the worst kind of feedback

[Boxlicker101]

I got a lot a feedback, nevative, for including one cheeting scene in an otherwise romantic story. I agree that cheeting is not "romantic," but in the context of the story it was unintended and included just to show how uncontrolably horny the wife was.

I thought that negative feedback was rather unfair.

It woud be like me voting low on a story because the author violated one of my private squick, like smoking or anal sex.

People who object to cheating sexually are certainly looking for their reading material in the wrong place if they are looking here. I don't know what percentage of the stories here invove cheating but I would say it is close to half, depending on your definition of cheating.

There are certain types of story that I don't care for so I don't read them. There ae about 100,000 stories on this site, with more being added every day, and nobody can read all of them. I have heard that Laurel does but I have my doubts.

 

[doormouse]

huh?

A smoking anus?

LOL j/k

Couldn't help myself

 

[doormouse]

awwww

I'm not a virgin anymore... who stole my cherry?

 

[SimonSays1]

Re: fine an intelligent question

has anyone else recieved feedback that served no purpose or a deliberately negative one?

I have, but i just try to ignore them. Constructive feedback is great, but there always seem to be a few who just want to have a go for some reason!!

Oh well - try and shrug and ignore them!

 

[wishfulthinking]

One time I got a PC from this guy saying he liked to cut women and watch them bleed. I'm not sure what that was supposed to mean. Should I be cut because my story was bad? Did I turn him on and now he had blood lust? Was it just a random confession? Was I supposed to write back with, "Oooh, yeah, cut me baby, I like it,"?

A weird as it sounds, I get the feeling that this person felt you shared something/reached out to them them through your writing, and wanted to share something with you in return - however freaky. (And no, it wasn't me! )

(Vargas, when you do that [and we all do], you can edit the double post [or triple ], and put something like 'RIP'.)

 

[AfroerotiK]

I got a lot a feedback, nevative, for including one cheeting scene in an otherwise romantic story. I agree that cheeting is not "romantic," but in the context of the story it was unintended and included just to show how uncontrolably horny the wife was.

I thought that negative feedback was rather unfair.

It woud be like me voting low on a story because the author violated one of my private squick, like smoking or anal sex.

I'm sorry, I can't let it slide. It's Cheating, not cheeting.

I'm still wondering what squick is, however.

 

[psychocatblah]

A weird as it sounds, I get the feeling that this person felt you shared something/reached out to them them through your writing, and wanted to share something with you in return - however freaky. (And no, it wasn't me! )

(Vargas, when you do that [and we all do], you can edit the double post [or triple ], and put something like 'RIP'.)

Are you sure it wasn't you?

Well I guess that's good, that I did reach someone in some way. I have to admit that my story is pretty odd and does play with the idea of attraction/repulsion a lot.

 

[doormouse]

Mmm

Boxlicker, your lizard needs a tongue lol ;-)

 

[doormouse]

sowwy

Just testing my new signature ;-)

And ewww if it doesn't work LOL

 

[doormouse]

WoooHooooooo

sorry ;-)

 

[Boxlicker101]

I'm sorry, I can't let it slide. It's Cheating, not cheeting.

I'm still wondering what squick is, however.

I suppose it means "quirks" which makes it a double typo, quite rare.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Re: Mmm

Boxlicker, your lizard needs a tongue lol ;-)

Okay. How's that?

 

[doormouse]

Ooo

You tease LOL

 

[Sabledrake]

"Squick," as I understand it, derives from "squeamish" and "ick," in which something freaks you out on a personal, almost phobic level.

For instance, I am squicked by anything having to do with things touching my eyeball, which means I cannot ever wear contacts, the thought of even contemplating laser eye surgery, and can barely even watch a Visine commercial.

A notion or idea that causes that sort of reaction in a large percentage of people could be then said to have a "high squick factor."

Sabledrake
(I'll take Word Origins for 1,000, Alex ...)

 

[Boxlicker101]

Re: Ooo

You tease LOL

That's because we are about 9,000 miles apart, too far to do anything but tease.

 

[doormouse]

speaking of feedback

Well votes actually...

Does anyone else encounter disappearing votes?
I had 4 more to get to 50 for the month, now it's dropped back.

Another story had two votes vanish.

Weird ;-(

 

[whiskybuff]

I get those often as well. So many misgoynists who think that "wives who play" should be beaten or killed. I'm so sick of seeing the woman as property vein in those types of "feedbacks."

 

[doormouse]

Hell yeah, whiskybuff!!

Those comments irk me too!!
I think they've had it happen to them, or they're forgetting it's only FICTION. ;-)

 

[AfroerotiK]

I suppose it means "quirks" which makes it a double typo, quite rare.

squicks = quirks ? that's more than a double typo. I gotta go read his stories for myself now.

 

[AfroerotiK]

squicks = quirks ? that's more than a double typo. I gotta go read his stories for myself now.

Serendipitously, I read the story where everyone was complaining about the "cheeting." I will say this, the story was articulate and grammatically correct. I must admit that I browsed the story because I thought it was a non-erotic story. It was a story of a waitress turned Capital Hill/Environmental wife having 10 children. I wasn't for a minute convinced it was written by a woman, I did not find it romantic in the least, and at no point was I aroused by the all-too-subtle references of sex. I was, however, impressed with the vocabulary and sentence structure from the same individual who spelled cheating incorrectly twice in a three line message. Thank God for spell check.

 

[vargas111]

Principles

I admit to being a bad typist and yes, thank Gates for Spellchecker.

Thanks for the nuanced comments on "Principles." I never dreamed that anyone would "really" believe the author was a woman. Homer Vargas as "scribe" for a woman is an old lit trick.

I also think I can thank you for a defense for putting one cheating episode into an otherwise "romantic" story.

Please, I do like comments.

 

[Joe Wordsworth]

I got feedback on one of my stories that amounted to a string of curse words. I still have no idea if it was supposed to be insulting or flattering.

 

[Lena_Hornee]

Recently I wrote the most nasty and sexual story I could; I mean, it's wicked! I've gotten over 200 emails begging me to write more (along with plenty of propositions), and they keep coming.

A couple of days ago I read mean-spirited comments left on two different new stories, to which I suggested it was STUPID to blast imperfect writing. My point was, it doesn't help the writer, and it doesn't encourage them to allow critique or write more (I mean, don't we want more and better dirty stories?????)

After that, I received three emails from a person writing in the same style as the mean-spirited goul leaving comments. I think he/she/it probably has three accounts here, and has nothing better to do than boost his (okay, we know it's a guy) by putting others down. It's funny - in his emails to me, he misspelled and mis-grammered throughout, and had nothing more intellectually stimulating to say than how fucked up everyone else was.

My opinion is, he and others like him are cowards who can't constructively participate with human beings and so resort to pathetic acts of feigned superiority. Of course, I could be wrong. Maybe the guy just forgets to take his bipolar medicine every once in awhile.

 

[The Mutt]

It just drives me nuts when I see that I have 1000 hits and 7 votes. It makes me think they didn't even read it all the way to the end. How can anyone resist voting? It's just two little clicks!!!I would rather get bad votes than none at all. I just want to know they read it.

 

[Lying Eyes]

Re: speaking of feedback

Well votes actually...

Does anyone else encounter disappearing votes?
I had 4 more to get to 50 for the month, now it's dropped back.

Another story had two votes vanish.

Weird ;-(

Usually they are repeat votes from the same person (or same ISP) and are both deleted, every so often votes will be deleted when the system catches double or more votes.

As for worst feedback I got this anonymous PC for my second story "Atkins Diet Disaster"

"ZZZ...ZZZ...ZZZ! Wake me when you learn to write!"

Ouch! I left it up since he/she might not be trolling and is their real opinion, though others seemed to like it. I wish he/she would let me know how I could improve the story if it was that bad. Well I guess it serves me right since I had a note above my story which read, "I would appreciate any comments, advice or criticism." I should of written "constructive criticism"