Question

[blackfire87]

I have a story I'm writing my fiance, but I don't really want to post it to literotica. Is there a place here I can post it?

 

[PennLady]

Yes, there are other sites to post to. But what's wrong with posting here?

 

[blackfire87]

Nah I mean I don't want to submit it to the site because how I write is slightly unorthodox. I'd love to post it here on the board

 

[Innuendos]

Well, assuming you want to discuss your story with others here, then just create a thread and wait for folks to chime in?

 

[sr71plt]

Well, assuming you want to discuss your story with others here, then just create a thread and wait for folks to chime in?

Well, no, not actually. This would be circumventing the website's right to (and practice of) clearing the stories that appear on the website. This isn't an anything goes website--there are rules on what can be posted. If it was posted here on the forum, the designated procedure would be bypassed.

The discussion and feedback on the forum is supposed to be on stories posted the normal way.

 

[blackfire87]

So there's no way to share my story? I had tried posting a story there but they said I didn't make my characters talk correctly. I don't know what they meant, I do my punctuation and grammer correctly

 

[Innuendos]

Well, no, not actually. This would be circumventing the website's right to (and practice of) clearing the stories that appear on the website. This isn't an anything goes website--there are rules on what can be posted. If it was posted here on the forum, the designated procedure would be bypassed.

The discussion and feedback on the forum is supposed to be on stories posted the normal way.

Ah, didn't realize there was a rule about that.

 

[sr71plt]

So there's no way to share my story? I had tried posting a story there but they said I didn't make my characters talk correctly. I don't know what they meant, I do my punctuation and grammer correctly

You could PM me and I'd give you an address to send it to (if it's in Word) and let you know if I can see what they mean. It could just be a punctuation thing--or maybe you put dialogue of more than one character in a paragraph. This should be in separate paragraphs.

 

[PennLady]

Nah I mean I don't want to submit it to the site because how I write is slightly unorthodox. I'd love to post it here on the board

I think you need to define "unorthodox." There are plenty of different styles on the board. If you could post an example, people could chime in, or send a PM (as sr71 suggested). Without details and context it's hard to help.

 

[elfin_odalisque]

Well, no, not actually. This would be circumventing the website's right to (and practice of) clearing the stories that appear on the website. This isn't an anything goes website--there are rules on what can be posted. If it was posted here on the forum, the designated procedure would be bypassed.

The discussion and feedback on the forum is supposed to be on stories posted the normal way.

Well, no, actually.

I've said before that sr is wrong on this. Look at all the reasons to 'report post' and nowhere do you find 'failure to abide by story guidelines'. Lit controls anything posted officially but seems quite laid back about what us chattering unwashed post on forums. It is up to us, not the site. They are not responsible.

Again, the website isn't 'anything goes' but the forums generally are. Also, for at least the 8 years I've been around the site, no-one, except the crittur in the basement, has ever questioned the right to post draft stories here. We live with requests for finding stories and draft stories as well as looking at URLs to read posted stories. His ass clenching definition resembles scouries attempts to change the site rules.

Go ahead, blackfire, and post your draft here - it's perfectly allowed.

You will get good advice, some may be highly critical. You'll have to live with that.

 

[lovecraft68]

Well, no, actually.

I've said before that sr is wrong on this. Look at all the reasons to 'report post' and nowhere do you find 'failure to abide by story guidelines'. Lit controls anything posted officially but seems quite laid back about what us chattering unwashed post on forums. It is up to us, not the site. They are not responsible.

Again, the website isn't 'anything goes' but the forums generally are. Also, for at least the 8 years I've been around the site, no-one, except the crittur in the basement, has ever questioned the right to post draft stories here. We live with requests for finding stories and draft stories as well as looking at URLs to read posted stories. His ass clenching definition resembles scouries attempts to change the site rules.

Go ahead, blackfire, and post your draft here - it's perfectly allowed.

You will get good advice, some may be highly critical. You'll have to live with that.

That's because Pilot and Scouries are in cahoots. Two like minded assholes, bitter about the fact that all the other authors here are better than they are.

On the topic, I am not sure on the exact rules, but I have seen a ton of people post parts of or even complete stories here. They never seem to get edited out by the mods so I always figured it was okay.

 

[MissN]

But what if the person post a story containing underage rape snuff.How do you know what the poster unorthodox means?

 

[sr71plt]

But what if the person post a story containing underage rape snuff.How do you know what the poster unorthodox means?

Precisely. A story is no less "published" to the website when posted to the forum than it is to the story file. For the purposes that the website has controls, they are circumvented and negated when the story is posted to the forum.

When all else fails, try common sense.

(Meanwhile, I have offered direct help, as opposed to . . .)

 

[sr71plt]

That's because Pilot and Scouries are in cahoots. Two like minded assholes, bitter about the fact that all the other authors here are better than they are.

I wondered how long you'd give your swiftboating campaign a rest in the wake of your contest cheating scandal. Two days.

 

[Darkniciad]

Okay, I've got to step in here on something:

First, there's no evidence of cheating on Lovecraft's part from anything I observed. Large sweep percentages are common on the highly rated + highly voted stories, and I have little doubt that cheerleaders were involved, but the degree doesn't mesh with any other factors common to my observations.

I wouldn't put it past a certain someone to have hit the story with a flurry of votes from already known worthless proxy IPs for the sole purpose of accusing him of cheating when the sweeps removed large numbers of votes from the already blacklisted IPs.

I've seen similar activity in recent contests where early, large sweep percentages were immediately used as a talking point to accuse an author of cheating ( one other time that I can remember, also a top 5 story ) or Literotica of cheating ( numerous incidents involving nominal supporters or neutral parties )

In each of these cases where the author has commented either in public or private, the higher-than-average vote totals and rapid rise of same took the authors in question aback as unusual compared to what they expected.

Meanwhile, other high sweep activity on the stories of authors unknown in the AH is completely ignored by said troll for either purpose, when the data is just as readily available and just as useful in his constant harping about the site "fixing" contests.

The troll knows too much, too soon, too often for me to write it off as coincidence, especially in conjunction with his well-known, massive vote fraud and record of trying to tear down everyone around him by any means possible.

With that said, carry on with the drama. I honestly haven't formed a solid opinion on the matter in question.

 

[jaF0]

So there's no way to share my story? I had tried posting a story there but they said I didn't make my characters talk correctly. I don't know what they meant, I do my punctuation and grammer correctly

Maybe post an excerpt of just a few lines so that others can critique and offer suggestions and ideas.

I had one rejected a long time ago for the same type of reason, but I just never got around to rewriting it.

I have a story I'm writing my fiance,

There's an example though. It doesn't make sense. It should be:

I have a story I'm writing about my fiance,

or

I have a story I'm writing for my fiance,

or,

I have a story I'm writing with my fiance,

or something similar.

 

[sr71plt]

With that said, carry on with the drama. I honestly haven't formed a solid opinion on the matter in question.

Neither have I. But Lovecraft's constant swiftboating is so tiresome that I see no reason not to bend it back on him--until he stops. At least there is as much evidence against him on this as for him--and his swiftboating is based on little or no evidence. And on this, he (and apparently you) have flipped right to blaming someone with no more evidence than that pointing to the one who should have benefited from the votes as the culprit. Your view is no more legitimate than the one I gave. (Logically rather less, I think.)

And it doesn't change his arrogance at stating his story was the best or his position that he was cheated out of a win, when, by website definitions, "someone" was actually trying to cheat him into a win.

(And I don't think Scouries is that clever, whereas I DO believe Lovecraft68 is that dishonest and driven to be king of the pile. In this, I think he and Scouries are twins.)

And, speaking of Scouries, Dark, what do you have to say about Lovecraft68's charge--repeated here--that I either am Scouries or am in cahoots with Scouries? Speaking of silly swiftboating innuendo.

 

[Darkniciad]

I'll go firmly on record as saying you're about as connected to scouries as the Queen of England *laugh*

Likewise, there's heaps of other sniping he throws at you that I find completely ridiculous.

You don't have to be especially smart to use AOL script-kiddie tools There are plenty of idiots out there who need help filling out a registration form, but who can cause all kinds of havoc at the press of a button on a program written by someone else.

I'm just seeing far too many weird things in the numbers over the last year or so that all seem to converge in once place.

 

[Lord_Steve]

Neither have I. But Lovecraft's constant swiftboating is so tiresome that I see no reason not to bend it back on him--until he stops. At least there is as much evidence against him on this as for him--and his swiftboating is based on little or no evidence. And on this, he (and apparently you) have flipped right to blaming someone with no more evidence than that pointing to the one who should have benefited from the votes as the culprit. Your view is no more legitimate than the one I gave. (Logically rather less, I think.)

As an American patriot I am outraged that anybody would doubt or slander your military service, sir. Please accept my deepest apologies. Semper fi

 

[sr71plt]

As an American patriot I am outraged that anybody would doubt or slander your military service, sir. Please accept my deepest apologies. Semper fi

Thanks, but I wasn't in the military service. I was in the CIA (As Lovecraft68 well knows.), and I did some U.S. duty well forward of any military lines.

I am a graduate of the U.S. Army War College, though, and an Army brat, if that counts for anything.

 

[sr71plt]

I'll go firmly on record as saying you're about as connected to scouries as the Queen of England *laugh*

Likewise, there's heaps of other sniping he throws at you that I find completely ridiculous.

Thanks. He initiated it on this thread. After the two days of quiet, I thought maybe he'd come to his senses.

And on the "culprit," I'd give it a 60/40 (against Lovecraft), but the 40 I'd see as hyped up friends. (Where you're seeing a long-observed Scouries pattern, I'm seeing a pretty long Lovecraft68 behavior pattern in itself and a "I'm gonna whip your ass in the contest and everything else I plan to do" who cares PM from Lovecraft five PMs ago before I started just deleting before reading).

 

[Lord_Steve]

Thanks, but I wasn't in the military service. I was in the CIA (As Lovecraft68 well knows.), and I did some U.S. duty well forward of any military lines.

I am a graduate of the U.S. Army War College, though, and an Army brat, if that counts for anything.

You must have some amazing stories, sir! I would love to hear them if there are any unclassified details you can pass on. I love to hear about the good guys winning.

 

[sr71plt]

You must have some amazing stories, sir! I would love to hear them if there are any unclassified details you can pass on. I love to hear about the good guys winning.

*Laughs* I have a "pretty close" (sexual) memoir out called Flying High (with a writing diagram putting some Lit. stories together on my story profile here), but I doubt it's the kind of stories you're looking for in terms of military background. Principally flying over the Vietnam War (and Laos and Cambodia) snapping photos during the later stages of that war, then on the ground in a "special unit," evacuating Saigon and then Phnom Penh, and on to Bangkok. About a decade in the Middle East after that. Run out of there by the Al-Qaida in '96.

But again, I doubt you'll be interested in the focus of my stories on any of that.

 

[Lord_Steve]

*Laughs* I have a "pretty close" (sexual) memoir out called Flying High (with a writing diagram putting some Lit. stories together on my story profile here), but I doubt it's the kind of stories you're looking for in terms of military background. Principally flying over the Vietnam War (and Laos and Cambodia) snapping photos during the later stages of that war, then on the ground in a "special unit," evacuating Saigon and then Phnom Penh, and on to Bangkok. About a decade in the Middle East after that. Run out of there by the Al-Qaida in '96.

But again, I doubt you'll be interested in the focus of my stories on any of that.

On the contrary, I love to hear tell of patriot actions which ensafen our nation. I'm sure I'm not the only one, too. Maybe you could be convinced to make a thread to swap war stories?

 

[blackfire87]

I'm slightly confused as to what's going on and if I'm allowed to post some or any of my story.. As to the story I am writing it for and about him, he's quite legal and there is nothing to suggest any underage situations. I haven't attempted to post anything in... Several years I think, at least 3 or 4 because their response to my story left me confused lol. But I've been writing him a story including him and he loves it and wanted me to share it.