Favorite Commenters

[swingerjoe]

I was just scrolling through the Feedback Portal and laughing at some of the comments. This got me thinking about some of my other favorite Lit commenters of all-time:

-- The "1* cuck shit" guy. Hardest-working guy on Literotica. He must comment a hundred times a day, minimum.

-- The "new baboon" guy, who leaves this comment on every story posted by a new author in Loving Wives who writes a story that doesn't end in divorce, mutilation, and/or murder.

-- There is a guy who leaves the same skeptical comment on every story that claims to be true. I know this is the same guy because he writes something like "You're writing a story on the world wide web. Drop the true story crap. No one believes you." Seriously, who says "world wide web?" It has to be the same guy!

-- By far, my absolute favorite commenter is the guy (presumably) who has a hateful obsession with a certain writer. He goes out of his way -- WAY out of his way! -- to leave the same nasty comment on every one of her stories. It has to take him quite a bit of time to scroll to the end of every one of her stories (and she has written more than fifty), paste his juvenile comment, hit the submit button, and then navigate to the next one. I can't help but wonder what he thinks he accomplishes by doing so.

The funniest part about this guy is that this writer decided to turn off anonymous comments -- most likely to avoid this stalker of hers -- so this guy created a username just so he could continue stalking her! And the username he chose looks as though he smashed his keyboard. It's something like "asdaflkajf293879". So, every time he wants to leave her a nasty comment, he has to remember that ridiculous string of random characters in order to log in!

I'm sure I'm missing a few. Please feel free to add your own.

 

[sr71plt]

I don't dwell on negative comments/commenters. In keeping with the thread title, I've had several commenters who, over long chunks of time, have left very nice comments on my stories. I'm always sorry when they've moved on.

 

[LIVINRFANTASIES]

Denny, Loving Husband

Favorite Commenters

Joe, apparently I'm stalking you. Or just randomly reading the same threads as you are right now.
Which reminds me, I need to make up a "true" Loving Wives story. Maybe add a lot of ,,, commas, yet write in my normal childish way.

I know our writting isn't comparable to real authors yet we do get a few followers and nice comments. To us that's all that matters. I keep repeating, we write our stories simply to share some of our past, written in simple bar room English.
The best comments are from other dirty old men and women who remember some of the things and places we write about from their own past.

As the last anon poster wrote, I don't speak Murican. Yes, she, or maybe he, scolded me for not writting proper English yet used Murican in her/his comment. Actually this is a hint who it could be.
I did thank anon for taking the time to comment. Any comment is a GOOD comment.

 

[lovecraft68]

The ALL CAPS GUY. These guys use all caps to get your attention and show they're yelling at you.

I have one all caps guy who appears from time to time and will blast 15-20 stories in a short period of time. He always says things like DEGENERATE FILTH and DYKES AND FAGGOTS

Then there is what I refer to as 'thou doth protest too loudly guy' this one shows up in incest and blasts the story for being sick, but gives enough detail to make it sound as if he read at least parts of the stories meaning if incest si so sick why are you always in the category?

These guys are also fond of non con gay male and of course make up half of the LW crowd "I hate cheating, but I'm reading in a category dedicated it it'

But like Pilot said, the majority of people are decent here and leave good remarks. The trolls are just funnier though.

 

[CoffeeWithMonkeys]

Ok not a comment but just last night I received a pm from someone reviewing my surfer story.
It's a short story, this message he sent is nearly longer than my story!

One of his complaints,
'Third, he has no character, he's completely anonymous. He looks good and wants sex, which describes a few and all men. He's a sex object, nothing more. Which would be a dream come true for most of us, but women have complained all my life that they are NOT just sex objects.'

So at a erotic website, I posted a story that was just about a couple getting off and nothing else? Is this really a big problem?

And yeah if he's read my other stuff he probably was expecting a long romantic story because that's the shit I seem to write, but I don't see a sex story being posted here as an issue.

The message is quite sweet though and I replied back, so it didn't bother me, I just thought that part was funny.
Like, excuse me but you seem to have posted a story about sex on an erotic website...
hehehe

 

[holliday1960]

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[CyranoJ]

The commenter who accused me of ripping off Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men will forever have a special place in my heart, as I mentioned in another relatively recent thread. That same story ("Heart Like a Lion") also garnered a fairly hilarious affronted-white-supremacist comment in its early days. I rolled my eyes and nuked it at the time but in retrospect I kind of wish I had kept it.

But I'll use this opportunity to highlight my most truly favourite commenters, the ones who not only encouraged me but made me think, and gave suggestions for improvement that I could actually use.

Chief among these is "AlwaysHungry" whose comment on "Running Riot" made some really valid points about the final act that genuinely have me thinking. Time permitting I'd actually like to come back to that one and do an alternate ending... maybe I'll save it for when I collect and publish the Rude Girl Stories on Smashwords or something.

There's also an anonymous comment on "The Game" that may be largely motivated by the fact I haven't continued that story as a series, but still makes some valid and interesting points that show attentive reading. Even in critical comments, I love that kind of thing.

Like any author I'm very fond of praise, but I'm particularly fond of it when it's specific about what I got right, and I've had a lot of commenters who go into that kind of detail and I treasure them all.

 

[SimonDoom]

Outside the scope of the LW category, in which I've published one story, I've found most comments, even critical ones, to be useful and interesting in one way or another.

The most memorable negative comment was the one who said in response to my LW story, "Here, eat my condom."

On a more positive note, probably the most useful negative comments I receive are those who fault my story for having taken a turn they think is unrealistic. I take these comments with a grain of salt, because I think a lot of what people write on this site is unrealistic, but my goal as a storyteller is to try to portray unrealistic situations with just enough realism that they work, so if I'm not doing that I want to know.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Then there is what I refer to as 'thou doth protest too loudly guy' this one shows up in incest and blasts the story for being sick, but gives enough detail to make it sound as if he read at least parts of the stories meaning if incest si so sick why are you always in the category?

These guys are also fond of non con gay male and of course make up half of the LW crowd "I hate cheating, but I'm reading in a category dedicated it it'

Recently some dude dug up a ten-year-old post in the LGBT forum recently, just to complain about how he was sick of hearing about LGBT stuff.

 

[kropotkin]

Coffee: Have you complained for lack of comments on your stories?

Someone took the time to comment lengthily on your story in a private message, and did it so that no one but you would ever know the flaws observed in your story. The story would have been improved by this or that, the commenter said. Maybe it was felt that "a couple getting off and nothing else" makes for a pretty common story on a sex site, and you could be more than common?

Have you read her/his stories if there are any? You criticize someone for reading your story and giving it time and thought? Someone criticizes your work in "sweet" fashion, privately, constructively?

It was kind of you to leave the commenter's name off your complaint. Perhaps you should just turn comments off on your stories if you don't like the serious ones.

 

[lovecraft68]

Ok not a comment but just last night I received a pm from someone reviewing my surfer story.
It's a short story, this message he sent is nearly longer than my story!

One of his complaints,
'Third, he has no character, he's completely anonymous. He looks good and wants sex, which describes a few and all men. He's a sex object, nothing more. Which would be a dream come true for most of us, but women have complained all my life that they are NOT just sex objects.'

So at a erotic website, I posted a story that was just about a couple getting off and nothing else? Is this really a big problem?

And yeah if he's read my other stuff he probably was expecting a long romantic story because that's the shit I seem to write, but I don't see a sex story being posted here as an issue.

The message is quite sweet though and I replied back, so it didn't bother me, I just thought that part was funny.
Like, excuse me but you seem to have posted a story about sex on an erotic website...
hehehe

I've noticed prior body of work can have an effect. I made a sort of name for myself here with some seriously dark edgy material. When I then wrote a few roimances and more fun pieces I got 'selling out' e-mails.

But then I built an audience for those and the thing in incest is I always try and provide a story, conflict, make an implausible subject somewhat plausible. Then last year I decided to just write a couple of pretty much 'mom's hot why not' strokers for something different.

They did so-so and I probably got new fans who like those, but some of my regulars complained. One comment I recall was "Okay, you got this out of your system, get back to what your best at."

Can't please them all, all the time.

 

[HandsInTheDark]

My "favorite's" still the guy who accused two of my male characters, both in serious relationships with women, both having hot sex scenes with women and only women... of being gay. I *still* can't figure that one out but my favorite fan is fond of calling me a GM author, in memory of the comment.

I've gotten my share of actual positive comments, but the one that stands out for me is from an author here, because she knows what she's talking about and her comments were spot on.

Recently I got a funny one from someone who got lost in the links and stumbled upon on of my stories in the hope of finding LW material. (Yeah, no idea how he got THAT lost). He berated me for not having cheating in the story, for using first person POV (which he said "positively sucks" (story scores: 4.74, 4.84, 4.83 - no one else seems to think it sucks)), and then ranted that he wouldn't vote on the story because "any voting, even 1s, makes the site owners more likely to keep[sic] you". So in terms of being confused, he's my winner. But it takes more than Confusion to make my day, so Mr. GM Everywhere still gets the Pointy Crown Of Weirdness.

 

[LeandraNyx]

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[holliday1960]

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[NotWise]

The comment came from another writer, male, with whom I am yet unfamiliar.

He commented by email on some of my early stories. He was always insightful and constructive, which is not to say always complimentary.

 

[CyranoJ]

He suggested that my description of a woman's orgasm was an entirely new perspective and further went on to suggest that he feels others may use my descriptions to pattern their own in the future.

Care to link to the story? Now I'm curious.

 

[LeandraNyx]

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[swingerjoe]

Another one of my all-time favorites just reappeared (big time!) today. This reader usually uses a username, but decided to post this comment anonymously:

"The author did a very poor job on this ugly story. In fact it seems the author has some gay issues mixed with some cuckold issues that were transported to this bad story.
This story lacks of creativity, nonsense, shallow, low context, poor written and it is not even hot nor sexy story.
This story is not enjoyable and it is such waste of time reading all the way through."

She (at least her username is a "she") has copied-and-pasted this comment on at least two dozen stories today. Based on the fact that they all appear back-to-back in the Feedback Forum, there is no way she could have actually read any of these stories!

What does she think she is accomplishing by spending so much time navigating, copying, and pasting? Seriously.