Anonymous comments piss me off.

[Jay Richards]

Can I just say that I hate it when someone posts a comment about one of my stories, and signs with anonymous.

I cannot dialogue with a person who leaves no contact info. I want to reply, or ask for more information.

WE ARE ALL FUCKING ANONYMOUS HERE. What's the point?

Jay Richards
(BTW, THATS NOT REALLY MY NAME)

 

[joy_of_cooking]

Thoughts on Anonymous Comments!!!

A Note on Sending Me Anonymous Advice​

SUGGESTION: Anonymous Reviews​

"Anonymous" harassment

 

[SimonDoom]

Same as it ever was.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Anonymous comments piss me off​

Then delete them, dear Jay, dear Jay
Then delete them, dear Jay, dear Jay
Delete them

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I don’t know for sure, but I suspect that the majority of readers here don’t set up an account. If they have bothered to write something, your story touched them, either positively or negatively. If you can’t abide their feedback, you can trash it.

Emily

 

[Jackie.Hikaru]

Same as it ever was.

 

[Bramblethorn]

 

[mildlyaroused]

I don’t know for sure, but I suspect that the majority of readers here don’t set up an account.

I didn't have an account for 10+ years. For most people there's just not that much reason to sign up. I used to just remember any stories that I really loved because, well, I loved them.

 

[SimonDoom]

I didn't have an account for 10+ years. For most people there's just not that much reason to sign up. I used to just remember any stories that I really loved because, well, I loved them.

Same with me. I set up an account with a name in 2015. But I've been reading Lit stories since at least 2002. So if I ever commented during that time I did so anonymously.

Why in the world is that worth hating? Why would I sign up if I don't have to? I'm not going to give the site info about myself if I don't have to.

 

[mildlyaroused]

On a side note, I thought it was amusing that there's a thread about disliking anonymous comments recommended to me in the 'Similar Threads' - also made by Jay Richards, but in 2022. This issue is clearly deeply scarring.

Not a dig at you Mr. OP alias JR, we all have things that really grind our gears. All in good faith.

 

[lovecraft68]

I find it interesting so many people hate anon comments, but if you go to Gordo's thread about comments that make your day, there's a lot of good anon comments referenced there.

You stop accepting them you lose out on a lot of good ones, and unless we're talking LW most anon comments are decent.

If they piss you off delete those comments. I get what's been read can't be unread, but...whatever.

 

[SouthernCrossfire]

What Emily said!* I left a lot of comments (nice, constructive ones all! I think) anonymously before I decided to actually join and start submitting some of my works. I didn’t need (or want) an account before then, and that’s the way it is with many many readers who often leave nice and sometimes constructive comments (but sometimes not). Delete what bothers you.

*Only Emily gave the corrective option much better with the Bucket tune advice!

 

[Scarla]

I dont mind anonymous comments, I'm just assuming most of them are from people who don't actually have accounts, because they don't write or use the forums.

I feel like anonymous comments are a bigger compliment, seeing as they most like dropped in to get off on a story, but ended up liking it so much they felt the need to comment!

Obviously if I was getting a bunch of awful anonymous comments I might feel differently. In that case I'd probably consider turning off the option to comment anonymously.

 

[VerbalAbuse]

This is a bit crazy.

I do make comments under this name, but... if others want to do it differently, they should be able to.

Somebody from the forum left an anonymous comment on one of my stories. I'm pretty sure I know who. But yeah...
If that's how they want to play it...

 

[Jackie.Hikaru]

Somebody from the forum left an anonymous comment on one of my stories. I'm pretty sure I know who. But yeah...
If that's how they want to play it...

 

[Jay Richards]

On a side note, I thought it was amusing that there's a thread about disliking anonymous comments recommended to me in the 'Similar Threads' - also made by Jay Richards, but in 2022. This issue is clearly deeply scarring.

Not a dig at you Mr. OP alias JR, we all have things that really grind our gears. All in good faith.

Yep, that was me too. I forgot about it. Now you know that anonymous post's that I can't respond to REALLY PISSES ME OFF!

 

[KeithD]

"Anonymous" is just the lower level of unidentified. Most of the account names here are anonymous too.

The site gives the author power to delete any comments they don't like, including any "anonymous" ones they don't like. (Each time this comes up, folks point out that is usual to get far more nice comments from "anonymous" than nasty or unfair ones.) Complaining about it on the discussion board is (A) taking coals to Newcastle, since we're all in the same boat and can't do any more about it than you can and (B) so much spitting in the wind.

Most story sites do not let authors delete comments they don't like. Celebrate that we can do that at Literotica and don't bother complaining to the choir--it's just a periodic choir irritant given the site gives you the power to erase.

 

[Djmac1031]

I cannot dialogue with a person who leaves no contact info. I want to reply, or ask for more information.

And what makes you think they want to dialog with you any further than the comment they already left?

Most readers are already long gone and checked out by the time you'd send them any reply anyway.

Especially negative. They don't really care to debate with you on that. And why would you want to anyway? You're not going to change their mind

 

[gunhilltrain]

And what makes you think they want to dialog with you any further than the comment they already left?

Most readers are already long gone and checked out by the time you'd send them any reply anyway.

Especially negative. They don't really care to debate with you on that. And why would you want to anyway? You're not going to change their mind

Yes, I can think of only one time when someone had a second response. Short attention spans I guess. On another site, I had an exchange with a guy that went through five or six "cycles." That was very unusual.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Same as it ever was.

Simon, no problem, but I think you got that from me about a month ago. The new unofficial song of AH.

 

[UnquietDreams]

I didn't make an account here until I decided to write here. For decades I left comments as "Anonymous" when I chose to comment. I didn't do it to stay any more hidden than I am now (oddly enough, my driver's license doesn't list me as Unquiet Dreams). I just had no need to make an account yet.

I expect 99% of the unnamed are in the same boat. I don't ascribe malice to what can better be described as "I don't really give enough fucks to find an email address to use."

 

[Djmac1031]

The new unofficial song of AH.

I second the nomination.

Yes, I can think of only one time when someone had a second response

And I'm willing to bet they weren't anonymous.

 

[Djmac1031]

. I don't ascribe malice to what can better be described as "I don't really give enough fucks to find an email address to use."

Or also "I'm not interested in engaging with any of these people, I just wanna get off and go."

 

[UnquietDreams]

Or also "I'm not interested in engaging with any of these people, I just wanna get off and go."

That too.

 

[SimonDoom]

Simon, no problem, but I think you got that from me about a month ago. The new unofficial song of AH.

If so, I had honestly forgotten and it was an unknowing failure to give you the proper attribution. But it wouldn't surprise me. I spend way too much time here and soak up things without even noticing.

 

[gunhilltrain]

And I'm willing to bet they weren't anonymous.

You made me go look. Yes, it was anonymous, but it probably wasn't a second response. It went, "Sorry but your rationalizations don't cut it. I WAS a young woman in the 70s. . . . " Then blah, blah, the guy wasn't treating his girlfriend well. I think he was treating her well, but that person didn't see it that way.