Anon Feedback

[JuanaSalsa]

I just figured out why I never get any anonymous feedback. Apparently, there's an option to turn that feature off, and I had it selected.

Lol, wow. Well, I've turned it on now, we'll see if that's a mistake!

 

[NightPorter]

Certainly on new stories moving forward. Most comments are anonymous.

 

[StrangeLife]

Look forward to it - anonymous comments can be a lot of fun.

Personally I would hate to miss out on all those requests to kill myself in various imaginative ways or perform impossibly acrobatic lewd acts involving my parents.

 

[JuanaSalsa]

Look forward to it - anonymous comments can be a lot of fun.

Personally I would hate to miss out on all those requests to kill myself in various imaginative ways or perform impossibly acrobatic lewd acts involving my parents.

Oooh, kinky. Lol.

 

[NotWise]

Oooh, kinky. Lol.

Enabling anonymous feedback could double your feedback. In my experience, anonymous comments aren't something you need to avoid.

 

[yukonnights]

Enabling anonymous feedback could double your feedback. In my experience, anonymous comments aren't something you need to avoid.

Second this. The main thing to keep in mind is to not post in a category that doesn't really fit your theme and/or content. I'm pretty sure that I've received more positive feedback anonymously than with user names shown.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I'm pretty sure that I've received more positive feedback anonymously than with user names shown.

Yes, your moose is quite coy about commenting, and prefers to keep incognito.

 

[JuanaSalsa]

Yay I got my first anon comment and it was so sweet!

On 'A kinky engineers romance':

"Wonderfully complex and endearing. I loved how the two protagonists gradually worked through their confusion and reached the far shore of nirvana…"

 

[SisterJezabel]

My most recent anon comment is my favourite thus far:

A cunt story written by a common cunt.

(And if you said I'll take LW for $20...)

 

[JuanaSalsa]

My most recent anon comment is my favourite thus far:


(And if you said I'll take LW for $20...)

Well, that comment makes me want to read that story. I wonder if that's the effect they were going for?

 

[rescatooor]

I've had some fairly interesting feedback (email).

Anything from someone telling me that they have been living in an incestuous relationship with their sister, another telling me that the small town I wrote about was one they once lived in and how it gave them a nostalgia trip. Then there was one guy who said he hated my newest story but they like the others so please keep going. Someone else once asked if I give as good a head as a character in my stories.

It's a hodge-podge and I'll take it.

 

[lovecraft68]

Did you inadvertently shut it off at some point? I think the default settings are to allow everything and you have to manually shut them off.

 

[JuanaSalsa]

Did you inadvertently shut it off at some point? I think the default settings are to allow everything and you have to manually shut them off.

I think when I was first setting up my account I must have turned it off, then immediately forgot entirely about it as I got distracted by writing and the feedback I was getting. Then I randomly rediscovered the option this weekend.

 

[BiscuitHammer]

I have Anon comments turned off, because there are too many racists and incels who insist on spewing their venom on my wall. One Pakled literally called for the extermination of indigenous and black people. I just won't give them a platform.

Don't get me wrong, not all Anonymous commenters are cowards, but all cowards comment anonymously. I used to get tons of great anon comments, but a small portion were so incredibly vile that it upset many of my other readers, who messaged me and expressed concern.

So I just turned it off. Slightly inconvenient, but worth it to send the sub-humans elsewhere. If they can't express their emotional ruptures on my wall, maybe they'll be getting badly-needed hugs from mom instead.

Dear OP, I hope it actually works well for you.

 

[MillieDynamite]

I didn't think you could have comments and not allow anons.

 

[JuanaSalsa]

I didn't think you could have comments and not allow anons.

I found it this weekend because I wanted to change my email address that was linked to Lit. So, you have to go to your "home" page on Lit, then click on "my options" and there's actually two tabs there. It opens on "my profile" but if you click "my options" then you can turn off Anon feedback but leave on all other feedback.

 

[NightPorter]

Anonymous feedback can be fun, proved you have thick skin of course.

 

[KeithD]

Anonymous feedback can be fun, proved you have thick skin of course.

And you can delete any of it you want to for whatever reason you want to delete it. That's a privilege not given at many story sites.

 

[rescatooor]

And you can delete any of it you want to for whatever reason you want to delete it. That's a privilege not given at many story sites.

Or you can choose not to see any of it. As some of us can't handle it.

 

[NightPorter]

True and that's an option you should make use of if the comments are getting to you. Write just for yourself. Metal health is important.

 

[lovecraft68]

Or you can choose not to see any of it. As some of us can't handle it.

And if you can't then absolutely shut it off, why deal with it?

I'm from the old sticks and stones school, none it phases me because its not like they know me, its not really personal, just idiocy, but whatever works for the individual is what they need to do.

 

[KeithD]

Or you can choose not to see any of it. As some of us can't handle it.

What is generally reported here, and as is certainly the case with my own stories, there are far, far! more favorable anonymous comments on the stories than negative ones.

 

[NotWise]

Or you can choose not to see any of it. As some of us can't handle it.

I've never understood why someone would put more than one story out in public and be that sensitive to the response. It makes you seem very conflicted.

 

[lovecraft68]

I've never understood why someone would put more than one story out in public and be that sensitive to the response. It makes you seem very conflicted.

Not speaking for the specific person you quoted, but there are people who want to share their work, and like to hear praise, but don't like critique and can't handle the fact some people are just asshats.

The participation award crowd, wants the good stuff, doesn't feel they should ever deal with negative and when that type faces some type of adversity they can't handle it, coddling yourself or others is never going to serve you in life.

 

[JuanaSalsa]

Not speaking for the specific person you quoted, but there are people who want to share their work, and like to hear praise, but don't like critique and can't handle the fact some people are just asshats.

The participation award crowd, wants the good stuff, doesn't feel they should ever deal with negative and when that type faces some type of adversity they can't handle it, coddling yourself or others is never going to serve you in life.

On the website where I used to write, I got some very nasty comments. I haven't posted there in over six months (I just got bored) but I occasionally go check in and read. Just today I got an approx. 300 word run-on sentence on how I am a selfish, misandrist, hypocrite. Only the guy didn't know those big words, so he had to use a lot more colorful language to make his point.

And why? Because I once made something for my husband when we couldn't find a pre-made version he liked. In his words: don't you know that women/you wouldn't be satisfied with home made shit when women/you could have made men/him spend thousands on something "real" instead?

The first time I got comments like this, from angry, unhappy people who just want to hurt others, I did take it personally. But eventually, it stopped bothering me.

I don't think there's anything wrong with people realizing they don't want or need to build that emotional barrier. It can make you a more jaded, less nice, person if you're not careful.