Mixed Categories?

[MagicFingers]

Hi everyone. Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving day. I did.

I recently posted chapter #5 of a story that was in erotic couplings. It was originally about a loving couple getting away to the mountians for the weekend. Well, the last chapter involved a young college student who wound up spending the night with them because of a sprained ankle. Yes, they all wind up in bed together. However, Lit put the story in the "Group sex" category. I think it will be a little confusing having parts of the same story in different categories. I mean, My incest story had some multiple partner sex also, but it was still primarily an incest story, so all the chapters are there where they belong.

Does anyone have any thoughts on why this would be good or bad, having parts of a story in different categories? I don't want to be too anal about this if I shouldn't. Any thoughts?

 

[MagicFingers]

Please delete this thread. Distracted and posted twice

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[davidwatts]

Hi everyone. Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving day. I did.

I recently posted chapter #5 of a story that was in erotic couplings. It was originally about a loving couple getting away to the mountians for the weekend. Well, the last chapter involved a young college student who wound up spending the night with them because of a sprained ankle. Yes, they all wind up in bed together. However, Lit put the story in the "Group sex" category. I think it will be a little confusing having parts of the same story in different categories. I mean, My incest story had some multiple partner sex also, but it was still primarily an incest story, so all the chapters are there where they belong.

Does anyone have any thoughts on why this would be good or bad, having parts of a story in different categories? I don't want to be too anal about this if I shouldn't. Any thoughts?

Hello Magic,

It is annoying when you want them all together, and it happened to me once as well. In the end, it probably doesn't matter and is merely like somebody coming along and messing up the books in your bookcase. If people are still interested in the story, they'll find it no matter what. You might want to put a little note on top of the next chapter if there is one, explaining where chapter 5 is in case they missed it.

Usually if there is any hint of incest the stories go to that category, and if there isn't it doesn't. That's one category that's strict usually.

 

[CorsetLvr]

I have had stories moved too and its a bit annoying when you are targeting a totally different audience. I wrote a story once that was primarily a 3-sum story and I submitted it under group sex. There were some mild D/s elements to the story and was moved to BDSM. It was certainly not what the BDSM readers were looking for and it died in voting.

Peronally, I'd prefer to see a system of story codes such as those used by ASSTR. I have written stories that could have gone into 3-4 categories. Any of them could have been moved based on the judgement of the editors. I guess it comes down to personal interpretation of what is the main focus of a story. My only suggestion in your case is tp challenge the classification and see if you can get it moved.

 

[MagicFingers]

I was worried that the story would not get the views it deserved, and it didn't

I sent a request to Lit the first day but there was no answer and it wasn't changed.
I feel that the story got less view than it would have in the Erotic Couplings category.
If I wanted to write a story about group sex, it would be be with that in mind, not love and a chance 3-some.

 

[CorsetLvr]

I think having easily viewable story codes like those used on other websites would go a long way to help solving this problem. For example, a 3-sum story be coded as FMF or MFM to let the reader know exactly what kind of story it is. Most of my stories contain elements that could allow it to be placed in several categories. For example the one I am working on now could be Loving Wives, Group, Anal, Toys, and Lesbian. For practical reasons it will end up in Group since that is the main story line, but it contains scenes that could allow it to fall into those other categories as well.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Hi everyone. Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving day. I did.

I recently posted chapter #5 of a story that was in erotic couplings. It was originally about a loving couple getting away to the mountians for the weekend. Well, the last chapter involved a young college student who wound up spending the night with them because of a sprained ankle. Yes, they all wind up in bed together. However, Lit put the story in the "Group sex" category. I think it will be a little confusing having parts of the same story in different categories. I mean, My incest story had some multiple partner sex also, but it was still primarily an incest story, so all the chapters are there where they belong.

Does anyone have any thoughts on why this would be good or bad, having parts of a story in different categories? I don't want to be too anal about this if I shouldn't. Any thoughts?

If something can be placed in anything but E/C, it will be. There are so many stories there already, every effort is made to place new ones elsewhere. Incest is a very popular category so it will get anything assigned there and maybe others as well.

If people read a chapter of a story you have written and want to read the next one, they will click on your name and go to your index, where they can choose anything you have posted. Even if all the chapters are in the same category, they will do it that way because it is faster and easier.

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

Suggestion: Post an edit that contains both a preface and an afterward referring to your other stories, and tellin where they are located. And maybe vice-versa, too.

 

[MagicFingers]

It's too late

99.9% of the views and votes come from the first 7 days when a story is on the "new" list. I already sent Lit a request to change the category when it was new. They didn't. They don't give a damn about these things or how they might affect our votes or views. Tough shit for me, I guess.

It did get decent voting from the few people who read it, so I'm not devastated or anything. Just frustrated at the process.