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[CandiCame]

For starters, I was responding to TriadWriter's question, but no, in fact the only explicit part of your OP was what you actually posted. And what I answered to TriadWriter was a good answer to what you posted as well. You posted nothing of a social media network outside of the story comment function on the stories right here on Literotica.

Incidentally, "I know what I wrote" is in the top five fallacious statements writers make when editors point out that, no, you didn't actually write what you thought you did.

Oh my god, you changed this after I already quoted it to make it seem like you were responding to someone who you knew wouldn't be here to tell you how wrong you were- and even in that context- you would STILL be wrong. No one asked how to make a new comment. No one asked how to email. All TriadWriter said was that I couldn't reply- and they were RIGHT.

 

[CandiCame]

Last time. A new comment can be a reply to a comment. the content of it tells you whether it is or not. Are you a native English speaker?

You are WRONG about this. That is not what it means. I've already told you a thousand times what it means. You are off-topic.

I AM THE OP. I WAS TALKING ABOUT COMMENT REPLIES. It doesn't matter what you thought I said- if you genuinely thought I meant "how to make a new comment that mentions the previous comment", and I said, as I did several times, "That's not what I meant" then the actual way to respond to that, as a human person, is, "Oh, well no then."

You don't keep fighting about it and telling someone that they're wrong about what they, themselves said- ESPECIALLY when you're the only one who either doesn't understand me, or is pretending not to understand me.

Most people won't just stand there and let you gaslight them when they can go back and read what they actually wrote. It's not like this is a verbal conversation.

 

[JaxRhapsody]

I LITERALLY ASKED HOW TO REPLY TO A COMMENT AND YOU TOLD ME HOW TO MAKE A NEW COMMENT.

Yeah, you can't reply to comments. This site is as old as Geocities.

 

[KeithD]

Oh my god, you changed this after I already quoted it to make it seem like you were responding to someone who you knew wouldn't be here to tell you how wrong you were- and even in that context- you would STILL be wrong. No one asked how to make a new comment. No one asked how to email. All TriadWriter said was that I couldn't reply- and they were RIGHT.

I changed it because I realized that I hadn't actually responded to your OP at all. But that it was essentially the same question that I did respond to TriadWriter on.

I gave a logical response to what both you and TriadWriter actually asked. But don't worry, I won't make the mistake of trying to help you again.

 

[CandiCame]

Yeah, you can't reply to comments. This site is as old as Geocities.

Yeah. I guess I just need to get off this thread. This old dude is making my blood boil. I don't know why he's pretending not to know what a reply is.

Hey, did you know they brought Geocities back? It's called "Terrabyte of the Killobyte age" or something like that. And the company reopened. I'm thinking of getting one and doing it up like those sites we made as kids. I wanna get the spinning skull gif and a blinking star background.

 

[CandiCame]

I changed it because I realized that I hadn't actually responded to your OP at all. But that it was essentially the same question that I did respond to TriadWriter on.

I gave a logical response to what both you and TriadWriter actually asked. But don't worry, I won't make the mistake of trying to help you again.

Thank the lord.

Edit: Shit I can't do a strike-through. I was gonna strike-through "trying to help" and replace it with "trolling".

 

[LupusDei]

Last time. A new comment can be a reply to a comment. the content of it tells you whether it is or not. Are you a native English speaker?

The thing is, you're apparently not a 'native social media' speaker. To them, response and new comment are not the same, even if a new comment can be in response to another comment in principle, if those are not linked explicitly they don't see it as response. That's a thing that don't exist here, but he was indeed asking is he blind for not being able to find what seems to not exist.

 

[JaxRhapsody]

Yeah. I guess I just need to get off this thread. This old dude is making my blood boil. I don't know why he's pretending not to know what a reply is.

Hey, did you know they brought Geocities back? It's called "Terrabyte of the Killobyte age" or something like that. And the company reopened. I'm thinking of getting one and doing it up like those sites we made as kids. I wanna get the spinning skull gif and a blinking star background.

The difference is probably trivial to Pilot and I can't imagine him really being a social media kinda guy. We don't know how old he is either, most of us don't give a lot of details of our lives. Granted I was getting irratated too, but honestly threaded view comments aren't that common. I only know of a few sites that aren't this design that use it. MopedArmy being one, having threaded view set to default, you can switch it to flat plane view, which is what this site and many others use. Between you and me, he's probably 4 or 5 decades old.

 

[LupusDei]

The difference is probably trivial to Pilot and I can't imagine him really being a social media kinda guy. We don't know how old he is either, most of us don't give a lot of details of our lives. Granted I was getting irratated too, but honestly threaded view comments aren't that common. I only know of a few sites that aren't this design that use it. MopedArmy being one, having threaded view set to default, you can switch it to flat plane view, which is what this site and many others use. Between you and me, he's probably 4 or 5 decades old.

If we're guessing KeithD/pilot age, I would go 75+ for sure and probably a good decade more. Somewhere here he said he have tremors serious enough to be physically unable to use smartphone or any small keyboard.

 

[NotWise]

I was wondering if there was a way to reply to comments? On other sites when someone leaves a comment I always reply to thank them. I can't find a reply button, but I'm really bad to overlook stuff.

I read your story, and the comment, and your thread in the Story Feedback forum. I suspect that the anonymous comment came from someone on the Story Feedback forum. If that's the case, then you have already provided a reply.

 

[KeithD]

I tried answering the questions actually being asked and I got shat on by butthurt Awkward and now by Candi--and Jax. So, who else wants to take a shot? Shrug. That's life at Literotica.

 

[CandiCame]

The difference is probably trivial to Pilot and I can't imagine him really being a social media kinda guy. We don't know how old he is either, most of us don't give a lot of details of our lives. Granted I was getting irratated too, but honestly threaded view comments aren't that common. I only know of a few sites that aren't this design that use it. MopedArmy being one, having threaded view set to default, you can switch it to flat plane view, which is what this site and many others use. Between you and me, he's probably 4 or 5 decades old.

Yeah, but you can not be a dick about it. I wasn't frustrated that he didn't know. That other user didn't know either, but he acted like a human who knew how to interact with other humans and no one had to experience any negative emotions about it.

I'm mostly used to posting stories on places like AO3, where I can thank people for comments. Lit has a pm system, but this user left an anon comment that I thought was pretty sweet. It was criticism about the content- they had read the whole story, even though they didn't like it, AND left feedback. We all know how rare that is. Most people just click off. And it helped me understand Lit's audience so that I could tailor my writing to my audience, which is genuinely helpful. I am thankful, and I just wanted to express that. I didn't know it would be a whole big thing. I just thought maybe I missed where the reply button was- like maybe it was in a weird place because the tags are in kind of a weird place, at the bottom. I'm used to tags being at the top or the side, so people can see them first and know what they're reading. I thought it might just be a layout thing and I had missed it, because like I said in the OP, I'm bad to overlook stuff.

 

[CandiCame]

I read your story, and the comment, and your thread in the Story Feedback forum. I suspect that the anonymous comment came from someone on the Story Feedback forum. If that's the case, then you have already provided a reply.

I got that vibe, too, but I just wanted to be polite and respond to the comment. I was just raised that that was the proper etiquette.

I really appreciate your feedback, too! I'm working on another story more tailored to the Lit audience. I DRASTICALLY misunderstood it. My main problem now is figuring out how to plot short stories so that they don't turn into novels.

 

[CandiCame]

If we're guessing KeithD/pilot age, I would go 75+ for sure and probably a good decade more. Somewhere here he said he have tremors serious enough to be physically unable to use smartphone or any small keyboard.

Oh, dude, that sucks. That has to like, be a pretty bad impairment for quality of life. My hands shake but it's not like tremors...

 

[NotWise]

I really appreciate your feedback, too! I'm working on another story more tailored to the Lit audience. I DRASTICALLY misunderstood it. My main problem now is figuring out how to plot short stories so that they don't turn into novels.

That was my main goal when I first posted stories to Lit. My first two stories were exercises to see if I could write a complete story without running on endlessly.

You might want to hit that goal, but the truth is that readers on Lit often want you to turn your story into novels, or at least novellas. Long stories are appreciated.

 

[CandiCame]

That was my main goal when I first posted stories to Lit. My first two stories were exercises to see if I could write a complete story without running on endlessly.

You might want to hit that goal, but the truth is that readers on Lit often want you to turn your story into novels, or at least novellas. Long stories are appreciated.

Really? Someone showed me a link that said that people didn't really read chapters and it was better to write short stories...

I can go on forever. I'm bad at finding an ending.

 

[NotWise]

Really? Someone showed me a link that said that people didn't really read chapters and it was better to write short stories...

I can go on forever. I'm bad at finding an ending.

Finding an ending is likely to be important for your own writing goals. I'd encourage you to do that, but for Lit purposes you don't need to find the ending inside 10,000 words.

I think there are well-rated stories on Lit that, by length, are epic novels. It's a completely subjective statistic, but my three longest stories are also my highest scoring. They do well (for me) in terms of views and favorites as well. "Long" in my case is less than 30,000 words, so just novella-length. Some authors routinely post novels.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Really? Someone showed me a link that said that people didn't really read chapters and it was better to write short stories...

I can go on forever. I'm bad at finding an ending.

For every person who doesn't read multi-chapter stories, the next person will. What people don't like are the great unfinished novels, where the writer runs out of ideas or time, or it just got too much.

If you're going to write a long thing, common advice is to have it all written before you submit, or be prepared to keep up, if you release as you go.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Talking about comments on stories, not email feedback. There is no "reply" button in the comments section, which is what the OP was asking about. They're using email feedback as a proxy, unweildy as that may be, and hoping we had better solutions or secret knowledge.

Yes, I know. It would be awful hard to reply to anon comment directly, wouldn't it? That was what my comment was about.

 

[CandiCame]

Finding an ending is likely to be important for your own writing goals. I'd encourage you to do that, but for Lit purposes you don't need to find the ending inside 10,000 words.

I think there are well-rated stories on Lit that, by length, are epic novels. It's a completely subjective statistic, but my three longest stories are also my highest scoring. They do well (for me) in terms of views and favorites as well. "Long" in my case is less than 30,000 words, so just novella-length. Some authors routinely post novels.

I've got stories on other sites that are like 130,000 and not finished. I have a PROBLEM.

For every person who doesn't read multi-chapter stories, the next person will. What people don't like are the great unfinished novels, where the writer runs out of ideas or time, or it just got too much.

If you're going to write a long thing, common advice is to have it all written before you submit, or be prepared to keep up, if you release as you go.

This is a really good idea, but I have a problem with it. I just can't finish things, especially if I'm not getting feedback, because I keep getting more ideas that are probably just bullshit padding. I'll just keep going- even if I have an ending in mind, because I'll be like, "But what if this happened! And then this! And then this!"