Get the gone!

[SamScribble]

Get thee gone!

I have been thinking. Dangerous, I know. But there you go.

Since an increasing number of Lit readers seen determined to smash stories into the weeds, why not give them a shortcut? For all the talk of writers writing for themselves, we all know that Lit is for the readers.

The readers are the experts. They know which stories have merit. And, more importantly, they know which stories do not. So why not introduce a Get thee gone! button? A certain number of Get thee gone! votes – twenty-five perhaps? – and, Poof! the story the voters deem to be without merit disappears in a puff of digital smoke.

There would be no anonymous voting. Account-holders only. (Email addresses validated.) Their names proudly displayed. In fact, their names could remain even after the story had departed. That should make a few pimply fuckwits feel all warm and fuzzy. ‘Look, Ma. That was me what done that!’

So … what do you think?

 

[Ginlover]

Gets my vote. I mean I can only assume this is the goal of story trashers

 

[RejectReality]

Wouldn't be a single story on the site within 2 days. Loving Wives would vanish in the first 15 minutes.

 

[AvroAnsonXIX]

I have been thinking. Dangerous, I know. But there you go ... That should make a few pimply fuckwits feel all warm and fuzzy. ‘Look, Ma. That was me what done that!’

So … what do you think?

Been done ...

Operation Fast and Furious (US government GIVES guns US citizens can't buy to FOREIGN CRIMINALS -- oops they use them in crimes. Who'd a thunk it.)

Operation Pearl (US government drops cases of beer on Ho Chi Minh Trail to make VC drunkards. Oops officers confiscate beer for themselves. Drunken officers increases the effectiveness of VC troops.)

Every law out of Canberra, ever.

 

[KeithD]

I don't share your premise on the overall expertise of Literotica readers.

I have, though, begun to form the belief that maybe the readers from that other massive site that recently died have come across to Literotica and aren't as impressed with Literotica stories as the regular readers here are.

 

[ishtat]

There would be no anonymous voting. Account-holders only. (Email addresses validated.) Their names proudly displayed. In fact, their names could remain even after the story had departed.

With this provision I don't think it would make much difference Sam. I suspect that 99% of the courage of trolls hides behind the cloak of anonymity..

What is this other failed site which KeithD mentioned? Perhaps I should get out more.

 

[RejectReality]

Two or three multi-banned folks from the GB who already have a hate-on for the site probably have enough alts to erase any story they wish by themselves.

Signing up for a new account takes a minute or so. People severely overestimate the value of banning anonymous.

 

[lovecraft68]

With this provision I don't think it would make much difference Sam. I suspect that 99% of the courage of trolls hides behind the cloak of anonymity..

What is this other failed site which KeithD mentioned? Perhaps I should get out more.

The infamous As++r website has been down for quite awhile, looks like they shut down or were finally shut down.

Great site if you were into 11 year old girls being gang raped...sometimes by dogs.

 

[lovecraft68]

Two or three multi-banned folks from the GB who already have a hate-on for the site probably have enough alts to erase any story they wish by themselves.

Signing up for a new account takes a minute or so. People severely overestimate the value of banning anonymous.

Signing up as "Joelikesboobies" with a just created toss away e-mail is just as anon as anon.

Which always makes me think less of the people who are so afraid of repercussions for their trolling even a fake name and one time e-mail is too much of a risk

 

[NotWise]

What is this other failed site which KeithD mentioned? Perhaps I should get out more.

ASSTR.org 'Tis no more, I'm told.

I think the large changes in the ratings are too closely associated with March 19th to be explained with a lot of new users, most of whom probably read here anyway even before ASSTR disappeared.

We shouldn't let you think, Sam. I think RR is right. Some categories -- especially LW -- would be decimated. Your concept gives the down voters all the power, and ignores readers who might like the story.

 

[lovecraft68]

Now I'm thinking

Let's reverse Sam's idea....all users have to have user id's to vote...and if someone is caught one bombing or leaving a nasty comment without reading the story(the system can tell, same rules as the sweeps) more than three times...bye.

Course some would just keep creating new Id's but there would be work involved.

 

[SimonDoom]

Sam,

You're a good writer and a valuable contributor to this forum, but you're off your rocker with this idea. It's a terrible idea.

No offense intended.

If this idea were adopted, what we would see is good but controversial stories, or stories that didn't fit with conventional category expectations, getting expunged from the Site by a minority of rabid, narrow-minded readers. Their preferences would deny to others the ability to read stories they might like. That's a terrible, terrible idea for a Site devoted to creative expression. And I don't think it would do anything to alleviate the problems that come with current voting patterns.

Sam, write more. Think less.

 

[KeithD]

Two or three multi-banned folks from the GB who already have a hate-on for the site probably have enough alts to erase any story they wish by themselves.

I don't think the referenced GB multibanned trolls even realize that there is a story side to the site--or that the site is a erotica story site to begin with.

 

[RejectReality]

I don't think the referenced GB multibanned trolls even realize that there is a story side to the site--or that the site is a erotica story site to begin with.

I think they'd learn it really quickly if given the opportunity to do this kind of damage to the foundation of the site

 

[lovecraft68]

I think they'd learn it really quickly if given the opportunity to do this kind of damage to the foundation of the site

But the laugh would be on them when they realize that with no stories, the site would shut down and there would be no more GB.

 

[SamScribble]

Sam, write more. Think less.

Have you been speaking with my wife, Simon? She worries when I start a conversation with: 'I've been thinking ....'

 

[SimonDoom]

Have you been speaking with my wife, Simon? She worries when I start a conversation with: 'I've been thinking ....'

I swear, I wouldn't do that behind your back.

 

[AvroAnsonXIX]

Have you been speaking with my wife, Simon? She worries when I start a conversation with: 'I've been thinking ....'

Explain that the way to stop that is by putting something nice in your mouth when you open it.

 

[AvroAnsonXIX]

Great site if you were into 11 year old girls being gang raped...sometimes by dogs.

Sorry to be a naysayer.

But even this cheap laptop has a <Copy> <Paste> <Edit> <Find> and <Replace> key. In 2:11 I can make any story here about 11 year old girls being gang (pack?) raped by dogs. If I wanted to. Which I don't. Censorship just never works.

 

[CarnalLusts]

I do not agree with part of your discussion

Readers are free to read and not read what they desire and leave any rating that they feel appropriate. A system that allows 25 (or what ever number of) people, who for one reason or another, do not like a particular story to permanently remove it is idiotic. Who says the next 25 readers wont like it.

I do agree that only members should be allowed to vote and leave comments.

 

[RejectReality]

The thing about members only is...

 

[LesLumens]

Getting an account is easy...

 

[Darkniciad]

So....

 

[PeytonMirabelle]

So … what do you think?

I think I am going to assume the calendar has already rolled over in your part of the world.

 

[LexxRuthless]

I posted this idea on Bramblethorne's thread in February, but I'll throw it out here again.

I don't know if it's feasible, but I thought that a solution to many of the problems on this site would be individually-tailored Literotica. Whenever anyone scores a story at 3 or less, or reports a story for any reason, it would disappear from "their" Literotica forever. Any future log-in on their account would no longer display that story or any reference to it.

Readers could also have the option to remove all stories with any tag or category they find offensive, and they could completely remove an author they don't like. For the reader, it would quickly pare down the site, leaving only stories they are interested in reading. For authors, it would reduce the incessant bombing of our stories, and it would severely curtail some of the negative, trollish comments. If someone hated your story and gave it a 1, it would disappear before they could add an insulting comment.

I can only wonder what LW would look like after that...