It's Fiction. Fantasy. Get it?

[oggbashan]

I don't normally delete Public Comments unless they are gratuitously offensive and not relevant to the story, but:

I have deleted a considerable number from the same anonymous (based on style of language) many of which were posted in a few days about a year ago, although some were much older. Anonymous went through most of my femdom and fetish stories suggesting that 'she' should be beaten up, divorced, sent to jail or whatever.

Whoever anonymous was, I'm assuming it was a he, he seems to have been threatened by the idea of femdom, or strong women, and posted comments as if the character was a real woman.

If you don't like femdom and feel threatened by it, why read a long story to the end before posting a long comment? And why post such comments to dozens of my stories? If you detest femdom that much, why not back-click?

My stories are FICTION, or fantasy, written to amuse myself and anyone who likes what I write. If that isn't you, why waste so much time abusing me and the stories?

I had left the comments for many months and sometimes for several years. Now they are gone, because they weren't criticism of the story or my writing, but rants about women in general. That particular Anonymous seems to hate any woman who isn't weak and subservient - which most of the women in my stories aren't.

I regret having to delete so many comments but they were not relevant.

Genuine criticism of a particular story, just not liking it, even hating it? Those comments I have left.

Have you had similar macho rants abusing women? If so, did you leave the comments, or delete them?

 

[LaRascasse]

Not yet, but I am writing an LW story at the moment.

So... *fingers crossed*

 

[Zeb_Carter]

On every one of my LW stories. The only one that didn't was Reality, which had the husband killing the wife and her lovers. 90% of the comments liked the story, only a few felt the husband went too far.

Most of my LW stories started out with votes below 4, but over time most rose above 4.5, so I figured why give the assholes a forum to rant and 1bomb me, so I shut off voting and comments and shut off anonymous feedback via email.

Of course, because Lit doesn't validate email addresses as real, they and get away with giving invalid email address when sending email feedback.

ETA: And it never failed to amuse me when some dumbshit thought the story was true and hoped I got aids, etc.

 

[oggbashan]

All the time. Apparently, I have a fan club or anonymous trolls. The scores on my other stories take a hit too for a while. When the trolls move on, my scores go back up. Circle of life thing, I guess.

Votes I can understand. It doesn't take much effort to post a series of 1 votes on an author's stories.

But long abusive comments with dozens of words? That takes time and thought and is a real waste.

 

[CharleyH]

Votes I can understand. It doesn't take much effort to post a series of 1 votes on an author's stories.

But long abusive comments with dozens of words? That takes time and thought and is a real waste.

After all these years posting to Lit, Ogg? I thought you'd have learned to 'let it go'.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

It dawned on me, after two years, that the bulk of my scores are FIVEs and ONES from the trolls. Comments are rarely useful as no one has yet submitted advice other than write more or stop writing, so I don't need the comments and I'm weary of offering a living room for troll dogs to lick their nuts in front of company.

 

[CharleyH]

It dawned on me, after two years, that the bulk of my scores are FIVEs and ONES from the trolls. Comments are rarely useful as no one has yet submitted advice other than write more or stop writing, so I don't need the comments and I'm weary of offering a living room for troll dogs to lick their nuts in front of company.

Agreed.

 

[49greg]

I had multiple comments from what I thought was the same Mr. Anon on any of my stories that included dominant wives or submissive husbands. Not a lot of stories but I noticed that there was a drop in the scores of most of my other stories at the same time (summer of '13.)

I deleted some of the comments - the ones that threatened me or were personal insults. Some, the ones that were just idiotic anti woman rants, I left in, but I've thought about getting rid of them from time to time.

 

[DreamCloud]

I had decided early on to leave the comments alone. I violated it when a troll refused to leave just one rant and went for back to back long ones because I ignored him/her.

I have a new rule: You can call me an idiot - just don't do it twice.

 

[oggbashan]

I had decided early on to leave the comments alone. I violated it when a troll refused to leave just one rant and went for back to back long ones because I ignored him/her.

I have a new rule: You can call me an idiot - just don't do it twice.

I like that rule.

I had left most of the particular comments for a year or more, but similar rants repeated on dozens of my stories became boring.

Until now I had left almost every comment alone however abusive.

One anon comment was deleted by "administration" before I saw it. I don't know why. Anon came back within hours to complain that I had deleted it.

 

[oggbashan]

After all these years posting to Lit, Ogg? I thought you'd have learned to 'let it go'.

I had "let it go", for some comments for more than a decade. But too many in a short time a year ago became irritating - so twelve months later I've had a purge of the worst ones.

You don't like my story? That's OK.

You don't think it worked for you? That's OK.

You think I write crap? That's OK.

You think this story was bad? That's OK.

But you think that women should always be treated like dirt, and in this story Og didn't? Sorry. Your comment will eventually be deleted.

 

[Carnal_Flower]

If you don't like femdom and feel threatened by it, why read a long story to the end before posting a long comment? And why post such comments to dozens of my stories? If you detest femdom that much, why not back-click?

. . .

That particular Anonymous seems to hate any woman who isn't weak and subservient - which most of the women in my stories aren't.

?

You answered your own question there. They don't back-click because they go in search of something to vent their spleen on.

 

[SandraMustard]

I leave all the turds the rats leave. The hard thing to do is NOT REPLY when I'm angry but I have never given them the satisfaction of knowing they pissed me off.

I once had a troll go on an abusive tirade of a named commenter - not the story. I reported the comment, asking them to edit the comment so AnyMouse would know admin did it. They deleted the comment and I got 1-bombed across the board. I asked for and received a personal sweep.

 

[SandraMustard]

I have noticed the LW trolls attacking New Story listings for Group Sex and Erotic Couplings, as if they didn't know what category they were reading.

 

[oggbashan]

I have noticed the LW trolls attacking New Story listings for Group Sex and Erotic Couplings, as if they didn't know what category they were reading.

That sounds very like LW trolls.

Intelligence among trolls is rare.

 

[redzinger]

This is my favourite, from someone who must not have even read the story:

And when they got tired of being abused?
And humiliated. Did they stand up and beat the crap out of her like she deserved? I certainly hope so. I can't believe this was a prize winner.

Lovely.

(A mere drop in the ocean for all you LW writers though.)

 

[CharleyH]

I had "let it go", for some comments for more than a decade. But too many in a short time a year ago became irritating - so twelve months later I've had a purge of the worst ones.

You don't like my story? That's OK.

You don't think it worked for you? That's OK.

You think I write crap? That's OK.

You think this story was bad? That's OK.

But you think that women should always be treated like dirt, and in this story Og didn't? Sorry. Your comment will eventually be deleted.

Don't take it personal. You know you are a good writer.

 

[49greg]

I had decided early on to leave the comments alone. I violated it when a troll refused to leave just one rant and went for back to back long ones because I ignored him/her.

I have a new rule: You can call me an idiot - just don't do it twice.

I like that rule, if I ever start getting them again, and I have a few dominant wife stories working so I imagine I will, I'll use it.

I had "let it go", for some comments for more than a decade. But too many in a short time a year ago became irritating - so twelve months later I've had a purge of the worst ones.

You don't like my story? That's OK.

You don't think it worked for you? That's OK.

You think I write crap? That's OK.

You think this story was bad? That's OK.

But you think that women should always be treated like dirt, and in this story Og didn't? Sorry. Your comment will eventually be deleted.

I like this attitude as well. It fits in with how I think.

I think that some of these 'anons' ... well I don't know. It scares me to think that I may have met people who would write those things, but I bet I have.

 

[AirRichard101]

I gave Sandy more specific reasons. Trolls are scanning the New Stories category, not their home pigpen. They either don't notice the category part of the listing (poor comprehension skills) or they're attacking any title or description that suggests a wife in the story (rabid hatred). She had one story break with a 1.3 score then climbed to 2.5 after 17 votes. The Christmas contest ran a sweep and the score changed to 4.86 on 7 votes - around 2/3 of the votes were 1-votes.

It would be nice if authors could opt-out of the New Story listing.

 

[GoldenCojones]

Stirring it up

I had decided early on to leave the comments alone. I violated it when a troll refused to leave just one rant and went for back to back long ones because I ignored him/her.

I have a new rule: You can call me an idiot - just don't do it twice.

I love to stir up the trolls They get so worked up, I just imagine them, sitting there in their prison library using their allotted computer time. They read my story and get so worked up they start frothing at the mouth. Then it happens. A vein in their head pops and their one living brain cell fades to black. Six weeks pass and no one even notices.

 

[tanyachrs]

Those of you who turn off voting (or would want to opt out of the new story listing), don't you want your stories to be read? Most of the reads come from new stories and then once a story drops from there, my experience is I get very few reads if I don't have the magic H. I know when I'm browsing a category my eye just slips from H to H. I want people to read my stuff since I took the time to write it so I do care very much about the ratings. I wish I didn't but I'm always holding my breath hoping for that H because it predicts the whole future of my story.

 

[DreamCloud]

Those of you who turn off voting (or would want to opt out of the new story listing), don't you want your stories to be read? Most of the reads come from new stories and then once a story drops from there, my experience is I get very few reads if I don't have the magic H. I know when I'm browsing a category my eye just slips from H to H. I want people to read my stuff since I took the time to write it so I do care very much about the ratings. I wish I didn't but I'm always holding my breath hoping for that H because it predicts the whole future of my story.

I post on lit because there are ratings. Ego is a big part of writing.

 

[sr71plt]

Those of you who turn off voting (or would want to opt out of the new story listing), don't you want your stories to be read? Most of the reads come from new stories and then once a story drops from there, my experience is I get very few reads if I don't have the magic H.

Sort of circular reasoning here. Most who would turn off the voting do so because their stories aren't often going over 4.5. One explanation for this is that there are specific voters keeping the stories from going hot (of course another possible explanation is that the stories aren't good enough, but, if so, they shouldn't be staying over 4.5 anyway unless the author is cheating them above 4.5).

I don't see the goal as getting as many readers as you can get so much as finding the readership that appreciates what you write. And the readership at Lit. is so vast that the readership that finds you is likely to be a large one anyway. If you post stories regularly, this eventually is going to happen here whether or not you have the voting turned on or your story rates above 4.5. And when you have a regular readership they are going to tend to find your stories whether or not they are on the New List.

If you're going to be posting a story only every other blue moon, the whole ball of wax is sort of irrelevant. You aren't going to have a readership following no matter what unless you continue connecting with that readership.

 

[oggbashan]

Those of you who turn off voting (or would want to opt out of the new story listing), don't you want your stories to be read? ...

I wouldn't turn off voting, no matter how badly my stories are trolled. Votes are a better indication of the impact of a story than Views.

It is pleasant to see a red H, better to see a blue W or a green E, but I expect the red Hs to reduce over time.

Unlike some authors, my red Hs are scattered over my story list, and not on almost every one. I expect that. Fetish stories, which are a large part of my list, are either a turn-on or a turn-off for an individual. If a particular story works, the responses can be very complimentary, even if the usual reader says WTF!

I started this thread because the comments I had received were not about my story, nor me, but about the commentor's negative view of women. The comments were irrelevant and could have been attached to almost any story that featured women.

On the other hand, one of my fetish stories obviously worked for one person. He has written numerous very long comments, each one of which is a story by itself, and the total of his comments are about three times as long as the original story. The story sparked him into writing...

 

[robertreams]

I wrote my first attempt at a standard romance tale with a bit of porn tossed in. The first comment didn't like my female character's attitude so he stopped reading, (his comment said). The whole idea of the story was our hero's overcoming of out heroine's high-and-mighty stance. This is pretty standard for romance stories. I don't understand disliking a fictional character. So I should stop reading or watching "Manchurian Candidate" because Angela Lansberry plays a terrible woman? What would the story be without her character? WEAK!

Please folks, especially you anonymass ones, try to make sense in your comments and, most of all, thanks for the compliment, but my characters are not real people.