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But, again, if you write about topics that intentionally provoke strong emotional responses, you'll just have to live with receiving strong emotional responses.
Sure. Believe it or not, I'm not rubbing my hands together and cackling like a witch between bars while I'm writing. I don't even consider how the readership may be provoked while I'm writing CC. Except to the extent that hate comments have actually inspired a sentence here or there. The provocation is actually entirely unintentional in this case.
 
I am actually King Charles, but it is a secret, so shhh! I like reading naughty things while my butler is touching my royal dong. My hands are too refined for such menial tasks.
If you were a real king, you'd have called it 'our royal dong' and 'our hands,' and used 'we' instead of 'I.'
Imposter!
 
Sure. Believe it or not, I'm not rubbing my hands together and cackling like a witch between bars while I'm writing. I don't even consider how the readership may be provoked while I'm writing CC. Except to the extent that hate comments have actually inspired a sentence here or there. The provocation is actually entirely unintentional in this case.

Just to make sure we're on the same page:

I didn't claim that you're intentionally provoking strong negative emotions. I'm not accusing you of writing your stories in order to piss off readers. You are, however, writing erotica. And I assumed you're doing so to excite readers. That's the kind of "strong emotional response" I was talking about.
 
Just to make sure we're on the same page:

I didn't claim that you're intentionally provoking strong negative emotions. I'm not accusing you of writing your stories in order to piss off readers. You are, however, writing erotica. And I assumed you're doing so to excite readers. That's the kind of "strong emotional response" I was talking about.
Ah, okay. Great. I can be forgiven for the misunderstanding given the context of the discussion, I hope
 
Exactly! So let those who enjoy cursing and shouting express themselves as they see fit. Don't like it? Delete or ignore it, but don't complain afterward that you're not receiving enough feedback. And what's your hang-up with politeness? You might have been raised in Windsor Palace, but most of us weren't, and right now, you're on a sex site, so leave your BS at home.
Did you mean Windsor Castle?

I really think people should expect criticism for poor research. Also I'm not sure that the British Royal Family are the best examples of politeness, the late Duke of Edinburgh certainly had a way with rudeness.
 
Exactly! So let those who enjoy cursing and shouting express themselves as they see fit. Don't like it? Delete or ignore it, but don't complain afterward that you're not receiving enough feedback. And what's your hang-up with politeness? You might have been raised in Windsor Palace, but most of us weren't, and right now, you're on a sex site, so leave your BS at home.
In my experience, people who brag about their lack of a filter (while claiming they're practicing "tough love") just want to act like assholes in public without owning the consequences.
 
Does to me. I value those comments at less than zero.

Edit: To clarify, if there's a nickel in a turd, I don't want the nickel badly enough to accept the turd.
Suppose it was your wife's wedding ring. Then would you be of sufficiently 'robust fortitude' to pick the value out of the shit?
 
And I'm fairly certain that this is a complete non-argument. To continue using my earlier example, if I place a big fat sign above my stall telling people that I'm offering tarantulas, there will be no less people complaining about me doing so. There will be even more, because it draws the attention of those who, without the big fat sign, would have just walked past my stall without even realizing it offers tarantulas.

Maybe so. But that's on them, not on the tarantula vendor, and we don't have to pretend like these are rough diamonds offering valuable critique.

There seems to be some misapprehension in this discussion that nobody objecting to these comments could have read Madeline's stories. In fact, IIRC, her first post in this forum a couple of months back was asking about reader reaction to her stories, so I went and read a couple of them back then and commented about why I felt they weren't getting a great reaction. (Focussing on story issues, not on any kind of "you're a terrible person for writing these stories".)

That discussion didn't go very well, and it became clear that Madeline and I have fairly different ideas about what we're looking for in fiction.

So I chanted the magic words "not everything in this world is for me" and went off to read stuff by other authors that fits my tastes better instead of reading every chapter she puts out just so I could whine about her not catering to my personal tastes. It's so easy!
 
Some people mellow as they age, and some people rot. The rotting ones become the stereotypical crotchety old farts who yell at clouds and watch cable news all day.

The rotting old-timers who write Lit stories earn a 2.60 score then come to AH to vent their spleen. 😆

Full disclosure: I’m an old fart who tries to mellow gracefully but occasionally lapses into yelling at clouds.
I'm here to people-watch. If I read you right, and I'm sure I do, you're one who's 'willing to wound but afraid to strike'. I'd place you at the 'virtue-signalling sensitivity' end of the spectrum.
 
Hello. Is it possible to block somebody? Not on the forums, but on the main site. I have an obsessive hater named Whackdoodle who cannot stop commenting on all of my chapters, spewing vitriol against me personally, and aggressively misunderstanding the material that he is supposedly reading. Most websites with this kind of social function have a block feature. I cannot seem to find one on Lit.
Whackdoodle is a sick mother fucker
 
If you were a real king, you'd have called it 'our royal dong' and 'our hands,' and used 'we' instead of 'I.'
Imposter!
If he were King Charles, he would have had a Queen to do that sort of work, and he would have huffily complained that 'one's hand is trembling'. I sense that neither of you has actually been to the Palace.
 
You went to do some homework, didn't you? AwkwardlySet has the same sense of humor...
No. You're so busy making assumptions about people here, their motivations and intentions, you fail to see anything that doesn't fit those assumptions. Your agenda seems focused entirely on maintaining your sense of superiority. Mine is is primarily to entertain myself and hopefully others who recognise that.

I have no axe to grind whereas you seem fixated on somehow proving that everybody does, whether they admit it or not.
 
I'm here to people-watch. If I read you right, and I'm sure I do, you're one who's 'willing to wound but afraid to strike'. I'd place you at the 'virtue-signalling sensitivity' end of the spectrum.
“Virtue signaling” like “tough love” is another dodge people use to avoid accepting the consequences of being an asshole in public.

I don’t care if someone is being nice for reasons you don’t approve of. Nice is nice. A little hypocrisy is essential for civil society.
 
“Virtue signaling” like “tough love” is another dodge people use to avoid accepting the consequences of being an asshole in public.

I don’t care if someone is being nice for reasons you don’t approve of. Nice is nice. A little hypocrisy is essential for civil society.
Really? Do you think it's going to rain?
 
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[I can broadcast my opinion but I'm not going to respond to yours.]

Poor form.
I'll try to take comfort from in fact there's only one thing worse than being responded to, which is not being responded to. Have a nice day.
 
It's irksome but it makes your position weak. Arrogance is self sustaining though; I understand.

As expected.
I'll try to take further comfort from in fact there's only one thing worse than being responded to twice, which is being responded to only once.

Have you read any of those stories where a Princess meets a Prince, and for some reason they get off to a bad start? They keep getting thrown together 'til they fall in love, and end up living happily ever after together, in a Disney Castle.

I feel as if I've been unwillingly sucked into a trope.
 
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