Are the forum boards moderated?

[BOSTONFICTIONWRITER]

What's your opinion? Are the forum boards moderated?

I never thought they were until recently. Why do I think that?

Every time Scouries makes a post, TxRad makes a disclaimer post to his post. This is just my opinion of course, but I think Scouries adds more to the entertainment of this site than TxRad does or anyone else, for that matter.

I like all the graphics that Scouries posts. Copied and pasted or not, I don't care. I think he's a very creative fellow, so much more than the creativity that TxRad demonstrates by posting the same disclaimer in red that Scouries is not part of Literotica.

Tell me, how does TxRad know that Scouries is not part of Literotica, unless TxRad was part of Literotica? Moreover, why does TxRad even care what Scouries posts? Why is it his mission to squelch the creativity of Scouries? Who made him the babysitter?

Does anyone know why TxRad, Michchcik and Sr71plt never starts their own thread but are always there to post on Scouries threads and everyone elses thread to disrupt the board? Why is that? Are they all moderators on this board and as moderators, are discouraged to start threads? Watch them start a thread now, just to prove me wrong.

"Permission to start a thread, Laurel?"

"Permission granted, TxRad, Michchick, and Sr71plt."

See? What did I tell you.

Now we go to Sr71plt. What is his purpose here, other than to play Mister perfect editor and E-book writer. He harasses me, instead of Scouries. It is his sworn duty and his side-kick Michchick to aggravate me hoping that I'll call them names to make myself look like the troublemakers that they are and have always been.

Why is that? Why is the most prolific writer, me, on this site, so abused? What did I do to be so honored? All I do is write stories. Yet, I'm not allowed to win anything. I'm not allowed to post on the forum boards without their harassment.

My scores are manipulated. I have prove of that. I write enough stories to know when my scores are massaged. I'm an accountant. I'm not an idiot.

Then, there's the Survivor contest fiasco and even I'm sick to death of hearing about that contest being fixed.

So, what is going on here? Is the forum board moderated or not?

Now, surely, I don't expect anyone to post to this thread. I don't imagine anyone wants to get in bed with the likes of me, the most hated writer on Literotica, all because I write too many stories.

Yet, isn't this what this site is about? Writing stories? Why am I the one so attacked? Many of you are new here and don't know about some of the escapades that went on back in 2007 and 2008, a virtual attack on me.

Don't believe me? Whenever I post a story, even a contest story, it's posted at the very bottom. Contest stories are posted at the top of the daily stories. Yet, there's my story posted at the bottom of the contest stories. And if I post a story that is not a contest story, well, guess where that posts? Yep, at the very bottom.

Why is the most prolific writer on the site treated like that? You would think I'd be embraced. I don't get it. Maybe someone can PM me to shed some light to help make me understand.

Only Scouries and Samuelx are so mistreated and disrespected. Their stories are always posted on the bottom of the run, too. Why? Does anyone know? Why me? What did I do to deserve such an honor to be so singled out?

If you don't want me to write here, tell me. I'll write else where.

I don't bother anyone. Yet, every time I make a post, there's TxRad, Michchick and/or Sr71plt up my ass trying to make me look like I'm the one starting trouble.

 

[KillerMuffin]

Scouries doesn't copy and paste pictures into a forum post, he does a little trick called hot-linking. When people who have view images turned on in their user preferences open a scouries post (or anyone's post with an image in it), the image is taken from the server that it's located on and viewed on the Lit forum without any of the website stuff from the place it's originally supposed to be viewed. Now, as neato burrito as that all is, the other term for hotlinking is bandwidth-stealing. Not all images steal bandwidth. Some of the images are from sites that are okay with hotlinking, or from a user's personal webstorage site (like photobucket). Most images are from places that never intended to have these images viewed any place but their website. That's bandwidth stealing because everytime a hotlinked image is viewed, the people who own the server space the image is indexed on must pay for the bandwidth cost of that image to be displayed. Since it's not being displayed as intended, but instead on this forum, it's bandwidth stealing and it's wrong.

I'm not gonna report it and I'm not going to kick up a fuss, but I'm also not going to let you keep believing that it's a simply copy and paste (aka copyright infringement) rather than bandwith stealing (also copyright infringement). Most 'net users aren't concerned with who owns images they gratuitously use and infringe away (witness my av). Many sites give up policing it. It's just too expensive or too much of a pain in the ass. But the fact remains that it's still wrong.

 

[PacoFear]

Want some help with that last nail, BFW? No, it's no trouble at all. It does look kind of tough mounting yourself up on a cross. Tell you what, you certainly deserve an 'A' for effort. Here, let me just pound that sucker home for you.

WHAMWHAMWHAM

Beautiful. I'll swing back in three days in case you need help with the stone.

 

[KillerMuffin]

C'mon, Paco. Freddie is misguided and hangs with the wrong people on the forum, but he's really not that bad of a guy. He's standing up for SamuelX. No one does that because Sammy is an idiot with a few screws loose (serioulsy, how many people run around bragging about being a sociopath and hating on everyone?). His heart's in the right place.

 

[PacoFear]

C'mon, Paco. Freddie is misguided and hangs with the wrong people on the forum, but he's really not that bad of a guy. He's standing up for SamuelX. No one does that because Sammy is an idiot with a few screws loose (serioulsy, how many people run around bragging about being a sociopath and hating on everyone?). His heart's in the right place.

'Twas a bit of ribbing for BFW's over-the-top delivery today, not a personal assault on him. I'm sure he's a lovely human being. I just figured he'd appreciate some help with his self-martyrdom.

 

[sr71plt]

C'mon, Paco. Freddie is misguided and hangs with the wrong people on the forum, but he's really not that bad of a guy. He's standing up for SamuelX. No one does that because Sammy is an idiot with a few screws loose (serioulsy, how many people run around bragging about being a sociopath and hating on everyone?). His heart's in the right place.

Tilt. Freddie stands up for SamuelX for the same reason his alt Andtheend started (and now has stopped) doing story highlights here. Because he thought it would irritate other posters and that he could use it to get under people's skin. Don't be dumb about that.

Freddie has been nasty and outrageous toward nearly every poster he has encountered on Lit. and, although it's true he was ganged up on in a Survivor contest, it was because he was being an insufferable prick and the folks on the Survivor's board had had more than enough of his wheedling and whining. If this forum was actually monitored, he would have been tossed out on his ear a couple of years ago alone for the atacking he did on a grieving mother.

He's consistently gay bashing here too.

I cannot fathom how he is able to get sympathy from anyone--at least anyone who has read in on the forum for a couple of months.

And, yes, I go after him. I do so because he has been over-the-top maliciously crappy to me here for years and lies through his teeth about just about everything. If this were both a gender-tolerant and moderated board, he would have been tossed out for that too.

There's nothing "misguided" about the little dear. He's an insufferable, whining prick. If he needs more nails, let me know. I'll be glad to send some.

 

[Jedi_Khan]

If I may be so bold as to actually indulge Mr. BFW and answer his question, yes, the Lit forum boards are moderated, but mostly for things like spam and/or threatening language. The First Admendment of the U.S. Constitution is alive and well here (almost insufferably so). And it isn't opinion, it's fact.

While I have no knowledge of the specific gripe you have against Scouries and Company (I typically hang out down in the Online Role Playing section), I can say that none of the people you have mentioned are officially listed as moderators (there's some names on the far right of the main forum page that are the names of moderators). However, I'm sure that there's someone or multiple someones who are moderators in secret. How else would the General Board, which has no official moderator listed, be moderated like it is?

And as for your gripe about your prolific story writing and poor ratings, have you considered that it's not so much how much you write, but how well you write? I'm not going to claim that your stories are poorly written, seeing as how I haven't read any of them, but the rate at which you produced them in the past suggested to me that you were just spitting them out without really taking the time to do a proper job of it. That was simply my first impression, and it could be wrong.

There are authors on this site that produce stories at a much slower rate than you, but what they do produce is high quality stuff, which then equates to higher ratings for the stories. Like I said, not so much quantity, but quality.

 

[TxRad]

No Freddie, I am not a moderator or connected with Lit in any way other than being a writer here just like you.

As for why i take the time to set the record straight with Scouries, that should be obvious to anyone and everyone. My question is why isn't it obvious to you. He lies, he cheats, he makes up fake lists, he makes up fake contests but he tries to do it so that everyone thinks he works for Lit. he even says he gets royalties from lit.

I've been around here a while and I'm tired of his bullshit and crap screwing things up for everyone. He lies and I use my freedom of speech to call him on it.

As for you and your heartbreaking story of the past, SR hit it pretty much on the head. You, like scouries, are your own worse enemy. You shoot yourself in the foot every time you open your mouth. This thread is a prime example.

I ain't going to let scouries get away with anything at any time until he either quits the crap or someone kicks me off this site. So you might as well get used to it.

Have a nice day ya hear.

 

[Mrtouf]

Scouries was entertaining right up until he suggested eliminating a particular category of stories. When people go too far like that, they should be challenged. In doing so you're not denying them the right to be heard, and if people want to believe lies instead of the truth then they will. But by not doing so, you're not even giving people a choice between truth and lies.

 

[scouries]

What's your opinion? Are the forum boards moderated?

Well my friend I can tell you that the STORY FEEDBACK FORUM is moderated. By a pleasant guy called the Conformist. Unfortunately he lives in Mozambique and is without Internet connections about 93% of the time.

I can say though that in my two or three dealings with said Conformist that he’s proven to be a pleasant enough fellow. He’s sorta a “don’t ask/don’t tell” type of moderator – he rightly believes we’re all adults and can be left to operate much as we want. His mantra is “you’ve got an IGNORE BUTTON, if you don’t like somebody use it”.

His biggest dislike with his MODERATOR job (a job that presently pays an honorarium of $18,000 u.s. per year) is with two kinds of folks – first, the complainers. He receives a constant bombardment of complaints from people like the girl from the upper peninsula, paco and others of their ilk – so much so that he’s had to put them on ignore!

The second group he dislikes, perhaps even more that the first, are the whiners like miss o, miss omega, darkboy, km and cloudy – they not only complain to him but they try to go over his head. A couple of these cretins have even had the temerity to campaign for his job. By and large they’re sneaks.

Our current moderator’s greatest accomplishment as far as I can see is that he’s allowed the NIPPLES thread (which breaks about every rule in the SF book) to thrive here. Good for him. ​

Scouries doesn't copy and paste pictures into a forum post, he does a little trick called hot-linking… I'm not gonna report it and I'm not going to kick up a fuss

What a lie! This writer-blocked college graduate has reported me 17 times according to my palace sources. She, banana boy and db have continuously reported pictures that appeared on my thread. So much so that the moderator told them to f… off and not to bother him anymore. So of course little miss muffin called the QUEEN and complained some more. HOT FUCKING LINKING! Every since Dixie got operated on the poor girl hasn’t had any hot linking in her life.

So she picks on me…

QUOTE mr touf? Scouries was entertaining right up until he suggested eliminating a particular category of stories…

Huh? Eliminate a particular category of stories?

Perhaps you’ve misunderstood my beliefs my friend. I encourage everyone to write whatever they like. Whenever, wherever, however.

I do believe however that non-erotic stories have no place on an erotic story site. Readers cum to LITEROTICA for erotica. But because the site has become so popular hundreds of authors who have no interest in erotica have flocked here because they can't get their stories accepted anywhere else.

And I’d prefer Sci-Fi stories being posted on a Science Fiction story site. But eliminate Sci-Fi? Never!

Recently PRINCE MANU suggested that LITEROTICA was going to create a GAYEROTICA and move homosexual stories over to the new site. Personally I’m not sure that’s a good idea but perhaps it will go a long way to ending the perpetual bickering that goes on here between gay and straight posters.
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[size=+2]james r scouries esq.[/size]
Multiple A.I.R. AWARD winner, MILLION SELLER,
Author of the MOST COMMENTED on
and the MOST VOTED on story on LITEROTICA

 

[GinaTina]

You're the best troll ever, Scouries.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg226/dixonclee/fakecontest.jpg

 

[sr71plt]

His biggest dislike with his MODERATOR job (a job that presently pays an honorarium of $18,000 u.s. per year) is with two kinds of folks – first, the complainers.

The second group he dislikes, perhaps even more that the first, are the whiners

Freddie loses big on both counts then.

It remains, though, that if the boards were closely monitored, he and thee would have been gone a long time ago.

 

[TxRad]

What's your opinion? Are the forum boards moderated?

Well my friend I can tell you that the STORY FEEDBACK FORUM is moderated. By a pleasant guy called the Conformist. Unfortunately he lives in Mozambique and is without Internet connections about 93% of the time.

I can say though that in my two or three dealings with said Conformist that he’s proven to be a pleasant enough fellow. He’s sorta a “don’t ask/don’t tell” type of moderator – he rightly believes we’re all adults and can be left to operate much as we want. His mantra is “you’ve got an IGNORE BUTTON, if you don’t like somebody use it”.

His biggest dislike with his MODERATOR job (a job that presently pays an honorarium of $18,000 u.s. per year) is with two kinds of folks – first, the complainers. He receives a constant bombardment of complaints from people like the girl from the upper peninsula, paco and others of their ilk – so much so that he’s had to put them on ignore!

The second group he dislikes, perhaps even more that the first, are the whiners like miss o, miss omega, darkboy, km and cloudy – they not only complain to him but they try to go over his head. A couple of these cretins have even had the temerity to campaign for his job. By and large they’re sneaks.

Our current moderator’s greatest accomplishment as far as I can see is that he’s allowed the NIPPLES thread (which breaks about every rule in the SF book) to thrive here. Good for him. ​

Scouries doesn't copy and paste pictures into a forum post, he does a little trick called hot-linking… I'm not gonna report it and I'm not going to kick up a fuss

What a lie! This writer-blocked college graduate has reported me 17 times according to my palace sources. She, banana boy and db have continuously reported pictures that appeared on my thread. So much so that the moderator told them to f… off and not to bother him anymore. So of course little miss muffin called the QUEEN and complained some more. HOT FUCKING LINKING! Every since Dixie got operated on the poor girl hasn’t had any hot linking in her life.

So she picks on me…

QUOTE mr touf? Scouries was entertaining right up until he suggested eliminating a particular category of stories…

Huh? Eliminate a particular category of stories?

Perhaps you’ve misunderstood my beliefs my friend. I encourage everyone to write whatever they like. Whenever, wherever, however.

I do believe however that non-erotic stories have no place on an erotic story site. Readers cum to LITEROTICA for erotica. But because the site has become so popular hundreds of authors who have no interest in erotica have flocked here because they can't get their stories accepted anywhere else.

And I’d prefer Sci-Fi stories being posted on a Science Fiction story site. But eliminate Sci-Fi? Never!

Recently PRINCE MANU suggested that LITEROTICA was going to create a GAYEROTICA and move homosexual stories over to the new site. Personally I’m not sure that’s a good idea but perhaps it will go a long way to ending the perpetual bickering that goes on here between gay and straight posters.
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[size=+2]james r scouries esq.[/size]
Multiple A.I.R. AWARD winner, MILLION SELLER,
Author of the MOST COMMENTED on
and the MOST VOTED on story on LITEROTICA

Poor scouries, he doesn't have a clue about moderators or he wouldn't have tossed out a number of how much they are paid. On most sites including this one probably, moderators are volunteers for free. Duh!

As for him having Lit connections and all that crap, it's all a lie. He is tolerated by the powers that be but i don't for the life of me understand why. He lies, cheats, steals and in general tries to bring the site down at ever opportunity. Free speech comes with it's penalties and scouries is a giant one.

Don't you just love scouries gay bashing. You should have heard him when he first came here. he expounded the same crap about women and anyone not white American. Got to love a bigot, NOT!

 

[elfin_odalisque]

Scouries doesn't copy and paste pictures into a forum post, he does a little trick called hot-linking. When people who have view images turned on in their user preferences open a scouries post (or anyone's post with an image in it), the image is taken from the server that it's located on and viewed on the Lit forum without any of the website stuff from the place it's originally supposed to be viewed. Now, as neato burrito as that all is, the other term for hotlinking is bandwidth-stealing. Not all images steal bandwidth. Some of the images are from sites that are okay with hotlinking, or from a user's personal webstorage site (like photobucket). Most images are from places that never intended to have these images viewed any place but their website. That's bandwidth stealing because everytime a hotlinked image is viewed, the people who own the server space the image is indexed on must pay for the bandwidth cost of that image to be displayed. Since it's not being displayed as intended, but instead on this forum, it's bandwidth stealing and it's wrong.

I'm not gonna report it and I'm not going to kick up a fuss, but I'm also not going to let you keep believing that it's a simply copy and paste (aka copyright infringement) rather than bandwith stealing (also copyright infringement). Most 'net users aren't concerned with who owns images they gratuitously use and infringe away (witness my av). Many sites give up policing it. It's just too expensive or too much of a pain in the ass. But the fact remains that it's still wrong.

K-M, whilst I agree with you morally - Factually, your bucket leaks a bit.

Whilst 'copy and paste' is a clear copyright breach, so-called 'hotlinking' isn't and is perfectly legal. So ruled the US 9th District court (chapter and verse available). The 'hotlink' is just an URL that directs the Lit forum reader to the site hosting the image. Adding a personal webstorage site changes nothing except creating an intermediary URL link.

That's why Photobucket and similar sites are legal - they hotlink. Of course, if you copy and paste an image to your disk and then upload it to Photobucket then you (and not Photobucket) are infringing copyright.

Also, 'bandwidth stealing' is a pejorative and misleading term. We all know that downloading speeds (bits/sec) can vary enormously whatever magic speed our ISP has promised us. Whilst I would never defend Scouries' offensive abuse of other sites' images and his obnoxious behavior on the forums, I seriously doubt he is significantly affecting a porno site's traffic speed. Usually the number of 'readers' on Story Feedback is fewer than 10, and this would be the pimple on the boil of the ass of the hippo porn site.

Downloading a porno vid is about the equivalent of 1,000 afficionados of Scouries logging on at the same instant to one of his adolescent images - it ain't gonna happen

Sure, when you look at a site's monthly data transfer, including hotlinkers, the owners might be aggrieved with too many links because they pay for uploads/downloads that exceed their contract.

In summary, as always Scouries finds a toy and like a toddler, he behaves stupidly - wasting loads of Lit space with his childish trash. However much you despise him (me too), he is legal, unfortunately.

 

[scouries]

QUOTE ace It remains, though, that if the boards were closely monitored, he and thee would have been gone a long time ago.

And let me see, this is coming from LITEROTICA’S baddest little boy? Mr. Popularity? The #1 agitator in LIT forum history…

http://www.nationofmillions.ca/files/u4/BAD_BOY_LOGO.jpg
Ace you wouldn’t have lasted a week…​

http://forum.literotica.com/image.php?u=308807&dateline=1199122888 K-M… - Factually, your bucket leaks a bit.

Yes it does miss o. Mind you km’s is a relatively old bucket even if well preserved. And c’mon admit it miss o! You’ve got a soft spot for me don’t ya? It’s that old love/hate thing rearing it’s scourian head again isn’t it? I wonder just how many nights of the week end with you in bed, your computer screen open to one of my brilliant stories? Touching yourself … dreaming … scourian dreams… wishing… ​

QUOTE tina vagina You're the best ever, Scouries

Thank you my dear - you're pretty special too. Cum and visit the SCOURIES thread any time your little heart desires...​

[size=+2]james r scouries esq.[/size]
Multiple A.I.R. AWARD winner, MILLION SELLER,
Author of the MOST COMMENTED on
and the MOST VOTED on story on LITEROTICA

 

[GinaTina]

You forgot a word there, but still...



Tina Vagina: lawl


Is there a way to change my nick?

 

[sr71plt]

And let me see, this is coming from LITEROTICA’S baddest little boy? Mr. Popularity? The #1 agitator in LIT forum history…

Ace you wouldn’t have lasted a week

Still outlasting you by six and three-quarters' day, though.

Talk about whiners and complainers.

 

[elfin_odalisque]

Yes it does miss o. Mind you km’s is a relatively old bucket even if well preserved. And c’mon admit it miss o! You’ve got a soft spot for me don’t ya? It’s that old love/hate thing rearing it’s scourian head again isn’t it? I wonder just how many nights of the week end with you in bed, your computer screen open to one of my brilliant stories? Touching yourself … dreaming … scourian dreams… wishing…

Nope! I was just using the public convenience of a BFW diatribe thread to ignore your abysmally offensive and illiterate threads to pass some factual information to a Literotican I highly repect. Thanks for the involuntary conduit. Try that in the boys' room, if they let you in!

 

[Mrtouf]

I do believe however that non-erotic stories have no place on an erotic story site. Readers cum to LITEROTICA for erotica. But because the site has become so popular hundreds of authors who have no interest in erotica have flocked here because they can't get their stories accepted anywhere else.

Why yes, those 2693 stories with no erotic content are really pulling the site down into the gutter.

Joking aside, the reason to have a category like that is because there can be a story that appeals to the some of the usual readers without having a strictly erotic focus. If it's worth reading, then it'll get read.

There are plenty of erotic stories in the Sci-Fi category, I checked. One of my first and favourite reads is in there, and if it had been posted somewhere else, I wouldn't have found this site (Google search brought me here) or I would have ended up some place else first.

If people bicker on the site, it's not because they're incapable of tolerating each other. Tolerance is a behaviour which is learned over time. Putting people in one camp or the other doesn't encourage them to overcome their differences.

Oh and by the way, the code in your signature has an partial [/url] tag somewhere. Instead of going to your stories like it's supposed to, the link goes to your biography.

 

[TxRad]

Why yes, those 2693 stories with no erotic content are really pulling the site down into the gutter.

Joking aside, the reason to have a category like that is because there can be a story that appeals to the some of the usual readers without having a strictly erotic focus. If it's worth reading, then it'll get read.

There are plenty of erotic stories in the Sci-Fi category, I checked. One of my first and favourite reads is in there, and if it had been posted somewhere else, I wouldn't have found this site (Google search brought me here) or I would have ended up some place else first.

If people bicker on the site, it's not because they're incapable of tolerating each other. Tolerance is a behaviour which is learned over time. Putting people in one camp or the other doesn't encourage them to overcome their differences.

Oh and by the way, the code in your signature has an partial [/url] tag somewhere. Instead of going to your stories like it's supposed to, the link goes to your biography.

People do read the non erotic stories. I know, I ended up with a three book mainstream publishing deal from a story i posted there. With scouries, if it ain't incest, it ain't erotic.

The same goes for sci-fi. He thinks too many stories in that category win. He also doesn't understand that people have good imaginations and since they do, they can write outside incest.

No, he has the link pointed where he wants it. It's all about the ego with him. You have to understand that he expect everyone to wade through miles of crap to get anywhere as long as it is all about him.

I wonder whose alt he'll end up thinking you are?

 

[ItsKittyBitches]

People do read the non erotic stories. I know, I ended up with a three book mainstream publishing deal from a story i posted there. With scouries, if it ain't incest, it ain't erotic.

The same goes for sci-fi. He thinks too many stories in that category win. He also doesn't understand that people have good imaginations and since they do, they can write outside incest.

No, he has the link pointed where he wants it. It's all about the ego with him. You have to understand that he expect everyone to wade through miles of crap to get anywhere as long as it is all about him.

I wonder whose alt he'll end up thinking you are?

I have to say, this pinpoints my thoughts on scouries exactly.
Everything I've read by him has been a horribly put together bang bang thank you mam between two related persons.

I personally find some of my favorite stories in the sci-fi section.

 

[Mrtouf]

If he thinks I'm JR_Bourne, I'll be doing well.

Sci-fi wins because it's got a special place in the hearts of those who read it, I think. No other genre has so many fans working diligently to produce lists of plot holes and continuity errors.

 

[KillerMuffin]

Apropos of nothing, Mrtouf is my favorite of the lot because of the way he handled the ztarc thing.