Most memorable negative story comment you've received

[SimonDoom]

We're all human, and it can be tough to get criticism for a story you've put your heart and effort and creativity into. But sometimes comments are so ridiculously outrageous that they can be fun.

My all-timer is this comment I received to my story BTB, Incorporated, shortly after it was published in early 2017:

"Here, eat my used condom."

I think that sets a pretty high bar of outrageousness. What's your own favorite among the most outrageously negative comments you've received to a story?

 

[pink_silk_glove]

Great story except for the ending, worthy of Mills and Boon. Neat but nothing for the author to be proud of, a possible cloud over her life.

Does he really think that because it was written in first person that it is my own true story? (I consider Mills and Boon an insult btw, : P)

this was so awful i’m not even bothering completing it. i’m so tired of y’all writing Black characters as every stereotype you’ve ever seen and thinking that’s okay.

Emphasis mine. Oh, the irony.

These are the folks voting us up and down, so remember that when you think that your score tells you how good you are, kids.

Cue the vigilantes.

 

[MrPixel]

I deleted it the moment I saw it, but I had one for the Nude Day event this year on one of my rare incursions into LW that humors me every time I recall it. It wasn't even anon, IIRC. It was a screed castigating me over portraying a nudist resort as a hard-core, open-sex swinger venue, that how dare I do something so childish as to besmirch the positivity and enlightenment of modern, informed recreational social nudity. I wanted so badly to burst their bubble, but comments are a lousy debate forum.

They were obviously unaware (or ignoring) that such places exist, but are never, ever to be seen listed in the "official" nude recreation directories. You know, the ones that promote "wholesome" and "family friendly". I'm totally creeped-out by the inverse corollary in that - you want your young children roaming naked around a resort among naked adults they (and you) do not know? I'll take the reality of adults doing adult things in adult-only places, thankyouverymuch.

 

[Lifestyle66]

I had one comment about two years ago, which was only online for a few days. I think the Admins deleted it, because I don't delete any comments.

It was in all caps, saying: "EAT SHIT AND DIE!"

Of course, I chose not to do either. But someday I'm sure I will do one of those, and probably not the other.

 

[joy_of_cooking]

Emphasis mine. Oh, the irony.

Sorry, what is the irony here?

 

[shakna]

You live at [REDACTED]. I might just feed this trash to you, in a couple days.

That one was pretty damn memorable. And involved a trip to the cops.

(Sent via email.)

 

[StillStunned]

I'm not sure whether it was negative, but "TRES ESTRELLAS" still has me wondering: why all caps?

 

[yowser]

Of course the most savory comments have usually been deleted by the authorities, and so I cannot recreate the exact wording. On a LW story told from the wife's POV, I was told in no uncertain terms that as a Lady I was a 'vile, cheating, sick, worthless piece of whore wife'. (A fair percentage of LW readership both has difficulty with the notion of fiction, as well as an inability to separate out authorial gender, identity, etc.)

But! A rare event in the world of commentary, I got an apology for the initial trashing:

Woops! Just checked your profile. Sorry about the "Lady"

 

[NoTalentHack]

I get a pretty fair share of negative comments, several of which I hold near and dear to my heart. Only one, however, has compared one of my stories to Nazi propaganda. From Kayfabe, my cuck/bull buddy (sort of) comedy:

This reads like Joseph Goebbels wrote a propaganda piece on the virtues of cuckolding and being a cuckold. I am surprised it wasn't entitled "Hahnrei Macht Frei"! Bulls aren't such bad fellows. They really have your best interest at heart after all. That and they want to keep pounding your wife into the mattress every weekend for the next 6 months... or longer! No way, not happening. I would end up in prison or on the run, as long as I made sure the wife's bull ended up a steer! The wife would need surgery to reopen her lower lips after her unfortunate accident falling on her Singer sewing machine. Men who feel the need for humiliation are lesser men, feral spirits of despair. -- 1☆

Props here: feral spirits of despair is a metal phrase.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

"Mediocre poker story." Story involved no poking whatsoever - it's all conversation!
They followed it with "But your name? Geez, Cumquats are tiny, tart little orange things barely larger than a grape. If you want a sour face, bite into a cumquat."
I feel somewhat personally insulted!

This was the only comment I had in my first couple years on Lit!

 

[Erozetta]

I don't have it at hand, but it was a comment on a pseudo incest story that involved some m/m between friends alongside intimacy with the younger sister of one of the friends.

He basically gave me fives on writing ability and plot, but a 1 for including m/m, the mfc and love interest having an age gap, and an orgy scene where the mfc "slutted out." All of this stuff happened in a dream. Except the age gap... that was odd because he called himself out by saying the age gap between himself and his wife was the same as the one between the characters, but he still docked me for it.

Overall he gave me a 3.

By far, that was my favorite comment I ever got because he went into detail about his scoring of the story and I found that to be a fair breakdown with solid reasoning.

 

[Rob_Royale]

This was rather memorable. He apparently didn't care for my boilerplate opening paragraph.

hornynhardforu2 months ago
A piece of advise to this dumb author - writing at the beginning of the story that this is a fiction and not a true story is seriously stupid as it kills the mystery and enthusiasm of the reader. Secondly the author should not think his readers are stupid like him as they know most stories in the website is fiction so STOP WRITING THAT YOUR STORY IS NOT TRUE COZ WE KNOW ITS NOT TRUE. No wonder u have only 30 followers

 

[Otto26]

! gave it a 00
It should have been two lower, one off for every page after page one--Unfortunately I could not do that

First comment on one of my better stories.

 

[Comshaw]

I notice that most all of the bad comments come from that A-hole Anonymous. He seems to find his (her maybe) way to all my stories. Ain't much to do about it though.

Two of the most memorable bad comments I've gotten are:

That's ten minutes of my life I will never get back....
What a fucking waste of time.

And

Her parents screwed this poor skank up by giving her a boy's name when she was born. No wonder she does stupid shit, been in a constant state of confusion her entire life.


Comshaw

 

[SimonDoom]

I get a pretty fair share of negative comments, several of which I hold near and dear to my heart. Only one, however, has compared one of my stories to Nazi propaganda. From Kayfabe, my cuck/bull buddy (sort of) comedy:



Props here: feral spirits of despair is a metal phrase.

Have to admit -- that's impressive.

 

[Fatdog25]

I had a commenter tell me that my six page story should have been three pages.

It was a prequel to an upcoming story, I was heavily invested in the characters, I worked really hard on the dialog, and I thought the interrogation scene was among the best things I had written up to that point.

I couldn't believe the audacity. I went to all that trouble to flesh out the characters and they thought it was too long. I'm not saying they were wrong but, really...the audacity.

(Yes, I overwrite. It's a feature, not a bug.)

 

[RetroFan]

I had a commenter tell me that my six page story should have been three pages.

It was a prequel to an upcoming story, I was heavily invested in the characters, I worked really hard on the dialog, and I thought the interrogation scene was among the best things I had written up to that point.

I couldn't believe the audacity. I went to all that trouble to flesh out the characters and they thought it was too long. I'm not saying they were wrong but, really...the audacity.

(Yes, I overwrite. It's a feature, not a bug.)

I had a similar comment on one of my Loving Wives stories, where I was informed that bad stories about dykes fucking their brother's cheating wives should be no longer than 3 pages in length, while mine was 11. Unfortunately I was ignorant of this very specific rule when I submitted the said bad story narrated by a feminist lesbian, had I known I would have submitted a good story narrated by a feminist lesbian. But there also doesn't seem to be anything about how many pages good lesbian stories submitted in LW are allowed to be. Perhaps 6, maybe even 7 or 8, even 9 if it is brilliant?

Worst though was one in Incest Taboo, the comment title was 'Kill Yourself' and the comment 'Get it through your head, it being a bullet'. The comment seemed a bit extreme given I was only trying to make people laugh and I wouldn't think one person would wish death upon another person simply for being a bad comedian, but there you go. Administrators removed it in a few days. I had one years ago not long after I joined where the reader told me they hoped I would get cancer and die, and another a few years back where the reader advised me that I needed to have my head smashed in with a hammer, but these were also quickly removed by the site administrators.

 

[OnlyHappyEndings]

"Dreadful" - one of my very earliest comments received.

Story was about an uptight older woman horrified that a man might want to put his mouth "down there". The following chapters are among my highest rated, most loved stories.

 

[Fatdog25]

I had a similar comment on one of my Loving Wives stories, where I was informed that bad stories about dykes fucking their brother's cheating wives should be no longer than 3 pages in length, while mine was 11. Unfortunately I was ignorant of this very specific rule when I submitted the said bad story narrated by a feminist lesbian, had I known I would have submitted a good story narrated by a feminist lesbian. But there also doesn't seem to be anything about how many pages good lesbian stories submitted in LW are allowed to be. Perhaps 6, maybe even 7 or 8, even 9 if it is brilliant?

Worst though was one in Incest Taboo, the comment title was 'Kill Yourself' and the comment 'Get it through your head, it being a bullet'. The comment seemed a bit extreme given I was only trying to make people laugh and I wouldn't think one person would wish death upon another person simply for being a bad comedian, but there you go. Administrators removed it in a few days. I had one years ago not long after I joined where the reader told me they hoped I would get cancer and die, and another a few years back where the reader advised me that I needed to have my head smashed in with a hammer, but these were also quickly removed by the site administrators.

I laugh because I believe it.

I haven't had anyone tell me to unalive myself...yet. I've been taken to task for other things over the course of 14 stories and I've always tried to get something positive from negative comments.

It's one of the things I've come to appreciate about the commenters in I/T. Most of them don't feel the need to be abusive to make their point. Maybe it's just my audience but I have never received a comment that I considered deleting.

 

[ThatBoi21]

I can't remember the actual story it was posted along, but it was a complaint about how I have a cock fetish and how it ruins the story.

The story, in question, being from the perspective of a woman cheating on her husband with a younger man. With the theme of her comparing her younger lover to her husband who she's degrading and insulting in her head.

Apparently mentioning and describing what she's feeling and thinking means there's a cock fetish.

Honestly it's one of my favorite comments, and the phrase "cock fetish" has been part of my vocabulary ever since.

 

[RetroFan]

I don't delete comments about my stories whether good or bad - after all negative feedback is better than no feedback at all. I'll leave the site administrators to delete anything that breaks the site rules, such as suicide comments.

I publish stories in IT because I know people are probably going to read them, but it seems that using different story ideas and themes seem to get many of the readers offside there. They don't like comedy, they don't want to go on holidays, they don't want to go to interesting points of history and they don't like fantasy stories. They don't seem to appreciate stories where the IT couplings are those that vary from the standard ones, or which just use different themes.

For example, I have one story where the narrator is not directly involved in any incest, but observes that there are some strange dynamics between his friends (a twin brother and sister) and becomes fixated on just how close they are, before a series of events leads him to seeing direct evidence that his suspicions about his friends are correct, and not the result of an over-active imagination. Boy oh boy did the readers hate this story, but its not a theme that comes up very often at all so why be so negative?

 

[ronde]

My most memorable comment was that it was a ghastly story with mostly unpleasant people. The commenter intended for it to be negative, but what he really said was I achieved what I set out to do.

 

[MyBareTorso]

I notice that most all of the bad comments come from that A-hole Anonymous. He seems to find his (her maybe) way to all my stories. Ain't much to do about it though.

Two of the most memorable bad comments I've gotten are:

That's ten minutes of my life I will never get back....
What a fucking waste of time.

Yeah, like people who hang out on erotic fiction websites are really time poor!!

And

Her parents screwed this poor skank up by giving her a boy's name when she was born. No wonder she does stupid shit, been in a constant state of confusion her entire life.


Comshaw

 

[MyBareTorso]

I can't remember the actual story it was posted along, but it was a complaint about how I have a cock fetish and how it ruins the story.

The story, in question, being from the perspective of a woman cheating on her husband with a younger man. With the theme of her comparing her younger lover to her husband who she's degrading and insulting in her head.

Apparently mentioning and describing what she's feeling and thinking means there's a cock fetish.

Honestly it's one of my favorite comments, and the phrase "cock fetish" has been part of my vocabulary ever since.

I've received flack for talking too much about big cocks...a lot of readers here seem to like "realism" when it come to genitalia.

 

[YDB95]

In response to One Night in Paris: "Been reading for what feels like ages and still have no idea of the 'I' character. Disappointing. Is it male or female, does it have a name. Assume in low to mid 30s, but only guessing went to university straight from high school. Gave up, if it takes this long to introduce who, hate to think I have to wait all night for what."

The answers to every single one of those questions are in the first few paragraphs of the story! Memorable because it goes to show no matter how hard you try, some readers just aren't going to understand, well, anything.

You might think at least that reader wouldn't bother reading any more of my stories. You might, but you'd be wrong...in response to On a Day Like That: 'Sorry, but this makes no sense, "But she knew the real reason was Mark and Alex. Peggy's longtime crush and his ex of accursed memory." If the guy is gay, why would she be all googah over him. Or is Peggy a boy?'

That's right, he could get as far as wondering if Peggy was a boy without every thinking Alex could be short for Alexa or Alexandria...and also managed to miss that she is repeatedly referred to with feminine pronouns throughout the story!