How to delete and very non-constructive comment

[32aa]

Getting constructive comments is very helpful, and i have learned a lot, as i am still a novice. But, sometimes there are very critical and non-constructive comments posted on the end of my stories. How can i delete those from my stories?

Thanks,

 

[Flowgo]

Do you mean in the forum?

 

[32aa]

No. From the end of posted story on the LIT side

 

[32aa]

I just don't like some jerk picking apart my story and having their comments follow my story forward.

 

[Taggy1]

I just don't like some jerk picking apart my story and having their comments follow my story forward.

Don’t let people upset you

 

[NightL]

Had to look - yup he seems a bit obsessive, but can't see it falling into reportable trolling.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Getting constructive comments is very helpful, and i have learned a lot, as i am still a novice. But, sometimes there are very critical and non-constructive comments posted on the end of my stories. How can i delete those from my stories?

Thanks,

Go into your Control Panel, click on Works, find the story, click on the speech bubble (the first icon), find the offending comment, click on the bin. Comment deleted. Easy. Don't be afraid to use it. You'd clear dog turds off your lawn, it's the same thing.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Go into your Control Panel, click on Works, find the story, click on the speech bubble (the first icon), find the offending comment, click on the bin. Comment deleted. Easy. Don't be afraid to use it. You'd clear dog turds off your lawn, it's the same thing.

Actually, I used to make the guy who owned the dog clear the turds off my lawn.

 

[32aa]

I hate to sound stupid; but, where is the control panel?

And when i clean dog turds off my lawn i throw them on the dog's owner's lawn!!

 

[ElectricBlue]

I hate to sound stupid; but, where is the control panel?

And when i clean dog turds off my lawn i throw them on the dog's owner's lawn!!

If you're logged in, clicking on this should take you to yours:

https://www.literotica.com/my/#/user/profile

When you get there, click in Works. Home shows you all the activity going on with your stories, including notifications from anyone you follow.

 

[32aa]

OK. I've been there, just didn't know it was the 'control pane' or that i could delete comments from there. Many Thanks!!

 

[Buscando]

I just don't like some jerk picking apart my story and having their comments follow my story forward.

I don't know what's going on with regard to your specific case here, but based on your comment, I'd offer an observation for your consideration.

As an artist who offers your work for public consideration - and comment - you are then making yourself vulnerable, and that's a huge part of the reality for art and artists, and is also often a very rich contributing factor in the final product, whatever the medium, since it obviously has such an effect on the artist during the process.

You must be willing and able to survive that aspect of it, or you simply won't survive as an artist. At the very least, your defensiveness and insecurity will impede your development in your work.

You might do a bit of introspection here, early on, and ask yourself if, for the course of your lifetime, you've only examined, evaluated and accepted the positive comments, observations or advice you've received from others. If the answer is no, then why not apply the same wisdom here?

Especially as a beginning writer, there's likely to be gold to be mined from some of the negative commentary you receive. That's called criticism, and as artists, we are all subjected to it, and like it or not, it's part of the deal. And actually, it can be quite a valuable tool. If not, then like any other bum tool, just toss it and look for another.

However, as with any other product or service, trying to censor your reviews is truly disingenuous, and will eventually bite you when folks discover you're doing it, since it speaks loudly to your credibility.

The very best way to avoid needless negative reviews in writing is to get yourself an editor that you feel comfortable with, and work closely with him or her, and allow yourself to learn all you can in the process. All professional writers, whether by choice or as a condition of submission, have at least one editor, and there's of course a reason for that. That's why editors exist and are paid. It's a valuable and necessary service, and you'll often see professional writers offering high praise and sincere thanks to their editors.

Something to think about.

If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of “The Elements of Style.” The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy. ~ Dorothy Parker