KeithD
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Surely you aren't addressing that to me.Also, and let me get annoyed for a moment, since when is it a bad thing for authors to write stroke stories?
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Surely you aren't addressing that to me.Also, and let me get annoyed for a moment, since when is it a bad thing for authors to write stroke stories?
For those who think its "Amateurish"? Let's get back to it being a free site that allows slobs, and obviously snobs, alike.
Then don't read it.Well, to me any disclaimer that effectively says "only the right people should read this, and even then should read my story the right way, since it deserves to be read properly," is snobby as fuck.
People learn as they go here and I've seen some of these types of disclaimers in someone's first stories. Over time they may gain confidence and stop feeling they need to do this, or maybe they'll always do it. Either way, its their story, not ours, so who cares?
Really? From the AHers who had advocated using disclaimers in the past, I assumed a lot of them do so.I'm surprised nobody has pointed out the near-complete futility of this topic. The proportion of people publishing these (ostensibly objectionable) disclaimers who aren't AH visitors is pretty near 100%.
Could your concept of "simple erotica" be stories with little or no plot or character development, almost entirely the seduction and carry through of sex?I'm intrigued. Could this be an example of "simple erotica??????" Will you let us know here when it's published.
Yep. I'm not talking about author's notes, I was trying to talk about disclaimers, and mistakenly thought you were equating narrative with disclaimers when you reacted to someone's strawman about a big-ass non-narrative disclaimer at the beginning of Dune.My point was that the author's note can be seen as part of the framing
I'm still surprised nobody has mentioned it. Maybe OP can show us a list of authors whose disclaimered stories they're reacting to, and we can see whether the stories are just selected from the many dozens of authors published daily who haven't ever hit the forum in general or AH in particular, or, if there are AH people being called out.Really? From the AHers who had advocated using disclaimers in the past, I assumed a lot of them do so.
It's an issue here on which all are dug in, with all opinions well represented by AHers (which, as Pink notes, is no reason, of course, not to state one's opinion when the subject comes up). We just go around and around on this.I'm still surprised nobody has mentioned it. Maybe OP can show us a list of authors whose disclaimered stories they're reacting to, and we can see whether the stories are just selected from the many dozens of authors published daily who haven't ever hit the forum in general or AH in particular, or, if there are AH people being called out.
Sure, they don't see the yellow letters in the sky. But the events described in that text were experienced by people in the story.Surely, the scrolling text in Stars Wars is not experienced by the characters?
The tags are used by the site's search function, so if I don't put in any tags (to avoid spoilers) then the story won't appear in searches either. I take the view that if the reader is avoiding spoilers, then they should avoid looking at tags, generally. But I'm not sure they're a substitute for a disclaimer if there's a particular content warning that the author wants to draw attention to, as not everyone does look at them as a matter of routine.I also use all 10 tags. Some authors think that tags reveal something about the story, and that they are therefore a negative aspect to the website. Others find it extremely helpful that they can use the tags as a tool to warn potential readers of disturbing elements, and also highlight fetishes that may either appeal or disgust someone. If you use tags but not disclaimers; what makes one better than the other?![]()
Not obligatory, I don't think. The search function provides the option of a title and text search or just a title search.The tags are used by the site's search function,
I for one appreciate those warnings and would love if more would include things like animal or child death in the warnings.
I do brief forewords, but I don't remember doing more than one or two actual disclaimers. I think if I killed an animal or a kid in one of my stories, I'd do one.
The tags are used by the site's search function, so if I don't put in any tags (to avoid spoilers) then the story won't appear in searches either. I take the view that if the reader is avoiding spoilers, then they should avoid looking at tags, generally. But I'm not sure they're a substitute for a disclaimer if there's a particular content warning that the author wants to draw attention to, as not everyone does look at them as a matter of routine.
On the other hand, I've never personally experienced a reader responding by saying that something wasn't in a disclaimer or tags and therefore they were shocked by it. Ultimately, the site categories handle a lot of expectation, but I also don't write stories with particularly unusual content or a very wide range of content either.
Hope that they wouldn't be the only kid or animal in the story otherwise you'd be spoiling the plot. As soon as we meet kid/animal, we know that his days are numbered.
Thank you, Captain Obvious.
I don't know how I ever make it without your help.
Spoilers have never bothered me. I'd rather not throw up after getting to that point of a story because I wasn't warned about it and know my limits on what I can and can't handle reading.Hope that they wouldn't be the only kid or animal in the story otherwise you'd be spoiling the plot. As soon as we meet kid/animal, we know that his days are numbered.