The SCOURIES reader – for both fans and serious scholars…

[sr71plt]

No, you rail at everyone with YOUR holier than thou attitude. You don't care what the subject is, you always know better than everyone else. I'd bet it'd be a safe assumption that you're the second most ignored person on these boards. Your pal Scouries, of course, is first.

All lashing-out irrelevancies aside, your out-of-control response to Scouries worked a charm, didn't it? As I posted, it was manna to him. And if you act out this way at the office, there's no wonder you get the responses there you do either.

 

[sarahhh]

Out today, a wonderful new story by LITEROTICA’S most famous author.

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Her Pussy is Where?

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by​

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sarahhh

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Yes, the lovely sarahhh has done it again! And in writing in a new category for her she has shown the breadth and brilliance of her writing repertoire.

Giant Green Banana Penises!!!

Nuns!!!

Purple People Eaters!!!

Uranians!!!

“If there's one thing I've learned during my travels through the galaxy, when a guy has a penis he can wrap around himself twice and then stick it in his own ear, you don't mess with him…”

“You Earth AH babes talk too much...”

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Many doubted she could master the intricacies of Non-Human erotica, many feared she wouldn’t be able to capture the nuances of the alien anatomy. Many thought she’d have trouble matching the mistresses of nonhumam LITEROTICA writing.

“She’s brilliant,” the scoffers admitted grudgingly, “but she’ll never match the danikat or that ellieanna chick when it comes to writing about interspecies intergalactic romantic fucking. Heck, she’ll never even master alien names!”

WRONG!!!!

The introduction of our large cocked green friends from Uranus, ‘Kawkabel’ and ‘Samsaweel’, has proven every critic wrong.

The lovely miss sarahhh simply continues to go from triumph to triumph…

Well done young lady!!!!

I’m james r scouries, and I approve this message…

[size=+2]Dolphins love sarahhhh …[/size]

You are so sweet, Jim. Thanks for musing me on the story! Too bad for them certain others who post on this thread don't take your astute advice and marvelous mentoring.

Go Dolphins! The Steelers have another bye (Bengals) this week. I have the Dolphins defense on my FF team and Downtown Ronnie Brown.

 

[Guest]

Heeeeeeeeeeeelllllllllllpppppppppppp!!!

Can anyone help this guy???

OK, I’ll concede I’m no computer maven. But I have tried to help him, really.

It started when I sent [size=+2]Mister Mad Mike[/size] a message congratulating him on his elevation into the 1000+ VOTE club. He quite politely answered, saying he was happy to be a member and that he hadn’t even known that there was club for 1000+ vote receiving authors or that his story had made it. Here is a link to his home page:

Mad Mike

I think he was quite proud to learn that he had joined such a select company. The story involved is one of only two he has up on the site (although he used to have many more) and is called [size=+2]Snap Shot[/size] and is in the Exhibitionist Category (a very good story by the way).

He also, assuming I had some official capacity with the site (which BTW should make my friends from Texas’s day), asked if I could do him a small favor.

The favor he asked me was this: He wanted ME to arrange to change his name on LITEROTICA. He apparently has published quite a few e-books under a different name and he would like to use that same name here on LITEROTICA.

-Of course I e-mailed back saying I wasn’t an official LITEROTICA staff member and suggested that he contact LAUREL directly.

-He e-mailed back asking for contact info for LAUREL .

-I suggested back all he had to do was sign in and PM our leader. I even suggested that he also might try serena as she’s the only person I know who had successfully changed names and was also involved in e-publishing. Figured I’d solved his problem.

-He got back to me some weeks later – apparently Hurricane Ike had knocked out his power for some weeks. He wrote, “ for some reason my computer will not allow me to use the button on the site to e mail her through the automatic addressing system. That's why I wanted her address so I could e mail her manually”

-WTF I thought, then looked at the whole PM system. Maybe he’s disabled the messaging function I figured so I e-mailed back, “Sorry but I'm not sure what you mean when you say your computer doesn't let you send a message to Laurel. Don't e-mail her (she never answers e-mails) - private message her instead. If you're having problems sending PM's maybe you should check to see if you disabled that function.

Sign in to the site - then when your account comes up click the FORUM button on the left. Then click EDIT OPTIONS. Then scroll down and check to see if PERSONAL MESSAGING is enabled. If not then check the box enabling it. Then proceed to send her a message.

Hopefully this will work! Good luck

Another problem solved by the hard working Gabby I thought! Wrong!

-This came back from him yesterday: Thanks! I went through the steps you outlined, and turned on my messaging. But still, a window comes up and says: The default Mail Client is Not Properly installed.
Is there any other way I can communicate with Laurel

-Another WTF! I hate to give up but does anyone think they can help this man? He actually seems like a pretty good guy.

Gabrielle L.

 

[Darkniciad]

Have him try this:

Log in to the forum
Click "User CP" at the top left
Scroll down to the private messaging section and click "Send New Message"
In the Recipients box, type:

Laurel

Then just fill in the subject and the body of the message.

I think he's clicking the wrong place, and this will get him to the PM instead of email.

 

[Selena_Kitt]

But you gotta admit the whole story sounded weird. The whole mail thing – I’ve never had a problem with forwarding mail, you just leave the post office a forwarding address. What other mail weren’t you getting? When mail didn’t arrive (bank statements, magazines, credit card offers, etc., etc.) didn’t you check?

I didn't need to check. I responsibly changed my address with everyone. Banks, magazines, credit cards (which we don't own anyway) etc. The only thing that should have been going to the old house was junk mail. And if you've never had problems with mail forwarding, you've never lived in a rural area.

And just leaving the house like that! What about tax notices? Electricity? Maintenance? Even if you’d decided to just walk away you’d think you’d have at least talked to the bank, the city, checked with a lawyer before you left town.

Did all of the above. In fact, the city DID have our new address, I gave it to them. They sent it to that address, but we had just moved to the new place that month, and that's when the mail forwarding issue happened. Very very (VERY!) small post office, who claimed they never got the mail forwarding notice (and yet were still holding all our mail at the post office anyway? It was very strange...)

C’mon #1 Freddie ! What kind of half assed statement is this? You ‘haven’t bothered’ because you ‘have better things to do’? Well go do them then! We don’t need any more dilettantes here…

C’mon #2 Freddie ! You’re the King of personal attacks! You’ve said and called various people things that made even me cringe! And as you well know I’ve got a pretty thick skin.

Perhaps, now, Freddie, you will see that the light at the end of this tunnel really IS a train?

 

[Guest]

Hi, it’s Gabby again,

QUOTE sarahhh The Steelers have another bye (Bengals) this week

You were right there hon! Unfortunately our team took the weekend off again… there’s always next year I guess…

And your story is wonderful! And as usual you’re out commenting all of us. Be good, we love ya

your gabby

QUOTE darkboy Have him try this:

Thank you – I sent him your suggestion and hopefully it will work! His last suggestion was that I PM the QUEEN and ask her to e-mail him! The odds of that working…

QUOTE Perhaps, now, Freddie…

Still up to your old tricks you little trouble maker you… we really don’t want to see you serve time miss… at least not too many years anyway… mind you, “Kitty Letters From Angola” does make a catchy title…

How about you – would you contact Mad Mike for us? He might even be interested in joining your eXcessica team.

Gabrielle L.

 

[Selena_Kitt]

How about you – would you contact Mad Mike for us? He might even be interested in joining your eXcessica team.

Who?

God you babble incessantly, and I only pay attention to maybe 1/8 of what you say. You're worse than any woman I've ever known. Funny, because your buddy Sarahhhh has enough testosterone to fill that dolphin aquarium you keep yakking about. Perfect bookends.

 

[Guest]

QUOTE Who?

Shee-it miss , you have been smoking weed!

Just scroll up three or four posts til you see [size=+2]Mad Mike[/size], then read...

No wonder you got problems about the weeds, you probably only read about one eighth of the notice and missed the part where it said: "PAY THE FINE OR DO THE TIME".

Gabrielle L.

 

[Selena_Kitt]

Just scroll up three or four posts til you see [size=+2]Mad Mike[/size], then read...

yap yap yap yap yap

Do you ever shut up?

Sorry, got better things to do that scroll through your narcissistic little thread.

 

[Safe_Bet]

So scouries, is it the water?

Is it all that pollution that floats down the east coast and then gets hung up on the glorified sand bar that you call a state? Is that what makes Miami's football teams suck so bad?

I mean look at the Dolphin's... On second thought you better not, you'll start crying again. If they would only have implemented that "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy Shula and Griese would probably still be there (instead of doing god knows what down in the Keys).

Then there's MU and their MOO Girl cheerleaders. You guys should REALLY consider playing the cheerleaders. I mean those guys could barely beat Duke for god sakes. What are they going to do when they play REAL teams for the rest of the season? At least by using the MOO Girls you'd really increase the size of you offensive line, if you catch my drift. Geeze, I hate to see what would happen if you guys were in a REAL conference like the Big 10.

You know what Jammies, I bet that if you took some of your WalMart wages and cornered the market for Crying Towels instead of letting a certain accountant "invest" it in off shore monopoly money accounts, you could make a killing!

Dolphins Like to Get Spanked! :caning:​

All the MU girls give it up to Wisconsin http://www.faphost.com/images/fqbu0xms8mvnxow6qqga.gif​

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[scouries]

WTF???? Wisconsin???????

QUOTE DGHeat Today's sweep took another 128 votes and lowered my score by two points. Where's the logic here? I don't expect to ever win a contest but I would like a little fairness. Who are all these people who vote for my stories? Why are their votes not counted (both good and bad). I have very few friends on Lit, no one knows me or where I live. I have no alts, just DG Heat. To lose 178 votes in two days doesn't make sense. Why didn't I lose them all on the first sweep if they were bad? So what gives?

I read the end of the HALLOWEEN Contest thread toady (I’ve tried to ignore the contest until all the entries were in) and of course couldn’t miss the above quote.

I had to laugh to see all the vote begging and complaints about trolling that always seem to dominate the thread, the endless ha ha last place jokes, but I gotta tell you, my scourian heart goes out to the confused man with the funny thread. This wonderful writer has asked the same question the last three contests. The QUEEN never answers. His AH colleagues never address his questions because doing so would open a whole can of worms that would bring into question every story that has ever won.

Reading his complaint brings large, salty scourian tears to my eyes. I know exactly how he feels!!!!

I believe that I’m perhaps the only LITEROTICAN who understands his anguish. For some reason he and I lose huge amount of votes in every contest (which is why I passed on this one).

I’ve asked myself (and the great LAUREL herself many times) exactly the same questions Mr Heat is asking himself and his AH viewers. Why are their votes not counted? Why didn’t I lose them all on the first sweep? Where’s the fairness?

I wonder what it is that Mr Heat and I have in common – could it be we’re too popular with the LITEROTICA reading audience for the QUEENS taste. But you know what, I’m afraid we’ll never know…


I’m james r scouries, and I approve this message…

[size=+2]Dolphins love having all their votes counted…[/size]

p.s. coming soon, james r scouries analyses this years halloween contest…

 

[Safe_Bet]

WTF???? Wisconsin???????

Rumor has it that a certain chick named Gabby has been seen out at some of the hotter South Beach night spots with a certain black and white gentleman from Wisconsin. There is even talk of wedding bells and them moving back to Madison, WI. just saying.

Gabby dumped scouries for the
Badger​

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[TxRad]

QUOTE DGHeat Today's sweep took another 128 votes and lowered my score by two points. Where's the logic here? I don't expect to ever win a contest but I would like a little fairness. Who are all these people who vote for my stories? Why are their votes not counted (both good and bad). I have very few friends on Lit, no one knows me or where I live. I have no alts, just DG Heat. To lose 178 votes in two days doesn't make sense. Why didn't I lose them all on the first sweep if they were bad? So what gives?

I read the end of the HALLOWEEN Contest thread toady (I’ve tried to ignore the contest until all the entries were in) and of course couldn’t miss the above quote.

I had to laugh to see all the vote begging and complaints about trolling that always seem to dominate the thread, the endless ha ha last place jokes, but I gotta tell you, my scourian heart goes out to the confused man with the funny thread. This wonderful writer has asked the same question the last three contests. The QUEEN never answers. His AH colleagues never address his questions because doing so would open a whole can of worms that would bring into question every story that has ever won.

Reading his complaint brings large, salty scourian tears to my eyes. I know exactly how he feels!!!!

I believe that I’m perhaps the only LITEROTICAN who understands his anguish. For some reason he and I lose huge amount of votes in every contest (which is why I passed on this one).

I’ve asked myself (and the great LAUREL herself many times) exactly the same questions Mr Heat is asking himself and his AH viewers. Why are their votes not counted? Why didn’t I lose them all on the first sweep? Where’s the fairness?

I wonder what it is that Mr Heat and I have in common – could it be we’re too popular with the LITEROTICA reading audience for the QUEENS taste. But you know what, I’m afraid we’ll never know…

I won't quote you on the Support thread but I'll answer you here.

The Support thread is there for just such reasons you mentioned. It's a place to bitch about things, especially trolls. Only one person bitched about losing large numbers of votes and he is a popular writer. Fans do strange things like voting many times to try and help an author win. Their votes get swept. Why discuss it. It's a fact of life.

As for Laurel answering you on this question, she won't. The policy of how this site is run by her and Manu is theirs and theirs alone. We get to use it but it's their way or the highway.

Everyone else understands this, so this constant bitching about the system is a waste of time. They will do it it their way and they don't worry about anyone else.

They are not going to change things for anyone but themselves. Get used to it or go write somewhere else. Those are the options.

Have a nice day.

 

[scouries]

Hurricanes win!!!!!!!!!!

QUOTE :caning: Rumor has it that a certain chick named Gabby has been seen out at some of the hotter South Beach night spots with a certain black and white gentleman from Wisconsin. There is even talk of wedding bells and them moving back to Madison, WI.

Gawd, don’t tell me you’re one of those Scandinavian farm girls born on a Wisconsin dairy farm! All the while pretending to be a hip, slim west coaster. I love milking you big breasted babes.

And it certainly looks like you’ve finally rediscovered the penis. By any chance did you sleep with the Wisconsin Badger mascot when you were an innocent young coed? No wonder you turned to the dark side. You shoulda slept with the QB!

Talking of milk I came across my favorite video of all time while randomly surfing the other day.

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And yes we won today…

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Miami Hurricanes

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QUOTE As for Laurel answering you on this question, she won't. The policy of how this site is run by her and Manu is theirs and theirs alone. We get to use it but it's their way or the highway. Everyone else understands this, so this constant bitching about the system is a waste of time. They will do it it their way and they don't worry about anyone else. They are not going to change things for anyone but themselves. Get used to it or go write somewhere else. Those are the options. Have a nice day.

Don’t be silly tex, you’re smarter than this.

Of course they worry about what people think – both for commercial and personal reasons. And I suspect that whoever runs this site is sensitive to the opinions of users.

Does the LAUREL who originally posted thousands of times and who was an intellectual and social force on these boards still exist? Or was the company sold to an impersonal Russian conglomerate which only wants to make a few bucks? I have no idea.

Your line “Get used to it or go write somewhere else” sounds like that old establishment answer that is always used against anyone who questions authority. The old “don’t rock the boat” school. Personally I’ve always favored the underdog, the agitator, the rebel…

Stand up on the gunwales for once my good man…

I’m james r scouries, and I approve this message…

[size=+2]Dolphins like to rock boats…[/size]

 

[starrkers]

But, Sir Scouries, you confuse me. Aren't you the eyes and ears of Literotica Royalty? Don't you sit at the right hand of Her Majesty?

Surely you, of all people, have the answers to these perplexing questions already and are simply toying with us, the downtrodden writers toiling to provide the silk and satin for Her finest gowns?

 

[Daniellekitten]

I was hoping he'd fallen off the face of the earth...

 

[scouries]

OSU 6 - PSU 3 christ big ten football is dull!!!!!!!

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expounds on the

[size=+2]LITEROTICA

2008 Halloween Contest[/size]

Quite simply I discovered: Too many stories, too little quality, too much chicanery!!!​

I plan to discuss these problems and possible solutions in this and future posts. First let me start with the question of quantity.

[size=+2]1 7 8 Stories!!! Ughhhh!!!​

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And that was when Gabby counted yesterday. They’re could be even more now.

Well what’s wrong with 178 stories you might ask.

It relates to what the contest is and represents for both our authors and readers.

For the authors it should be a fun and competitive affair that produces high quality and very readable stories that can be compared to those of our colleagues. At its best it will also attract readers to works they wouldn’t normally click open. It can give us all an opportunity to find new readers that simply posting in a category doesn’t give us. But that doesn’t work very well when the authors story is buried in a sea of ALTS and multi chapter stories.

For the readers it should be an opportunity to meet some of LITs best writers and sample their work. But if you keep coming across these multi chapter stories and if you keep clicking open these one page quickies it doesn’t take long for the reader to figure out this isn’t the place for him. Goodbye!

So why are there so many entries anyway?

A – Authors chop down their stories into little bits so they can see their name up in lights more often (sxwriter42 and WRJames are good examples of this in this contest).

B – Survivalists!

C – Some writers want to ensure their stories are at the top of the NEW STORY page.

D – ALTS! For some reason certain authors love creating new ALTS for every contest and entering stories under these new names. Just check out how many stories are by people who created new names during the contest. And I’m not talking about oggman or darkboy here – they have ALTS they use for credible purposes (mind you I still believe they should be limited to only one entry).

Why do people create these ALTS? Is it because they’re ineligible to win and want to cheat us? But imagine winning with a story under an ALT. Oh sure, you could boast to your friends but the victory would never be credited to you officially. It would be embarrassing.

E – Writers want to jump the queue and not have to wait a week to have their story ok’ed. That’s why every contest has 10 or 20 stories that have nothing to do with the contest theme.

F – Last minute-ers. Those writers that take their time and write a good entry, but then, once the contest is started, they get this huge desire to write another one. It’s rushed and invariably of lower quality than their original effort. And of course there are those who weren’t going to enter but then, when the contest starts, feel left out and hastily crank out a half assed effort.

G – Those that want their stories exposed for the full month on the contest page. They couldn’t care less about the contest but just want exposure so they clog the contest page.

So here they are, this years multiposters. This list has nothing to do with quality of these author’s stories – instead it only reflects their desire to hog the spotlight:

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[size=+2]1 – sxwriter42 – 17 entries![/size] I’d never heard of this author before this contest started. He/she just joined up in time for the contest. I don’t know if he/she is an ALT of someone we know or a new author. Your entries make up ten percent of the stories entered in the contest for crying out loud. You’re taking up way too much space. As the contest went on I was afraid you were going to live up to your name and enter 42 stories. God forbid! Why didn’t you enter your two multi chaptered stories as complete stories? Think of the reader once in a while.

2 – Freddie – 9
3 – Princess E – 8 I’ll discuss our resident “survivalists” as a pair if I might. First off both of these authors have submitted fewer stories this time than the last contest. Which is a big step in the right direction! My friend freddie even showed great forbearance by not entering the other twenty some chapters of his Halloween saga. Thank you!

But the two of you still entered a total of seventeen stories in the contest (about ten percent of the entries). About fifteen stories too many.

Many of you know I don’t particularly like the survivor contest but over time I have grudgingly accepted its presence in our midst. Enter your stories on the site. But please, not in the Special Contests! Enter your best story in the contest and the rest in the normal way. Quite frankly you’re hogging the spotlight from your confreres. And I believe that you and the other writers listed in this hall of shame also turn off readers who are lured to the Halloween Contest. Which has a detrimental affect on all of us.

4 – LadyFrisky – 5 How could you?
5 – WRJames – 5 A five chapter story – why not just enter the whole story as one entry?
6 – past perfect – 5 This person seems to be a Halloween contest specialist. Enough said.
7 – hmmmmm – 4 hummmmmm…exactly!
8 – oggman – 4 He enters all these stories so he can make more last place jokes.
9 – mr tex – 3 He only enters in these contests so his stories will be at the top of the NEW STORY page and he won’t have to pay for the honor.
10 – DeeSire – 2 No, I won’t say…

And there are others who opted to enter more than one– writers like abdullah, sunnyrock, sam, Trigliceran, unvoluntary, kandi, nicky, coxswain, the baron… and others… Christ even my old pal oily resurrected himself and entered more than one. I thought he’d retired.

If each of you had shown restraint and a little respect for our reading audience (as well as your fellow authors) we’d have something like 100 contest stories and not 166. And the average quality would have been higher.

And if so many of you hadn’t also created these one story ALTS so you could enter even more contest entries we’d be back down to a manageable number of around eighty…


I’m james r scouries, and I approve this message…

[size=+2]Dolphins don’t believe in Alts…[/size]


p.s. next I’ll discuss quality questions and then later propose some simple solutions….

 

[PrincessErin]

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[michchick98]

[size=+2]james r scouries[/size]

expounds on the

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2008 Halloween Contest[/size]

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{snip of ridiculously long rambling from the delusion-master}

It's posts like this that make everyone not like you so much, Scouries. You say you don't want anyone posting replies on this thread, then fine, keep your opinions of others to yourself and stick to your own self-promotion.

Speaking of quality of work, shouldn't you spend more time improving your own writing skills instead of insulting others? I mean after all, you claim (falsely I might add) you're a royalty earning author on this site. I would think quality writing and proper grammar usage would generate more sales for you.

And isn't it the pot calling the kettle black when you say someone else is trying to hog the spotlight? I believe that's exactly what you do, but wait, that's okay isn't it? Because it's you in your delusional little world.

What makes you qualified to determine who can enter the contests or how many entries they can have?

 

[starrkers]

It's one of the few Scouries rants I actually agree with - I believe contests should be one entry per name. Of course that won't stop people entering under alts.

I also think entries should be stand alone stories, not parts of a longer (as yet incomplete) work.

The special contests are story contests, not chapter contests.

 

[scouries]

quality counts....

Part 2:

[size=+2]james r scouries[/size]

expounds on the

[size=+2]LITEROTICA

2008 Halloween Contest[/size]

Quite simply I discovered: Too many stories, too little quality, too much chicanery!!!​

In this post I plan to discuss story quality. I believe that our special LITEROTICA contests should highlight the best that is available on the site. That every person who takes the trouble to participate should also take the responsibility to produce the best they possibly can.

I believe that our authors should demand more of their contests entries than of their normal output.

Each time one of our readers clicks open a poorly written contest story it reflects on us all. And it makes them much less likely to return and read other contest entries.

So why is the quality so poor this time? I’ll tell you! But first, it should be noted that most authors don’t set out to write bad stories. It happens due to a number of factors. Nor do I want to point the finger at any one individual or story. It’s a widespread disease.

Many of the reasons we have such poor quality are the same reasons we have too many stories. Here are the main culprits:

A – Authors chop down their stories into little bits. This means that even relatively good stories become reading nightmares. Bad stories become hopeless.

B – Survivalists! The nature of the survival contest is that stories are written and posted with very little or no preparation, thought or editing. They’re often short 750 word entries that are designed more to win survivor points than they are to entertain readers.

C – Some writers couldn’t give a shit about our readers – they just want to ensure their stories are at the top of the NEW STORY page and this is a way to do it.

D – ALTS! Normally excellent authors go crazy at contest time and seem willing to inflict anything on us as long as their “normal” LIT name isn’t sullied. So we get all of these “one trick pony alts” popping up every contest to inflict their latest creation on us. Then, having served its purpose, the ALT sinks back into oblivion.

E – Idiots, unwilling to wait in line like everyone else, want to jump the queue so that their stories will be immediately ok’ed. That’s why every contest has 10 or 20 stories that have nothing to do with the contest theme.

F – Last minute-itis. Those writers that take their time and write a good entry, but then, once the contest is started, they get this huge desire to write another one. It’s rushed and invariably of lower quality than their original effort.

G – Those that want their stories exposed for the full month on the contest page. They couldn’t care less about the contest but just want exposure they’d normally never receive and their writing doesn’t merit.

H – What I call “same old, same old”. This isn’t entirely the authors fault. Year after year the contests have the same topic and so we writers are left just writing variations on the same theme. Over the past five years they’re have been upwards of 600 Halloween stories. It’s almost impossible for our readers not to tire of them, not to experience a sense of deja vue as they read. And it becomes more and more difficult for our authors to be creative and original.

I – “Contest frenzy”. It seems to attack authors who hadn’t planned on entering a story about halfway through the contest. It’s a sudden urge to join the fun and one of two things happen. One, an old previously discarded story is pulled out of the drawer and after a perfunctory editing, is submitted. Or two, the crazed author cranks out a half assed effort in something under seventy two hours and then breathlessly enters it. To the detriment of our readers. This “contest frenzy” disease seems especially virulent among middle aged American females.

J – Gamesmanship. There are certain authors who’ll do anything to win. Who’ll actually enter crappy “red herring” stories early in the contest and then try to slip in a better effort near the end of the contest – hoping it will slip under the radar. Hoping that most regular readers (who might be more critical) will ignore it after reading the first effort and then a small coterie of flunkies will vote it to victory.

K – “Lottery-itis”. This is a disease that mainly affects Literotica authors who buy huge number of lottery tickets each week. More tickets = better odds to win is their gambling mantra and they bring it to our contests. More stories entered = a better chance to win goes their thinking. Seemingly not realizing that our readers give we authors only a small window of opportunity to impress. If they don’t like one of our poorer efforts they aren’t very likely to click open another one.

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I’m james r scouries, and I approve this message…

[size=+2]Dolphins prefer quality over quantity…[/size]

p.s. next I’ll propose some simple solutions….

 

[TxRad]

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Don’t be silly tex, you’re smarter than this.

Of course they worry about what people think – both for commercial and personal reasons. And I suspect that whoever runs this site is sensitive to the opinions of users.

Does the LAUREL who originally posted thousands of times and who was an intellectual and social force on these boards still exist? Or was the company sold to an impersonal Russian conglomerate which only wants to make a few bucks? I have no idea.

Your line “Get used to it or go write somewhere else” sounds like that old establishment answer that is always used against anyone who questions authority. The old “don’t rock the boat” school. Personally I’ve always favored the underdog, the agitator, the rebel…

Stand up on the gunwales for once my good man…

Laurel and Manu still own this site but you are truly delusional, more so than normal, if you think they are going to change something that has worked and is still working. It's a free site from outr standpoint. From theirs it makes a little money and allows them to read all the stories. It's about freedom of speech and writing.

Like I've said before, they even allow idiots like you to post here and to dump your crappy stories. You can question authority until you're blue in the face but you'll still get what you're getting now. NOTHING, ZIP, NADA. They haven't replied to any of your suggestions or any of your rantings and they won't. POLICY IS THEIRS.

Oh and by the way. I've had all of your stupidity that I can stand.

After this post, you go on ignore so good bye and good luck.

 

[sr71plt]

It's one of the few Scouries rants I actually agree with - I believe contests should be one entry per name. Of course that won't stop people entering under alts.

I also think entries should be stand alone stories, not parts of a longer (as yet incomplete) work.

The special contests are story contests, not chapter contests.

I also agree with Scouries on this one. The contests are fine for a "fun group activity." They have nothing to do with story quality--or in identfying the better stories, however. They are a personality-based popularity free-for-all mixed with scheming for position by campaigning for votes and/or engaging in multiple positive/negative voting in a contest structure that's no better than a seive in control (and, through its unrevealed trimming program, probably tossing out as many legitimate votes as illegitimate--all across the spectrum, not just on the contest entries).

Where it's gone over the top, however, is that it's become a way to bog down the submission process and push your stories ahead of the natural queue just by declaring them entries to the contest. I read all of the entries in a contest last year to do a contest review, and many of them clearly were only thinly related to the contest theme. They obviously were only in the contest to get them posted earlier and to, hopefully, increase the readership on those particular stories. Thus just a selfish "get a leg up" on other stories being posted. Also as both Scouries and Starrkers mention, some of them were series segments that began before the contest and continued on after the contest. The contest was just being used to get favoritism in posting them.

If Scouries's statistics on multiple entries and series segments are true, I think the selfish grab for getting in the line ahead of others and all of the self-promotion for voting (pretty much completely separate from the stories themselves) is just burgeoning.

I don't think anything will be done, and I don't feel motivated to initiate indignation as Scouries has. But that doesn't mean that I think he is wrong just because he's saying it.

I do take issue with him claiming to be the only one who has ever posted anything about this, though. Several AHers have said it before (and I know I have).

So, no it isn't "all about him."

 

[Selena_Kitt]

They are a personality-based popularity free-for-all mixed with scheming for position by campaigning for votes and/or engaging in multiple positive/negative voting in a contest structure that's no better than a seive in control (and, through its unrevealed trimming program, probably tossing out as many legitimate votes as illegitimate--all across the spectrum, not just on the contest entries).

And, funny, all the positioning and "vote for me" and behind the scenes trolling of authors by others authors pretty much disqualifies most of the AH a lot of the time from being winners. If you'll notice, the past few contests have been won by mostly non-AH folks, and not very "popular" authors either.

And no, Scouries is not the only one who's ever complained about the contests or how they're run. I've agreed with him (if not with his methods) on more than one occasion. But the truth is, the only person who can change the way it's done is Laurel, and considering that the only "monthly awards" given out this year have been January's, (and it's almost November!) I have to wonder how invested she is in that aspect of the site anymore?

 

[sr71plt]

And, funny, all the positioning and "vote for me" and behind the scenes trolling of authors by others authors pretty much disqualifies most of the AH a lot of the time from being winners. If you'll notice, the past few contests have been won by mostly non-AH folks, and not very "popular" authors either.

And no, Scouries is not the only one who's ever complained about the contests or how they're run. I've agreed with him (if not with his methods) on more than one occasion. But the truth is, the only person who can change the way it's done is Laurel, and considering that the only "monthly awards" given out this year have been January's, (and it's almost November!) I have to wonder how invested she is in that aspect of the site anymore?

I'd be just as happy if Laurel lost all interest in the contests and let them go, because they aren't resulting in better-quality stories (the survivor's contest, for instance, is interjecting a lot of crap stories into the collection) and are the source of all sorts of backbiting and bad behavior. The contest themes also are getting overcooked. Why a nude or earth day contest every year? There just are so many fresh themes you can conjure up in these areas (although, of course, as I said, the story itself--or how it was crafted--doesn't seem to have much to do with the contests anyway).

I agree that it's interesting that all of the "vote for me" stuff going on with AHers on their stories don't seem to pan out that well in winners, and see two probable reasons. First, that there's a whole lot more negative manipulation voting going on than what is claimed as positive voting and, second, that the site's trimming programs are using algorithems that are canceling votes by AHs just because they are AHers voting a lot on each other's stories. I think this is a "throwing the baby out with the bathwater" approach, though. There's no reason why AHers can't have their votes counted just as well as the incidental poster. I think a whole lot of readers who have favorite authors--legitimately--are just having their votes negated because of the settings on the site's trimming program.