The Deal With Loving Wives

[Inkent]

I did a little experiment today and posted a story in LW. Within minutes, it was one-bombed, and the result is that I'm going to take it down. I will most likely publish on a different site in the future.

People trolling is one thing, but Lit actively enables that with their rating system. Many other social media sites have switched to a reaction-based system that is less prone to abuse. You could easily rank stories by (score=likes/authenticated views) or similar, maybe time-weighted. That would stop giving trolls such an outsized lever.

I'm sorry you feel as you do, and are considering abandoning LW. At this point, not read your work, so cannot comment, although I hve never personally rated a one to anyone. GO look at some of my works, and have a read through the comments. I delete only the ones that are just hate aimed at me of other Lit users, and there aren't that many. I'd suggest go look at the comments for a couple of bits of my recent works such as Invisible or Losing Your Head over Love . You'll see the widest spectrum of comments from "love it" to outright "hate it", and everything in between. Each piece scored by over 1500 readers, both scores just over the four point mark.

They are released here at 6am in the morning, when I'm usually travelling to work on the train. There are some hardcore haters out there, trying to "steer" or at least put people off reading work by hitting the ones ridiculously early, often within five ten minutes. After ten-fifteen minutes I may be averaging 2 point something. Why? The only logical reason behind it is someone that doesn't like this kind of site, so by doing what they do they have a couple of aims. Stop people reading stories by scoring them like shit, and stop people like us publishing by trying to put us off.

Don't forget, most of us authors are simply keen amateurs.....just as they are keen amateur book pundits. If you enjoyed writing your story, don't give up. Don't forget, you can turn off comments and scoring, there are some of the bigger fish that publish on here do exactly that.

As for revising scoring, it would be nice if Lit gave the option to accept scoring from registered users.

 

[farbeyondourstars]

I'm sorry you feel as you do, and are considering abandoning LW. At this point, not read your work, so cannot comment, although I hve never personally rated a one to anyone. GO look at some of my works, and have a read through the comments. I delete only the ones that are just hate aimed at me of other Lit users, and there aren't that many. I'd suggest go look at the comments for a couple of bits of my recent works such as Invisible or Losing Your Head over Love . You'll see the widest spectrum of comments from "love it" to outright "hate it", and everything in between. Each piece scored by over 1500 readers, both scores just over the four point mark.

They are released here at 6am in the morning, when I'm usually travelling to work on the train. There are some hardcore haters out there, trying to "steer" or at least put people off reading work by hitting the ones ridiculously early, often within five ten minutes. After ten-fifteen minutes I may be averaging 2 point something. Why? The only logical reason behind it is someone that doesn't like this kind of site, so by doing what they do they have a couple of aims. Stop people reading stories by scoring them like shit, and stop people like us publishing by trying to put us off.

Don't forget, most of us authors are simply keen amateurs.....just as they are keen amateur book pundits. If you enjoyed writing your story, don't give up. Don't forget, you can turn off comments and scoring, there are some of the bigger fish that publish on here do exactly that.

As for revising scoring, it would be nice if Lit gave the option to accept scoring from registered users.

I'll have a look - thanks! At first glance, part of the difference is because longer stories rate much better than shorter ones. Trolls aside, it's not surprising: you invested more, so you like it better (effort justification, cognitive dissonance, etc.).

I do well in the sci-fi category with longer pieces and serials. Never had any issues or absurd, insulting comments there in years. Took just a day in LW to experience that, too.

 

[Inkent]

I do well in the sci-fi category with longer pieces and serials. Never had any issues or absurd, insulting comments there in years. Took just a day in LW to experience that, too.

My new Year's resolution is to "grow" beyond the LW section. I've enjoyed it because I believe it's the hardest one to "crack" with something original, so there's the first challenge, at least, for me personally. I find writing work with a lot of angst, easy to pull together, then use it to steer a story. I also like to make people think - how would they handle some of the situations, should they find themselves in that situation.

I'm a lover of sci-fi but not really gone down that path, at least yet, on Lit and surprisingly, not read a great deal. I've got a bare bones idea for next year based on the archetypical 50's/60's sci fi horror - think Village of the Damned, sitting in the ideas file, but may press deeper into the genre.

In the meantime, will come a nosin' your work

 

[farbeyondourstars]

My new Year's resolution is to "grow" beyond the LW section. I've enjoyed it because I believe it's the hardest one to "crack" with something original, so there's the first challenge, at least, for me personally. I find writing work with a lot of angst, easy to pull together, then use it to steer a story. I also like to make people think - how would they handle some of the situations, should they find themselves in that situation.

I'm a lover of sci-fi but not really gone down that path, at least yet, on Lit and surprisingly, not read a great deal. I've got a bare bones idea for next year based on the archetypical 50's/60's sci fi horror - think Village of the Damned, sitting in the ideas file, but may press deeper into the genre.

In the meantime, will come a nosin' your work

Well, you take LW as a challenge, and I respect that. To me, it would be bad for my mental health, and I see absolutely no upside in putting up with vicious trolls.

The sci-fi crowd here, on the other hand, is very kind and tolerant - the only disadvantage is that they don't comment all that much. I'm lucky enough to have an insanely successful author giving me feedback, and that has really helped to improve my writing. He's not shy to point out issues, but not once has he suggested that I "go back to my day job of cleaning toilets," or enter sexual relations with a dog (LW at its finest, I guess).

In the sci-fi category, people appreciate longer serials (I found 7-10K words per chapter to be the sweet spot). Shorter stories like Making Your Own Luck or similar wouldn't run well there, but they wouldn't be 1-bombed.

Looking forward to seeing what you come up with!

 

[WCSGarland]

I think what I write is eclectic erotica, not fap fodder. I submitted my first LW foray and received both helpful and not helpful comments. About a third of the comments were from category police telling me that I put my story in the wrong category. Most of my works are not highly rated, and I don't really care that they aren't. I tell stories that I want to tell. I consider the 3.58 stars at 381 votes wildly successful for what I wanted to say in that story. Some loved it, some hated it. It still got more views than my stories in the NC/R category. That also I consider wildly successful. Despite the comments and not so great ratings, I've decided I will continue writing the stories that I think need to be written, putting them in the category that I think they belong, on the chance that there might be one person out there that appreciates what I've done. Aside from myself that is.