Comments that leave you shaking your head

[ShelbyDawn57]

We've got a Comments that Make Your Day thread. I figured this would be a good counterpoint. I'll start.

This comment just came in on my latest story, Magic Cats and Wishful Thinking. No idea what it has to do with the story...

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"Find me I\my wife and I love to get plowed"

 

[THBGato]

A comment (not anonymous) on my story Pygmalion 3.0:

"Interesting. I am reading up on the G spot, trying to figger how to get my 80 y o granny GF off."

As my story doesn't mention the G spot at all, and features two protagonists in their early 20s, I was bemused to say the least.

 

[THBGato]

Okay, this thread has clearly sparked something, as two pieces of gnomic anonymous feedback just dropped into my inbox and have left me scratching my head in puzzlement:

1. "I will keep your fetish in mind as I read your literotica."

Okay. I wasn't aware I had a fetish. My stories are fairly vanilla on the whole. I really hope they aren't implying that lesbianism is a fetish, as that would be pretty damn offensive!

2. "The stories are slow burn lesbian."

Um.... I know? Most of my stories are tagged "slow burn" and they are nearly all in "Lesbian". Not quite sure what this feedback was for. Praise? Criticism? Helpfully pointing something out they thought I'd missed?

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

How many of these thread have there been where readers complain that stories don't have endings? So I add endings.

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"This is the second story I've read of yours where you kill the mood with fast forwarding it to years later where everything ends and someone dies. Do you even realize you're actively killing your own stories? "​

Why yes, yes I do indeed.

Comment goes on to talk about happy endings.

I hate to break it to them, but life does not have a happy ending.

 

[AlexIce]

Not myself personally but I've seen a few comments on certain stories I've read where there's a comment, almost always anonymous, where they will summarize a theoretical second part of a story that is just so embellished; Like how they'd write the story if it were up to them.

I get it. There are some stories that I've read that I wish the outcome were different; It's one of the reasons why I decided to start writing my own material after all. However I just find things like that just super bizarre.

 

[baffling8929]

She could ruin his life, and her own. Teacher / student, ya know. Pregnancy... the pill?
I liked it, but, 2 pages... Really.
Good job, thanks for sharing your work.

The first part was mildly annoying, because I alluded to birth control without blatantly saying it. And like, it's fiction. I'm the writer. She won't get pregnant until and unless I say so.

The second part, I'm not sure if they think two pages is too long or too short?

 

[Candy_Kane54]

I've always wondered what goes through the mind of someone who gives a 1* rating to my story. Well, believe it or not, I got a comment where the rater explained why they gave me a 1* rating:

I couldn't read through this as it's too confusing. In the first line you talk about (I assume Anna) feeding the twins and then going back to see George. A little bit later (years obviously) she's talking to George and saying she's not sure if they're identical or fraternal twins, or even girls. To be honest I haven't read the other parts as I've never seen them, but even if it's explained better in earlier parts, there should be a bit of summary to clear things up. Sorry, but only 1*.

Now, this comment was on Part 4 of a four-part story so, after scratching my head, decided to respond as follows:

I debated long and hard whether I should take the time to discuss your issues with my story.

Sadly, I decided to answer your concerns.

I assume that you always pick up a book, flip to the last chapter, and expect to read the ending and expect everything to make sense.

At the start of Part 4, I did say it would help to read Part 3 first. If you had, you would have seen the last line of Part 3 which went: "As I fell asleep, I dreamed about my babies ..."

Reading that, you'd have had a clue that Part 4 started with a dream sequence. If you had bothered to read the first three parts of the story, you would have known it was a dream sequence about something that had never happened.

I do thank you for taking the time to tell me why you rated my story a 1* but in effect you rated your ability to read a story.

Was I too harsh?

 

[Astrotrain]

I'm writing a nonconsent femdom story and I got comments saying that the guy was a little bitch and if he was a real man he'd tell her to go fuck herself. Do people just not bother reading the tags? If femdom isn't your thing that's fine, but why bother reading something you're not into? There are more than enough maledom stories for you to enjoy instead.

 

[TheLobster]

Okay. I wasn't aware I had a fetish. My stories are fairly vanilla on the whole. I really hope they aren't implying that lesbianism is a fetish, as that would be pretty damn offensive!

Lesbianism is a fetish -- for straight males. My guess is either that this reader is one, or assumed that you are one.

 

[THBGato]

Lesbianism is a fetish -- for straight males. My guess is either that this reader is one, or assumed that you are one.

Fair point. I hadn't thought of it that way.

 

[Rob_Royale]

This one was really out there. Some folks have difficulty separating stories from real life I think. From my LW story The Colonel's Wife.

by Anonymous user on 06/09/2023
Diana is a little over forty years old! She's still fertile! Why is there no mention of contraception? I am infuriated by such a superficial approach, inattentive to details and disregard for such important, fundamental moments that can change the course of the narrative. For example, the author forgot to mention the prevention of fertilization and Diana, about the author's connivance, without thinking about it, got pregnant. Unknown - from her husband or from Henry? What then? That's how, by an oversight of the author, the life and relationships between the characters, therefore, the whole general plot of this story could radically change. It's a good thing that didn't happen. But next time, please be more careful. Ignoring this kind of thing can lead to the fact that your adored and once obedient characters can get out of control, live their own lives and mock your powerlessness to change anything in their now completely unpredictable fate. Believe me, it hurts, it really hurts...

 

[MiaBabe23]

This one was really out there. Some folks have difficulty separating stories from real life I think. From my LW story The Colonel's Wife.

by Anonymous user on 06/09/2023
Diana is a little over forty years old! She's still fertile! Why is there no mention of contraception? I am infuriated by such a superficial approach, inattentive to details and disregard for such important, fundamental moments that can change the course of the narrative. For example, the author forgot to mention the prevention of fertilization and Diana, about the author's connivance, without thinking about it, got pregnant. Unknown - from her husband or from Henry? What then? That's how, by an oversight of the author, the life and relationships between the characters, therefore, the whole general plot of this story could radically change. It's a good thing that didn't happen. But next time, please be more careful. Ignoring this kind of thing can lead to the fact that your adored and once obedient characters can get out of control, live their own lives and mock your powerlessness to change anything in their now completely unpredictable fate. Believe me, it hurts, it really hurts...

Tbf I think that last line suggests they’ve been through something painful, maybe cut them some slack

 

[TheWritingGroup]

I'm writing a nonconsent femdom story and I got comments saying that the guy was a little bitch and if he was a real man he'd tell her to go fuck herself. Do people just not bother reading the tags? If femdom isn't your thing that's fine, but why bother reading something you're not into? There are more than enough maledom stories for you to enjoy instead.

In the default Literotica view, you inexplicably have to go to the end of the story to see the tags. For whatever reason, I can't switch to the "new" look myself, so maybe your reader can't, either.

-Rocco

 

[StillStunned]

This one was really out there. Some folks have difficulty separating stories from real life I think. From my LW story The Colonel's Wife.

I had a similar one, along the lines of "You never mentioned any contraceptives, you'll be ReallyStunned when she gets pregnant!"

 

[Astrotrain]

In the default Literotica view, you inexplicably have to go to the end of the story to see the tags. For whatever reason, I can't switch to the "new" look myself, so maybe your reader can't, either.

-Rocco

I didn't know that. I exclusively use this site on my phone where the tags are at the top. You have to click to see them though.

 

[Candy_Kane54]

In the default Literotica view, you inexplicably have to go to the end of the story to see the tags. For whatever reason, I can't switch to the "new" look myself, so maybe your reader can't, either.

-Rocco

If you go to your Control Panel and select Options --> My Options and go down to "Participate in early site feature versions beta-testing" and select 'Yes' then you should see the new format.

 

[Presider]

I'm writing a nonconsent femdom story and I got comments saying that the guy was a little bitch and if he was a real man he'd tell her to go fuck herself. Do people just not bother reading the tags? If femdom isn't your thing that's fine, but why bother reading something you're not into? There are more than enough maledom stories for you to enjoy instead.

I’ve experienced this exact thing second hand from checking the comments on femdom stories I’ve enjoyed as a reader.

It’s partly strange because, as you say, check the tags. It’s also odd how often people will comment purely to express that a story where a woman is physically stronger than a man is some kind of impossible fantasy scenario.

They remind me of people in the comments section of any social media post that features a woman doing something such as weightlifting or kickboxing. It’s always full of men who are strangely freaked out by the mere sight of a woman doing something associated with physical prowess.

 

[baffling8929]

It’s partly strange because, as you say, check the tags. It’s also odd how often people will comment purely to express that a story where a woman is physically stronger than a man is some kind of impossible fantasy scenario.

Even then, most of the fictional stories on this site are fantasy scenarios with varying degrees of implausibility/impossibility.

 

[Presider]

Even then, most of the fictional stories on this site are fantasy scenarios with varying degrees of implausibility/impossibility.

Yes good point. Even if the commenter is responding to a dragon popping out of a mountain and speaking French, it is indeed a work of fiction.

 

[yowser]

I'm always stunned when an 'expert' reader 'corrects' a detail in your piece which you know is a fact.

From one tale involving some aspects of a car:

Great story, just that a 1973 Porsche 911 doesn’t have a timing chain. Lol

And of course, anyone who's worked on this car knows it not only has one, but two of them (and they're outrageously long.)

 

[Presider]

I'm always stunned when an 'expert' reader 'corrects' a detail in your piece which you know is a fact.

From one tale involving some aspects of a car:

Great story, just that a 1973 Porsche 911 doesn’t have a timing chain. Lol

And of course, anyone who's worked on this car knows it not only has one, but two of them (and they're outrageously long.)

The astounding hubris of the objectively incorrect hahaha

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

When you know they didn't really read the story.


Horrible. Nice aunt turning her niece into a whore and her nephew into a vigil o. No love just prostitution.

 

[Comshaw]

I'm always stunned when an 'expert' reader 'corrects' a detail in your piece which you know is a fact.

From one tale involving some aspects of a car:

Great story, just that a 1973 Porsche 911 doesn’t have a timing chain. Lol

And of course, anyone who's worked on this car knows it not only has one, but two of them (and they're outrageously long.)

I had one reader post a comment on my "Medicinal Mountain Magic" story. While he did give me a 5 and finished his comment with a compliment, what started with rankled me. When a reader corrects me on a mistake, I take it to heart. When they comment or correct me on something I know is right, my back hairs stand up.

Ok, Ok, I won’t nitpick on some of the errors about camping in the wilderness. But I will say it was a nice story with a realistic bittersweet ending. 5*

I rarely answer a critical comment because most times they are on the mark. But this one I had to.

As far as nitpicking about the "errors" of camping in the wilderness, everything in this story I have done at one time or other over 35 years hiking the backcountry. Everything described from the alpine flowers and berries to the hot spring pool exists. Fires were allowed in the high country until just a few years ago.
Most of my stories have some of my own experiences mixed into them. All of the backcountry descriptions contained in this story come from my experience. They are real and there is no "error" to them.

Sometimes I am amazed at what kind of minor stuff will tweek my cookies.



Comshaw

 

[TheWritingGroup]

Sometimes I am amazed at what kind of minor stuff will tweek my cookies.

It's "tweak". And you spelled "vegetarian" wrong!

(Kidding!)

-Billie

 

[pink_silk_glove]

I didn't know that. I exclusively use this site on my phone where the tags are at the top. You have to click to see them though.

I've only ever seen the tags on the first page at the top right.