what's the stupidest comment you've ever received on a story?

[ChloeTzang]

Aren't the site administrators checking comments now?

I've commented on several of my own stories recently (thanking commenters for their positive feedback, answering questions and the like) and the comments have taken hours to appear.

I know there was a problem with spam a few months ago, but do they stop particularly nasty comments (such as racist rants) getting posted too?

I think it’s just a check for spam, nothing else gets filtered

 

[oggbashan]

Two from Anonymous today:

On Mantrap Dress (Fetish category):

Silly woman!

Just stand up and bull rush her. All done. And no man is stupid enough to propose to a woman that attempts to trap him into said proposal. Sex games or not she shows herself to be unbalanced. Badly done. The author has a nasty habit of allowing his male characters to fall under the control of some really manipulative, nasty woman and then having the men ignore that behavior.
1 star

On Femdom Makeover (Mind Control):

Why would any husband accept this behavior?

Now I know this is fiction. And I know that the British are more accepting of the odd and unusual than some other societies. But this was ridiculous. His wife drugs him. She commits assault and battery on his person. She exposes him to death. With no real reason other than it seems to please her to control him. There's no reason why he would quit his job once he is free of his wife's presence. I think most men would flee considering their lives are in danger. Even fictional stories need rules and a semblance of order. This was all over the map, poorly thought out and very unbelievable.

You might think anonymous would avoid my stories if they become so upset about them.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I think it’s just a check for spam, nothing else gets filtered

There have been reports over the years of racist/hatred comments being removed by Laurel, even if an author has let them stand. The current screening appears to be just for spam, but patrols have been done in the past, to remove blatantly offensive content. There was a tidy up done, for example, on the Siren Song anthology comments thread - in the same way that the forum Mods delete posts from time to time - one day they're there, next day, gone forever.

 

[oggbashan]

Addition to post #130 above:

Anonymous also sent feedback on the same theme as the comments, now I have blocked comments on Trapped.

 

[TxRad]

There have been reports over the years of racist/hatred comments being removed by Laurel, even if an author has let them stand. The current screening appears to be just for spam, but patrols have been done in the past, to remove blatantly offensive content. There was a tidy up done, for example, on the Siren Song anthology comments thread - in the same way that the forum Mods delete posts from time to time - one day they're there, next day, gone forever.

I think the deal here is fairly simple. Laurel gets reports of racist/hate comments and goes to check them out. If true, then she checks the posters comment history. If that is what is pretty much all there is, she deletes posts, poster, and anything else involving said name or IP. this could also include votes, favorites, ect.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I think the deal here is fairly simple. Laurel gets reports of racist/hate comments and goes to check them out. If true, then she checks the posters comment history. If that is what is pretty much all there is, she deletes posts, poster, and anything else involving said name or IP. this could also include votes, favorites, ect.

Yes, that's my understanding of the way it works. It's an active process with human eyes, whereas the current spam checker is probably a bot. The bot check takes about fifteen minutes or so, from what I can see (having replied to a couple of comments in my own story file, recently).

 

[King_Willie]

I didn't even know you could delete comments.

Meh, I'll just leave them there, they're good for keeping my ego in check and/or reminding me that humanity is long overdue for an asteroid with good aim.

 

[Kantarii]

Thank God 99% of the comments I receive are worthy of keeping, even the critical ones. I’ve received more hate mail on this site than bad comments like : drink some bleach and die, cocksucker or you’re a poor excuse for a faggot. My personal favorite is - You don’t know shit about being a woman let alone being a cross dresser. Maybe so, but in my life I’ve fooled a lot of eyes without having to say a word.
Kant

 

[JamesMiehoff]

One of the first stories posted here received the following comment:

"You done good"?
That is just awfully poor grammar.
"You did well" is the correct way to say it.

One of the fun things for me is writing dialog just as you would hear it. Can you imagine what the novels of Mark Twain would have been like if he wrote them with an upper class aristocratic stick up the ass accent?

I was also highly amused by the armchair Freuds deciding that it was impossible for two people to fall in love in an afternoon and spend the rest of their lives together. Despite the fact that the story was just a bit of fiction wrapped around an old coworker's story of how his first wife died, he went nuts, got better, he met his new wife, fell in love and lived happily ever after with her.

James

 

[CoffeeWithMonkeys]

One of the first stories posted here received the following comment:




One of the fun things for me is writing dialog just as you would hear it. Can you imagine what the novels of Mark Twain would have been like if he wrote them with an upper class aristocratic stick up the ass accent?

I was also highly amused by the armchair Freuds deciding that it was impossible for two people to fall in love in an afternoon and spend the rest of their lives together. Despite the fact that the story was just a bit of fiction wrapped around an old coworker's story of how his first wife died, he went nuts, got better, he met his new wife, fell in love and lived happily ever after with her.

James

That drives me crazy too. I write dialog sometimes how they would say stuff, and yeah sometimes it isn't proper grammar. Not everyone in the world speaks perfectly correct.

And the day I met my now ex husband, I knew we would get married. I met him briefly, like he came into the room I was in with my cousin, looked at me and said I don't know you, looked at my cousin and said I don't know you either, then left.
I dreamed about him that night that we were buying a house.
That was in 1986, we divorced in 2013 after having 8 kids, so yeah sometimes it doesn't take much to fall in love.

 

[Voboy]

I’d forgotten about this one. I don’t like James Joyce, I do like Cormac McCarthy (at times), but my narrator was an English teacher sick of the canon. Oh well. I guess there are worse reasons for a 1* vote...





Gets a 1
by Anonymous user on 01/22/2017
for your BS name dropping of Joyce & McCarthy while adding a little insult as well. Jackass.

 

[RetroFan]

While not usually dumb or nasty, it sometimes surprises me what readers react to in stories.

For example, in one of my stories a character died on Monday 10th September 2001. Many years later her heartbroken fiancé who never really got over her death looks at her obituary, which lists her as being born on 06/06/1976 and dying on 10/09/2001. The story is set in Adelaide, South Australia and in Australia (like in New Zealand, England and Ireland) the date format is written DD/MM/YYYY, while in the USA dates are written MM/DD/YYYY so this is correct.

The way the date was written caused some issue for some (presumably American) readers, who said it was an error and that in fact she had died on 9th October 2001, when it is distinctly stated in the story that the date she passed away was on Monday 10th September 2001.

But given that if this story was a movie it would be a three tissue box film like A Walk to Remember, The Fault In Our Stars, My Sister's Keeper, The Notebook or the second half of Click it always seemed such a strange thing to react to in a highly emotive story.

 

[rae121452]

i have a new favorite: "this is Literotica, not Literature."

 

[NotWise]

i have a new favorite: "this is Literotica, not Literature."

I'm so jealous!

 

[Hypoxia]

What, I should bother to recall the dumbest of the dumb? What's in it for me?

 

[Requiax]

I like the ones who think it’s real. Almost all my stories are in Ex/Voy and if I write one in the first person I always get some chucklehead who thinks I’m the person in the story and really did the things described.

Which I suppose is understandable but I’m still surprised that on an erotic FICTION site people are defaulting to “they said ‘I’ so they must really be a beautiful 20-something exhibitionist woman”...

 

[beachbum1958]

Yes, that's my understanding of the way it works. It's an active process with human eyes, whereas the current spam checker is probably a bot. The bot check takes about fifteen minutes or so, from what I can see (having replied to a couple of comments in my own story file, recently).

That's probably what happened with me yesterday; I opened my 'latest activity' control panel to see at least 15 'anonymous has commented on *story name*', listing most of my story series', but when I clicked on one at random the board cleared down; obviously whoever/whatever moderates comments had gone in there and deleted all 15 comments, which was a shame, because I've come to miss the more idiotic comments.

This same person pops up periodically and does the exact same thing every time, he follows me, then floods my dashboard with 'worst story ever, fuck you and die ' anon comments on each of my stories, then gets deleted and his account removed, then he comes back as an alt and does it all over again. I admire his persistence, although I wonder at his need to keep repeating what he knows will get dumped before I ever see it; he reminds me of the man who bet £500 on the big game, lost it all, then bet £1,000 on the action replay...

 

[ChloeTzang]

I just got this.

"Too long....
by the time I get thru 29 pages the THRILL IS GONE!"

Well, duh! That's why the very first line of my Intro started off "...This is not a short story. It's approximately 108,000 words, about 29 Literotica pages long, so be warned..."

I'm not sure how much more blunt I could get. Maybe, "If you want a short stroke story, this ain't it.... this is a looooong stroke story and you'll be crying by the time you finish...."

 

[gordo12]

My favourite:

"everything after Lucifer came into the picture was disgustingly repulsive. Truly sickening."

Cause she was expecting a Boy Scout Jamboree weekend?

 

[LoquiSordidaAdMe]

My favourite:

"everything after Lucifer came into the picture was disgustingly repulsive. Truly sickening."

Cause she was expecting a Boy Scout Jamboree weekend?

I dunno. I visited a Boy Scout Jamboree once a long time ago. It was free and close to home. The toilet situation was disgustingly repulsive and truly sickening.

 

[LoquiSordidaAdMe]

In the opening paragraphs of my best rated story, the recently divorced narrator wonders if he should buy Christmas presents for his ex-wife's niece and nephew. It's a bit of character development to show the narrator's dedication to family, but it has no impact on the rest of the ten page story. Today I got this Anonymous comment:

Who cares what your ex-wife wants!

Don’t buy your ex-wife’s blood relatives anything. You are no longer are related! You would better off to buy presents for orphans and poor children who don’t get any presents!

I'm honestly not sure if this person is trolling, or if I've triggered some poor soul who survived a particularly bitter divorce and jumped to the comment section after reading three paragraphs.

 

[oggbashan]

In the opening paragraphs of my best rated story, the recently divorced narrator wonders if he should buy Christmas presents for his ex-wife's niece and nephew. It's a bit of character development to show the narrator's dedication to family, but it has no impact on the rest of the ten page story. Today I got this Anonymous comment:



I'm honestly not sure if this person is trolling, or if I've triggered some poor soul who survived a particularly bitter divorce and jumped to the comment section after reading three paragraphs.

Probably. In several of my stories I have sympathetic ex-wives who still have some residual feeling for their exes. That annoys anon who seems to think all ex-wives must be bitches, ignoring the reality that there must have been love between the two in the past.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

In the opening paragraphs of my best rated story, the recently divorced narrator wonders if he should buy Christmas presents for his ex-wife's niece and nephew. It's a bit of character development to show the narrator's dedication to family, but it has no impact on the rest of the ten page story. Today I got this Anonymous comment:



I'm honestly not sure if this person is trolling, or if I've triggered some poor soul who survived a particularly bitter divorce and jumped to the comment section after reading three paragraphs.

Or he's someone who reads here at Lit thinking all the stories are true.

 

[CuteSlaveLisa]

Stupidest, as opposed to meanest... "This should have been that' and this thing the other..."

But it's OK, I imagine he wrote the author of 'Titanic'...

"I liked you movie a little, I just gave it one-star, because your ship was too big... And in the North Atlantic instead of the South Pacific... And you had too many people... Seven is plenty... Two should be rich parental figures... One should be a cute "girl next door" maybe from Kansas... Another should be a Marylin Monroe wannabe actress from Hollywood... You should have a really brainy guy, maybe a college professor and an old sea dog... Most important you should cast that kid from Dobie Gillis as a loveable fuck-up... And it's real sad that the boy drowned... Instead make the seven survivors spend 98 twenty-two minute adventures as castaways.

Sincerely,
Anonymous

***

Love and Kisses

Lisa Ann

 

[RetroFan]

While not stupid or mean, have you ever had readers leave comments saying that you should have included things that are totally unrealistic and don't fit into the story?

For example, I was glad to have any comment really on my Christmas 2018 story 'The Unsuitable Girlfriends', as it was a total bomb. Basically the story involved a religious farming family where the three sons, who don't like agriculture and move to the city bring their three girlfriends who fall well short of their parents' view of suitable girlfriend/wife material to the farm for Christmas. The three sons have two sisters, who unlike the boys love living in the country and like their parents are conservative, practicing Roman Catholics, the older of the two girls married with young children and the younger one determined to remain a virgin until she is married.

The three girlfriends have a secret lesbian three-way, and one reader said that it should have been a five-way involving the two sisters. Given that the two sisters are religious, don't approve of sex before marriage or out of marriage, lesbianism or incest (which would have been the case if two sisters were in a five girl orgy) how could this have worked?