Not Very Bright Readers

[RexRichards]

Anybody else surprised at silly comments by some readers? I've submitted two stories and was dumbfounded by a number of ridiculous reviews. Yes, I got good reviews, but a number of others accused me , with venom, of being stupid and/or a terrible writer who wasted their time. I found the latter to be pretty funny, as I've literally made millions of dollars over the last 40 years as a professional writer, my sole occupation. These folks were unable to grasp some of the most elementary literary concepts such as poetic license and charicature. A couple folks who read a story of mine under the 'Cuck' heading said I was "sick" and was going to hell. What were they doing reading cuck material when they find the concept of cucking to be heinous? Curious.
Anyway, I'm going to keep writing because that's what I do. It's my version of being an older musician who amuses himself by strumming his guitar on the porch in the evening.
Happy writing to all.

 

[NotWise]

Welcome to Lit. I'm sure you'll figure things out.

Lit may not be the best place for literary subtlety--especially in LW--and using "cuck" in a title probably pulled in the LW crowd even though you put it in EC. Other topics and other categories may get you readers who are more open to your style.

 

[XerXesXu]

https://www.literotica.com/stories/memberpage.php?uid=5546351&page=submissions

Someone will ask.

 

[SimonDoom]

I haven't been surprised since January 2017, when I published my one and only Loving Wives story.

In the words of Elvis Costello, "I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused."

 

[KeithD]

Yes, I've occasionally, over the last thirty and more years of writing, encountered what I thought were stupid comments. I don't remember opening a thread on the discussion board to rant about them, though.

 

[MrPixel]

It didn't take very long to lurk here in AH to understand that LW is evidently where the trolls and misogynists live on Lit. My non-scientific, non-statistical observation is a great story in LW will eventually score a whole point or more less than the same story in another section. I don't publish in LW because of it despite some of my writings probably better fitting the category.

Didn't I read somewhere that certain search keywords will get bombed, too?

I'd like to be magnanimous and say I'm not about the scoring, but I am - I use it as a guide for choosing stories I may want to read. I would expect similar from other readers. A great-sounding title with a score <3 likely has readability issues.

 

[KeithD]

Didn't I read somewhere that certain search keywords will get bombed, too?

You may have, but I can't see how reliable statistical date could be found to support that premise.

 

[rescatooor]

You may have, but I can't see how reliable statistical date could be found to support that premise.

One could look up stories after a tag and see how well those stories fare in their assigned categories. Even better if the tag is atypical for the category. That could at the very least give enough basis for a hypothesis. One could make a practical experiment as well. Write two fairly similar stories, once without the tag, once with. Repeat as often as necessary.

 

[yukonnights]

Rex,

I read your cuckold story and to be honest, it is pretty rough. There are several punctuation issue, capital letters left in lower case, etc. To me, it also had an unbelievable situation with the wife harshly berating the husband for an offense he did years past on their wedding day. That seemed over done given they stayed married some years / some time after his offense. She held a grudge all this time and then snapped?

The part where he is masturbating as she gets dressed to the nines for her date; I can't see how that could happen in real life. He was portrayed as a rather macho personality, and this sudden turn into a begging cuckold just didn't seem real to me.

The comments from those who read the story; Some were more blunt than necessary. But in general; there are about 5 supportive/appreciative comments and about 9 negative comments — almost 2 to 1 negative to positive. That's not unusual for controversial story themes — and the cuckold theme may be the most controversial one on Lit.

If it makes you feel any better; I wrote a cuckold trilogy. The first part rated at 4.56 and the other two went down hill from there. It's a tough theme and it's hard to find the right category for them.

Can't let it get you down too far — and getting riled up serves no good end. Keep on writing is the way forward. Hope this more calm review helps, even if just a little.

 

[AlinaX]

Charicature?

 

[jsmiam]

Charicature?

Charicature - poking fun at people
Carichature - poking fun at online chatters. Or people named rich.
Caricathure - poking fun at people with lisps

Pharody- poking fun at pharaohs
Parhody- poking fun at rhodium

Shatire- poking fun at people who had accidents
Sathire - poking fun at people from a small region in France

Lamphoon - poking fun at hurricanes that spin the wrong way

Caushtic - poking fun at mean, but always predictable people

Sarchasm - ) the giant gulf between the sarcastic comment and the person who doesn't get it. (Apparently wrongly credited Washington post contest.) https://www.washingtonpost.com/ente...a76fac-77a3-11e2-95e4-6148e45d7adb_story.html and also (the list) https://www.washingtonpostsmensainvitational.com/

 

[geronimo_appleby]

loving wives questions pop up as often as the underage ones appear as well.

LW is what it is. don't waste energy in an attempt to work it out.

 

[windar]

I've literally made millions of dollars over the last 40 years as a professional writer, my sole occupation.

And this was the best you could come up with? A pedestrian, unimaginative cuck story on a free site? Whatever...And LeBron James showed up down at the local park and was barely up to the standards of the guys playing pick-up...

 

[windar]

Shatire- poking fun at people who had accidents

Are you sure that isn't the uniform Captain Kirk wore on Star Trek???

 

[Lifestyle66]

Anybody else surprised at silly comments by some readers? I've submitted two stories and was dumbfounded by a number of ridiculous reviews. .....

If you post extra-marital stories to the Loving Wives category, those comments and low ratings are what you get.

For some perverse reason, there's a huge following of people who spend their time on this LitE site reading cheating wife stories to post just such negative comments. Maybe that's what Alan was doing at home in your story, while his wife was banging the football players.

I considered your LW story a reasonably good one for what it was: short and quick. I would recommend spending more time with the build-up and add more to provide descriptions of the scene and context around them.

 

[jsmiam]

Are you sure that isn't the uniform Captain Kirk wore on Star Trek???

Wow, how did I miss William Shatner?

1. poking fun at William Shatner‘s attire (thanks)
2. Poking fun at William Shatner’s attire from the old red shirt/brown pants joke (double points). I couldn’t find the Star Trek version, but this is the same joke from a pirate ship perspective (2 or 3 from the top) https://punstoppable.com/o-captain!-my-captain!-puns
3. Poking fun at William Shatner just for being William Shatner

 

[TadOverdon]

Funnier than the people who vent their honest stupid outrage at these kinds of fantasies and berate the author in personal terms are the ones who try to wound by being dismissive. Like this guy:

You're gonna get hate from the LW trolls but it's really just a mediocre story.

Who gets worked up enough about a story they consider so-so to post a comment about it? Pretty clumsy passive-aggressive behavior.

As for "charicature," I think I'm a pretty good speller but I've got a couple of common words that I can't keep myself from misspelling no matter how I try to learn them. "Miniature" is one. I don't know why, but the proper spellings look wrong to me and I trip over them.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Loving Wives(LW) is a hot bed of different outlooks on the fantasies of the Hotwife lifestyle.

I have had a couple of comments lately on a few of my LW stories...

Zero Stars, it was a waste of my time.

I couldn't get past the first paragraph. Zero stars.

You also have a power that the readers don't. You can delete any comment you wish.

The two above got deleted as being a waste of space. And they think that because they read or at least clicked on the story it has something to do with the score.

I also delete any that are directed towards me. Personal comments about an author should be deleted. Of course there are so many readers who think that every story on Lit is TRUE.

 

[XerXesXu]

Zero Stars, it was a waste of my time.

I couldn't get past the first paragraph. Zero stars.

= Not very bright reader. 'Zero stars' does no harm, not even bright enough to 1 bomb.

 

[geronimo_appleby]

= Not very bright reader. 'Zero stars' does no harm, not even bright enough to 1 bomb.

it's probably an attempt at psychological damage. a deliberate attempt to shatter confidence.

there are some mean, nasty cunts out there.

some of the feedback i've had in LW makes me worry for people's mental health - and my own safety if the weirdos ever came face-to-face.

 

[TadOverdon]

I deleted a comment that got personal. That's the only time I bothered. Surprisingly, the not-anonymous commenter reposted their extremely negative remarks about the story, minus the personal attack. I felt that was a little victory.

 

[Comshaw]

Loving Wives(LW) is a hot bed of different outlooks on the fantasies of the Hotwife lifestyle.

I have had a couple of comments lately on a few of my LW stories...

Zero Stars, it was a waste of my time.

I couldn't get past the first paragraph. Zero stars.

You also have a power that the readers don't. You can delete any comment you wish.

The two above got deleted as being a waste of space. And they think that because they read or at least clicked on the story it has something to do with the score.

I also delete any that are directed towards me. Personal comments about an author should be deleted. Of course there are so many readers who think that every story on Lit is TRUE.

I've never received a "zero stars" comment, but if I did I'd leave it. It might convince others of the same mentality that simply clicking on a story and doing nothing else gives a zero rating. More clicks for the story can't hurt, huh? Especially at the expense of those with malicious intent.

Comshaw

 

[AlinaX]

Lamphoon - poking fun at hurricanes that spin the wrong way
Caushtic - poking fun at mean, but always predictable people

Lamphoon made me laugh, thank you. Caushtic reminds me of Sean Connery.

As for "charicature," I think I'm a pretty good speller but I've got a couple of common words that I can't keep myself from misspelling no matter how I try to learn them. "Miniature" is one. I don't know why, but the proper spellings look wrong to me and I trip over them.

I have a number of words like that too. I don't normally poke fun at spelling errors, but the context amused me this time: "I've literally made millions of dollars over the last 40 years as a professional writer ... poetic license and charicature."

 

[lovecraft68]

Charicature?

An obvious one, but people will still reply to it as proved by that grammar performance artist in the thread the mod closed.

Sometimes you just have to be able to sniff out the troll.

On the topic of trolls when he said he made millions my first thought was "Scouries is that you?"

 

[AlinaX]

An obvious one, but people will still reply to it as proved by that grammar performance artist in the thread the mod closed.

Oh wow. That thread really got out of control.