Troll attack

[bashfullyshameless]

Don't Take it Too Hard

It's the Internet, after all.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/3/19/

Or, to quote my favorite line from the West Wing: "If they're shootin' at you, you must be doing something right."

It's also really difficult to tell what people will like, what will offend them, and what will simply disinterest them. I'm honestly surprised at how some of my entries have fared in relation to others.

 

[lovecraft68]

Well then...

I chose Almost Perfect, Siblings @ Samhain, Lex Talionis 05, and Weekend with Laura. I found all of them to be fairly well written, stimulating (depending on one's fantasies), not overly wordy and a good combination of sex and story line. I rolled my eyes at the witch/satanist pairing however...

There were some grammatical problems but not enough to make them unreadable. I thought they were all pretty good, especially for Literotica...

So the question is, what did you do to piss someone off?

Hi
Thrilled you liked my writing. The Samhain thing is not for everyone but one is loosely based on personal experience from my lispent youth and two I wrote it as a shot to some people who said I don;t sex my stories up enough. In the author's note I tell them I don't want it to be said I cannot deliver.
Also this is the story my character Mark was nommed. fro Sexiest Male.
As I said grammar is weak but that can be fixed I'm glad you enjoyed my concepts. for thr record "Weekends" was written on a lost bet I dislike parent child incest I wrote it intending for it to be not that great but used some humor to get myself into it and it ended up my highest voted story. Go figure.

I was also surprised at how well the extreme violence/mental breakdown went over in Lex 5

Have to say you ahve made me happy! Iwas expecting a reaming.
If you ever have the time do check out Breaking odf Allison it's my fav.
Thank you for your review.

 

[alwayswantedto]

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[lovecraft68]

Hey lovecraft,

I agree, as someone above noted, that this is a rite of passage. I have been the target of at least three attacks and possibly more where someone has gone through my story list and dropped multiple one's and two's (the latter are more permanent). On two of them, I pretty much know why. The effects are only temporary except for stories that only have one or two hundred votes. As time goes on, your stories will collect more votes and the effects of these cretans will diminish. Put it out of your mind; there are always weiners around so let them scurry about. As for the contests, they do attract trolls and some scores may be due to nefarious competitioin but they greatly increase your exposure and there seems to be a comaderie among many of the contributors which you may enjoy. Go for it.

Actually they all ready removed it. you know it shows the trolls aren't bright the system will pick up that no one reads 36 stories in fifteen minutes I suppose if you did one a day it would be lasting damage but I'm sure this type of person is inheritantly lazy!
P.S. Love your stories and give you credit that although your constantly wroting the same type (son/mother) you have not run out of ideas.
I wrote one weekends with Laura and didn't want to . I lost a bet I have had over two dozen people screamimng for a seqeal. I refer them to your page.

 

[lovecraft68]

Yep, happened to mine too! Don't know why anyone would take the time to do that...pretty petty to me.

These are pople who had their lunch money stolen and received to many swirlies as kids. The yprobably kick their dog for fun.

 

[Image]

Hi
Thrilled you liked my writing. The Samhain thing is not for everyone but one is loosely based on personal experience from my lispent youth and two I wrote it as a shot to some people who said I don;t sex my stories up enough. In the author's note I tell them I don't want it to be said I cannot deliver.
Also this is the story my character Mark was nommed. fro Sexiest Male.
As I said grammar is weak but that can be fixed I'm glad you enjoyed my concepts. for thr record "Weekends" was written on a lost bet I dislike parent child incest I wrote it intending for it to be not that great but used some humor to get myself into it and it ended up my highest voted story. Go figure.

I was also surprised at how well the extreme violence/mental breakdown went over in Lex 5

Have to say you ahve made me happy! Iwas expecting a reaming.
If you ever have the time do check out Breaking odf Allison it's my fav.
Thank you for your review.

You're welcome. I said I'd be honest, and if I thought your writing was subpar I would have told you. Not that I'm an expert editor. Don't misunderstand though, I enjoyed the Samhain story very much. I only rolled my eyes at lumping witches and satanists into the same category. They aren't...

Well, good luck at Lit in the future. Don't worry about the trolls. You have too many of those coveted litle red "H"s to not be proud...

 

[TxRad]

I had the same problem a few weeks ago and PMed Laural about it. After some digging she said there was a massive bulk 1 vote campaign going on. She said she would clean up as much of it as they could find.

There are some crazy and sick people out there and some are not even a normal part of Lit.

 

[lovecraft68]

For anybody in this thread herien lies the problem.
The following is a quote from a vigin named mightyhef on the influential author thread

I'd like to nominate Harding for "A Week in Miami"...his character Nikki came alive on the page. Now back to the gratuitous sniping...'


Cute huh? I am nominated several posts up. I am sure anyone above and in between has received presents from this guy and others like him. New rule sghould be have to be registered memeber for at least a year w x amounts of posts. or maybe just close these to authors (not that there aren't some sleazy ones but oh well.) jus tthought I would share this little gem

 

[sr71plt]

For anybody in this thread herien lies the problem.
The following is a quote from a vigin named mightyhef on the influential author thread

I'd like to nominate Harding for "A Week in Miami"...his character Nikki came alive on the page. Now back to the gratuitous sniping...'


Cute huh? I am nominated several posts up. I am sure anyone above and in between has received presents from this guy and others like him. New rule sghould be have to be registered memeber for at least a year w x amounts of posts. or maybe just close these to authors (not that there aren't some sleazy ones but oh well.) jus tthought I would share this little gem

I think you missed the meaning of this post. I took it mean that someone with no ax to grind slipped in to make a genuine nomination and was slipping out again so the thread could return to the "gratuitous sniping" the poster saw earlier on the thread. I don't think the poster was saying he/she was taking time off from dropping "presents" to post a nomination to the annual contest.

 

[lovecraft68]

I think you missed the meaning of this post. I took it mean that someone with no ax to grind slipped in to make a genuine nomination and was slipping out again so the thread could return to the "gratuitous sniping" the poster saw earlier on the thread. I don't think the poster was saying he/she was taking time off from dropping "presents" to post a nomination to the annual contest.

Hmmmm maybe it could be seen that way. you think their saying "now back to the regularly scheduled programming"
You could be right but I didn't really see sniping. I see a bunch of newbies who in some cases could be alts or are just signing up to support their writers cause. To me "sniping" means sabotaging and under cutting" such as "snipe" bids on e-bay sniping is also assassination so I am going to lean my way. You do however raise a point could just be my cynical nature.

I will alos freely admit that the glowing nomination for me on that page for Author (I'm sure the only one I'll get) is from a fan of mine is is like a groupie at this point. She is a great kid who has been e-mailing me since my second chapter of SWB and who I'm convinced if i wrote a piece of garbage on purpose would praise it. But at least she ia a legit person who has read my work.
If you read the thread I make a comment about someone recommending a series that has only posted 2 chapters in a year and try to point out they are missing the point this could be why I was trolled. I mention in it however that I in no way shape or form are influential. On the other hand I am happy with the Nom. for the male character because it ws made by one of the best authors in the incest category "candlelight062".

 

[lovecraft68]

You're welcome. I said I'd be honest, and if I thought your writing was subpar I would have told you. Not that I'm an expert editor. Don't misunderstand though, I enjoyed the Samhain story very much. I only rolled my eyes at lumping witches and satanists into the same category. They aren't...

Well, good luck at Lit in the future. Don't worry about the trolls. You have too many of those coveted litle red "H"s to not be proud...

You know I was at work when I first replied so I didn't get into what you really meant. Of course you are absolutely right on the witch/satanist combo. They are apples and oranges. The first part of the ceremoney woth the "opening of the gates" is very wiccan. the rest is loosely based on Crowleys ritual of the beast and although often lumped together Crowley and Levay (whose teachings I do follow) are very different.

Levay does not promote sexual orgies just sexual freedom and in that he somply means the freedom to practice whatever sex you choose including monogamy (my choice) you can choose anything but must stick to it.

At the end of the day however this is a fiction site and I was looking to give people more "grope and go " than I normally do so I overlooked the inaccuracy in order to just spin a fun story.
The site is fiction and full of either "strokers" whom I don;t have a great following of, or people who want the sex but some plotline but it's all about a great ride and a guilty pleasure. Like a really bad movie, that has like no plot bad acting over the top shit but you sit there and it just takes you away, that's what I did here. Kudos for noticing the inaccuracy though you're the only one that did or at least the only one who said anything.

 

[lovecraft68]

I had the same problem a few weeks ago and PMed Laural about it. After some digging she said there was a massive bulk 1 vote campaign going on. She said she would clean up as much of it as they could find.

There are some crazy and sick people out there and some are not even a normal part of Lit.

There is an author whose name I won't mention (it's not the guy with all the alias) whom for whatever reason my gut tells me has something to do with things like that. They update daily and even though their stories get like 800 vtes and have 4.8+ the yare always crying about anon people saying they suck in one update (since deleted as they have done so many the page would have been to long to read. they urged their "loyal fans" to e-mail another author who had given him a negative comment. I aslo suspicious of the amount of votes. Anyway it's just nuts this goes on even if only for the reason that no one gets paid here. Except for a couple of hundred dollars in a contest all thats here is fun and maybe some bragging rights. No one knows my stuff here I have a small core following but their loyal and I'm happy with my scores, that's all that counts.
Also very happy Image liked my stuff seeing going into it they were already admittedly po'd at me. If anyone else wants to take a look I did as Image suggested and put my link in my public profile.

 

[sr71plt]

Hmmmm maybe it could be seen that way. you think their saying "now back to the regularly scheduled programming"
You could be right but I didn't really see sniping.

Yes, I took it to be a "return to the scheduled programming" remark. I was a bit surprised because I also hadn't seen much in the way of game playing on the contest threads for a while. But there had been yammering there earlier.

 

[lovecraft68]

Yes, I took it to be a "return to the scheduled programming" remark. I was a bit surprised because I also hadn't seen much in the way of game playing on the contest threads for a while. But there had been yammering there earlier.

This is the first time I've ever really looked at a contest thread so I'm not sure what has gone on before, I guess it's like everything else; you get good, bad, mature , immature and human nature is to quarel especially with a lot of ego's at stake. For me If I feel I'm the best I can be (and I hope I don;t reach that because I always want to be better) then that's what counts. I get excited about good feedback of course but try to take it the same way I do the bad, well at least creatively bad the good old fashioned "you suck" is annoying.

 

[lovecraft68]

I had the same problem a few weeks ago and PMed Laural about it. After some digging she said there was a massive bulk 1 vote campaign going on. She said she would clean up as much of it as they could find.

There are some crazy and sick people out there and some are not even a normal part of Lit.

You know something had just dawned on me looking at your post. If you look at incest category Eldgerinn00 the writer of the conflicted series is back on lit with his sequal. he left lit a few months back and pulled conflicted because he complained of literally getting over 100 one votes on every story in a day. for the record this was around the time of the other author I won't name's little remark. Eldg. claimed lit did not help him and he pulled his story, I e-mailed him last week to welcome him back because I enjoyed the series and let me tell you he is BITTER but the new site he went to gets like 10% of the views so in the end I guess ego prevails.

 

[TxRad]

You know something had just dawned on me looking at your post. If you look at incest category Eldgerinn00 the writer of the conflicted series is back on lit with his sequal. he left lit a few months back and pulled conflicted because he complained of literally getting over 100 one votes on every story in a day. for the record this was around the time of the other author I won't name's little remark. Eldg. claimed lit did not help him and he pulled his story, I e-mailed him last week to welcome him back because I enjoyed the series and let me tell you he is BITTER but the new site he went to gets like 10% of the views so in the end I guess ego prevails.

I've found that a lot of author's make their own problems when dealing with Lit. Most have too much attitude and not enough understand of what it takes to police a site as large as Lit. From what Laural said at one time, she checks things every morning. Although she did not go into detail and I wouldn't expect her to, she did say that they have norms that should match up. Anything off the scale gets checked. This is not to say, she checks each and every author every day. An Impossible task.

I don't check overall scores on my stories very often. Usually, I check the new ones until I get an idea of how it is being excepted. But ever so often I do check the overall average of stories to red H's. This is where these massive 1 vote campaigns show up. I get the idea that it isn't from Lit readers so much as someone on the outside being disruptive. Or maybe both. This last one was not just my stories but seemingly across the board on authors.

So my advise when you see something like this is to contact Laural, be nice and see what she can do. She is more than happy to check stuff for us as her time allows. So don't be pushy and don't expect miracles in a short time. This is a big place on our side of the servers and even larger and more complex on her side. So have patients and understanding. Some people forget that there is one of her and thousands of us.

 

[lovecraft68]

I've found that a lot of author's make their own problems when dealing with Lit. Most have too much attitude and not enough understand of what it takes to police a site as large as Lit. From what Laural said at one time, she checks things every morning. Although she did not go into detail and wouldn't expect her to, she did say that they have norms that should match up. Anything off the scale gets checked. This is not to say, she checks each and every author every day. An Impossible task.

I don't check overall scores on my stories very often. Usually, I check the new ones until I get an idea of how it is being excepted. But ever so often I do check the overall average of stories to red H's. This is where these massive 1 vote campaigns show up. I get the idea that it isn't from Lit readers so much as someone on the outside being disruptive. Or maybe both.

So my advise when you see something like this is to contact Laural, be nice and see what she can do. She is more than happy to check stuff for us as her time allows. So don't be pushy and don't expect miracles in a short time. This is a big place on our side of the servers and even larger and complex on her side. So have patients and understanding. Some people forget that there is one of her and thousands of us.

Oh I wouldn't bother her over some troll votes. The only time I contacted her was with a link to a site I found my story on. More accurately it was the first page of my story. It was some type of "lifting" program as this site had dozens of stories from lit authors and a day after they posted but it was always the first page and the site was a minefield and could seize your computer up if you stayed on it. Sh did eventually respond that Manu had been after them for awhile and other authors said it happened all the time. Point is she got back after awhile and I was impressed, she also personally answered a question I had posted about submitting italics and word doc's so I have no issues with how the site runs. besides they let me publish my crap on here, so who's better than them?

 

[Zeb_Carter]

These are pople who had their lunch money stolen and received to many swirlies as kids. The yprobably kick their dog for fun.

Or they are the people who applied the swirlies and stole the lunch money.

 

[lovecraft68]

Or they are the people who applied the swirlies and stole the lunch money.

No not all. that would require a face on assualt. "trolling" is an act of cowardice a back stabbing type of thing.
and for the record know what happened to those guys who gave the swirlies? They ran into Cloudy and Safe Bet from that reviled category thread and they kicked their macho asses!LOL