Why read and comment on things you don’t like?

[SmokingFap]

One of my favorite sayings is that some people just aren't happy unless they're unhappy.

 

[Davidwa1]

I see that alot with cuckold stories. They read the story, give a poor vote, then comment about how much they hate cuckold stories. Well you are the moron who took the time to read, vote, then comment on a story topic you hate. It makes no sense, and is honestly laughable.

 

[HaralLuhhan]

At the end of the day, all anyone can do is speculate. I find it odd when people speculate based on their own opinions and preferences though. Like I don't approve of that group, so that group is responsible for all the negative behaviour! Like people in other groups don't do the same thing.

Anyway, some more on topic speculation for you. I have no idea what sort of stories you write, what category or what you're including in it. But I imagine if you're writing in LW and include incest or something that isnt compatible with that sort of story you'd be more likely to get a negative comment.

If its someone insulting you personally, then they are probably insane and should be ignored

 

[HaralLuhhan]

I see that alot with cuckold stories. They read the story, give a poor vote, then comment about how much they hate cuckold stories. Well you are the moron who took the time to read, vote, then comment on a story topic you hate. It makes no sense, and is honestly laughable.

That is strange. Same with any topic/category.

That saying goes "the opposite of love is not hate, it's apathy". So they must have been drawn to the story somehow. Personally if I start reading a story I dont like or am not interested in I close it and move on.

 

[Craighalbert]

I see that alot with cuckold stories. They read the story, give a poor vote, then comment about how much they hate cuckold stories. Well you are the moron who took the time to read, vote, then comment on a story topic you hate. It makes no sense, and is honestly laughable.

Not to mention the obligatory "if that were me I would've kicked the other guy's ass!" If you say so man

 

[HannahBaird]

Not to mention the obligatory "if that were me I would've kicked the other guy's ass!" If you say so man

That gets old soooo fucking quick. Especially some of the comments I've seen on my first completed series in the LW category. Jesus. These aren't real people! Like, get a grip.

Even worse when I include a note at the beginning to say "observe the tags and category" etc.

 

[lc69hunter]

I get so tired of the little morality tales cluttering up the LW category lately. I generally don't comment, but jump to the last page and give it a 2. This morning I actually read a story by one of the purveyors of those and made the comment that there so many lately that Lit must have been invaded by the social religious right. My comment was promptly deleted.

 

[Craighalbert]

I get so tired of the little morality tales cluttering up the LW category lately. I generally don't comment, but jump to the last page and give it a 2. This morning I actually read a story by one of the purveyors of those and made the comment that there so many lately that Lit must have been invaded by the social religious right. My comment was promptly deleted.

I know exactly what you mean. Does a woman out earn her husband? She's going to view him as worthless and try to turn him into some kind of slave. Is a woman educated? She's been brainwashed by some "feminist professor" into thinking cheating is a woman's right. Does she have a male friend? She's going to sleep with him. Does she have a female friend? They're going to urge her to sleep around. Do the main characters see a marriage counsellor? She - always a woman - will turn out to be some castrating bitch who thinks the husband is to blame for everything. A woman's role in these stories is to care for the home, raise the children, and wait by the door with a cocktail in hand to greet their breadwinner husbands when they get home. Any interests outside of that and they're well on their way to monsterdom, and need to be punished accordingly.

 

[HannahBaird]

I know exactly what you mean. Does a woman out earn her husband? She's going to view him as worthless and try to turn him into some kind of slave. Is a woman educated? She's been brainwashed by some "feminist professor" into thinking cheating is a woman's right. Does she have a male friend? She's going to sleep with him. Does she have a female friend? They're going to urge her to sleep around. Do the main characters see a marriage counsellor? She - always a woman - will turn out to be some castrating bitch who thinks the husband is to blame for everything. A woman's role in these stories is to care for the home, raise the children, and wait by the door with a cocktail in hand to greet their breadwinner husbands when they get home. Any interests outside of that and they're well on their way to monsterdom, and need to be punished accordingly.

It's utterly exhausting to keep seeing this mentality, it makes so little room for authors exploring anything else to really get off the ground.

 

[lc69hunter]

It's utterly exhausting to keep seeing this mentality, it makes so little room for authors exploring anything else to really get off the ground.

He is exactly the person I am talking about

 

[Statius]

One of my favorite sayings is that some people just aren't happy unless they're unhappy.

As everywhere in Life and always, Hate wins, even on Literotica

 

[SmokingFap]

As everywhere in Life and always, Hate wins, even on Literotica

Hate only wins if we let it. I say fuck the haters. But not in the fun way.

 

[Statius]

I agree with Ms. Hanna. He is the problem. As for 'fuck the haters', they absolutely control a writers life here. Often they go out of their way to target a story type and individual authors to run them off the site. It sounds easy to say fuck them, but when you create something, even as a hobby- ist, not claiming to, or trying to be, a professional writer, so many bad reviews and/or low ratings over stupid shit will crush your spirit and ambition and hope. The only way to 'fuck the haters' is to be a professional writer with a huge following (and it's those followers that often target other writers with unwarranted bad reviews), or shut off comments and voting. But doing so kills a writer's ability to attract readers, as most determine what stories to read by the ratings. So as I said, Hate wins, always.

 

[Statius]

Sorry for misspelling your name Ms. Hannah.

 

[HannahBaird]

Sorry for misspelling your name Ms. Hannah.

No need to apologize at all!

 

[consulting91]

My favorite comment that I see from anonymous is when they say

"I got bored on page 2 and didn't finish it. But this story is awful"

I mean, if it isn't something that interests you, whey take the time to skip to the end to rate the story and leave negative comments. Just doesn't register to me.

 

[WCSGarland]

I got a head scratcher of a comment on one of mine lately...

From a technical perspective, I found the story difficult to follow.
From an emotional perspective, you're obviously trying to seduce readers with the belief that rape is tantalizing to the victim(s). I find it a sad statement on your state of mind. Rape is not about sex at all, it's all about violence & desire to inflict it on others. Most commonly men against women. Misogynistic.

I don't think they even finished reading the first page, but they went all the way to page 5 to leave the comment.

 

[StillStunned]

But we all face the same hurdles. A 1* vote affects us all equally. You argue that lesser known or less popular writers are at a disadvantage, but the fact is that it doesn't really matter if your story gets 10 votes, or 100, or 1000: the ratio of people who liked it to people who hated, by and large, will be the same.

As you already noted, if you're an established writer with 1000 followers, there's no guarantee that those followers will all read your story, or give if a 5* rating if they do. Established writers are more likely to pick up persistent trolls who bomb everything the writer publishes, whereas an unknown writer is more likely to be judged purely on their own merits.

I'm not saying the system is perfect. But nobody's come up with one that would be a significant improvement. Lit's not going to change anything that would impact the hundreds of thousands of existing stories just for a marginal improvement that makes a handful of writers happy.

And you have to remember that the voting system isn't in place to make the writers happy. It's for the readers' convenience.

 

[AALP]

Lit should eliminate the star voting to shut down trolls. Hot status should be based on hearts, say 10 to 15. Readers can decide to read based on that and # of reads. Lit could possibly lose good writers and eventually readers to competition if they don't do more to protect writers.

Literotica gave authors the ability to deactivate votes and comments. You've taken them up on that offer and switched both off.

Literotica gave you the option to protect yourself and you took it. If there are other authors here who want to hide from negative feedback and lower scores in the same way, they can do the same thing. But advocating for the website to make huge changes to suit you is pretty selfish seeing as your stories are already protected.

 

[challenger69]

AALP, I have a question for you. I'm a new writer, I've always wondered, if I write a story would people read it? I find this site called Literotica and think why not give it a go, I deactivate votes and comments and publish my story. How will I know whether I should give it up for a bad job or continue writing?
After reading some comments on this feed, I went and found stories with a rating of between 4,1 and 4,4, I didn't read the story but went and looked at the comments, on every negative comment with a username I clicked and went to their profile, 70% do not have stories, the 30% that had stories, 50% of them never even got to a 4 rating all of their stories had between 3,1 and 3,9 ratings, so with all due respect, there are haters. 30% of the stories had two or three of said haters comment on three or four stories. That was for a specific category, when I went to another category, of the 25 stories I checked, I went down my list and they were nowhere to be found. And by the way, the stories they give bad comments on is the category their stories got low ratings in.

 

[StillStunned]

Some categories are notorious for attracting large numbers of negative comments. Loving Wives is the prime example, but others will annoy the readers if the story doesn't match preconceived notions. Romance apparently has its own set of rules, and woe betide the writer who tries to do something different.

Overall, I find that reader feedback here in Lit exceeds my wildest dreams. As long as you understand the basics of grammar, take your time with the telling and immerse the reader in the experience, you'll usually get good scores and some positive feedback.

You'll also get some 1-bombs and the occasional reader complaining that your story was the worst thing they've ever read. But so what? It's impossible to write something that everyone loves, and at least they read it.

 

[UncleJunior]

I think I might start using the tags more as well.

I wrote a "taboo" story that wasn't specifically incest and got scorched. I wrote a taboo story that was specifically incest and got scorched.

I don't need to "be into" a kink to write about it. I'll write whatever I'm asked, but I've never understood reading, then commenting on, a story in a genre you know you hate.

 

[WCSGarland]

You don't seem to realize that awarding a hot status to 10 to 15 hearts would tend to dilute the meaning of 'Hot' status because once achieved, it would never have a chance of going away as well as awarding the 'Hot' status to people who can manage to get 10 or 15 one star votes... the votes that say the reader hated the story.

 

[KevinandNina]

imagine I just don’t like pizza. Really don’t like it. And I go to a pizza restaurant and leave a comment saying it is a bad restaurant as I don’t like pizza. Why go and eat there?

Same happened with my story. The tags are clear, you know what you are going to read. Why read it and tell me you hate reading about the things you knew were going to be there?

It is an anonymous comment, so well, never mind. But I do wonder, why does someone do that? Any ideas?

I don’t like heavy metal. Not going to a concert but I do appreciate that someone might like it and leave them to enjoy it.

Love,

Abdel

It’s worse than that. Imagine you hate pizza. You go to a buffet that has hundreds and hundreds of things to choose from, but you go to the pizza table. Load your plate up with slices, don’t eat any of them because you hate pizza, throw them in the trash, and then write a Yelp review about their pizza.
On the stories page, I never visit about 3/4 of the genres. They just don’t appeal to me.
What I don’t do is go to a genre I don’t like, find a 3-5 part story, read it and leave a comment “I don’t like_____ stories so I only gave it one star.
They have no stories of their own submitted or they commented anonymously.

 

[KevinandNina]

You're too thin skinned.

I may go to a restaurant or a hotel/lodge. I discover it's not what was advertised. The meat was chewy. The table cloth was dirty. The room was moldy and noisy. The staff was miserable. I leave a bad review -- so that others know.

What is the point of reviewing and commenting, if all the reviews and comments are positive?

If I want to go to a restaurant or a hotel/lodge, first thing I do I check out the reviews -- and look for the negative ones, because they're the only useful ones.

It seems like most of the negative reviews I’ve seen, aren’t about the writing or level of eroticism, but about the subject matter.
If you leave a review on a restaurant it’s usually about the food, the service, the price, cleanliness or ambiance. Hopefully, you don’t give it a negative review because you suffer from agoraphobia and would rather stay home.
It’s like an Amazon product review that says “I gave this ____ only one star because my neighbor’s dog dragged it off my porch and chewed it up. That is not a product review.
Most writers (and restaurant or hotel owners) have no problem with honest, constructive criticism. But a review of “This place sucks!” doesn’t help the next potential reader or customer in any way.