Is this normal?

[Corylea]

I guess most of you know that I'm new here. I just posted my third story yesterday, and got the following e-mail:

This message contains feedback for:
This feedback was sent by: wantwhitewomen@yahoo.com

Comments:

I came out of my shorts at 13 and fucked your mother you sick fuck cunt!I bet you are one pretty bitch by now.

*DO NOT hit the REPLY button to respond to this email.*

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If everybody gets those, I'll just chuckle and delete. Does everybody? And is there anyone to report such stuff to, and if so, does anybody bother?

Thanks!

 

[dizzylia]

Sadly, it does seem to be at least "part" of the norm. Too many people out there with too little in their lives. Delete, live long, and prosper!


-diz

 

[voluptuary_manque]

I guess most of you know that I'm new here. I just posted my third story yesterday, and got the following e-mail:

This message contains feedback for:
This feedback was sent by: wantwhitewomen@yahoo.com

Comments:

I came out of my shorts at 13 and fucked your mother you sick fuck cunt!I bet you are one pretty bitch by now.

*DO NOT hit the REPLY button to respond to this email.*

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If everybody gets those, I'll just chuckle and delete. Does everybody? And is there anyone to report such stuff to, and if so, does anybody bother?

Thanks!

What Dizzy said. Trolls exist, there is no repellant.

 

[Corylea]

What Dizzy said. Trolls exist, there is no repellant.

Troll-repellent! Now, there's an idea. Whoever invents it will be given a medal.

 

[dizzylia]

Troll-repellent! Now, there's an idea. Whoever invents it will be given a medal.

There's no repellent... but there are vigilantes. *shifty eyes*

 

[Corylea]

There's no repellent... but there are vigilantes. *shifty eyes*

*laugh* And what do they do? Tarring and feathering? A day in the stocks? Wait, don't get that part of my imagination riled up, or I'll have to go write another story that will get me called a "sick fuck."

 

[Emerald_Dragon]

Yeah my favorite is when they can't even write a legible sentance! It makes you wonder how they can even read.
Delete buttons are wonderful things!!

 

[TxRad]

*laugh* And what do they do? Tarring and feathering? A day in the stocks? Wait, don't get that part of my imagination riled up, or I'll have to go write another story that will get me called a "sick fuck."

Who said being called a "sick fuck" was a bad thing.

Some of the best people i know including myself fits that description.

Welcome aboard, if i haven't said so already.

Trolls are a way of life for a writer around here. The better you get, the worse they get, so use it as an indicator of how well you are doing.

 

[dizzylia]

*laugh* And what do they do? Tarring and feathering? A day in the stocks? Wait, don't get that part of my imagination riled up, or I'll have to go write another story that will get me called a "sick fuck."

I thought those were the only stories really worth writing.

 

[jomar]

Here you go. Welcome to the club, Corylea!

Literotica's All-time Best "Worst Public Feedback" List

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

CONGRATULATIONS, CORYLEA!
You have just been duly initiated by troll rant and can, therefore, now claim to be an Author's Hangout Regular.

I doubt if anyone who posts stories at Lit hasn't gotten similar "fan mail". For while the note you received isn't exactly normal, it is, sad to say, typical of the "constructive criticism" our single-digit IQ trolls live to share with us.

And welcome to the AH.

Rumple Foreskin

 

[scouries]

TROLL?? i think not...

Actually, if this is the famous LITEROTICAN:

Wantwhitewomen

he/she could hardly be described a troll. He's a quite famous author in these parts.

And perhaps has recieved more ugly comments on his stories than any living LITEROTICAN. Maybe he never learned any better...

jrs esq.

 

[rgraham666]

Yep, we all get 'em.

I leave them up. Just so the rest of the world can see what silly fools they are.

 

[dizzylia]

I love that on a place like Lit, we're able to judge someone both by what they say and by what they do.

 

[Corylea]

I leave them up. Just so the rest of the world can see what silly fools they are.

If it were a comment, I'd leave it up, but it's e-mail.

Literotica's All-time Best "Worst Public Feedback" List

Love it, thanks!


Thanks for the welcomes, everybody -- I appreciate 'em!

 

[MarshAlien]

The New York Times Magazine, some two or three weeks ago, printed a fascinating article called "Malwebolence, The World of Web Trolling" (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/magazine/03trolls-t.html - I have no idea if the link will work if you're not a "member," but "membership" is free, and you get NYT headlines e-mailed to you each day!) One paragraph in particular stood out:

“Lulz” is how trolls keep score. A corruption of “LOL” or “laugh out loud,” “lulz” means the joy of disrupting another’s emotional equilibrium. “Lulz is watching someone lose their mind at their computer 2,000 miles away while you chat with friends and laugh,” said one ex-troll who, like many people I contacted, refused to disclose his legal identity.​

So if you roll with the punches, Corylea, and don't let the bastards get you down, the trolls don't win.

Welcome to Lit!

 

[rgraham666]

The New York Times Magazine, some two or three weeks ago, printed a fascinating article called "Malwebolence, The World of Web Trolling" (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/magazine/03trolls-t.html

Interesting article. Thanks.

 

[DeeZire]

Another troll thread means...another opportunity for me to plug my troll story, below in my sig line. I got some doozy emails out of that one, including being called a terrorist for casting my troll character as a conservative right-winger. (I figure the best way to cast a troll in a story is to make he-she-it as detestable as possible - hence the Rush Limbaugh leanings.)

 

[AphroditeReborn]

Actually, if this is the famous LITEROTICAN:

Wantwhitewomen

he/she could hardly be described a troll. He's a quite famous author in these parts.

And perhaps has recieved more ugly comments on his stories than any living LITEROTICAN. Maybe he never learned any better...

jrs esq.

I only saw two "H"s for that guy I have more than that!

And yes I get troll mail too - it's normal

 

[starrkers]

The New York Times Magazine, some two or three weeks ago, printed a fascinating article called "Malwebolence, The World of Web Trolling" (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/magazine/03trolls-t.html - I have no idea if the link will work if you're not a "member," but "membership" is free, and you get NYT headlines e-mailed to you each day!)

Very interesting article.

I particularly like this section:

“You have green hair,” he told me. “Did you know that?”

“No,” I said.

“Why not?”

“I look in the mirror. I see my hair is black.”

“That’s uh, interesting. I guess you understand that you have green hair about as well as you understand that you’re a terrible reporter.”

“What do you mean? What did I do?”

“That’s a very interesting reaction,” Fortuny said. “Why didn’t you get so defensive when I said you had green hair?” If I were certain that I wasn’t a terrible reporter, he explained, I would have laughed the suggestion off just as easily. The willingness of trolling “victims” to be hurt by words, he argued, makes them complicit, and trolling will end as soon as we all get over it.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Actually, if this is the famous LITEROTICAN:

Wantwhitewomen

he/she could hardly be described a troll. He's a quite famous author in these parts.

And perhaps has recieved more ugly comments on his stories than any living LITEROTICAN. Maybe he never learned any better...

jrs esq.

Famous? For what? *shakes head*

Welcome Corylea! Hope your stay is pleasant.

I too have gotten emails and comments such as yours. Mostly from idiots who think what I write is real...poor schmoes.

I too have also written a troll story - Oh Crap!

*snerk*

 

[CWatson]

Weirdly, I've never been bothered by many trolls--though, of course, I also haven't posted anything here in five years (having moved to a different website). What I got instead are parasitic fans who use *a lot* of /very/ EMPHATIC !punctuation! to get their point across (why?), and all seem to feel that, while I am a very talented writer, my stories would be better if they were written a different way: theirs. (If BrightlyIBurn were still here, I'm sure she could regale us with similar tales.) They always approach so kindly, with friendly suggestions:

It would be great if you had more incest

Sajel shd get reconstructive surjery & then sleep with the doc, wuldn't that be cool?

Brandon and Meredith should have lots of kids, and so should Arie and Derek, and then all those kids can have an orgy

Inevitably, they include the phrase, "I would love to see that happen." To which I inevitably reply, "I'm sure you would. Too bad you won't."

Ah, readers. When they aren't trying to kick you in the whatever, they're trying to own your soul. *sigh*

 

[Trombonus]

Congratulations on your first troll. You're officially a writer now!

Welcome aboard!

 

[rydia57]

Interesting article. Thanks.

NYTimes knows about trolls too? Who'd a thunk it? Well, I take trolling as publicity, bad publicity is still... publicity. Welcome to Lit, Corylea