Fedup with vote bombers and stupid comments

[Altissimus]

As the title says.

Recent votes on my work - which I do understand might polarise the readership - and stupid comments on the same, makes me just want to not post anymore stories.

Why don't the readers understand that negative feedback isn't constructive, it just drives authors away?

 

[Serafina1210]

It a pretty rough neighborhood. Crack houses on every corner, streets all potholes, and ain't never no cops around when you need 'em. If you hang out here you gonna get beat up now and then.

 

[NotWise]

As the title says.

Recent votes on my work - which I do understand might polarise the readership - and stupid comments on the same, makes me just want to not post anymore stories.

Why don't the readers understand that negative feedback isn't constructive, it just drives authors away?

I looked at your ratings and comments and I'm not sure what you're complaining about. You have one story currently rated under four (possibly because it's short) and most of the comments are pretty positive. Did you delete the offensive comments?

If that continues to be a problem then you can disable comments and voting as an alternative to not writing at all.

 

[Bramblethorn]

As the title says.

Recent votes on my work - which I do understand might polarise the readership - and stupid comments on the same, makes me just want to not post anymore stories.

Why don't the readers understand that negative feedback isn't constructive, it just drives authors away?

For some of them, that's the point. Some people are just jerks. But in my experience the nice commenters far outnumber them.

 

[Hypoxia]

Easy solution: Don't post stories. Then you'll get no bombs nor death threats.

Next solution: Grow thicker skin. Writing erotica ain't for wussies. Fuck the negatives.

Final solution: If you drink cyanide, likely nobody here will miss you. What ever happened to... ??

Okay, I'll go positive. Bombs and nasty comments mean you've impacted readers enough to provoke responses. That says to me I've done my job -- I've prodded somebody to react. So the voluble hate me; so what? My lowest-rated story is my most-viewed and most-favorited. I grabbed eyeballs. I am happy. Otro cervesa, por favor. (That means gimmee yet another beer, please.)

 

[DonnaBeck]

It a pretty rough neighborhood. Crack houses on every corner, streets all potholes, and ain't never no cops around when you need 'em. If you hang out here you gonna get beat up now and then.

That is pretty funny. I used to get a lot more hate before I landed in the Romance category. Now I tell people I am a good girl in the best neighborhood of a very bad town known as Literotica.

 

[TxRad]

That is pretty funny. I used to get a lot more hate before I landed in the Romance category. Now I tell people I am a good girl in the best neighborhood of a very bad town known as Literotica.

The only bad neighborhood I've found at Lit is Loving wives.

 

[DreamCloud]

That is pretty funny. I used to get a lot more hate before I landed in the Romance category. Now I tell people I am a good girl in the best neighborhood of a very bad town known as Literotica.

Romance is for the happy hearts. The neighbors mow their lawns and the paperboy always hits the front porch. The term 'happy ending' takes on a whole new meaning.

The other neighborhoods definitely attract a more uncouth crowd.

 

[LIVINRFANTASIES]

Romance is for the happy hearts. The neighbors mow their lawns and the paperboy always hits the front porch. The term 'happy ending' takes on a whole new meaning.

The other neighborhoods definitely attract a more uncouth crowd.

Are you Mrs. Cleaver ?

 

[DreamCloud]

Are you Mrs. Cleaver ?

Mr. Cleaver, if you don't mind. And stay off the grass!

 

[AMoveableBeast]

The only bad neighborhood I've found at Lit is Loving wives.

Humor and Satire can be a little rough too. Not a lot of high scores in that part of town.

 

[TxRad]

Humor and Satire can be a little rough too. Not a lot of high scores in that part of town.

Humor is a tough one as everyone's sense of humor is different. Not to mention that the vote totals are very low which makes even a 3 dump the score.

 

[sr71plt]

Not to mention that humor kills the emotion of sensuality. It doesn't mix well with arousal.

 

[lovecraft68]

Not to mention that humor kills the emotion of sensuality. It doesn't mix well with arousal.

True, but I would think people choosing to read in humor and satire aren't looking for a one handed read, the category is pretty clear about what it is.

But that being said we're dealing with a readership that complains about stories about adultery on a porn site.

 

[lovecraft68]

That is pretty funny. I used to get a lot more hate before I landed in the Romance category. Now I tell people I am a good girl in the best neighborhood of a very bad town known as Literotica.

Good girl my ass, you'll be back to slumming in my neighborhood before long.

 

[Serafina1210]

Not to mention that humor kills the emotion of sensuality. It doesn't mix well with arousal.

Horseshit. Four of my highest rated pieces here are humor pieces. I'm just not dumb enough to post them in the humor category.

 

[sr71plt]

Horseshit. Four of my highest rated pieces here are humor pieces. I'm just not dumb enough to post them in the humor category.

I'm game. Index where you think you have managed to do humor and sensuality simultaneously. I'm not talking about the element being in the same story; I'm talking about them being managed at the exact same time. (Horseshit right back at'cha.)

The moment you move into (what you think is) humor, you evaporate sensuality.

Oh, and fuck Literotica ratings. They have very little to do with story quality.

 

[AMoveableBeast]

Horseshit. Four of my highest rated pieces here are humor pieces. I'm just not dumb enough to post them in the humor category.

Ain't that the truth.

 

[NotWise]

Hmm. I was of the impression that women generally found a good sense of humor to be an attractive feature in a man. I even had one girlfriend who thought that sex with me was really funny!

Oh wait, that doesn't sound right.

 

[sr71plt]

Ain't that the truth.

OK, you can play too. Back it up with examples of what you thought worked.

The funny bone is NOT connected to the penis or the clit.

 

[lovecraft68]

OK, you can play too. Back it up with examples of what you thought worked.

The funny bone is NOT connected to the penis or the clit.

I don't know about that, you can work a few good one liners into a sex scene, especially if you're doing soem humiliation or a good old fashioned hate fuck.

 

[sr71plt]

I don't know about that, you can work a few good one liners into a sex scene, especially if you're doing soem humiliation or a good old fashioned hate fuck.

And when you do, you kill sensuality for that time and have to start all over with it. Sensuality isn't an event; it's a mood. Humor is a sensuality mood killer.

 

[NotWise]

The funny bone is NOT connected to the penis or the clit.

But it is connected to the mind, which is the most important errogenous zone.

The topic has drifted considerably from the OP. It might actually be worth having a "humour in erotica" thread instead of hijacking this one.

 

[lovecraft68]

And when you do, you kill sensuality for that time and have to start all over with it. Sensuality isn't an event; it's a mood. Humor is a sensuality mood killer.

Sex can be fun, people can laugh and play during sex, especially a couple that's comfortable with each other.

Sex is about fun(hence the expression fooling around), if its always some solemn event like church then it's not being done right.

 

[Serafina1210]

I'm game. Index where you think you have managed to do humor and sensuality simultaneously. I'm not talking about the element being in the same story; I'm talking about them being managed at the exact same time. (Horseshit right back at'cha.)

The moment you move into (what you think is) humor, you evaporate sensuality.

Ho-kay.

This is not everybody's cup of erm, nevermind, not even mine, but I've found that humor and fetish go together very well. My "Brenda" series does very well with readers, both in number of views and in ratings. I'd particularly point to Ch. 6 (towards the end, where the reverend is simultaneously preaching and facefucking our heroine) of "God and the Cum Dump" and, well, just a whole lot of "The Rent-A-Slave" and "The Taming of the Shithead" (trigger warnings: piss, scat, and all kinds of awful stuff in both stories). The Brenda stories are basically long-form strokers: readers sometimes report multiple orgasms, though I take this with a grain of salt.

I think gangbangs are inherently funny. People fumbling around trying to do anal sex for the first time can be very funny. I exploit those things in "Amy Says Yes."

My "Cunnilingus: A Short History" did very well. It's a collection of six mini-stories, three of them humorous. Full of biblical and classical allusions, too, but I don't think that accounts for the fact that readers have liked it.

Now, if humor kills the sensuality for you, you're not going to like these stories. That's fine. We've all got our preferences. But I will say that humor doesn't kill sensuality for me, but rather enhances it. For me, anyway, a laugh is a turn-on--a fact that has often redounded to the benefit of a certain well-hung personage in my life; and even reading a funny story can leave me a little hot.

My experience here is that this is also true for a number of my readers.

Oh, and I'd say these are pretty good stories, independent of ratings, partly because of the humor; but how could I prove that?