What is your lowest rated story, and did you ever figure out the 'Why'?

[PapaRomantic]

End of an Affair is easily my lowest rated at 3.53, but it's no surprise - it's in Loving Wives and the cheater gets away with her cheating. But in many ways, I also think it's my best story, and while it does have the usual disgusting comments, it also has many who understood what I was doing and praised me for it. The MC's affair partner is killed in an auto accident right after a hook-up, but she can't grieve publicly because she wouldn't be able to explain to anybody what's causing her grief. It's a deep dive into her thought processes as she tries to move forward.

I think it's a good read...but then I know the author and I think he's a good guy!

 

[Comshaw]

Update for me: Since I posted my lowest rated story in August of last year it's changed. It's now this one at a 4.07:


And the reason:

All three of my 750 word stories are at or over 4.4. One is in mature, one in Erotic Couplings and the big surprise for me the one in LW.


Comshaw

 

[WCSGarland]

My lowest rated story - Tropical Disturbance

I could speculate... but I'd probably be wrong anyway. And I should probably add... I'd be open to anybody seeing this to read it and tell me why it was horrible.

 

[lc69hunter]

I know exactly why. It was a essay on how women can compartmentalize their cheating/extracurricular activities separate from their marriage, husband and family as opposed to men, who only think in a binary line (left-right, up-down, right-wrong), inspired by a @Grendelpuppy story. I wrote it intentionally because of the rage it engenders among the trolls when it is brought up as an excuse in a Loving Wives story.

 

[Not2Pervy]

Outside of a 750 word Loving Wives throwaway, my lowest rated story is my one attempt at humor. Apparently I can enhance a regular story with some humor but when it comes to making that my main purpose, I can’t do it. Also, although they talked about it a lot, it didn’t have any real sex scenes.

 

[Voboy]

Dear Mr. Elliot,

Hello, My husband mentioned that you were interested in speaking with me. I had sent you a message earlier, but I haven’t received a response yet. It’s possible it may have gone to your spam folder—would you mind checking?

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Yours sincerely,
K.

 

[NotWise]

That Little Bitch at 4.19.

It's also my shortest story at less than 2K words, and that's probably all the explanation that's needed. But wait! There's more! Some commenters formed opinions about the male protagonist with hardly anything to go on, and they didn't much like him.

 

[iwatchus]

I am much more curious about my second lowest rated story, the Lit Convention Event story The Aureur (at 4.45 currently). My lowest, I mentioned earlier is in LW and did fine by LW ratings.

This story is in E&V. It is one of my favorites I have written in the category, but nearly a quarter point below my average in that category. I got a reasonable rate of comments and favorites and the comments were by and large quite positive. Being based on listening rather than seeing, maybe E&V readers rejected it?

My only other non H story was a somewhat uncomfortable chapter of a series, a necessary part of the story arc but I was not surprised it got a mediocre rating.

This one I just don't get. Somehow, it alienated enough of its community to get a mediocre score.

 

[NotWise]

@iwatchus, I tried to reply by DM, but your account settings apparently don't enable DM.

I read The Aureur. The rating is usually more about how much the voters enjoyed your story, including the story's characters, than it is about anything else. I think that's probably the case here.

Your story hinges on Jeremy, but I feel like he's not a very well-developed character. He's an introverted accountant who likes to listen, and he seems a little creepy. Most importantly, I don't "get" his fast, hard fall for Mary. Aside from that, the plot doesn't build to a well-developed climax. The story cuts off early, and he doesn't get the girl.

The aural voyeur aspect is creative.

I'm limited in what I can say since I can't compare this story to the rest of your work. I might be able to answer specific questions, but that would best be done by DM.

 

[rlaflamme]

Lowest is a 4.13, some comments say that a shared wife is overdone. I thought it was well written, but they choose.

 

[rlaflamme]

Of course, ratings are a little odd, that story had a 1 rating less than a minute after it was posted, so, yeah.

 

[filthytrancendence]

4.34

I think it's a fair rating. It's definitely my lowest effort story. Short, not a ton of editing/refining, simple characters, not really a narrative just a thing that happens. I probably put it in the wrong category, too.

Seems pretty category dependent in odd ways. Romance is by far the most generous. LW is LW, and I ain't touching it (and not just because of the ratings. I don't want anything to do with those people). Incest/Taboo seems fairly harsh. Probably some of that is to what degree my style clashes with the expectations of the category. I usually write a thing and then decide where it's going, not the other way around, so sometimes its more of a mismatch than others.

 

[rlaflamme]

4.34

I think it's a fair rating. It's definitely my lowest effort story. Short, not a ton of editing/refining, simple characters, not really a narrative just a thing that happens. I probably put it in the wrong category, too.

Seems pretty category dependent in odd ways. Romance is by far the most generous. LW is LW, and I ain't touching it (and not just because of the ratings. I don't want anything to do with those people). Incest/Taboo seems fairly harsh. Probably some of that is to what degree my style clashes with the expectations of the category. I usually write a thing and then decide where it's going, not the other way around, so sometimes its more of a mismatch than others.

LW is brutal and is a bit overrun with people trying to kill rating for themselves. I was told to never post anything in there. But, yeah, I did anyway lol.

 

[Areala-chan]

My lowest-rated story is the 750-word one I did for the yearly challenge. That's not surprising, since there are plenty of people who hate the 750-word stories in general, and that challenge in particular.

 

[rlaflamme]

My lowest rated incest is a 4.35 and I actually thought it was one of my best. I never really thought about and didn't want to write about incest, but I was convinced to do so. I thought this one would be my best but, nope. I was very surprised.

 

[Writer61]

Don't give up hope!

In the last week, what had been my lowest-rated story (Part 5 of The Fall of Laura with average 4.38, low point 4.34) has gained an H, probably due to a flurry of new readers attracted by two recent episodes in another series.

The improvement means I have a new lowest-rated story (Adam in Asia - Under Pressure). I have just re-read it. There is no obvious issue with it, but it probably is not exciting enough for some.

 

[Erozetta]

https://www.literotica.com/s/the-climb and its companion piece https://literotica.com/s/slippery-slopes-1 are currently my lowest rated stories.

Both 750s, both in loving wives. Sitting at a 2.79 and 3.41 respectively.

I know why they're so low: The husband is a raging abusive dick and the wife dares to express sexuality to men outside of her marriage via sex work (cam show work, not even visible nudity, just sucking a dildo while in a bath covered with bubbles.) even though those funds will be her path to freedom when I expand and connect the two stories. (For all of the people in the comments who mentioned divorce, it seems they've forgotten that divorce costs money and it's unlikely to go smoothly with a severely controlling man who will see it as a personal affront and could turn violent once initiated.)

 

[filthytrancendence]

My lowest rated incest is a 4.35 and I actually thought it was one of my best. I never really thought about and didn't want to write about incest,

Yeah, I really do think there's something to incest being unusually harsh. Or maybe there's just more review bombers that go in and 1 star everything because they think incest stories are icky.

Within a week or so, the first chapter of my incest story is probably going to become my most read, and its by far my most favorited and commented. And it's also among my lowest rated.

 

[MetaBob]

Here's a breakdown of the 51 pieces I've posted here. There are really only six: one is a complete story while the other five were posted in chapters. Two are incomplete, though one is very close to completion:

Count Rating
23 4.5+
17 4.25 - 4.49
6 4.0 - 4.24
5 Under 4.0

Of the five stories I've posted here that have a rating under 4.00, I have no idea why the first three of them are rated so low, other than I've observed that people mostly either give my stories a five-star rating or they get one-bombed, and when the number of votes is so low, a small number of one-star ratings weighs heavily. For example, Black Belt Muscle Dominatrix Ch. 03: Sisters (my most recently published piece -- one month ago) got three one-star ratings immediately, then seven 5-star ratings trickled in over a period of weeks. For Were-Tigress Ch. 07 - Epilogue, well, it's a transitional chapter into the second book of the five-book series I envisioned, and honestly I didn't spend as much time or effort on it as the other chapters. It's probably my weakest effort. For Crossings Ch. 06, the end of that book (3rd in my envisioned 5-book series) isn't happy. It got two ratings, one 5-star and one 1-star. Book 4 will get even unhappier before it gets better, if I ever finish it:

Rating/Votes Title
3.94/17 Were-Tigress Ch. 06b
3.80/10 Black Belt Muscle Dominatrix Ch.03: Sisters
3.78/9 Senioritis Ch. 13
3.23/13 Were-Tigress Ch. 07 - Epilogue
3.00/2 Crossings Ch. 06

I'm very pleased with the quality of the writing I've posted here overall, and enough people have rated it highly enough to reassure me of this. Those who disagree seem to be a small minority, but the ability of a single 1-star rating to balance seven 5-star ratings in reaching the sought-after-average 4.5 "H" designation gives one-star bombers disproportionate weight.

 

[Writer61]

Here's a breakdown of the 51 pieces I've posted here. There are really only six: one is a complete story while the other five were posted in chapters. Two are incomplete, though one is very close to completion:

Count Rating
23 4.5+
17 4.25 - 4.49
6 4.0 - 4.24
5 Under 4.0

Of the five stories I've posted here that have a rating under 4.00, I have no idea why the first three of them are rated so low, other than I've observed that people mostly either give my stories a five-star rating or they get one-bombed, and when the number of votes is so low, a small number of one-star ratings weighs heavily. For example, Black Belt Muscle Dominatrix Ch. 03: Sisters (my most recently published piece -- one month ago) got three one-star ratings immediately, then seven 5-star ratings trickled in over a period of weeks. For Were-Tigress Ch. 07 - Epilogue, well, it's a transitional chapter into the second book of the five-book series I envisioned, and honestly I didn't spend as much time or effort on it as the other chapters. It's probably my weakest effort. For Crossings Ch. 06, well, the end of that book (3rd in my envisioned 5-book series) isn't happy. It got two ratings, one 5-star and one 1-star. Book 4 will get even unhappier before it gets better, if I ever finish it:

Rating/Votes Title
3.94/17 Were-Tigress Ch. 06b
3.80/10 Black Belt Muscle Dominatrix Ch.03: Sisters
3.78/9 Senioritis Ch. 13
3.23/13 Were-Tigress Ch. 07 - Epilogue
3.00/2 Crossings Ch. 06

I'm very pleased with the quality of the writing I've posted here overall, and enough people have rated it highly enough to reassure me that of this. Those who disagree seem to be a small minority, but the ability of a single 1-star rating to balance seven 5-star ratings in reaching the sought-after-average 4.5 "H" designation gives one-star bombers disproportionate weight.

Which categories have you been posting in?

 

[MetaBob]

Which categories have you been posting in?

A lot is Mind Control, but most recently Fetish.

 

[Writer61]

A lot is Mind Control, but most recently Fetish.

I am not familiar with those two, but typical scores can differ between categories.

 

[Gamblnluck]

End of an Affair is easily my lowest rated at 3.53, but it's no surprise - it's in Loving Wives and the cheater gets away with her cheating. But in many ways, I also think it's my best story, and while it does have the usual disgusting comments, it also has many who understood what I was doing and praised me for it. The MC's affair partner is killed in an auto accident right after a hook-up, but she can't grieve publicly because she wouldn't be able to explain to anybody what's causing her grief. It's a deep dive into her thought processes as she tries to move forward.

I think it's a good read...but then I know the author and I think he's a good guy!

I read it. I did not think nearly as good as trial separation and Amicable No More. There was no resolution for the cheating bitch. She merely settled for her husband and decided to go back to him. She expended more energy mourning her dead extra-marital lover than she did probably did for her husband in years. You even hinted at that. The one morning she got her ass out of bed and made coffee she got a happy response from her 'cold' spouse. Just that simple gesture. I did not like the bitch. And you did not describe her husband enough for him to be more than the furniture. If a reader does not like the characters they are not going to like the story.
Trial Separation had a little bite to it. Hubbie sat waiting for his cheating wife to come back after her three weeks 'finding herself' screwing others only to find to him ready to leave to do the same. His last line was great. When he said he'd be back, "MAYBE"

 

[Gamblnluck]

End of an Affair is easily my lowest rated at 3.53, but it's no surprise - it's in Loving Wives and the cheater gets away with her cheating.

It's not JUST that the cheater got away with it. She thought more of her dead lover than she did her husband. She was more emotionally involved with cheating than maintaining her relationship. She simple 'settled' for her husband. There were a couple redundant sex scene descriptions that I just had to skim over. Like I said in my other post, I liked a few of your other stories much more.

 

[UnexpectedLuggage]

My most recent story, More Sisters Less Problems, is my lowest rated at 4.66. It does have the most number of ratings of my stories, so I guess it's just bound to sort of balance out.