I Am Anonymous

[NOIRTRASH]

I posted a comment as Anonymous today. It's my response to new LIT policies. Until now I pretty much left LIT stories alone unless they came to AH and FEEDBACK with "I'd love to know what you think," but didn't really. The first contestant got 2 stars from anonymous. Had he come here he'd only get his feelings hurt. Now he has hurt feelings and a low score. Maybe LIT will end anonymous comments soon. And anonymous will become ALT1. You see the futility of nice? Militant nice simply forces trolls into closets.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/uncyclopedia/images/6/6b/Igor_Stravinsky.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20120429110248

I found this photo of AH MOD.

 

[TxRad]

http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/uncyclopedia/images/6/6b/Igor_Stravinsky.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20120429110248

I found this photo of AH MOD.

I thought that was you coming out of the closet.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

I thought that was you coming out of the closet.

I look like a bald Rosie ODonnell

 

[TxRad]

I look like a bald Rosie ODonnell

Gotta ya....

 

[HandsInTheDark]

I'm coming to the opinion that allowing anon voting is a mistake; if you want to score a story it should be traceable, and maybe even your nickname should be visible to the author. A score, after all, is only a kind of comment, and I can turn off anon comments (and occasionally do). Why should I have to accept scores from anons?

Ultimately I'm sure it's moot - take away anon voting and we'll just have an explosion of sockpuppet accounts. Though a partial solution there is to show which accounts come from the same IP (without revealing the actual IP).

 

[NOIRTRASH]

I'm coming to the opinion that allowing anon voting is a mistake; if you want to score a story it should be traceable, and maybe even your nickname should be visible to the author. A score, after all, is only a kind of comment, and I can turn off anon comments (and occasionally do). Why should I have to accept scores from anons?

Ultimately I'm sure it's moot - take away anon voting and we'll just have an explosion of sockpuppet accounts. Though a partial solution there is to show which accounts come from the same IP (without revealing the actual IP).

Laurel already has her GREEN E to recognize superior writing. But here's an idea: Send the GREEN E's to a panel of talented writers for appraisal and scoring.

 

[lovecraft68]

I'm coming to the opinion that allowing anon voting is a mistake; if you want to score a story it should be traceable, and maybe even your nickname should be visible to the author. A score, after all, is only a kind of comment, and I can turn off anon comments (and occasionally do). Why should I have to accept scores from anons?

Ultimately I'm sure it's moot - take away anon voting and we'll just have an explosion of sockpuppet accounts. Though a partial solution there is to show which accounts come from the same IP (without revealing the actual IP).

I agree, I have said this for a long time. If there was a name attached to all comments the hateful ones would greatly diminish because people could then contact them as they do authors and abuse them through feedback or at the least they could recognize the name and harass them on the comment boards as they do others.

I find that amusing because even with these handles we're still anon, but the trolls are such cowards that removing even one layer of their anonymity scares them. The LW comments would be cut in half, I'm sure

 

[oggbashan]

... Why should I have to accept scores from anons?

Ultimately I'm sure it's moot - take away anon voting and we'll just have an explosion of sockpuppet accounts. Though a partial solution there is to show which accounts come from the same IP (without revealing the actual IP).

If you look at the list of registered Literotica members many of them seem to do nothing at all. They don't write stories; they don't post on the forums; and they don't seem to favorite authors nor leave comments.

At present it is very easy to become a Literotica member. It has been for years.

How many of them are defunct, never used? How many of them are alts of active members?

We don't know. But if all voting had to be from registered members, then the authors are outnumbered by what? 100 to 1? 1000 to 1?

I don't think restricting votes to registered Lit members would change much.

What might change the pattern is making it a requirement that votes need a written explanation. 'I voted a One because the author can't spell, can't write coherently and the plot is so tangled the author has lost the way...'

But the number of votes would drop substantially.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

There's nothing to keep an informal panel from forming, to score and assess story submissions for realistic appraisals. I nominate PILOT and BARD THE TARD and WHINEOSOREASS TEX and OGG if they have the time to do a few every week.

 

[sr71plt]

What do you mean by "realistic appraisal"?

 

[NotWise]

I don't really agree with the idea of requiring people to have an account (and to be logged in with that account) in order to vote and/or comment. Maybe next you would want to limit it to other writers, or to people you see as somehow qualified to have an opinion, or maybe to land-owning adult white males.

Contests like Lit's vote system aren't and never will be anything but a popularity contest, and really shouldn't be looked at any other way.

Lit seems to have some systems for offsetting bad votes. I'm not sure what it is. I watched the scores on some of my eariler posts going up this week while the vote counts went down. It was nice to see, but I don't really know why it happened.

I say all this from the viewpoint that Anonymous hasn't really done much to me yet. One called my an idiot for my second post, but the next comment (also from Anonymous) defended me. Anonymous posts have been generally constructive, if not flattering.

 

[lovecraft68]

I don't really agree with the idea of requiring people to have an account (and to be logged in with that account) in order to vote and/or comment. Maybe next you would want to limit it to other writers, or to people you see as somehow qualified to have an opinion, or maybe to land-owning adult white males.

Contests like Lit's vote system aren't and never will be anything but a popularity contest, and really shouldn't be looked at any other way.

Lit seems to have some systems for offsetting bad votes. I'm not sure what it is. I watched the scores on some of my eariler posts going up this week while the vote counts went down. It was nice to see, but I don't really know why it happened.

I say all this from the viewpoint that Anonymous hasn't really done much to me yet. One called my an idiot for my second post, but the next comment (also from Anonymous) defended me. Anonymous posts have been generally constructive, if not flattering.

Write a few in LW or something that does not appeal to the 'real men' faction of lit and get back to us about anon.

But yes, many anonymous comments are favorable and requiring signing up could lose a few of those, but its really the bashers and hate spewers that would leave en mass if they couldn't be anymouse any longer, just my opinion, Its a moot conversation anyway, its not going to happen

 

[NotWise]

Its a moot conversation anyway, its not going to happen

Probably not. If I were in charge here I would probably want the voting system to reflect the unqualified opinion of the broad population that might go from reading stories to buying VOD, or Chat or lingerie or toys -- not the opinion of a smaller and possibly unrepresentative group.

I've heard so much about the Anonymous responses on LW that I'm almost tempted to submit something there just for the amusement of having some idiot tell me they're going to fuck me in the ass until I die, or something along those lines.

 

[Nathan_Brazil]

Anonymous voting is cleaner... Sure, there are a few who live to drag people down, but those people would do it anyway, or so the GB shows me.

On the other hand, most authors seem to be divas... Most of them would be terrified to give a low score if they had to sign it, being petrified by the idea that you would get even.

 

[GoldenMaia]

If you look at the list of registered Literotica members many of them seem to do nothing at all. They don't write stories; they don't post on the forums; and they don't seem to favorite authors nor leave comments.

At present it is very easy to become a Literotica member. It has been for years.

How many of them are defunct, never used? How many of them are alts of active members?

We don't know. But if all voting had to be from registered members, then the authors are outnumbered by what? 100 to 1? 1000 to 1?

I don't think restricting votes to registered Lit members would change much.

What might change the pattern is making it a requirement that votes need a written explanation. 'I voted a One because the author can't spell, can't write coherently and the plot is so tangled the author has lost the way...'

But the number of votes would drop substantially.

I'd rather see less votes than a lot of empty votes. At least if someone says 'this story isn't <whatever> enough for me' it gives an answer why someone is dunking it bad. At the very least someone held with their name on a vote so it's not something empty. *shrugs*

Without proper registration someone can have 10+ accounts anyway so not sure it would change things.