*Truly* anonymous feedback

[openthighs_sarah]

Just a quick question here.

Every once in a while I get a piece of feedback that doesn't mention a story (in the Literotica-generated header), but it's obvious that the reader is responding to a specific story I've written.

Does anyone else get this kind of feedback?

 

[Singularity]

Story-Independent Feedback

This is quite common, I think. If the reader clicks on your name on the author profile instead of the link at the end of the story or the post-voting page, you get the feedback without the story title.

Sometimes it is a general feedback statement, and sometimes it is for a specific story (that can be hard to pinpoint if you write a series of stories with the same characters.


Singularity

In any case, any feedback is better than none, so even if you are not sure what it is related to, it is still nice to get it.

 

[openthighs_sarah]

Re: Story-Independent Feedback

Oh. That makes sense, I guess. Thank you!

And I agree, it's nice to get feedback even if you don't know what it's about. I like details, though: sordid, juicy details...

 

[wildsweetone]

Hi openthighs_sarah,

It happens to me too. I am left wondering and floundering which story the feedback relates to. Sometimes the tone of the feedback tells me. Sometimes it's too general to tell.

I sent an email to Laurel about six hundred years ago about the very same thing and haven't heard anything back. I just assumed it was a 'fault' somewhere and have learned (mostly the hard way lol) to be fairly general and to keep my curiosity curbed.

Details are good.

 

[Rainbow Skin]

Particularly intriguing when it's as as cryptic yet enticing as the one I got a day or two ago: "This is almost exactly what happened with me and my sister. Love, [their name here]."

Twitch. Slaver. Okay, ah, tell me more. Lurid details? Videos? A clue as to which part in which story you had?

 

[Svenskaflicka]

When I get a positive feedback that doesn't say which story it refers to, I like to stick it to some of my stories that hasn't got that much feedback yet, to even out the score.

 

[DVS]

Some readers know they are doing this, but some are probably doing it without knowing.

I got one feedback that said she loved the story where the girl was tied up. Well, if you read any of my stories, they ALL involve a girl who is tied up in some way. So, I don't know which one she was talking about. But, never mind. I just liked the feedback.

 

[Guest]

I just like being tied up. Plus the feedback is great.

Perdita

 

[gauchecritic]

I think it depends on where they send you the feedback from.

I've just noticed on three negative feedbacks ("you're sick", "don't leave your day job" and "pure garbage") two had a line in the address thing: 'About the submission Hot as July , the third referred to my views on the 60s in my biog. without that line.

Shameless plug follows.

This is the story Hot as July and it is doing very poorly thank you very much. I think they just don't "get it". Feel free to vote.

It's not as well crafted as my usual 'garbage' but I was going for a specific layout and in a hurry for the contest.

Gauche

 

[ag2507]

I recently PM's Laurel asking that the logic be changed to automatically plug in the story title into the feedback. I've not had a response.

 

[DVS]

I think it depends on where they send you the feedback from.Gauche

This is very true. If you send feed back by clicking on the writer's name, you will send no story title with it. Only will you send a story title when you send feedback from the end of a story. That has always been that way. The link from the writer's name is just a way to send feedback of any kind. The links after the story are mainly for sending feedback about that story, as if you just read it and want to express your thoughts about it.

The problem might be how the reader uses these links. They both will send a feedback to the writer, but only the one at the end of the story will add the name of the story in the message. If the reader isn't aware of this (and I don't know why they wouldn't be), you could get truly anonymous feedback, as this thread specifies.

There is nothing wrong with the system, it is just how some are using the system that might be causing some confusion.

I recently PM's Laurel asking that the logic be changed to automatically plug in the story title into the feedback. I've not had a response.

Please see above.

 

[BardsLady]

I've sent feedback anonymously by accident. I accidentally click on the wrong button. But whenever I send feedback, I do try to let people know which story and what I liked/disliked about it.

Has anyone ever got the really gushy, mushy type feedbacks. The one where you wish they'd get to the point instead of spending most of their time stroking your ego?

Just 2 cents on my part,
BardsLady

 

[gauchecritic]

Has anyone ever got the really gushy, mushy type feedbacks. The one where you wish they'd get to the point instead of spending most of their time stroking your ego?
BardsLady

I'd luv a feedbacker to stroke my ego. They just tell me how many times they came or how wet their chair got.

Aah well.

Gauche

 

[ag2507]

This is very true. If you send feed back by clicking on the writer's name, you will send no story title with it. Only will you send a story title when you send feedback from the end of a story. That has always been that way. The link from the writer's name is just a way to send feedback of any kind. The links after the story are mainly for sending feedback about that story, as if you just read it and want to express your thoughts about it.

The problem might be how the reader uses these links. They both will send a feedback to the writer, but only the one at the end of the story will add the name of the story in the message. If the reader isn't aware of this (and I don't know why they wouldn't be), you could get truly anonymous feedback, as this thread specifies.

There is nothing wrong with the system, it is just how some are using the system that might be causing some confusion.

Please see above.

The way it works at the moment, if you click on the feedback at the end of the story it tyakes you to the member's profile. You then have to click on the name, hence my request.

It maybe once worked differently, or maybe there is some unintentional browser specific code.

AG

 

[gauchecritic]

-Send instant anonymous feedback to the author.

At the end of the story this is what you need to click if you want the story reference to appear.

Gauche

 

[FlyontheWall99]

Bardlady wrote:

Has anyone ever got the really gushy, mushy type feedbacks. The one where you wish they'd get to the point instead of spending most of their time stroking your ego?

I've got some very personal feedback from readers (not bad stuff, more sexual) including descriptions of what they did with my story and even nude pics. I'm not sure quite what it is about me that garners such attention but it makes for interesting reading.

I think one day I'll put together all that kind of feedback and make a story out of it. You know about the hot writer sleeping with all his groupies .....


Back to writing ...

Fly ...

PS I do say all that in jest.

 

[BardsLady]

*grinning hugely*

Go for it, Fly. That would be an interesting twist on `Anonymous Dating' wouldn't it?

The feedback I got last time was filled with:

Oh I could just DIE! I think your'e the coolest most fabulous writer there is. I'm SUCH a big fan of Kiefer and you're like the very coolest type of writer in the whole literotica author section. I just cant wait for you two write some more about my absolutely FABULOUSly famous actor from your magical fingertips. You HAVE to write some more of hat WONDERFUL stuff. Oh.. and my girlfriend says to keep Markus int he picture too. Thanks: Anonymous

*does anyone hear the head hitting the shoulderpads and the air escaping? j/k*

Actually, there was more than that. But that's the gist of what I got. I wouldnt mind it so much if I actually Was all that she wanted me to be. But I'm not. There's only just that one story out there so far, heh. For me, it's nice to get positive feedback. But not that positive. hehehe.

BardsLady

 

[gauchecritic]

Well there we are then. You tapped into the subconscious of the fanfic section. They weren't writing to you as an author they were writing to a fellow fan who would give anything to have sex with Kiefer.
Now be a good author and write a thankyou note agreeing with everything she said and include things like, you only write about kiefer because he is the drop-dead-gorgeousest person ever to inhabit the earth and how you would gladly prostitute yourself for a smile from the most gifted actor ever.

Gauche

 

[MathGirl]

Owwww

Dear Gauchie,
If you don't get your tongue out of your cheek, you are going to have a permanent bulge there.
MG

 

[BardsLady]

Gauchie

I would have written the person back. But there's just one problem with something like that. It was Anonymous. No name or addy was given.

BardsLady

 

[Victoria Veiss]

I've just had a feedback that is so generic it could have been applied to almost any erotic story: it seemed so real, it made me so horny, and so on. It goes on to ask for more information about "you and your experiences", and gives an email address.

Considering that the only story I have posted here is a male/male and was originally celebrity-based, it cannot by the wildest stretch of the imagination apply to my personal experiences! I doubt that the person even read the story; he is probably going around sending that identical feedback to every Lit author with a feminine name.

Vicky

 

[MathGirl]

I doubt that the person even read the story; he is probably going around sending that identical feedback to every Lit author with a feminine name. Vicky

Dear Vicky,
I've had several identical feedsback from the same person. Ignore him, I do.
MG

 

[BardsLady]

Thanks, you two for the heads up on that feedback thing. I'll make sure to just delete that one when I get it.

Hopefully those types will ignore me and pass on without seeing me. Then again, maybe not. hehehe Ah well.

BardsLady

 

[Victoria Veiss]

Dear Vicky,
I've had several identical feedsback from the same person. Ignore him, I do.
MG

You mean I shouldn't send him a letter telling him in great detail about my male/male experiences?

Probably funnier to think about than to waste the time on!

 

[DVS]

The way it works at the moment, if you click on the feedback at the end of the story it tyakes you to the member's profile. You then have to click on the name, hence my request.

It maybe once worked differently, or maybe there is some unintentional browser specific code.

AG

I wasn't as clear as I could have been, and gauchecritic is correct.
At the end of a story, you should see options to
1) send feedback about thr story

2) Go to the author's profile page to find other stories of theirs

3) send a link from that story to another person

If you select the SECOND option above, you can then send anonymous feedback to the author that will not mention any actual story in the text. You do that by clicking on their name while in the profile page.

The only real way I see to send feedback about a specific story is to use the SEND option at the end of a story, like gauchecritic as stated.

There could be browser specifics, as you said, and that has happened before.