Be careful what you ask for

[Alex De Kok]

I always end my tales with a polite little request for feedback. Occasionally I get some. Most of it is nice and soothes my ego, but every now and again I get a jarring one, like the following. From 'Anonymous', of course:

jesus christ! this is the most convuluted piece of dog shit i've ever tried to wade through. mickey spillane you ain't. come to think of it a couple of monkeys and a
typewriter and we'd have something better than this. what a total and complete waste of time.

I feel better for having shared that, but I do wonder why Mr/Mrs/Miss/Ms Anonymous bothered reading it.

Alex

**Edited to remove reference**

 

[CrazyyAngel]

I always end my tales with a polite little request for feedback. Occasionally I get some. Most of it is nice and soothes my ego, but every now and again I get a jarring one, like the following. From 'Anonymous', of course:

jesus christ! this is the most convuluted piece of dog shit i've ever tried to wade through. mickey spillane you ain't. come to think of it a couple of monkeys and a
typewriter and we'd have something better than this. what a total and complete waste of time.

I feel better for having shared that, but I do wonder why Mr/Mrs/Miss/Ms Anonymous bothered reading it.

Alex

PS: It's the 'sequel' mentioned below, if anyone's interested...

Well ... I wouldn't bother with that kind of feedback. Read it and than trash it. It is not worth a second thought. It is not constructive or a least bit helpful, so why bother?

CA

 

[JP 64811]

Face it. Some people are idiots. Anonymous says a lot. Keep writing...are we here for the idiots or the fun?

 

[destinie21]

I always end my tales with a polite little request for feedback. Occasionally I get some. Most of it is nice and soothes my ego, but every now and again I get a jarring one, like the following. From 'Anonymous', of course:

jesus christ! this is the most convuluted piece of dog shit i've ever tried to wade through. mickey spillane you ain't. come to think of it a couple of monkeys and a
typewriter and we'd have something better than this. what a total and complete waste of time.

I feel better for having shared that, but I do wonder why Mr/Mrs/Miss/Ms Anonymous bothered reading it.

Alex

PS: It's the 'sequel' mentioned below, if anyone's interested...

I always wonder why people bother to read a story that they allegedly hate. No one is here under duress. I just don't get it.

 

[flawed_ethics]

Where does it say 'Anonymous' read it (unless Mickey Spillane is a character in your stories)? Sounds like a person out to lower scores and demoralize while they're at it.

I've gotten (and still receive) harsh feedback, but so long as it includes excepts where I've astrayed, I embrace it.

 

[MlledeLaPlumeBleu]

Alex, while it may be hard to believe-

there are pathetic, pot-clangingly empty and bitter souls out there who lance and lambast out of spite, with no provocation and unfettered by rational justification, merely to assauge, however briefly, the horrific daily oblivion of being a complete douche.

I assure you, it has nothing to do with your story.

Think about it: you're putting something out there for everyone to see- you're brave, you have a name, even if it's an assumed one- you give an identity.

From that vantage point, how much conviction can you give someone who comes along at random and blitzes you under cover of anonymity? Fuck, they couldn't even risk a response. No doubt they'll chuckle over their "wit", slather on some hemorrhoid cream and stare out the window at the neighbor's oblivious preteen daughter bouncing on the trampoline, drooling onto their mousepad and listening to ELO...

While you, on the other hand, have us- and more stories to write.

 

[Alex De Kok]

Thanks for the sympathetic approach, guys and gals, but I've been around here long enough to know that what goes around, comes around. Really I think I just wanted to share the vitriol, maybe dilute it a little. I'm certainly not taking any notice of it - life's way too short for that!

I've received very positive feedback on the story, too, I'm pleased to say. I knew I wasn't that bad...

Alex

 

[Colleen Thomas]

If you ask for feedback or don't you still get this kind of tripe from time to time. I tend to think the people who send this kind of abusive feedback are the very ones who wish they had the talent to write something, but simply can't. While you showed the dedication to your craft and took the time to produce a work, this person seems to have exhausted his vocabulary, attention span and wit in the feedback.


Much like MlledeLaPlumeBleu I try to build a mental picture of the sender. While I lack her flair I can generally come up with something that I find amusing. Once you can laugh at the sender the feedback becomes less hurtful. Annonyamous works both ways. The small minded and malicious are free to hide behind it, but you are free to use your imagination to make them into whatever you wish.

-Colly

 

[raphy]

*grins*

Well hello Colly

*hugs*

 

[dr_mabeuse]

It's almost like spam. In fact, I think there must be people who keep a little generic eat-shit blurb in memory and send it off every so often, maybe even randomly.

It's just poison pen crap. Means less than zero.

---dr.M.

 

[WestPac Widow]

Out of the many e-mails I have received concerning my stories, I've had about 5 that were negative. In each case, I was being bashed concerning a wife giving in to a man other than her husband. It doesn't bother me because they have never once indicated they didn't think the story wasn't good. I assume I am the recipient of the wrath of those who have had a bad experience along those lines.

Like most, I write because I enjoy it. If the negative comments ever got to be too much I guess a person should turn off both the voting and stop the e-mails. I suspect that would remove the fun for most of us.

And last, here is one that I received from a reader:

"Another cheating slut story.Gave you a one."

Thank you, kind reader.

 

[Guest]

Out of the many e-mails I have received concerning my stories, I've had about 5 that were negative. In each case, I was being bashed concerning a wife giving in to a man other than her husband. It doesn't bother me because they have never once indicated they didn't think the story wasn't good. I assume I am the recipient of the wrath of those who have had a bad experience along those lines.

Like most, I write because I enjoy it. If the negative comments ever got to be too much I guess a person should turn off both the voting and stop the e-mails. I suspect that would remove the fun for most of us.

And last, here is one that I received from a reader:

"Another cheating slut story.Gave you a one."

Thank you, kind reader.

His girlfriend probably walked out on him that morning, to be with a guy who's got balls. That's the way I'd look at it, anyway. Whatever, this kind of feedback means nothing, you've got the right attitude, don't let it get you down.

Here's an odd one I had from 'Anonymous' I so wanted to reply to it, but obviously I couldn't.

"<<He felt so good inside me; I didn't want it to stop.>>

This 'hopeless romantic' PREFERS that she is UNABLE to stop - so that they are mutually UNABLE to avoid his copious ejaculation directly into her reproductive organs.

Even better yet is the idea that she was UNPROTECTED at the moment, perhaps because they both had mixed feelings about pregnancy. Accordingly, she accepted his seduction on the mutual promise that they would pull apart JUST BEFORE his ejaculation.

Accordingly, I prefer that they used all of their strength to cling to each other as they both thoroughly enjoyed having his cock reaching into the center of her body. But that extreme pleasure instantly turned to horror as his cock began squirted copiously into her depths, thus exposing her to the RISK of a somewhat unwanted pregnancy!"

Okaaay, was my immediate thought. Then I thought, WTF? Then I thought some more, and could see what he was getting at. I just wish I could've replied to it. The story is about a husband and wife having impromptu sex in their office at home. Perhaps I should've mentioned in the story that she's on the pill.

Lou

 

[Alex De Kok]

Lou,

your feedback sounds like one I got for my Nude Day story, Okay, Baby, We'll Do It, except that in my case I received a long explanation of why I was being given a '1' for the story, essentially because I had my lovers using protection - the exact mirror of yours. My critic provided an email address but I wasn't comfortable about getting into a discussion so contented myself with a polite 'Thank you for taking the time to write and for explaining your reasoning'

Alex

 

[OldnotDead]

Hello, Alex,

I want to thank you, on behalf of a lot of authors, for posting the vitriolic feedback you received. It's obvious from the long parade of pink H's down the side of your works that these comments were totally undeserved. I think it helps others to know that everyone gets these kind of comments and we all need to shrug them off.

OldnotDead

http://www.literotica.com/stories/memberpage.php?uid=135309

 

[Alex De Kok]

Thank you, OnD

for your kind words. I was feeling a nice warm fuzzy glow until I checked on my scores, just out of idle curiosity. You guessed it, my 'Goody-Two-Shoes' sequel got hit by the '1' bandit. The story lost its 'H', of course.

It's nice to feel I belong...

Alex

 

[amsterdam]

His girlfriend probably walked out on him that morning, to be with a guy who's got balls. That's the way I'd look at it, anyway.

Hmmm, so it was done by a guy was it Lou?

Alex, one word springs to mind - jealousy.

 

[Guest]

Hmmm, so it was done by a guy was it Lou?

Alex, one word springs to mind - jealousy.

Amsterdam, if you go back and look closely at my original post, so kindly quoted and sarcastically roll-eyed at by you, you will see that my comment wasn't actually about the nasty feedback received by Alex. It was actually referring to Westpac Window's 'feedback.'

The feedback received by Westpac was this: "Another cheating slut story.Gave you a one."
That's why I responded with: "His girlfriend probably walked out on him that morning, to be with a guy who's got balls. That's the way I'd look at it, anyway."
Ok, admittedly, this might have been sent by a woman, but I took an educated/experienced guess and thought it more likely to be a man.

Whatever, whether it was sent by a man or a woman, I was trying to make Westpac feel better, by giving support, and 'trying' to make light of the situation, because I'm nice like that.

Lou

 

[amsterdam]

Lou,

apologies. You're right, I didn't read the post thoroughly but the comment was meant to be tongue in cheek anyway. Sorry if it caused offence.

Amsterdam

 

[TheCleaningLady]

I always end my tales with a polite little request for feedback. Occasionally I get some. Most of it is nice and soothes my ego, but every now and again I get a jarring one, like the following. From 'Anonymous', of course:

jesus christ! this is the most convuluted piece of dog shit i've ever tried to wade through. mickey spillane you ain't. come to think of it a couple of monkeys and a
typewriter and we'd have something better than this. what a total and complete waste of time.

I feel better for having shared that, but I do wonder why Mr/Mrs/Miss/Ms Anonymous bothered reading it.

Alex

**Edited to remove reference**

Please stop blaspheming here. If you have no concern for your soul, at least you should be respectful of the sensibilities of others who find that sort of language, that sort of blaspheming repugnant.

The Cleaning Lady

 

[damppanties]

Wow! I wonder if this person even reads the posts she is objecting to or did she do a search for 'jesus christ' or some such thing and replies randomly.

The mesage is the exact same one from about 50 other posts too.

 

[Alex De Kok]

I would pass the exhortation on if I knew who to send it to. That's the thing about anonymous - no return address.

Alex

 

[A7inchPhildo]

I would pass the exhortation on if I knew who to send it to. That's the thing about anonymous - no return address.

Alex

I felt like a failure the first time I was e-mailed a response on the first story none the less.

'Mumbled some thing about what a sick perverted flamer...... who are you?.....'

I read that twenty times or better in disbelief. I like the negative feed back now. Not the Jerk who blobs my screen (he only gets a thank you back). The nasty letter man/woman I know I get under their skin and I write more detail just to enhance that feature.

I only find one or two per story that are just useless. Normaly it makes me think what actully worked to inspire so many replies.

I don't write for the little "H" I write for my own fulfillment and enjoy shareing. The "H" what ever they stand for is only a bonus.

 

[Foxfan69]

Unfortunately, there is always someone who doesn't like a particular story and feels the need to dump on the author. Just ignore the jerk and realise that there ARE readrs out there who do appreciate your work and will give you constructive feedback. Negative comments from readers who don't like your story are an occupational hazard of Literotica.

 

[sanchopanza]

yup you are right there foxfan. personally i don't mind negative comments but when people try to insult you instead of leaving criticism i get pissed off.

 

[Delicious Blonde]

Hi everybody. Negative feedback sucks, no question. But we sort of ask for it, don't we? I saw one of the better writers on here say something once about writers being exhibitionists and readers being voyers.....how do ya spell that anyway?...stupid time for blondeness to manifest itself! Maybe by allowing feedback at all we're masochists as well...hummm?