Does anal in E/V equal 1-bombing?

[LiterallyLiterate]

I’m just curious and wanted to check in with those of you experienced with the E/V category.

I have submitted a few stories now and feel like I’m at least not a complete novice anymore. So far, all my stories have received good scores, most around the 4,7-mark or higher.

Last week, I published my first E/V story and so far it’s doing very well. Chapter 2, however got 1-bombed immediately, and the only significant difference between the two chapters is that my two MC’s start experimenting with anal in the second chapter.
So, before I dig myself down in a pit of low-rating stories because some people are offfended by anal in that category, is this considered bad form in E/V?

Disclaimer: I know I’m not supposed to look too hard at rating and such, but I know for my own part that I’m more likely to look at stories with the ‘hot’ tag… So I care, and it’ll be on me if that becomes a problem.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

I've had a few get trashed early on that climbed out of the pit later.

 

[TheLobster]

How many votes are we talking about? In general, it’s largely pointless to worry about early fluctuations until the story garners at least a few dozen. Too much can change with just one vote before then.

 

[SimonDoom]

I've generally found E/V to have a more tolerant readership than that of other categories, so I wouldn't expect this to be an automatic vote killer. But Lit readers being the way they are, you can never be sure, and some readers do bomb for out of category content. I don't see that as a reason to leave it out.

 

[LiterallyLiterate]

How many votes are we talking about? In general, it’s largely pointless to worry about early fluctuations until the story garners at least a few dozen. Too much can change with just one vote before then.

Only a few votes yet, so you’re likely right in that it will correct as the count goes up, I was just a bit taken aback by the immediate bombing. It probably happens to most stories for a number of reasons, I guess. I just wanted to see if I had commited some cardinal sin or not.

 

[Bazzle]

I’m just curious and wanted to check in with those of you experienced with the E/V category.

I have submitted a few stories now and feel like I’m at least not a complete novice anymore. So far, all my stories have received good scores, most around the 4,7-mark or higher.

Last week, I published my first E/V story and so far it’s doing very well. Chapter 2, however got 1-bombed immediately, and the only significant difference between the two chapters is that my two MC’s start experimenting with anal in the second chapter.
So, before I dig myself down in a pit of low-rating stories because some people are offfended by anal in that category, is this considered bad form in E/V?

Disclaimer: I know I’m not supposed to look too hard at rating and such, but I know for my own part that I’m more likely to look at stories with the ‘hot’ tag… So I care, and it’ll be on me if that becomes a problem.

As @StillStunned will also confirm, your story won't get anywhere near the top 20. If it does, it will be 1 bombed into submission.

 

[RejectReality]

Any butt stuff can be a deal-breaker for some people. I've had people religiously read a story within minutes of chapters going live because they're waiting, leave glowing comments on every installment, and then immediately bail with a disgusted comment that flat-out said they didn't even read it, because there was an anal scene 5 chapters in.

It's not the category, it's just a fraction of the overall readership that simply can't abide it for any reason.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

Sometimes people just 1-bomb stories no matter what the content. I posted in Chain Stories yesterday and got a couple 1-votes within an hour of it going live - I doubt anyone would have managed to read it (20k words) by then!

And there's no anal. The first couple chapters would have deterred any readers who hate that. Who knows, maybe they wanted to show their displeasure 11 months later?

Mostly, it balances out after 20 or so votes, but it's annoying in low-vote categories.

 

[StillStunned]

And there's no anal. The first couple chapters would have deterred any readers who hate that. Who knows, maybe they wanted to show their displeasure 11 months later?

Perhaps they decided it just wasn't up their alley?

 

[lovecraft68]

I don't think its about the category, its about the act. Anal is a love hate thing it seems, but it is a sex act and these are sex stories so I'm not sure where some people think it shouldn't be featured, but guess I don't have to, it's just how it is here.

Couple of years ago I put a story in a contest. The original version had the female MC make a comment about anal sex "Haven't done it since college". In the original version there is an anal scene near the end. When I posted it here I removed the scene both because the story was already long enough, it was just indulgent, and I figured it would hurt the score.

I received a comment saying, "Glad you kept anal out of it" and thought yes, I made the right call, but then I got two saying I should have done it.

These things can be annoying and its a case of you're never going to make everyone happy and usually piss someone off so best not to focus on it.

 

[iwatchus]

I had some anal in roughly a quarter of the stories in my original series, which is mostly an E&V series. At least two of the anal stories are actually in GS, although some are definitely in E&V. I never noticed any correlation between the act or the tag and getting 1-bombed. But that went through more saturation bombing. Yeah, sweeps.

 

[designatedvictim]

I don't think its about the category, its about the act. Anal is a love hate thing it seems, but it is a sex act and these are sex stories so I'm not sure where some people think it shouldn't be featured, but guess I don't have to, it's just how it is here.

My big ongoing story, posted to Novels and Novellas, had - what I thought - was a brief ass-play scene as part of an end-of-chapter rodeo.

It is meant to lead to a follow-up not-entirely-successful anal scene in a later chapter.

He has her bent over, opportunity presents itself, he asks, she balks at actual anal, but she agrees to let him play a bit, so he does, fingering her, then continuing to do her from behind, fade to black.

The chapter has a really good score, overall, 4.86 on 21 votes - no real engagement - and only one comment, so far (about two months ago):

Good so far, interesting enough to keep me reading, but the extended ass play doesn't do a lot for me.

I always find that to be a bit of a weird hill to die on.

Not quite as bad as getting unobombed, but the one specific mentioned.

My minimal experience demonstrates that including such a scene is a bit of a crap-shoot.

Not looking forward to when that later scene gets posted.

Edited to add:
I just went back and checked. There was a vote on that day (the only vote in about a seven-week span). And it had to have been a 5* because the rating went up from a 4.84. Very likely the same guy's vote.

 

[lovecraft68]

My big ongoing story, posted to Novels and Novellas, had - what I thought - was a brief ass-play scene as part of an end-of-chapter rodeo.

It is meant to lead to a follow-up not-entirely-successful anal scene in a later chapter.

He has her bent over, opportunity presents itself, he asks, she balks at actual anal, but she agrees to let him play a bit, so he does, fingering her, then continuing to do her from behind, fade to black.

The chapter has a really good score, overall, 4.86 on 21 votes - no real engagement - and only one comment, so far (about two months ago):


I always find that to be a bit of a weird hill to die on.

Not quite as bad as getting unobombed, but the one specific mentioned.

My minimal experience demonstrates that including such a scene is a bit of a crap-shoot.

Not looking forward to when that later scene gets posted.

Edited to add:
I just went back and checked. There was a vote on that day (the only vote in about a seven-week span). And it had to have been a 5* because the rating went up from a 4.84. Very likely the same guy's vote.

Yeah, odd to see any sex act denigrated on a porn story site, but people gotta people I guess.

 

[TheLobster]

My minimal experience demonstrates that including such a[n anal] scene is a bit of a crap-shoot.

 

[designatedvictim]

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OK, I'll cop to that one.

While writing the reply, it flittered across my mind, I giggled and had to phrase it that way.

 

[Djmac1031]

It's not the category, it's just a fraction of the overall readership that simply can't abide it for any reason.

This.

I once received this comment (from Anon of course) on a story, along with their One Bomb:

"Thanks for at least including the 'anal' tag and saving me from reading five pages of that crap, pun intended."

They didn't even READ it. But they hated the idea of anal so much they just had to let me know.

 

[SyleusSnow]

I once made the "mistake" of alluding to pegging in a story posted to Romance and yikes did that get a reaction (no actual pegging took place). I resubmitted the story with an author's note listing trigger warnings.

Anal was mentioned as a joke in one other story and also got a nasty comment, but only one.

So yeah, as @lovecraft68 and @RejectReality said, it's love/hate and a deal breaker with some readers, not necessarily related to the category (except, perhaps, Romance). List it in the tags.

 

[lovecraft68]

I once made the "mistake" of alluding to pegging in a story posted to Romance and yikes did that get a reaction (no actual pegging took place). I resubmitted the story with an author's note listing trigger warnings.

Anal was mentioned as a joke in one other story and also got a nasty comment, but only one.

So yeah, as @lovecraft68 and @RejectReality said, it's love/hate and a deal breaker with some readers, not necessarily related to the category (except, perhaps, Romance). List it in the tags.

Damn, you know people are thin skinned when a mention of something sets them off.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

What's weird is WHAT they get torgued about. I had a Mom let her son take her in the back but not the front. They bitched.

 

[LiterallyLiterate]

Thanks for your insights, I appreciate it. I guess it boils down to that you can’t please everyone.

To quote Preacher: Why can’t people just be nice?

 

[TheLobster]

To quote Preacher: Why can’t people just be nice?

Some people are assholes. Some simply like it in there.

 

[Britva415]

crap-chute

Fixed that for you