Author deletes all his stories after ONE PERSON criticizes his work.

[AprilSmithSucks]

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The author basically erased his entire existence from Literotica.com about a week ago.

I hated all of the author's stories, even though I wished I couldn't hate them. (All of my comments on his stories had "I hated it" in the titles, but I still tried to be respectful to the author as much as I could.)

His stories had the potential to be some of the best stories I've ever read on this site, but all of his stories were BUTCHERED because of one MAJOR flaw: the main female character, the STAR of the stories, was a terribly-written character.

However, his stories had many positive comments, users (both anonymous & actual usernames) telling him how much they loved his stories.

I noticed his stories had many favoriters too. If you've read this author's stories before, and liked them enough to want to read them again, let me know. I've made notepad copies of all his stories, and I can privately send you the stories if you'd like.

The author is (or should I say was) the one who inspired my username: "April Smith Sucks"

mrmxy (according to his Forum profile, his name was Alan)

http://i1159.photobucket.com/albums/p633/Friend-Of-All-Life/ProfileStories_zps5c9b69cf.png~original

here's a print-screen of his 1st story: (I took all these screenshots AFTER I found out that mrxmy deleted his entire existence from Literotica. I only found out a few days ago and used Google-CACHE results before the stories are completely gone.)

http://i1159.photobucket.com/albums/p633/Friend-Of-All-Life/BiggerOpeningParagraphs_zps95c828fc.png~original

I created my account in late 2009, a few months after I finished reading all of Alan's stories...It wasn't until recently that I understood how naive/immature I was for naming my account after a fictional Literotica character whom I hate. But April Smith was my FIRST (and still ONLY) experience in Literotica where I really hated the STAR character of a story, a character whom I was obviously supposed to love. I guess I just let my emotions get the better of me. And I told Alan this in my comments. Told him that I understood how immature I was and PLEADED for him not to take my username personally because of this.

But until last week, I NEVER directly contacted Alan since I created my account....Last week, I finally decided to return to Alan's stories, and I posted my reviews at the Public Comments section of his stories.

My comments were super-long constructive reviews of Alan's stories, going through almost every scene in each story, explaining why I thought April was such a despicable character.

None of my comments were directly insulting Alan. None of my comments were trying to degrade his spirits as a writer and make him feel like "You suck as a writer, so get out of Literotica" or anything like that.
I specifically told him (in the SECOND SENTENCE of my Prologue comment on the 1st April Story:

"My name is William, and I want to help you."

I kept telling Alan (throughout all my comments) that I wanted to see his stories REWRITTEN, not deleted. Rewritten to change April Smith into a character whom I can actually respect and admire.

In my review, I told Alan that I WANTED to like April Smith, that I understood how wonderful her ROLE in these stories was intended to be.

I'll bet it was April's ROLE in these stories that made other readers (other than me) love Alan's stories so much, so they must've been willing disregard her personality and give all these stories a 5*.
And that's understandable.
But I just couldn't view Alan's stories that way. I gave all his stories a 1* (back in 2009) because of April's PERSONALITY.

A character's [role in a story] and [personality as a character] are completely different things.

April was obviously the STAR of these stories (the character which Alan wanted his stories to be read for) since Alan put her name in the titles. It was obvious Alan wanted me to think April was "wonderful" and "caring" and "selfless" (words used by other characters talking about her in the stories)....but I couldn't like April when Alan kept giving her such an offensive personality, and that's all I was trying to explain in my Constructive Review.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Some people are just thin skinned.

 

[lovecraft68]

So....

How do you know he deleted his stories due to bad feedback?

Do you know him? Are you the April he seems obsessed with in his story titles?

 

[patientlee]

Unless you had his permission to copy his stuff, I don't think that was the right thing to do. I'm not talking about legality or anything. I think distributing someone else's work without his permission is shitty.

ETA: Maybe he pulled them to sell them. Even shittier if that's the case.

He basically deleted his entire existence from Literotica.com just over a week ago.

I noticed his stories had many favorites. If you've read this author's stories before, and liked them enough to want to read them again, let me know. I've made notepad copies of all his stories, and I can send you the copies privately if you'd like.
The author is (or should I say was) the one who inspired my username.

mrmxy (according to his Forum profile, his name was Alan)



here's a print-screen of his 1st story:

 

[sr71plt]

Unless you, yourself, are this author, April, how do you know what the motivation is for deleting the stories from here? They may be going to the marketplace with the publisher stipulation that they be deleted from the Internet--in which case, you wouldn't be doing the author any favors here.

 

[AprilSmithSucks]

So....

How do you know he deleted his stories due to bad feedback?

Do you know him? Are you the April he seems obsessed with in his story titles?

I'm the one who posted the "bad feedback" just last week. (And I tried to be as respectful as possible.)

My name is William, and my username was inspired by the author's character, April Smith. I guess you didn't understand this because I accidentally submitted this topic BEFORE I finished writing it all. (I clicked "Submit" instead of "Preview")

 

[sr71plt]

Well, then, William, I think you are way over the top in your reaction--and you are violating copyright law by reposting the author's material. You could use the edit button to rectify that--and then you will have only been way over the top in your reaction.

 

[patientlee]

I'm the one who posted the "bad feedback" just last week. (And I tried to be as respectful as possible.)

My name is William, and my username was inspired by the author's character, April Smith. I guess you didn't understand this because I accidentally submitted this topic BEFORE I finished writing it all. (I clicked "Submit" instead of "Preview")

Are you trying to assuage your guilt over chasing him away by giving away his stories? It seems to me that if you were being as respectful as possible in your feedback, you would have chosen a different username.

 

[AprilSmithSucks]

Are you trying to assuage your guilt over chasing him away by giving away his stories? It seems to me that if you were being as respectful as possible in your feedback, you would have chosen a different username.

I explained in my Opening Post of this thread, I created my account YEARS AGO, long before I posted my respectful comments last week. My reasons for creating my username were completely different back then.

Well, then, William, I think you are way over the top in your reaction--and you are violating copyright law by reposting the author's material. You could use the edit button to rectify that--and then you will have only been way over the top in your reaction.

Rectify what? What do you mean by reposting the author's material? Are you saying you think I want to submit Alan's stories as if they were my own?
Well, I have no intention of doing that. My only intention is to let people who liked his stories read them again, most likely by sending the stories through private messages, not by doing anything that makes money off of it.

Besides, Alan submitted those stories in 2003-04. Why would he wait until NOW to finally submit his work? Why didn't his positive comments inspire him to publish them? He had many positive comments.

I'm more inclined to believe it was my negative feedback that provoked Alan into deleting his account. And I consider that decision to be unfair on Alan's part. Especially since he had many fans/favorites, so he shouldn't have let one person's criticism make him get rid of his work.

 

[patientlee]

Rectify what? What do you mean by reposting the author's material? Are you saying you think I want to submit Alan's stories as if they were my own?
Well, I have no intention of doing that. My only intention is to let people who liked his stories read them again, most likely by sending the stories through private messages, not by doing anything that makes money off of it.

Besides, Alan submitted those stories in 2003-04. Why would he wait until NOW to finally submit his work? Why didn't his positive comments inspire him to publish them? He had many positive comments.

I'm more inclined to believe it was my negative feedback that made him erase his account.

So apologize for offending him and move on. Don't distribute his stories, even privately, without his permission.

You are assuming that it was because of something you said. Maybe it has nothing to do with you. Maybe his mother found out he was writing erotica, and he wants it gone. It's not your decision or the readers'.

 

[oggbashan]

Rectify what? What do you mean by reposting the author's material? Are you saying you think I want to submit Alan's stories as if they were my own?
Well, I have no intention of doing that. My only intention is to let people who liked his stories read them again, most likely by sending the stories through private messages, not by doing anything that makes money off of it.

Besides, Alan submitted those stories in 2003-04. Why would he wait until NOW to finally submit his work? Why didn't his positive comments inspire him to publish them? He had many positive comments.

I'm more inclined to believe it was my negative feedback that made him erase his account.

Any author who posts stories on Literotica gives the site owners the right to non-exclusive use of the work.

That does not give anyone else the right to copy them and repost them. If you do, even if you leave the author's name attached, you have breached the author's copyright.

In theory you could be sued for copying the stories. In practice that is unlikely but you would have broken the law.

The correct way to spread an author's work if you like it is to LINK to Literotica. If the author edits or deletes the story, then the link will react either by going to the edited story, or will not work because the story is no longer here.

If an author wants to SELL his/her stories then removing them from Literotica could be a condition set by the publishers.

 

[lovecraft68]

Not that I think it's ethical to be shopping this person's work around, but....this is what happens when you put it up for free.

And if it is illegal to post or distribute something that someone pulled from a site like this then someone get an attorney and close down the "wayback" machine which keeps your material you've deleted for free and forever.

 

[HeyAll]

Can that "wayback" website find old stories which had since been deleted from Lit?

EDIT: Nevermind, I'm looking at the wayback machine right now. I'm currently using it to look for one of my all time favorite stories, which was deleted.

 

[loquere]

Unless you, yourself, are this author, April, how do you know what the motivation is for deleting the stories from here? They may be going to the marketplace with the publisher stipulation that they be deleted from the Internet--in which case, you wouldn't be doing the author any favors here.

This is possible.

 

[sr71plt]

You don't lose your liability for violating someone's copyright just because someone else is doing it too. That's not a very bright way to look at it.

Fact is that anyone can delete their stories here anytime they want without someone making a federal case of it. You're coming across as a stalker, William.

 

[Swilly]

I think you're just fucking with the author. This person has written a series of stories that scored 4.7-4.8 and above, and you're going to give them constructive criticism? To help them? Because you think the character is despicable?

There are all different kinds of stories, and all different kinds of characters. Who says the author wanted April to be likeable? Every once in a while, I get a commenter that tells me how I SHOULD have written the story. Bullshit. it's MY story. I'm writing it for me, not specifically for you. Write your own story if you don't like how mine turned out, or how my characters behaved, or whatever.

What did you expect the writer to do? Apologize for offending you and rewrite everything as you've instructed? Sorry. I think this is an attempt to shit on that author, especially because they didn't respond to your comments.

 

[PennLady]

But until last week, I NEVER directly contacted Alan since I created my account....Last week, I finally decided to return to Alan's stories, and I posted my reviews at the Public Comments section of his stories.

My comments were super-long constructive reviews of Alan's stories, going through almost every scene in each story, explaining why I thought April was such a despicable character.

You know, maybe he didn't care about your comments. Just because you made suggestions doesn't mean they were correct ones, and he certainly doesn't have to make the changes to satisfy any one reader. Why should he listen to you -- or anyone -- on this site? It's not peer review; it's more like a giant peanut gallery.

He may not have intended his character to be liked in the first place, in which case your critique would be irrelevant to him. And I have to say if I saw this kind of unsolicited, detailed deconstruction of a story, I wouldn't take it too seriously.

As others have said, he may have pulled these for various reasons. Maybe he's just done. Maybe he's being published. Maybe he's embarrassed by it all and took it down. Perhaps he never even saw your critiques; the request for delete takes some time, and he may have submitted it before or without seeing it. Which just goes to say, your critique may have had nothing to do with it.

 

[lovecraft68]

I think you're just fucking with the author. This person has written a series of stories that scored 4.7-4.8 and above, and you're going to give them constructive criticism? To help them? Because you think the character is despicable?

There are all different kinds of stories, and all different kinds of characters. Who says the author wanted April to be likeable? Every once in a while, I get a commenter that tells me how I SHOULD have written the story. Bullshit. it's MY story. I'm writing it for me, not specifically for you. Write your own story if you don't like how mine turned out, or how my characters behaved, or whatever.

What did you expect the writer to do? Apologize for offending you and rewrite everything as you've instructed? Sorry. I think this is an attempt to shit on that author, especially because they didn't respond to your comments.

I make it a habit to never accept reader suggestions.

or else I would have "fucked off and died" by now.

 

[patientlee]

I make it a habit to never accept reader suggestions.

or else I would have "fucked off and died" by now.

And we'd all be on a steady diet of shit.

 

[jonthechaosman]

Way to be a self righteous douche.

You probably think this song is about you. Don't you.


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[litmlove]

To be fair, you were a little stalker-ish.

Just like with writing that doesn't realise its characters are creepy not desirable, you have launched a personal "attack" on the author without first making the step of the author accepting you.

More likely the author forgot about the stories, and you remind the author they existed and [they suck] /[are a fetish the author is no longer interested in].

 

[lovecraft68]

Way to be a self righteous douche.

You probably think this song is about you. Don't you.


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The best version of that song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69n1AchC1_0

 

[jonthechaosman]

The best version of that song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69n1AchC1_0

Thanks for sharing. I like his covers better than his original stuff. Sweet Dreams kicked ass. This is pretty good too.

 

[Bramblethorn]

To be fair, you were a little stalker-ish.

Just like with writing that doesn't realise its characters are creepy not desirable, you have launched a personal "attack" on the author without first making the step of the author accepting you.

More likely the author forgot about the stories, and you remind the author they existed and [they suck] /[are a fetish the author is no longer interested in].

Yeah, if somebody picked a username specifically targeted at something I'd written and then started sending me essays on how much they disliked some aspect of my writing, I'd be creeped out.

Also, seems odd that the OP knew to take screenshots of the author's profile just before it was deleted, unless he was EXPECTING to cause a bad reaction.

 

[AprilSmithSucks]

Also, seems odd that the OP knew to take screenshots of the author's profile just before it was deleted, unless he was EXPECTING to cause a bad reaction.

WRONG. I took these screenshots AFTER the author deleted his profile. I was NOT expecting Alan to go as far as deleting his entire existence from Literotica because one person negatively criticized his work.

I used Google-CACHE results to take these screenshots as soon as I found out (just the other day) that Alan deleted all his stories. That's the only way to see the stories again before they get erased from the internet forever.