Category confusion

[nust8ofmind]

I was just wondering what you all thought of the category system on Lit. I think it serves its purpose, providing a broad subject for the reader to select when deciding on a story. But I recently got two criticisms (on two different stories, but still) on stories that I felt should be classified in a certain way and the readers (I'm guessing) disagreed.
One person said I should "find your delete key" because he or she thought I was posted a story about bi-sexual women as "lesbian sex." There was a man in the story, but he won't really enter the picture until the second chapter. All intimate contact in the first story was between two women.
The other complaint was that I had a black man and a white woman having sex in a "group sex" story. The person sent me an e-mail saying he or she would not read any more of my stories because I should have submitted it as "interracial." The person called the story "filth" because of the interracial aspect, when it was secondary to the main plotline to the story. I just thought I would mix it up a little bit.
Am I wrong, or aren't the categories meant to define the crux of the story and not every aspect of it. It seems like my stories always have a little mix and cannot be classified as just one type of story.
Any thoughts on the matter would be appreciated.

 

[Guest]

Is that No state, or New state?

 

[Guest]

Am I wrong, or aren't the categories meant to define the crux of the story and not every aspect of it. It seems like my stories always have a little mix and cannot be classified as just one type of story.
Any thoughts on the matter would be appreciated.

Completely agreed!

Don't let it get to you. Some people just enjoy complaining and will complain about any little thing they can.

It's that old thing: you can please all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time, but never all of the people all of the time.

Fickle lot, these readers.

Just carry on doing what you're doing.

Lou

 

[nust8ofmind]

Is that No state, or New state?

New state, but most of the time when I am on lit it should be nude state. At least that is where my mind is.

 

[nust8ofmind]

Completely agreed!

Don't let it get to you. Some people just enjoy complaining and will complain about any little thing they can.

It's that old thing: you can please all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time, but never all of the people all of the time.


Lou

That's what I figured, but I didn't know if there was something I was missing. I try to write in a few different veins in different stories, but I can't just settle on just one category. Kid in a candy store, you know?