Comments disappearing

[rescatooor]

Recently, I noticed that one of my latest stories had one less comment than earlier. After a brief investigation I realized it was the one negative anonymous comment I had received.

I was honestly quite buggered to see have noticed it gone. I had considered it quite a compliment how my story had triggered such an emotion in the reader. After all, it is a fictional story with fictional characters and the characters were meant to be borderline loathsome.

I'm sad to see it gone. Have you noticed something similar happening to the comments in your stories? How do you feel about it, especially since these comments probably should've been detected and erased before you even got to see them with the current comment moderation policy?

 

[oggbashan]

he only comments I have seen erased are those that are advertising another site or providing an off-site link.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I've not seen any comments deleted, other than those I delete myself - spam, as Ogg notes, and the occasional inane comment that wanders by.

 

[NotWise]

I'm sad to see it gone. Have you noticed something similar happening to the comments in your stories? How do you feel about it, especially since these comments probably should've been detected and erased before you even got to see them with the current comment moderation policy?

I've seen the site remove two comments from my stories. I don't know what their standard is, but one contained an ethnic slur, and one was a comment that appears now and then on Romance stories, calling the female protagonist a whore, in all caps.

 

[Bramblethorn]

I don't think the current comment moderation system involves manual review of all comments before they go up. Certainly I'm aware of comments going up that clearly breach site rules. My best guess is that the site holds comments for a certain number of hours in order to detect outright spam (oh look, a hundred comments with the exact same content...) and lets everything else through.

But readers can still report comments for mod attention.

 

[SimonDoom]

I've had comments removed before without having done anything to remove them. Usually they've been obscene, but not always. It hasn't happened in a while.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

It's happened to mine - a couple of not-particularly-sane comments from a somewhat unbalanced little troll vanished. It was courtesy of Laurel, I think.

Works for me.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

There is a report comment clicky on them and if a fan clicks it, Laurel will delete it/them.

 

[TxRad]

Sometimes I believe Laurel deletes someone completely and that includes comments. Enough is enough.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Sometimes I believe Laurel deletes someone completely and that includes comments. Enough is enough.

That could well explain it - when an account is deleted (either on request or banned), all comments would be purged too. Forum comments remain, but story comments would vanish. That makes sense.

 

[NotWise]

That could well explain it - when an account is deleted (either on request or banned), all comments would be purged too. Forum comments remain, but story comments would vanish. That makes sense.

It probably doesn't explain disappearing anonymous comments. I think the reporting function is likely to be responsible for those.

 

[RetroFan]

The only comment I had vanish from one of my stories (apart from spam last year) was against my story 'Pretty Paula's Poodle Skirts' and went something like this:

'A good story that you ruined by having them use a condom. You stupid, stupid, stupid fool. This is storyland, there are no babys (sic) or VD. He sticks his cock up the redhead's unprotected pussy (titular character Paula has red hair) and he bare-backs her.'

While not constructive or nice, this is hardly the meanest comment ever made on Literotica, or on the internet in general. I didn't delete it, so I wonder why the site administrators removed it.

 

[ElectricBlue]

It probably doesn't explain disappearing anonymous comments. I think the reporting function is likely to be responsible for those.

Agree - that's the only explanation for disappearing anons.