some f*cker...

[maxdname]

keeps juicing me with ones on the voting... every tale I turn in gets jazzed with at least one, one vote... I bet the one votes all come from the same IP address. How can the Lit folks find out?

 

[TxRad]

Welcome to the wonderful world of writing.

Ya can't find out but the management here can and do when they run sweeps periodically.

You need to pop a link to your stories in your sig line so us lazy folks can find them.

 

[glynndah]

A welcome for the little newbie from the good little witch.

 

[jomar]

Welcome old newbie.

 

[Weird Harold]

keeps juicing me with ones on the voting... every tale I turn in gets jazzed with at least one, one vote... I bet the one votes all come from the same IP address. How can the Lit folks find out?

Lit does periodic sweeps for fraudulent votes, which may or may not remove some of the one votes you've received.

However, I would be surprised if you're seeing anything other than the standard "ten fives and a one" pattern that most stories go through. Invariably the first person to spot a story on the top-lists with a perfect 5.00 will give it a one "because nobody's perfect" (and you have to be really bad to get less than a four in the first ten votes.)

 

[MagicaPractica]

I feel your pain. I seem to have picked up a troll or two in the last couple months who keeps shooting me ones. The sweeps help. I saw one score pop up suprisingly today. Patience.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Me, too! My one LW story jumped up in score and had five (count them, FIVE) votes drop off. I think it's some geek calling himself Anonymous in the United States who sends me nasty emails whenever I disagree with his view of someone else's story. Next time he does it, I'll copy the email and post it at the end of the story he didn't like with some comment that other readers can draw their own conclusions about the mental state of the sender. If he thought he was angry before . . .

 

[MagicaPractica]

Me, too! My one LW story jumped up in score and had five (count them, FIVE) votes drop off. I think it's some geek calling himself Anonymous in the United States who sends me nasty emails whenever I disagree with his view of someone else's story. Next time he does it, I'll copy the email and post it at the end of the story he didn't like with some comment that other readers can draw their own conclusions about the mental state of the sender. If he thought he was angry before . . .

Don't feed the trolls dear, you'll never get rid of them that way.

 

[maxdname]

DUDE...I want a hat like that. Is that a TX thing or can people in third world states 'git one.' Just teasin'. I bought a gray Stetson in Tx (I was stationed there in the military, damn you guys got a bunch of 'em... way coooool even in the Bay Area of California)

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Don't feed the trolls dear, you'll never get rid of them that way.

Get rid of trolls? Heavens, no! I'm planning on using them for entertainment. The only comments that I consider to be worth a bucket of warm spit are from other authors. I'm not in any competition for anything, just the laughs and the occasional kind word from someone else who braves the slings and arrows of Literotica. If I can make a genuine slimeball angry, it makes my day.

Sorry, it's the Asperger's in me talking, here.

 

[Weird Harold]

Get rid of trolls? Heavens, no! I'm planning on using them for entertainment.

Seriously, please don't use the trolls for entertainment; if they can get a reaction out of YOU, then they stick around trying to get reactions out of the rest of us, too. What is entertaining to you is devastatin to authors with thinner skins -- like DanielleKitten and others who have been driven to remove their stories from Lit and petition to have their user accounts scrubbed completely.

 

[rgraham666]

However, I would be surprised if you're seeing anything other than the standard "ten fives and a one" pattern that most stories go through. Invariably the first person to spot a story on the top-lists with a perfect 5.00 will give it a one "because nobody's perfect" (and you have to be really bad to get less than a four in the first ten votes.)

I must be really bad then because the story that went up today has two votes; a two and a three.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Seriously, please don't use the trolls for entertainment; if they can get a reaction out of YOU, then they stick around trying to get reactions out of the rest of us, too. What is entertaining to you is devastatin to authors with thinner skins -- like DanielleKitten and others who have been driven to remove their stories from Lit and petition to have their user accounts scrubbed completely.

Oh, if you insist! Darn. I was hoping to brighten up my mundane life with a little serious evil but definitely don't have the heart to see others of more tender nature wounded. O.K., then Harold, I'll try and be good. It takes effort, you know . . .

 

[Weird Harold]

I must be really bad then because the story that went up today has two votes; a two and a three.

You're not bad, you just have enemies and personalized trolls.

Like all generalities, it's incomplete and there are numerous exceptions. However, a new or relatively unknown author does have to post a fairly bad story to get bombed in the first ten votes.

 

[Weird Harold]

Oh, if you insist! Darn. I was hoping to brighten up my mundane life with a little serious evil but definitely don't have the heart to see others of more tender nature wounded. O.K., then Harold, I'll try and be good. It takes effort, you know . . .

Yes, I do know it takes effort to resist.

If it helps, go ahead and type out your rants and diatiribes but hit back or close instead of submit.

 

[smidgeon]

In the comments of at least half a dozen stories I've read over the last week or so, I've noticed someone posting negative (and troll-like) remarks (sometimes simply a couple of words) and leaving a low score. As a reader and sometimes a fan of a particular writer, it's pretty frustrating to witness - especially when it's obviously done with the sole intent of being contrary and irritating to the author and/or other readers.

There's a way to limit the anonymous commenting, no?

And out of curiosity, do the authors get notified of comments being left? Or do they have to read them at the end of the story like everyone else?

 

[voluptuary_manque]

We can go to the "Submit" section and "view" our stories. Their scores and total number of comments are listed. I go there ever day or so and sometimes find that a new comment has been posted. Most of the ugly ones go up within the first few days. Later comments seem to be more favorable. In general, the vast majority of people who have taken the trouble to comment have liked what I've written and one or two of them have flamed my critics. It's heartening in an odd sort of way. What still gets my goat is the a$$h***s who have the temerity to email me something nasty because I dared to disagree with their flame of another author . . . naturally without leaving any return address!! Cobardes!

 

[rgraham666]

In the comments of at least half a dozen stories I've read over the last week or so, I've noticed someone posting negative (and troll-like) remarks (sometimes simply a couple of words) and leaving a low score. As a reader and sometimes a fan of a particular writer, it's pretty frustrating to witness - especially when it's obviously done with the sole intent of being contrary and irritating to the author and/or other readers.

There's a way to limit the anonymous commenting, no?

And out of curiosity, do the authors get notified of comments being left? Or do they have to read them at the end of the story like everyone else?

The author of the story can delete comments on the story. I've only done it once in four years. And that was because the troll said nasty things about the person who I credited with helping me with the story.

We don't get notifications, but we do have a page of our own where we can read and delete comments.

 

[sr71plt]

The author of the story can delete comments on the story. I've only done it once in four years. And that was because the troll said nasty things about the person who I credited with helping me with the story.

We don't get notifications, but we do have a page of our own where we can read and delete comments.

Do wish there was some sort of notification of new comments on stories, if only a flag on the submissions page of added comments until the author opens them there. When you have a lot of stories posted, it sometimes takes months to see that an old story has added a comment--and sometimes I feel like a heel for not responding by PM sooner to someone who has nicely asked a question or given a very nice comment.

 

[smidgeon]

Do wish there was some sort of notification of new comments on stories, if only a flag on the submissions page of added comments until the author opens them there. When you have a lot of stories posted, it sometimes takes months to see that an old story has added a comment.....

Good to know re: commenting much later on stories. Sometimes I read a story 2-3+ years after it was posted, and while I always vote, I've not left public comments in those cases. I'm guessing sending private messages is just as good or maybe better...

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

Thy skin must thicken to exist in the universe of trolldom. We feel your pain.

 

[caprine]

You're Lucky...

Me, too! My one LW story jumped up in score and had five (count them, FIVE) votes drop off. I think it's some geek calling himself Anonymous in the United States who sends me nasty emails whenever I disagree with his view of someone else's story. Next time he does it, I'll copy the email and post it at the end of the story he didn't like with some comment that other readers can draw their own conclusions about the mental state of the sender. If he thought he was angry before . . .

Yesterday from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., my V-Day contest entry went from 65 votes to 49 votes ( a drop off of 16 votes) and a score of 3.77 to a score of 4.45. The score as of now, is down some again. I will ck again at 6 a.m. DO NOT antagonize the trolls with comments--it just eggs them of against both you and others. I found that out the hard way. Author's just have to grin and bear it or suffer even worse from the trolls.

 

[SavannahMann]

If the trolls are looking for someone to nuke.

Have at my stories. I never really check the scores anyway. The only time I look is to see if a story is still pending, or rejected. Otherwise I'm not too worried. While I like the praise, who doesn't, I write the stories because, and this is selfish I admit, it's what I want to read.

That's how I got started writing. I had an idea, and looked for a story that had done it. After reading a bunch of them, I decided that no one had done it so I would. So if you want to send hate mail, be my guest. If you want to vote nothing but ones, please enjoy. I don't compete, and I don't compare myself with others. I love to read some of the work from them, and will draw my own conclusion not based upon any score. Although, I admit that I love much of the work from a couple authors. I would name them, but I don't think it's fair to do so while tempting the trolls do you?

Come on, nuke me, I might notice about the time I finish writing my current story, play like I'm editing it, and then post it online. Figure a couple months before I notice. I expect all my stories to be in the low twos by then guys.

 

[wishfulthinking]

every tale I turn in gets jazzed with at least one, one vote...

Funny. I never thought of it like jazz, but because they aren't swimmers, hence to 1 and not the 5 vote?

 

[cantdog]

Good to know re: commenting much later on stories. Sometimes I read a story 2-3+ years after it was posted, and while I always vote, I've not left public comments in those cases. I'm guessing sending private messages is just as good or maybe better...

I generally put unalloyed positive ones up for the public to read, but PM someone if I have a critique.