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Altissimus said:
... your Anon commenters mark you down - despite your awesome premise, fantastic writing and great sex scenes - because, one paragraph before the end, you accidentally referenced something innocuous they don't like. Like shoelaces. Or Fanta.
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Your turn of phrase about marks made me realize something that perhaps is so obvious to long-timers here that it no longer gets mentioned, but was a bit of a revelation to me.
The five-point scale lends itself very readily to mental conflation with school marks. We turn something in that we know is good in a technical sense, and believe is good in an artistic sense, and reasonably expect that we should be getting credit for the things we do well even if we missed some errors in grammar or some of our ideas were not as well-expressed as we thought. If it's not quite up to the standards of a perfect 5, it must at least be a 4, yes? Surely the work deserves more than a failing grade for a few minor errors? Surely it shouldn't get flunked because someone else in the class did slightly better, or picked a topic the grader was more interested in? And yet some readers will do exactly that.
School was more traumatizing than I realized.
 
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lovecraft68 said:
You're a lit author when in the span of minutes you're told you're both the best author ever and should do the world a favor and never write again.
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Isn't this the truth, or variations on this sort of thing. Back-to-back comments on one of my recent stories, both comments made on the same day:

hmmmm..... Might be a new favorite author.
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"I insist on a complete STD test." What a stupid, totally unrealistic statement. It's OK though because this skank slut will contract them and be gone before too long anyway. Good riddance!
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Bamagan said:
Your turn of phrase about marks made me realize something that perhaps is so obvious to long-timers here that it no longer gets mentioned, but was a bit of a revelation to me.
The five-point scale lends itself very readily to mental conflation with school marks. We turn something in that we know is good in a technical sense, and believe is good in an artistic sense, and reasonably expect that we should be getting credit for the things we do well even if we missed some errors in grammar or some of our ideas were not as well-expressed as we thought. If it's not quite up to the standards of a perfect 5, it must at least be a 4, yes? Surely the work deserves more than a failing grade for a few minor errors? Surely it shouldn't get flunked because someone else in the class did slightly better, or picked a topic the grader was more interested in? And yet some readers will do exactly that.
School was more traumatizing than I realized.
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And to take this a step further...

On Lit scales, a '5' is actually between 81-100% score while a '4' (I liked it) is a measly 61-80%. Who would be happy with that?! I think a lot of people who select '4' mean 'it's an 82%, not a 100%'.

This is why you should never trust people who vote. On anything.
 
I thought I'd won the competition of being a lit writer with my writing being compared to as being even more boring than watching paint dry!
 
Altissimus said:
And to take this a step further...

On Lit scales, a '5' is actually between 81-100% score while a '4' (I liked it) is a measly 61-80%. Who would be happy with that?! I think a lot of people who select '4' mean 'it's an 82%, not a 100%'.

This is why you should never trust people who vote. On anything.
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I don't think it necessarily follows that a five point scale automatically equates to quintiles. Personally, I would fall into the camp you describe, of using a 4 to approximate an 82% 'grade.' A 5 would be anything above 90% or so. That would roughly correspond to US letter grades of B and A, respectively.
But I can't make myself defend the trustworthiness of people, so I guess we're more or less in accord on that.
 
Bazzle said:
I thought I'd won the competition of being a lit writer with my writing being compared to as being even more boring than watching paint dry!
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You've got tough competition. This is my personal favorite of all the negative comments I've received:

Bad Very Bad

by Anonymous user on 12/22/2019
Regardless of what some these people say this was an extremely bad story im not going to tell you what i think you want to hear to try and be nice and not hurt your feelings my 5 Year old niece can write a better story then this it was so bad i hope this was your only story cause i tell you if not you should stop posting them before you ruin this site i wished i was blind and couldn't read that's how bad it is tell you what you want to learn to write an actual decent story take writing classes about 100 times a week no scratch that not even that will help you write a decent story do us all a favor and quit just completely forget how to write
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SimonDoom said:
You've got tough competition. This is my personal favorite of all the negative comments I've received: do us all a favor and quit just completely forget how to write
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Plot twist: the comment was left by a future you who has, in fact, gotten well along in forgetting how to write.
 
Altissimus said:
I've still got a ways to go then, especially now that Tilan has been banned again.

I need three more. Volunteers, anyone? Form an orderly line...
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Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries. Now go away, or I shall taunt you a second time!
 
…when you have copious notes on the vital statistics plus the nude body descriptions of your recurring female characters.
 
Bamagan said:
Your turn of phrase about marks made me realize something that perhaps is so obvious to long-timers here that it no longer gets mentioned, but was a bit of a revelation to me.
The five-point scale lends itself very readily to mental conflation with school marks. We turn something in that we know is good in a technical sense, and believe is good in an artistic sense, and reasonably expect that we should be getting credit for the things we do well even if we missed some errors in grammar or some of our ideas were not as well-expressed as we thought. If it's not quite up to the standards of a perfect 5, it must at least be a 4, yes? Surely the work deserves more than a failing grade for a few minor errors? Surely it shouldn't get flunked because someone else in the class did slightly better, or picked a topic the grader was more interested in? And yet some readers will do exactly that.
School was more traumatizing than I realized.
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Let's take the WayBack machine back to the creative writing course I took. I was excited to be trying my hand at stories. The instructor comes in and tells us we are to write a story about something we enjoy. Oh hell yes! I can do that! But then adds, "Anything except motorcycles. I'll give you a fail on ANY story that contains a reference to motorcycles."

*cue the sound of crashing dreams*

I've been riding those things since I was 17. I'm a died in the wool addicted motorcycle rider.


Comshaw
 
Djmac1031 said:
You know you're a Lit author when...

... you receive your first comment on an incest story thanking you because it reminds them of that time they banged their own sibling and you suddenly start questioning your choices in life...
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Are you referring to your choice to write incest erotica or your choice to not bang your sibling(s)? ;)
Seems like any questioning done should be of the reader's life choices.
 
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