coaster12345
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- Jun 29, 2002
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- 37
soooooooo- there goes another one, "make me die a little,"
pt. 1. at 4.9, edging into the big red 5 marker, with 61
votes, and some resident neanderthal has knocked it back
to 4.5, from which it probably won't ever recover, and where
it'll never be read.
same with my first submission, "bingo!" 4.8 to start, then
dropped to 4.4, where nobody reads it.
for some, the vote may be ego-assuaging. fair enough. but for
me, and i think for most of the better writers on this board, the
vote begs "read me." what's the point of trying to write literate
erotica--- what's the point of contributing to a supposedly literate
erotica board--- when illiterates are going to kill that effort with
a simple gratuitous 1 vote?
perhaps the answer is to block voting from our stories completely.
the idea is appealing. this "democracy" of the web site obviously
isn't working to anyone's satisfaction (except maybe the pricks that
post 1's to stories that deserve 5's).
i'm suggesting a new category: "non-vote stories", which would go
along with "loving wives" and the other categories we now have. the
stories in this category, regardless of subject, would be pegged "no vote",
because the author believed his/her story was good enough to stand
the judgement, not of the crowd, but of his/her other writers. that
judgement would be verbal and direct: you, a named, voluntary
literotica registrar, would tell the writer your response, and would be
held accountable to it. we would, in essence, be held "accountable" to
other writers who surrendered themselves to our judgment about their
own work.
i'd put my stories, and all subsequent submissions, into such a site
immediately. and so, i think, would all fine writing contributors here.
the alternative, i'm afraid, is a slow deterioration of the board such as we
have seen at another board to which several of us were once contributors.
regards, coaster
pt. 1. at 4.9, edging into the big red 5 marker, with 61
votes, and some resident neanderthal has knocked it back
to 4.5, from which it probably won't ever recover, and where
it'll never be read.
same with my first submission, "bingo!" 4.8 to start, then
dropped to 4.4, where nobody reads it.
for some, the vote may be ego-assuaging. fair enough. but for
me, and i think for most of the better writers on this board, the
vote begs "read me." what's the point of trying to write literate
erotica--- what's the point of contributing to a supposedly literate
erotica board--- when illiterates are going to kill that effort with
a simple gratuitous 1 vote?
perhaps the answer is to block voting from our stories completely.
the idea is appealing. this "democracy" of the web site obviously
isn't working to anyone's satisfaction (except maybe the pricks that
post 1's to stories that deserve 5's).
i'm suggesting a new category: "non-vote stories", which would go
along with "loving wives" and the other categories we now have. the
stories in this category, regardless of subject, would be pegged "no vote",
because the author believed his/her story was good enough to stand
the judgement, not of the crowd, but of his/her other writers. that
judgement would be verbal and direct: you, a named, voluntary
literotica registrar, would tell the writer your response, and would be
held accountable to it. we would, in essence, be held "accountable" to
other writers who surrendered themselves to our judgment about their
own work.
i'd put my stories, and all subsequent submissions, into such a site
immediately. and so, i think, would all fine writing contributors here.
the alternative, i'm afraid, is a slow deterioration of the board such as we
have seen at another board to which several of us were once contributors.
regards, coaster
Which leaves the damage to a minumum, if that is important to you.
