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[BOSTONFICTIONWRITER]

I'll still win.

Alas, I cannot apologize for putting out too many stories. How else can I post 2,000 stories? I cannot post them all at once at the end of the year, as did MungoPark. I have to post a few a day. Seven posted yesterday and six posted today. I have no idea how many will post tomorrow or the next day, but it could be as many as twelve.

Revealing my plans? What's to reveal. I'm in the Survivor contest to win. That's my plan. Why else would I enter a contest if I did not want to win?

If there are those intent on cheating, what does it matter. I'll still win. I'll have my two thousand stories on the board and they'll have their sixty-six stories. I'm the winner.

I have a good feeling. Someone is watching me. Someone likes me. Someone reads my stories.

The Survivor contest is just a way for me to expose my talent. My stories are all over the world in different languages. I receive dozens of e-mails from people all over the world giving me ideas for stories and asking me to write them a personal story that includes their name.

If there are those who will cheat to win this contest, let them. I'd rather have my stories.

 

[Guest]

royalty?

Hi, it’s [size=+2]Gabby[/size] again,

UPDATE: on the “MOST READ STORY AFTER IT’S BEEN REJECTED” story.

[size=+2]9/11: “Bin Ladens Babies?”[/size]​

In post 1854 the boss reported on the strange case of the above rejected story as follows:

…At the end of December it had 8020 views and 88 votes. Somehow 82 people had viewed the story (after it had been rejectd). Which was strange. But again I just left it as REJECTED.

At the end of January it had 8113 views and 79 votes. Another 93 reads of a REJECTED story!

Today, February 11, it has 8158 views and 75 votes Another 35 reads so far this month. This means that, since it was REJECTED in early December, the story has been read 210 times and lost 25 votes.

As of today the story is still on the rejected list and ended February with 8172 views and 75 votes. Which means that another fourteen rich and famous people apparently spent the big bucks to read it since his last report.

And even though it apparently costs four figures to read this wonderful tale, under the bosses royalty contract these high priced views are treated like all others. So those fourteen views only netted ScouriesWorld about $1.00.

Is that fair?

Gabrielle L.
literotican…actress…threadmaster’s assistant…lover…and
ALT killer…and
V.P. ScouriesWorld seminars…and
assistant accountant reporting to mr. tex…and
deputy art director reporting to miss (I’m in charge of bananas)…and
official committee member
literotica royalty distribution committee…and
director of scouriesworld translation services…and
vice-president marketing –Orgasming Centres Inc….and finally
secretary, 1000+ VOTE CLUB
collins avenue
miami beach, florida

 

[Guest]

Oops, hi, it’s [size=+2]Me[/size] again,


Before it disappears I thought I’d just copy it and paste it here for the boss. It’s one of those things that isn’t likely to happen a second time. Good for you boss!

Feb 29th 2008

Most Comments: 30 days

• 1.O'Scouries Valentines Day Wife
• 2.Hawaiian Valentines "Lei" for Daddy

p.s. updated sales figures should be out tomorrow

Gabrielle L.

 

[Guest]

February and YTD updates...

Monthly recap for February plus 2008 Y.T.D. sales and vote figures​

February was a record month for ScouriesWorld and all of us wish to take this opportunity to humbly thank the thousands of readers who chose one of the bosses works this month. And a special thanks to those of you who took the extra time to vote and/or send him a comment.

Sales February 2008: 316,422

Total Sales YTD: 524,838 up 30.5% over 2007

Votes February 2008: 2899 ***NEW MONTHLY RECORD***

Total Votes YTD: 4446 up 83.8% over 2007

Highlights of the month:

*In spite of the incessant sweeps the vote total for February was a new monthly record! And the sales figure was the second highest monthly figure ever recorded for ScouriesWorld.

* “Daddy,” I whispered, a story published in February 2006 is two years old! It now has amassed more than 10,000 VOTES, the only LITEROTICA story to have done so. It’s also now in the TOP 60 ALL TIME MOST READ stories.

* ‘Geoff and Melanie – Married Siblings’ became the 16th scouries story to hit the 100,000 sales mark.

* The Literotica 1000+ Vote Club, a joint effort of ScouriesWorld and Literotica has proved an immense success with both our readers as well as with the brilliant authors who have become members.

* “Oh Mommy,” I Groaned, a story that was published in December 2006 became the second ScouriesWorld story to find a place on the first page of the All-Time Top 500 most read list. It also received its 5000th vote during the month.

* The ScouriesWorld thread remained the most popular thread on the site for the tenth consecutive month.

* The bosses two VALENTINE’S DAY CONTEST stories came out to rave reviews and each received over 50 public comments from the LITEROTICA reading public.

* ScouriesFilms released its production schedule for the balance of the year.

*ScouriesEducationalServices The ‘Winter Writing Seminars on the Beach’, was oversubscribed and proved to be a great success with our students.

The boss is presently hard at work putting the finishing touches on three new stories, all of which hopefully will debut in March. One is his official entry in the Earth Day Contest.

Thanks everyone,

Bye for now, [size=+2]Gabby[/size]

 

[scouries]

march starts strong...

A good way to start the month of March! A story I wrote back in 2005, last night, in the first minutes of March, received it’s [size=+2]200,000th VIEW![/SIZE] This is only the FOURTH ScouriesWorld to be so honored. Thank you everyone.

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Read it, you’ll love it

jrs

 

[scouries]

fair????

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[Daniellekitten]

I promised myself that I would stay out of the backbiting and nastiness of this board. But I, like anyone else, don't like to be called a cheater. All I've done is submit my stories like anyone else. I've never done anything to have my stories posted in any order and if you'll look back a bit, you'll notice that I was way down on the list before. Are you that jealous of my work that you have to downgrade it as often as you can?

 

[Darkniciad]

Get over it, Scouries. You know as well as anyone else that certain categories always post near the top. They're the "safe" categories like romance, erotic couplings, etc. Riskier cats like anal, loving wives, etc. end up going in the middle. Incest, BDSM, and the edgy stories always go toward the end.

It's a fact of life on Lit. It's been that way the whole time I've been here. It's obviously a calculated business decision that's working.

Likewise, the order of stories beyond that is arranged to place the stories that the moderators feel will draw the most clicks and draw in the most new business at the top where they're easy to find.

Write a good story in a safe category, and you'll find your work up there just as quickly as anyone else. Write a good story in one of the edgy cats, and you'll find your story is at the upper edge of that risky zone on the new page. Impress the moderators enough, and you might even get the top spot with an E story. I've seen all sorts of categories in the #1 spot because they had that E.

Challenge yourself, instead of trying to knock down everyone else - unless you already know that you're not up to the challenge.

 

[sr71plt]

Yep, it's just good marketing on the Web site's part.

 

[Shitting_Bull]

I promised myself that I would stay out of the backbiting and nastiness of this board. But I, like anyone else, don't like to be called a cheater. All I've done is submit my stories like anyone else. I've never done anything to have my stories posted in any order and if you'll look back a bit, you'll notice that I was way down on the list before. Are you that jealous of my work that you have to downgrade it as often as you can?

Bullshit.

 

[Shitting_Bull]

Get over it, Scouries. You know as well as anyone else that certain categories always post near the top. They're the "safe" categories like romance, erotic couplings, etc. Riskier cats like anal, loving wives, etc. end up going in the middle. Incest, BDSM, and the edgy stories always go toward the end.

It's a fact of life on Lit. It's been that way the whole time I've been here. It's obviously a calculated business decision that's working.

Likewise, the order of stories beyond that is arranged to place the stories that the moderators feel will draw the most clicks and draw in the most new business at the top where they're easy to find.

Write a good story in a safe category, and you'll find your work up there just as quickly as anyone else. Write a good story in one of the edgy cats, and you'll find your story is at the upper edge of that risky zone on the new page. Impress the moderators enough, and you might even get the top spot with an E story. I've seen all sorts of categories in the #1 spot because they had that E.

Challenge yourself, instead of trying to knock down everyone else - unless you already know that you're not up to the challenge.

The spin doctor speaks. You definitely now have the market cornered on a load of crap.

 

[scouries]

it was just a beautiful day on the beach today...

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From a post on this thread made months ago:

QUESTION #2 Could you explain the formula (and the reason for it) that you use to determine where on the ‘New Story’ page a story is placed?

I do know that special contest entries are almost always listed first and that ‘Non Consent’ stories are always listed last. ‘Incest’ and ‘BDSM’ stories are usually very near the end every day. ‘Romance’ and ‘Audio’ tales are always near the top.

Certain author’s stories are also always listed near the top. Do you charge these authors for the privilege or are they given these lofty positions for some other reason?

My interest here is more curiosity than anything else. It seems strange to me. Most bookstores (in fact most companies) highlight their best sellers. As soon as you walk in their front door (or click open their internet site) you’re faced by the books that people are reading; the ones people are buying.

You’d assume that Literotica would do the same thing but in fact you seem to do the opposite. From what I gather from others and my own experience, stories in the ‘Incest’, ‘Non Consent’, and perhaps ‘Loving Wives’ categories are the top sellers here but strangely they are relegated to a small shelf in the back room. I’d love to know why.

From another old post on this thread:

QUESTION #5 Who the heck is Nigel Debonnaire anyway? Does anybody know this guy? The first three stories on today’s ‘New Story’ page are by this writer. What are the odds on that happening in a random shuffling of all the new stories? Pretty darn slim, if you ask me.

And the #9 story today on the new list is by that weird guy from Texas. And strangely enough he also had 3 stories in the first 10 just two days ago.

And ‘direlilith’ got some pretty good spots on both the 10th and 11th.

Listen, good for them. If they’ve found a way to slip a few bucks in each time they submit a story and they get put right at the top of the ‘New Story’ page you got to congratulate them for their savvy. It has to help them get a few more reads and votes and that’s all to the good for them.

But poor ‘scouries’, I’m relegated to the back by these line jumpers. Maybe it would be fairer if Literotica’ just held an auction every afternoon and the authors with new stories coming out the next day could bid for a place in the top ten. If you’ve got the bucks you can be #1 for the day. This would get rid of the hanky-panky with the under the table deals and would probably generate even more money for our leaders. It would be win-win for everyone and be all right out in the open. A perfect American capitalist solution! [Lets do it![/b]

 

[sr71plt]

AThird, darkboys and the pilots arguments make no sense. As I pointed out months ago (see below), ‘good marketing’ would in fact have the most popular stories and authors at the top of the list.

OK, I'll bite. DK's stories probably are the most popular ones here with real readers--and it's evident the Web site thinks so, and that's why they are being reinstated and shoved forward on the new list. The Web site is looking to its bottom line. Your stories aren't given that regard, because you are way over the top in in your promotion and false pumping up of them--or at least the Web site obviously believes that's what you are doing.

And I'm not saying this because I'm a particular fan of DK's stories myself--I don't read either her or your stories. I naturally think mine should be the most popular (but I've led off the daily list enough to satisfy me and have a whole handful of Es, so it doesn't bother me to acknowledge that DK probably has the biggest fan base here).

Just being real on what the Web site probably--realistically--sees as their best marketing interests. Again, you are too far over the top in fake promotion for anyone to take you and your stories seriously. Whine all you want; that's unlikely to change until/unless you change names and start all over again.

 

[PrincessErin]

I feel the need to respond even though I know this is a bad choice. This thread is like a fatal car accident - you know you should just keep driving but there is a need to stop and gawk.

My gay male story was listed first on Friday and Saturday and on Thursday was posted third. I'm doing the survivor contest so I have a lot of stories being submitted. I guess I must be in the conspiracy as well.

Erin

 

[Darkniciad]

This is fairly simple, Scouries.

Incest, Loving Wives, etc. are categories with large numbers of readers. They involve kinks that people search for, and will find to satisfy their kink. It's not going to matter if they're on page 1, or page 12. Those seeking the stories will find them. They're here to find those stories.

Romance, Erotic couplings, and such may not draw as large an audience, and fewer re-reads, but they are closer to the mainstream. Therefore, they are more attractive to the average person looking for a steamy read. Many of these people may actually be turned away by the sight of an incest category story.

Therefore, a separation proves advantageous to prevent casual readers from back-clicking away when their stomach churns upon seeing a title/category/description that is abhorrent to them.

When you know that readers of the kink categories are going to seek them out, logic would dictate that the separation push those stories lower on the priority scale for visibility. Conversely, the less edgy categories should then take a place higher on the scale of visibility to attract the more casual readers.

This is not a bookstore. There are completely different logistics involved in online presentation, and even more factors when you consider that it's erotica.

It's not rocket science, and it's obviously worked perfectly well for many years now. The website wouldn't be here if it didn't.

If your importance to this website was as great as you mistakingly believe it to be, your questions would have been personally, and apologetically answered by the website operators long ago. Since they haven't...

You do the math.

 

[Daniellekitten]

A couple of points on my above post re the NEW STORY page.

First, as you can see from the following two posts that were made months ago, the issue of where on the NEW STORY page a story is placed is not a new question for me. Neither is it simply a DK issue. DK is simply one of the historically ‘favored’ authors.

Second, in the case of DK I raise today, I don’t believe that stories that were on this site for one or two years, then taken off in a hissy snit, should even be put on the NEW STORY page when the author decides to reinstate them. They’re OLD STORIES, they’ve had their days on the NEW STORY page – leave those pages for truly new stories. We certainly don’t want hundreds of authors pulling old stories and then reinstating them two weeks later so they can generate new reads. Christ, can you imagine the outcry if BFW and Miss Kitt and Goldeniangel etc., etc., pulled their thousands of stories and them resubmitted them? CHAOS!

Third, darkboys and the pilots arguments make no sense. As I pointed out months ago (see below), ‘good marketing’ would in fact have the most popular stories and authors at the top of the list.

Finally, I’ve been around LITEROTICA for almost three years and I’ve never seen the same author #1 on the NEW STORY page as often in any six month period as DK has been the last ten days. But don’t blame her. I think in fact our leaders are roiling the waters on purpose for their own reasons. More on this later this week.

From a post on this thread made months ago:

QUESTION #2 Could you explain the formula (and the reason for it) that you use to determine where on the ‘New Story’ page a story is placed?

I do know that special contest entries are almost always listed first and that ‘Non Consent’ stories are always listed last. ‘Incest’ and ‘BDSM’ stories are usually very near the end every day. ‘Romance’ and ‘Audio’ tales are always near the top.

Certain author’s stories are also always listed near the top. Do you charge these authors for the privilege or are they given these lofty positions for some other reason?

My interest here is more curiosity than anything else. It seems strange to me. Most bookstores (in fact most companies) highlight their best sellers. As soon as you walk in their front door (or click open their internet site) you’re faced by the books that people are reading; the ones people are buying.

You’d assume that Literotica would do the same thing but in fact you seem to do the opposite. From what I gather from others and my own experience, stories in the ‘Incest’, ‘Non Consent’, and perhaps ‘Loving Wives’ categories are the top sellers here but strangely they are relegated to a small shelf in the back room. I’d love to know why.

From another old post on this thread:

QUESTION #5 Who the heck is Nigel Debonnaire anyway? Does anybody know this guy? The first three stories on today’s ‘New Story’ page are by this writer. What are the odds on that happening in a random shuffling of all the new stories? Pretty darn slim, if you ask me.

And the #9 story today on the new list is by that weird guy from Texas. And strangely enough he also had 3 stories in the first 10 just two days ago.

And ‘direlilith’ got some pretty good spots on both the 10th and 11th.

Listen, good for them. If they’ve found a way to slip a few bucks in each time they submit a story and they get put right at the top of the ‘New Story’ page you got to congratulate them for their savvy. It has to help them get a few more reads and votes and that’s all to the good for them.

But poor ‘scouries’, I’m relegated to the back by these line jumpers. Maybe it would be fairer if Literotica’ just held an auction every afternoon and the authors with new stories coming out the next day could bid for a place in the top ten. If you’ve got the bucks you can be #1 for the day. This would get rid of the hanky-panky with the under the table deals and would probably generate even more money for our leaders. It would be win-win for everyone and be all right out in the open. A perfect American capitalist solution! [Lets do it![/b]

They were not old stories. They were stories unfinished when I left here. Those are new chapters not seen here at lit before. I'm not going to argue with anyone about this. I will say that I submit my chapters the same as anyone else. Just because I don't write tiresome incest stories that run along the same theme is not my fault. So, Scouries, quit stalking me with your bullshit lines about cheating and the stupid ass watch on the favorites list. I'm not leaving again. I don't care about you and your paltry following or what they do.

 

[scouries]

I just had to post this here....

Given the comments I’ve received about my vote totals I felt I had to save this post which my humorous friend posted on another thread today. I wonder if anyone will accuse him of cheating?

QUOTE (MR ALIEN – March 3 2008) – Vanity, thy name is Marshalien. Yes, it is true. I am vain.

“Story A” (honestly, I’m not looking for more votes or reads at this point) had been posted on May 29 of last year and had done very well. I went to my submissions page every week or so to make sure it was still doing well. As of last week, it had 69,000 reads, 563 votes, 72 comments, and a score of 4.93, which put it maybe second or third in its category.

This morning, it still lists over 69,000 reads and 72 comments, but now has only 64 votes and a score of 4.59. Since the average score of the comments was, and still is, 4.97 (71 100’s, which I assume are 5’s, and one 50, which I assume is a 3), it appears that that at least 12 of those comment votes were among the 499 votes swept away over the weekend. And that if all the remaining comments are valid votes, the only people who voted and didn’t comment gave the story a 4 or less.

As you can tell, this is obviously affecting me way too much. Something similar happened in October, while the Halloween contest was going on, when a story that had been posted in February of this year suddenly lost 250 of its 500 votes and dropped from a 4.94 to a 4.82. I PM’ed Laurel, and asked whether it was really possible for a story that had already been on the site through two earlier contests could suddenly have that many votes swept away. She sent me a nice note explaining that the sweeps were designed to weed out fraudulent votes.

So perhaps it is possible. Nonetheless, it has caused me considerable gnashing of teeth this morning, which at my age can be really painful. The grownup thing to do would be to just turn off the voting and say the hell with it….

SCOURIES - That’s what I like about you Mr. Alien – you can always make me laugh. And on a Monday morning…

[size=+2]85%?[/size] And they accuse me of having some vote robot machine! That even beats what’s happened to me. I just hope that that story of yours didn’t win a contest!

But as a loser of thousands of votes I can definitely feel your pain (perhaps more than anyone here on Lit) – I hate to lose even one little vote.

My Holiday Story, Candy Cane Cocked Cousin…and Mom went from some 1800 votes to about 600 during the contest sweeps but still, that’s only 66% lost. Mind you it was done over maybe six different sweeps which was true torture.

“Daddy”, I Whispered, LITEROTICA’S top vote getting story of all time has lost some 3200 votes (but only 25% of the total cast).

FYI - I may be able to explain what may have happened. The programs that LITEROTICA runs continually redefine who is a legal voter and who isn’t. Someone who has been legal in the past may be suddenly defined as an illegal alien and every vote he (or she) has ever made suddenly become invalid and are stripped from every story he’s (she’s) voted for.

Given the wild trollism and attacks that have been mounted on certain authors over the last few months (BFW comes immediately to mind) by AHers, it may well be that many of your friends have fallen into the ‘illegal alien’ camp.

Which isn’t that bad a spot for many of them…

Keep the humor coming,

jrs

 

[scouries]

business man?

DARKBOY This is fairly simple, Scouries….. You do the math.

I think we did the math thing about six months ago darkboy and figured out you’re not very good at it. Now I find out you never got an M.B.A. either. Sorry pal, you’re not going to get a job at ScouriesWorld anytime soon.

Good strategy you’ve got – make it difficult for the buying public to find the product that interests them. Right!


PILOT DK's stories probably are the most popular ones here with real readers--and it's evident the Web site thinks so ……sees as their best marketing interests.

REAL READERS??? Oh c’mon Mr. Pilot, your elitism is showing. Sometimes, just when I start to warm to you a bit, you make me sick again.

The most humorous aspect of your argument is that in almost any discussion of serious fiction, the whole ROMANCE genre invariably is at the bottom of the food chain. The ‘elitists’, the ‘academics’, the ‘educated’, all love making fun of those hard working romance authors who churn out their monthly Harlequin releases.

These same ‘experts’ love looking down their noses at the women who pick up these published books at the Wal-Mart check out counter. They’re not ‘REAL READERS’ they sneer. Their sales really don’t count. Yeah right!

The humor is that here at LITEROTICA, we have a complete role reversal, with these same Romance authors, people who can’t even get published in the most scorned category in the real publishing world, suddenly believe themselves the intellectual elite, that their readers are the educated, the REAL READERS, while those who read other categories are some lower order.

I guess everyone has to have someone they think they’re better than don’t they? “Gee, I can’t even get a ROMANCE publisher to take me on, but I can go over to LITEROTICA… they take everyone. And hey, even if most of the other stories on the site are more popular than mine, I know I’m better than they are…they just write porn…but I’m educated…I write Erotica…I know my readers are REAL READERS, not….

As to ’their best marketing interests’ I’m sorry man but like darkboy you clearly have no head for business.

ERIN I'm doing the survivor contest so I have a lot of stories being submitted. I guess I must be in the conspiracy as well.

My dear, Canadians are far too nice to conspire. That’s why I plan to retire there in about twenty years (once global warming has warmed it up a bit). I do have very strong views on the SURVIVOR CONTEST but probably should shield them from the eyes of an innocent Canadian girl.

The only thing I’ll venture to say about it is to quote the Western Sage: I would sooner write 1 (one) quality story in a year than submit 100 (one hundred) mediocre pieces Amen to that brother!

MISS DK Just because I don't write tiresome incest stories that run along the same theme is not my fault…

Did you really write that? Jeeeeeeeeze! I thought you said we were friends again.


Why is Miss DK being placed at the top of the NEW STORY list so often? I’ll post the answer here later this week…its sorta funny…

jrs

 

[Daniellekitten]

And you've just as quickly said that we aren't. I seem to remember something along the lines of that I'm too blood thirsty and hungry to make it as an author so that I'll step on anybody along the way...

You're a cocky bastard Scouries, and one I'd love to step on, but I don't feel the need. My first book in Print came out yesterday. I have three e-novels that are doing very well and I have five more coming out this year with Phaze alone. That's not including the manuscripts I have out with other publishers who's turnaround time is a bit longer than Phaze.

As far as being first on the new page....Who the fuck cares??? People read what they want and they will find it no matter where it is on the page. If people want to read me, they find me, if they want to read you, well we offer them other choices first, and then supply them with air sickness bags. My stories aren't up there because of bribery. They aren't up there because I'm better than anyone else, that is just the way they fall. So...I know that you wish you were me, I know you wish you could write something other than what you do, but stalking and harassing are not the way to get there. It's hard work, Scouries and a wish to change that will put you on the right path.

As they say, you have to admit to having the problem before you can even start on your road to recover.

wls

 

[sr71plt]

PILOT DK's stories probably are the most popular ones here with real readers--and it's evident the Web site thinks so ……sees as their best marketing interests.

REAL READERS??? Oh c’mon Mr. Pilot, your elitism is showing. Sometimes, just when I start to warm to you a bit, you make me sick again.

You misconstrue, perhaps on purpose? By "real" readers, I meant not fake ones. You obviously, blatantly, over-the-top cheat like hell to augment your scores. You can either be a clown or a writer who is taken seriously, not both. You try both--unsuccessfully because your wish for the second has you here playing Hamlet. Which only makes you pathetic. My suggestion, if you truly want to be taken seriously as a writer, is to start all over again with a new name and a new attitude.

 

[Shitting_Bull]

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As far as being first on the new page....Who the fuck cares??? People read what they want and they will find it no matter where it is on the page. If people want to read me, they find me, if they want to read you, well we offer them other choices first, and then supply them with air sickness bags. My stories aren't up there because of bribery. They aren't up there because I'm better than anyone else, that is just the way they fall.

Bullshit.

3 stories in the top 5 and that's how they fall? ROTFLMFAO!!!!!!

You are a piece of work (shit).

 

[Shitting_Bull]

You misconstrue, perhaps on purpose? By "real" readers, I meant not fake ones. You obviously, blatantly, over-the-top cheat like hell to augment your scores. You can either be a clown or a writer who is taken seriously, not both. You try both--unsuccessfully because your wish for the second has you here playing Hamlet. Which only makes you pathetic. My suggestion, if you truly want to be taken seriously as a writer, is to start all over again with a new name and a new attitude.

Congratulations on your zero (0) comments on your new story. No wonder you're jealous.

 

[sr71plt]

Congratulations on your zero (0) comments on your new story. No wonder you're jealous.

Readers in that category don't comment much on the stories--at least not on the story boards. That's fine. I'm happy with my showing (getting close to the top hundred in spite of writing in the less-popular categories)--and if that story, which has been very hot all day, hadn't been zapped three time in recent hours (know anything about that?), it would be flying high. Don't find any stories by someone named Shitting Bull, though, so guess we know who's jealous/a drone/an alt of a coward.

P.S., guess I hit a nerve (otherwise known as a basic truth), right, Scouries?

 

[Darkniciad]

Fortunately, scouries, nobody is really trying to explain anything to you. I should imagine that everyone realized you were incapable of anything resembling coherant thought many moons ago.

The information presented is for the benefit of anyone who might accidently wander into your ridiculous thread by accident and become confused by your mouth-frothing rants and unwarranted ego-stroking.

Those unfortunate souls now have information that doesn't require a tin-foil hat to receive signals from the mother ship.