don’t know, I haven’t read them – but I’m 100% sure they aren’t the READERS CHOICES of the LITEROTICA reading public. Why don’t you publish the VIEW figures for these stories – it might prove very interesting. My guess is that my ‘rejected story’ is getting more reads than some of them.

Ma’am, you seem unable or unwilling to adjust the rules to make them fairer (as I’ve suggested often before) so I now believe its time to bury the whole monthly contest system.

Anyway, that’s my humble opinion,

james r scouries

 

[Onida]

http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg132/Onida_Burke/feed_trolls.gif
This is kind of fun...

 

[sr71plt]

http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg132/Onida_Burke/feed_trolls.gif
This is kind of fun...

*Sigh* I know your heart is in the right place, Onida, but:

A. All sorts of posters have been pointing to the seemingly strange, "voodoo" nature of Lit. accounting on contests. There's no real reason that Scouries shouldn't be given space to question this, should there? (And there's a hell of big difference between the tone of his posting here and similar postings in the past). Scouries has every right to post on AH (and he didn't post his thread here--it was moved here by the management)--he is a current, prolific contributor to the Web site's mainline story board. That doesn't mean I agree with the thrust of what he's posted in this last posting, or that I like his clownish postings, of course. But there's more than one clown posting here, as far as I'm concerned--and ones with less right to be posting on AH than Scouries has--and who aren't getting the razzing that Scouries is.

and

B. Why are efforts to control what people can post to from the "group" camp much of an improvement on the types of games Scouries plays? And can't you see that these efforts to control him and the posting of others to him are part of his game--part of his control over you? Sorry, but if I see something I'd like to post to, I will. To the extent that Scouries is a troll, there are trolls of all sorts of persuasions on this forum. Do you know of a mostly unmonitored, very-loose rules like Lit. that has a lower troll activity quotient than AH does? I don't.

 

[starrkers]

And ma’am, four of the six winners are later chapters of longer stories and all of us understand what that means. You get rid of the people who don’t like it in chapter one and then your scores rise in later chapters. The other two winners, accomplish much the same thing by being overly long, one seven pages, the other twenty-seven!

In fact, if you wanted to read all six complete stories we’re talking about some 140 LITEROTICA pages!!!

I actually agree with this gripe. I believe once a story reaches a certain length, whether it be as one submission or several chapters, it should automatically be placed in the novels/novellas section.

The toplists for all categories are groaning under chapter upon chapter of the same story. If you don't happen to like chapters 1, 2 or 3, why would you want to read Chapter 15? Makes looking for decent stories that are different from each other a bit hard.

 

[sr71plt]

I actually agree with this gripe. I believe once a story reaches a certain length, whether it be as one submission or several chapters, it should automatically be placed in the novels/novellas section.

The toplists for all categories are groaning under chapter upon chapter of the same story. If you don't happen to like chapters 1, 2 or 3, why would you want to read Chapter 15? Makes looking for decent stories that are different from each other a bit hard.

My minor quibble with this goes back to GM being the only category that will tolerate any story whatsoever with gay content (maybe lesbian/bi have the same limitation?). I have a gay-content novel here, and there's no place it could be posted except GM. (I have a longer straight novel, which I posted to Novels/Novellas.)