Best Comment Ever: Economy of reading

[thebullet]

I saw this comment posted on the public feedback portal:

I looked at the score. Then I went straight to the comments. It looks like it is a good thing I did because, from the comments, the story must suck.

Here is a person who has achieved the miraculous in his reading. He can read a story without reading the story. Then he can comment on it as if his opinion of the story is a valid one!

There's no doubt. This guy is a Republican.

This fellow goes the Loving Wives nazis one better. At least the LW nazis read the first and the last paragraphs of a story before rendering a decision about all that other stuff in between. But this guy can critique a story without reading it at all.

It's kinda like what I did back in college when I took a World Lit course. I never bought any of the books, I didn't read any of the novels. I didn't know the names of the authors. I didn't even attend class except to take the mid-terms and the finals.

But I aced that damn class by drinking a six-pack of beer, then taking the tests and letting the bullshit fly.

But Christ, at least I didn't publish my opinions of the books I never read on the world wide web!

 

[dreampilot79]

Who says comments aren't important to the improvement of our writing?

What the hell... motivational comment.

 

[cloudy]

There's no doubt. This guy is a Republican.

WTF does this have to do with anything???

And, before you blast me as one of the lost, I'm not, but I do think you're verging on the obsessive here.

 

[thebullet]

Cloudy:
Geez, calm down. It was a joke. Sorry.

thebullet

 

[R. Richard]

Here is a person who has achieved the miraculous in his reading. He can read a story without reading the story. Then he can comment on it as if his opinion of the story is a valid one!

Actually, there is nothing miraculous here. The average high school/college student can do the same thing with nothing more than a set of Cliff's Notes!

 

[silverwhisper]

hey, i thought the republican comment was funny. :>

ed

 

[cantdog]

There's just no doubt about it-- the guy is human.

 

[TheEarl]

Cloudy:
Geez, calm down. It was a joke. Sorry.

thebullet

I think everyone else would've got away with it, but occasionally it seems like your raison d'etre is to knock the Republicans. JMHO.

Well spottedo n the comment though!

The Earl

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

Considering how many books some strains of Republican try to ban, but are not ashamed to admit they have never read, I think thebullet's Republican comment was spot on.

 

[minsue]

hey, i thought the republican comment was funny. :>

ed

Nope. Seemed more sad than anything to me, but then living where I do it's usually "must be a liberal."

 

[silverwhisper]

[shrugs]

well, both sides demonize the other... :>

ed

 

[OhMissScarlett]

I don't know what disturbs me more, someone who doesn't read a story and comments based on comments left or someone who reads the whole story, every single word, and gives a detailed description of how all the content offended them horribly. You can stop reading at any time, no?

 

[thebullet]

This is a topic we've touched on before. If it weren't so pathetic it would be hilarious. The Loving Wives category draws an interesting mix of readers. I've watched a story evolution building in the LW category. My theory is, this evolution has been fueled by the Public Feedpack Portal (PFP).

Back in the pre-PFP days, an author was evalutated by his score, and/or by the emails received from his victims - er - readers. Even the most vicious epistles could be eliminated with the click of a mouse. But the Public Feedback Portal opens up the author to public eviseration.

Keep track of the LW comments and you will be shocked and stunned at the virulent content of messages designed to strike at the heart of a simple amateur porn writer. The PFP, which started out I guess as a means to spread the word about good stories and give the writers some recognition, has been converted into a very public lynching arena.

But there has been an additional reaction to the PFP.

First let's break the LW stories into two general categories: A) cheating wife, husband puts up with it - and B) cheating wife, husband doesn't put up with it. These two categories probably cover 90% of LW stories. Of course within the categories, they can be further broken down into further sub-categories but from the point of view of the LW nazis, those two categories are more than sufficient.

When we get to category (B), there is where we see an evolutionary flow. Or maybe it is better termed an arms race. During pre-PFP days, the standard outcome of story type (B) was divorce. But with more and more public eviseration of LW writers, there has been an increasing escalation in the level of response against the cheating wife in these stories. Now divorce is too good for them. We've seen them lose their children, their jobs, their homes. We've seen them tricked into prostitution. We've seen an increasing number of murders. The murders are what the LW nazis seem to like the most. Usually there is a public comment starting with "FINALLY SOME REALISM" - or something along those lines.

There is a current story that boasts that there will be 23 murders by its conclusion.

May I point out the obvious? If murder and/or execution were the standard punishment for cheating spouses, 25% of women and maybe 50% of men would be eliminated for their sin.

Oh, yeah, the LW nazis only punish women for their adultery. Men get a free ride.

 

[R. Richard]

Keep track of the LW comments and you will be shocked and stunned at the virulent content of messages designed to strike at the heart of a simple amateur porn writer. The PFP, which started out I guess as a means to spread the word about good stories and give the writers some recognition, has been converted into a very public lynching arena.

But there has been an additional reaction to the PFP.

First let's break the LW stories into two general categories: A) cheating wife, husband puts up with it - and B) cheating wife, husband doesn't put up with it. These two categories probably cover 90% of LW stories. Of course within the categories, they can be further broken down into further sub-categories but from the point of view of the LW nazis, those two categories are more than sufficient.

When we get to category (B), there is where we see an evolutionary flow. Or maybe it is better termed an arms race. During pre-PFP days, the standard outcome of story type (B) was divorce. But with more and more public eviseration of LW writers, there has been an increasing escalation in the level of response against the cheating wife in these stories. Now divorce is too good for them. We've seen them lose their children, their jobs, their homes. We've seen them tricked into prostitution. We've seen an increasing number of murders. The murders are what the LW nazis seem to like the most. Usually there is a public comment starting with "FINALLY SOME REALISM" - or something along those lines.

There is a current story that boasts that there will be 23 murders by its conclusion.

May I point out the obvious? If murder and/or execution were the standard punishment for cheating spouses, 25% of women and maybe 50% of men would be eliminated for their sin.

Oh, yeah, the LW nazis only punish women for their adultery. Men get a free ride.

Bullet:
I think you are trying to sugar coat the LW category. Back when I was trying to win the 2004 Survivor Contest I had to write a bunch of LW stories. Cries for murder were nothing! Most of the real fans there wanted torture before the murder.

JMHO.

 

[minsue]

[shrugs]

well, both sides demonize the other... :>

ed

Exactly

 

[AppleBiter]

Regarding the LW category, the first story I ever posted to Lit was a LW story. It did NOT include cheating, murdering, torture, or any of that. The story was about a woman who is sexually repressed and whose marriage is less than exciting. One day, she walks in on her husband masturbating to porn and it turns her on. She strips for him while he continues to masturbate, then fucks him like a wild beast. At the end of the story, she has lost her inhibitions and found her inner freak.

Maybe I'm biased, but my story strikes me more as what I would define as a "Loving Wife." Call me crazy.

BTW, it didn't get an H, but it got over a 4 and did very well in the comments. Go figure.

AppleBiter

 

[thebullet]

Well, you see Apple Biter, that you fall into the 10% of LW stories that do not include a cheating wife.

We have a bit of a quandry here: what is the definition of "loving wives"? I don't have to go to dictionary.com to understand the common English language meaning of those two words. However, the category has developed so that the term Loving Wives is meant in a sarcastic vein. There has been some clammering to create a seperate category - "Slut Wife" or "Cheating Wife" - something like that.

It won't matter. The Loving Wives nazis would migrate to the new category and immediately start with their wonderful and vulgar appraisals of the characters in the stories, rather than evaluating the stories themselves. They wouldn't let a label stand in their way.

I say this with love in my heart.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

The solution is obvious.

Open a Public Comment, feedback portal, where story authors and readers may critique the criticism (and the authors of said criticism) in Public Comments.