Single Author Flooding BDSM?

[DeathAndTaxes]

So uh ...what's up in the BDSM category here lately? If you look at the new stories section, there are a metric crap-ton of submissions by a single author (go take a look, you'll see 'em), and then if you go to said author's profile, they joined just under 3 weeks ago and have put up 36 stories in BDSM in that time, most of them completely troll-tastic for that genre. And some of their stories with comments seem like half the comments are probably made up by the "author."

I spend more time writing than knowing what's up with the trends of weirdness around here - any of ya'll more in-the-know than I am ever seen anything like this before? Clue me in - if it's a troll account, then what end are they aiming to achieve?

 

[PayDay]

...? And? Samuel X drops stories like bankers during the Great Depression.

 

[JKendallDane]

I looked at their author profile. WOW!

I didn't know it was possible to have that many stories rack up one's and two's for scores. Looked like only four of the thirty-six even managed to break into the three's.

But hey...the bright side is he/she/it owns the bottom 40 positions on the "last 30 day top stories" list.

 

[karaline]

It must be really annoying for any one else posting in the same category. They must be getting knocked off the new stories list very quickly 'errant kitten' is currently the 'author' of about three quarters of the stories on there.

 

[lovecraft68]

They may have had a bunch of stories already written ahead of time.

Looked at the scores, reminds me of Samuel X as someone pointed out.

As for other authors getting pissed. I think the site shouldn't just run down the new story list in order of submission, but should notice things like that and spread someone like that out.

Another quantity over quality author.

Also looking through titles and chancing a brief skim of two of these masterpieces, this is another author who doesn't know the difference between BDSM and non con-and going both ways so at least credit for writing some nastiness towards men and not just women.

A lot of BDSM here and sad to say in self publishing is rape porn that they call BDSM, too bad the 'editor' here doesn't care to know the difference.

Odds are its why they are getting smacked down so bad, they would be better suited to non con reluctance.

 

[StrangeLife]

It could be somebody migrating from another site who is putting up all his old stories...

 

[JagFarlane]

Or someone who has written in notebooks for years, stumbled across this site, and decided to post.

 

[JKendallDane]

Or someone who has written in notebooks for years, stumbled across this site, and decided to post.

That choice of terminology just made a shiver run up my spine.

The infamous Lit thief we busted earlier this year, EF Turner, used very similar words about "having many years of stories written her notebooks and journals" on her blog and in her Amazon promos of stuff that was determined to actually be hers instead of plagiarised...and she had a serious BDSM fetish.

Please let it be anyone else! ANYONE!!!

 

[Desiremakesmeweak]

'BDSM' is a subject that has been hijacked by a discrete worldwide movement that sources back to a kind of semi-'political elite' that hides inside modern academia.

I'm very much afraid things like stacking categories are very far from 'merely' someone who 'might be,' or someone who 'could be' unloading backlogs of notebooks.

It is very much a targeted movement designed to shift what BDSM means, who can participate, and what the import of 'being outed' or 'revelations' about public figures becomes in the hands of a manipulative media. This is a very sinister thing and one of its current consequences is to have created several quite distinctly different groups of people who are involved in what used to be more or less 'one world' of 'bdsm.' Some of these groups are far more deeply 'underground' now than they ever were before as the direct result. which I think is to an extent a shame.

I am a close personal friend of some people who have had rather notorious public media splashes about their private lives and I am here to tell anyone who will listen that the results of very expensive, very high level private investigations - including a small amount of confidential official special branch investigations and in camera judicial reviews - have led to some fairly sinister implications being mooted - all of which I would advise people to harken to closely, rather than simply laugh off as just more 'conspiracy theory.'

And because of the blurring now of just exactly WHY some people are involving themselves in this area - whereas in the past it was mostly just 'purely' kink or curiosity - there are now those who have malicious and highly-intentioned plans to exploit people or even whole social groups, whether for money or for political influence, and it is no longer safe to assume everyone's honest or up-front motivations in this specific area.

 

[lovecraft68]

That choice of terminology just made a shiver run up my spine.

The infamous Lit thief we busted earlier this year, EF Turner, used very similar words about "having many years of stories written her notebooks and journals" on her blog and in her Amazon promos of stuff that was determined to actually be hers instead of plagiarised...and she had a serious BDSM fetish.

Please let it be anyone else! ANYONE!!!

Turner wasn't a sub she wsd an abused woman married to a man who threatened my life when I once spoke with her on the phone three years ago. From him she moved on to a dom she met online and from what I observed of him in her member only chatroom he was no better.

Bdsm draws sadists unfortunately and is as I said in erotica horribly misconstued with rape porn. 50 shades of shit has enhanced that issue.

 

[Aurelius_PG]

Hah! One of those stories was mine, my first posting, which was listed for two days before being pushed out by this errant kitten. No big deal, but a little disappointing that the editor didn't think to trickle in the stories rather than spam their own site!

And yes, I am aware now that I inadvertently posted my little non-cons story in BDSM, apologies to anyone this might have offended. I wasn't aware that BDSM fiction was now consensual-only. Real-life yes of course, absolutely, but fiction? Looks like it's non-cons gulag for me from now on.

Desiremakesmeweak - I think you might be saying something interesting, but I don't get it in the context of this thread.

 

[3113]

That choice of terminology just made a shiver run up my spine.

The infamous Lit thief we busted earlier this year, EF Turner, used very similar words about "having many years of stories written her notebooks and journals" on her blog and in her Amazon promos of stuff that was determined to actually be hers instead of plagiarised...and she had a serious BDSM fetish.

Could be that person under another name. Perhaps someone should alert Laurel to this? Yes, could be a notebook full of shit, but to even type up that many stories and post them...might be theft.

 

[sr71plt]

My guess is it's someone with a backlog of stories just starting out here. I'm posting three a week (by request) from backlog to another site wanting to beef up its story file.

 

[DeathAndTaxes]

Was talking to another Lit author outside of here about it and she pointed out that some copying/pasting is definitely happening here.

This author's Mistress Pepper is the same story, word for word as another story under a different account, Depravity in Rhode Island.

The account of the older posted story has a bunch of BDSM stories, but there have been no updates for several years. I figured where there was smoke there was fire, so I poked into another story. Did a google search of the first few lines of another one by this ErrantKitten, The Cruel Governess, and it immediately came up as a result in Google Books under the name Justin Benedict, which is the same as the author account name for the first copied story.

Sadistic Sorority CH 1 is copied from something posted in a Yahoo! Group in 2007, and so on.

I didn't bother to look further, but I'm guessing it's more of the same.

 

[sr71plt]

So, did you hit the report button on the stories and note what you found? (Good sleuthing, by the way.)

 

[lovecraft68]

Was talking to another Lit author outside of here about it and she pointed out that some copying/pasting is definitely happening here.

This author's Mistress Pepper is the same story, word for word as another story under a different account, Depravity in Rhode Island.

The account of the older posted story has a bunch of BDSM stories, but there have been no updates for several years. I figured where there was smoke there was fire, so I poked into another story. Did a google search of the first few lines of another one by this ErrantKitten, The Cruel Governess, and it immediately came up as a result in Google Books under the name Justin Benedict, which is the same as the author account name for the first copied story.

Sadistic Sorority CH 1 is copied from something posted in a Yahoo! Group in 2007, and so on.

I didn't bother to look further, but I'm guessing it's more of the same.

Depravity in Rhode Island? Jeez I didn't give anyone permission to write about me....

 

[Bramblethorn]

Hah! One of those stories was mine, my first posting, which was listed for two days before being pushed out by this errant kitten. No big deal, but a little disappointing that the editor didn't think to trickle in the stories rather than spam their own site!

And yes, I am aware now that I inadvertently posted my little non-cons story in BDSM, apologies to anyone this might have offended. I wasn't aware that BDSM fiction was now consensual-only.

I don't think it is, as moderation goes, though I'd be happier if it were. I'm sure a lot of BDSMers enjoy NC *fantasy*, I just get twitchy about having it called "BDSM" without adequate consent.

Could be that person under another name. Perhaps someone should alert Laurel to this? Yes, could be a notebook full of shit, but to even type up that many stories and post them...might be theft.

The stories I read seemed reasonably consistent in style (more than mine!) so I didn't get the feeling that they were from several different authors. Honestly, if I was going to steal? I'd steal something with a higher rating. I don't really care for the content, but it seems possible to me that she's just a SamuelX type who may not have any idea that submitting a whole heap of stuff at once is causing problems. I might drop her a note in case that's what it is.

IIRC, if you submit several chapters of an ongoing story at once, they're staggered to post at one per day. Might be an idea if something similar was applied to separate stories from the same author.

 

[JKendallDane]

Six more new ones today and all getting a "wtf is this trash?" reception from the readers if the scores mean anything.

Could be that person under another name. Perhaps someone should alert Laurel to this? Yes, could be a notebook full of shit, but to even type up that many stories and post them...might be theft.

I think I stumbled over a big clue! Check out the following and compare openings:

http://www.literotica.com/s/depravity-in-rhode-island

http://www.literotica.com/s/mistress-pepper

That one is obviously a lift from a Lit author that hadn't been active since 2009, until he published two stories early this year.

If you do a Google search using a sentence or two of any of her stories, you get wildly varying results spread all over the place. From here, Yahoo Groups, a bunch of little-known smut sites, etc...and very few where the same pen name is being used.

I didn't invest the time and effort to check more than a half dozen or so of the stories using Google, but it seems that they are all apparently plagiarized.

EDIT TO ADD: Looks like several of us did the same thing. I was still busy checking things with my reply box open, so Death & Taxes wins the First Scoop award!

 

[lovecraft68]

Doubt this is the case here, but....

I used to correspond quite a bit with site legend Manyfeatherswho at one point wrote as "The Sandman" well he pulled a bunch of SM stories and reposted one under manyfeathers.

he was attacked by readers as stealing the story from SM and it was reported and removed and he had to contact Laurel and pretty much porve he was sandman.

But with the number of stories here this person is probably lifting from people.

But why? Its a free site. Turner was trying to make money, deplorable, but at least you could see some reasoning to it $$$

But here its free....also the balls(or lack of brains) to lift and repost on the same sight blows my mind.

 

[lovecraft68]

So looking at these three comments

http://www.literotica.com/s/the-subs-of-mistress-fanchon

The one saying they must be stolen might be worth reporting....

But the one talking about the author flooding the site with bad writing....

Sam X has 2200 or so stories with a countless number of 2's and under....should someone report him?

I'm not so sure I like the "reported for bad writing" angle. Partly because who cares, its a free site, partly because....that's subjective to a point

And largely it annoys me from the writers perspective of "Please. Mr Anymouse, create a pen name and show me some good quality writing so that we may all be in awe of your skills and learn from you."

 

[sr71plt]

I occasionally get dinged by readers who have read my stories elsewhere under another name. The posting in more than one name happens because I already was posting elsewhere when I joined Lit., and Lit. wouldn't give me an account with my established name (although no one else has that account name here that I can see). It isn't hard to clear it up with the reader, though, who is being good to look out for me (under the other name).

It, however, has led to stealing of the story content from under the other name and trying to post it to Lit., where it already exists under my Lit. name. The Web site has quickly taken care of that when it's happened.

 

[JKendallDane]

AH~HA! we haaave the answer right from the horse's mouth!

Read errantkitten's "coming out of the closet" confession in the comments on this story:

http://www.literotica.com/s/the-android-domme

Hmmmm....to quote Arte Johnson of Laugh-In fame: "Veddddy in-tah-westing."

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[lovecraft68]

AH~HA! we haaave the answer right from the horse's mouth!

Read errantkitten's "coming out of the closet" confession in the comments on this story:

http://www.literotica.com/s/the-android-domme

Hmmmm....to quote Arte Johnson of Laugh-In fame: "Veddddy in-tah-westing."

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Oh, she shoots, she scores! Good for her ragging on anymouse, but I think her comment is going to be removed because of her web address.

 

[JKendallDane]

Oh, she shoots, she scores! Good for her ragging on anymouse, but I think her comment is going to be removed because of her web address.

Soooo...we c&p it for posterity (with the web address neutered of course).....

(errantkitten) God I'm so weary of this

You stupid piece of shit, I write under "Justin c benedict" and "Errant Kitten" and a few other names.I am SOOOOOO tired of this. For every moronic "you can't write" letter, ten people are sending me fan mail, and I'm referring them to my pay site, kxxxxxe.com I write pornography (not erotica) for a LIVING. What do you do, moron, sell aluminum siding?

Her stories may be garbage but she does get points for that bitch slap though.

 

[DeathAndTaxes]

So, did you hit the report button on the stories and note what you found? (Good sleuthing, by the way.)

I hadn't reported anything yet - I was using this thread to kind of get the consensus of others before I jumped to conclusions. It seems some are making a case that someone made a new account and was re-listing their stories. Although why a person would need to do that when the old account is still extant is beyond me. Maybe no access to the original email addy? Trying to get old, buried stories some new play?

lovecraft68: Depravity in Rhode Island? Jeez I didn't give anyone permission to write about me....

Heyoooo!! Hehe.

JKendallDane: Quote:
(errantkitten) God I'm so weary of this

You stupid piece of shit, I write under "Justin c benedict" and "Errant Kitten" and a few other names.I am SOOOOOO tired of this. For every moronic "you can't write" letter, ten people are sending me fan mail, and I'm referring them to my pay site, kxxxxxe.com I write pornography (not erotica) for a LIVING. What do you do, moron, sell aluminum siding?

Her stories may be garbage but she does get points for that bitch slap though.

See and I saw it another way. Rather than congratulating her for her witty comeback, I more just wondered how they function in life if that's how they talk to other people. Yeah, it's fun to run your mouth at someone who pisses you off, but in the real world where you have to market yourself and win people to your side, that kind of attitude is not going to fly, at least not for very long. Maybe I'm just a doormat, but I would never say something like that, not even to people who make me want to rip my hair out. Different strokes (or stroke stories), I guess.