Dear troll who leaves the comments.

[geronimo_appleby]

you do know i can see the comments you post on a summary page, eh? it doesn't take long to delete them.

oh dear, how sad for you.

 

[sr71plt]

Yep, just zap anything that irritates you. To think you have to preserve it for some reason just confirms the trolls have a hold over you.

 

[geronimo_appleby]

Yep, just zap anything that irritates you. To think you have to preserve it for some reason just confirms the trolls have a hold over you.

i leave genuine negative feedback, the kind that says 'your story sucked because your character was too wimpy, too this-that-or-the-other'. but this joker just leaves insults. it's such a pleasure to just press delete knowing it's taken him/her more time to post the comment than it does to delete.

makes the morning coffee taste even better.

 

[TxRad]

You're touring the world and this is all you can find to bitch about?

 

[lovecraft68]

i leave genuine negative feedback, the kind that says 'your story sucked because your character was too wimpy, too this-that-or-the-other'. but this joker just leaves insults. it's such a pleasure to just press delete knowing it's taken him/her more time to post the comment than it does to delete.

makes the morning coffee taste even better.

I leave them all up there. My personal opinion is it makes them think I'm ignoring their witty remarks. If they come back and see it deleted they think it upset me and gives them some weird sense of achievement, so I let them stay.

Another reason I let them stay is when any mouse leaves something really stupid another reader will generally call them out on it. Which is really funny.

That's just me, to each their own.

 

[carlieplum]

I can't see a circumstance under which I would take out a comment, unless it was gross and offensive, not to me but in general. I've seen comments in which the commenter takes the story as a starting point and goes off to rant on some personal experience or predilection that has NOTHING to do with the story AND is more than a bit "ick." It seems like those should go.

But if someone wants to bash my writing or tell me my story didn't have enough of whatever sexual act he or she thought it should have, why delete? If you don't want to hear it, turn off the comments feature from the start.

 

[lovecraft68]

I can't see a circumstance under which I would take out a comment, unless it was gross and offensive, not to me but in general. I've seen comments in which the commenter takes the story as a starting point and goes off to rant on some personal experience or predilection that has NOTHING to do with the story as is more than a bit "ick." It seems like those should go.

But if someone wants to bash my writing or tell me my story didn't have enough of whatever sexual act he or she thought it should have, why delete? If you don't want to hear it, turn off the comments feature from the start.

I have removed 2 in my time here. One because the person bashed my story(which I was fine with) but the said "If you want a real story go read...." I won't be a billboard for another author(who was probably the person who left the comment) and removed it.

The other was someone who was offended I used the "n-word" in a story. They accused Literotica of being racist pigs because they allowed it so I removed that because they were insulting the site rather than me.

Otherwise, blast away, I don't care.

 

[Cruel2BKind]

I just got a comment accusing me of being racist, but I kind of understand where they were coming from, and they did understand that I did it unintentionally. I had a black girl who was a side character with very few lines and no real connection to the plot say something negative to the main character. I would fix it, but the story has been up for almost a year.

I have only deleted four comments. Two of them were accidental double-posts, one was blank except for the letter 't' and the other was accusing me of plagiarizing another story on lit that I had never seen or read.

The funny thing about the last one, is that I read that story and it was like a carbon copy of mine (except straight), but it had already been on the site for two years.

I was embarrassed that I accidentally wrote a story so similar, so I erased the comment so no one would think that I had plagiarized the other story.

 

[lovecraft68]

I just got a comment accusing me of being racist, but I kind of understand where they were coming from, and they did understand that I did it unintentionally. I had a black girl who was a side character with very few lines and no real connection to the plot say something negative to the main character. I would fix it, but the story has been up for almost a year.

I have only deleted four comments. Two of them were accidental double-posts, one was blank except for the letter 't' and the other was accusing me of plagiarizing another story on lit that I had never seen or read.

The funny thing about the last one, is that I read that story and it was like a carbon copy of mine (except straight), but it had already been on the site for two years.

I was embarrassed that I accidentally wrote a story so similar, so I erased the comment so no one would think that I had plagiarized the other story.

In my case the N-word was used in ch 38(the one you read a little of on the drug use)

the brother is in a fight with a black guy and he calls him that to get him to start swinging wildly (no rules in a street fight)

I tried to soften it by having the sister (it's her pov) mention that she knew he said it just for that effect, but to this one person I guess that was lost upon.

maybe it was LJ Reloaded.

 

[geronimo_appleby]

I can't see a circumstance under which I would take out a comment, unless it was gross and offensive, not to me but in general. I've seen comments in which the commenter takes the story as a starting point and goes off to rant on some personal experience or predilection that has NOTHING to do with the story AND is more than a bit "ick." It seems like those should go.

But if someone wants to bash my writing or tell me my story didn't have enough of whatever sexual act he or she thought it should have, why delete? If you don't want to hear it, turn off the comments feature from the start.

they are just personal attacks. nothing about the story at all. and it's blanket, hitting ten pieces at a time, so ...

 

[lovecraft68]

they are just personal attacks. nothing about the story at all. and it's blanket, hitting ten pieces at a time, so ...

Got yourself a groupie!

 

[geronimo_appleby]

Got yourself a groupie!

heaps of 'em.