Comments that leave you shaking your head

[Astrotrain]

I've always wondered what goes through the mind of someone who gives a 1* rating to my story. Well, believe it or not, I got a comment where the rater explained why they gave me a 1* rating.

I got something close to that, an explanation for a two star rating:

"2* Just mean girls torturing their adoptive brother."

Again, if you're not into femdom, why are you reading a femdom story?

 

[AlexFourways]

This was on my third story... In Group Sex...
by Anonymous user on 10/29/2023

Well Dan must not care about catching whatever disease she's carrying around from having sex with anybody and everybody. Hope he gets to the doc soon!

Again, apart from being boring with STD status, what do you expect from a Group Sex story?

Also had comments (on the same story) about being "as boring as watching paint dry and "It’s well written and the sex is hot!". Possibly interesting that 'paint' was from Anon and 'hot' was from a named, but non-author.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

This was on my third story... In Group Sex...
by Anonymous user on 10/29/2023

Well Dan must not care about catching whatever disease she's carrying around from having sex with anybody and everybody. Hope he gets to the doc soon!

Again, apart from being boring with STD status, what do you expect from a Group Sex story?

Also had comments (on the same story) about being "as boring as watching paint dry and "It’s well written and the sex is hot!". Possibly interesting that 'paint' was from Anon and 'hot' was from a named, but non-author.

I laugh at this one. It's all about context. I spent two hours mesmerized by Monet's Magpie not too long ago. I think if I'd been there watching him paint and got to watch it dry in his studio, it would have been even more compelling.

 

[MyBareTorso]

How many of these thread have there been where readers complain that stories don't have endings? So I add endings.

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"This is the second story I've read of yours where you kill the mood with fast forwarding it to years later where everything ends and someone dies. Do you even realize you're actively killing your own stories? "​

Why yes, yes I do indeed.

Comment goes on to talk about happy endings.

I hate to break it to them, but life does not have a happy ending.

One positive...they did read your stories right through to the end.

 

[MyBareTorso]

I'm always stunned when an 'expert' reader 'corrects' a detail in your piece which you know is a fact.

From one tale involving some aspects of a car:

Great story, just that a 1973 Porsche 911 doesn’t have a timing chain. Lol

And of course, anyone who's worked on this car knows it not only has one, but two of them (and they're outrageously long.)

And especially when they're a total smartarse about it...the "lol" at the end is so infuriating...

 

[AlexFourways]

How many of these thread have there been where readers complain that stories don't have endings? So I add endings.

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"This is the second story I've read of yours where you kill the mood with fast forwarding it to years later where everything ends and someone dies. Do you even realize you're actively killing your own stories? "​

Why yes, yes I do indeed.

In my Stand Alone One Off (1x Stories I have a concluding 'For those who like closure.' And that says (note you are free to ignore this or write your own, even share them in the comments) [not that anyone, well one person once] has. I just find it gives me a loop hole and (except once) avoids calls for a part 2. But as Author you have that freedom, but as an Engineer I like to set out my plan B.
Of course I have, for a given value of 'have', broken that rule with one story, but I also had an unless... where I said it was a One Off story. (I'll shut up now).

 

[AlexFourways]

I'm always stunned when an 'expert' reader 'corrects' a detail in your piece which you know is a fact.

From one tale involving some aspects of a car:

Great story, just that a 1973 Porsche 911 doesn’t have a timing chain. Lol

And of course, anyone who's worked on this car knows it not only has one, but two of them (and they're outrageously long.)

And especially when they're a total smartarse about it...the "lol" at the end is so infuriating...

And they have also fallen into the Pedant's trap. In true 'Mad Hatter's tea party' logic, the car in question cannot have two timing chains unless it has a timing chain! Also (story not read) if a mechanic said, "You have a broken exhaust valve, it's one of the four in the engine", you would think they were 'mansplaining' even if you were a man. Also it's one of those big grey things with big ears, an 'irellivant' fact how many are working, just what is not! YMMV

 

[StillStunned]

And especially when they're a total smartarse about it...the "lol" at the end is so infuriating...

A comment on Not A Soul went along the lines of "The bad guys won and that sucks, lol". Well yes, but personally I think the story is better for it. It adds depth, and that's good, lol.

 

[lovecraft68]

I've had multiple comments on sibling incest stories that don't like the fact one, or both, of the siblings were getting high or drinking.

But they're fine with them having sex together.

 

[lovecraft68]

This one from "Oh, My God, Bro!"

by Anonymous user on 03/06/2022

An instant 1* for the use of the abbreviation "BRO". My god, grow up.

Grow up is the part that gets me. Personally? I would never say bro unless I'm being sarcastic. However, the sister using that word is 20. People that age use that term, and I'm writing from her POV.

I guess all characters should be written as yourself. Meaning from this point on all my stories will feature grumpy old fucks with elite sarcasm skills who are pessimistic and prone to nasty mood swings.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

I kind of forgot about this thread. Got a comment and deleted it because it didn't make any sense.

It was complaining about the setup of this club and how the parents were able to go without their daughter.

In the story, it explains that the daughter was away in the service for four years and had just gotten home. Then in the dialog where the parents are explaining the club to her:

“No, we wont be able to. You see one of the rules is that the whole family has to be in, Mother, Father and any daughters that are home and of age to join. We could while you were gone on the hopes that you’d join when you got back. Now that you’re back, we’ll have to drop out if you don’t join.”

 

[Presider]

I got told to get therapy...

I mean, they probably aren't wrong but I don't think it had anything to do with the story.

This feels like a badge of honor for a writer.

 

[RetroFan]

I've said it before, but the pregnancy comments on Incest Taboo stories are seriously strange especially how often they come up and for a variety of IT pairings. One would think that this category would be the least likely to attract wishes for pregnancy. Comments wishing for pregnancy in the other categories are rare, and they usually don't have a sexual connotation, for example nice comments in an Erotic Couplings or Romance story hoping the couple have a happy marriage and kids together.

The only thing I can attribute it to is readers' fetishes and fantasies becoming more and more extreme the more of these stories they read. For example, a reader when they first started looking at stories in the IT section may have stuck only to stories about kissing cousins, flirty stepsiblings and in-laws who like to keep things in the family so to speak, or stories only involving voyeurism and no direct sexual activity, progressing to more taboo stories (aunt/uncle/niece/nephew etc) when these no longer do it for them, then to immediate family members. But when father/mother/daughter/son/brother/sister stories are in themselves not arousing enough, what's next? The ultimate taboo, an incestuous pregnancy.

 

[AlexFourways]

...The ultimate taboo, an incestuous pregnancy.

And that is where I would switch off and never read from that author again!
But that's just because, I suppose, it is the reason incest is a problem and it is only with reliable contraception that my mind has accepted closer and closer familal sex. In my two IT stories I have dodged an actual biological link (though the second was T not really I).

 

[Actingup]

I had this on 'A Game of Snooker' (which is scoring well for a Loving Wives tale) https://www.literotica.com/s/a-game-of-snooker

"While I liked the story a great deal, you failed to produce the expected ending. Which I expected. But for which I still did not appreciate. Hence the 4 star rating."

I have no idea what ending they were expecting, and why they kept reading even if they knew that I would not produce what they wanted. It's like being marked by a cranky professor using an undisclosed rubric, but then told you've passed just fine even though you're still a disappointment to them.

 

[Katie_Mae]

"While I liked the story a great deal, you failed to produce the expected ending. Which I expected. But for which I still did not appreciate. Hence the 4 star rating."

If they expected you not to produce the ending they expected you to produce, then why they they expect you to produce it? Is this comment a brain teaser lol.

 

[Actingup]

If they expected you not to produce the ending they expected you to produce, then why they they expect you to produce it? Is this comment a brain teaser lol.

If they'd said '5 star', I'd feel better about the tease My guess is that they either wanted the female lead to die horribly or to betray the (1st person) narrator (who can't die himself without hitting 'send' on the story...).

 

[intim8]

I'm always stunned when an 'expert' reader 'corrects' a detail in your piece which you know is a fact.

From one tale involving some aspects of a car:

Great story, just that a 1973 Porsche 911 doesn’t have a timing chain. Lol

And of course, anyone who's worked on this car knows it not only has one, but two of them (and they're outrageously long.)

His "lol" really makes it the perfect confidently incorrect example.

Ask him if he knows the correct ignition timing be on a 1955 Chevy Belair with a 327 engine and a 4-barrel carb.

 

[StillStunned]

I just got one on Upstream:

Wha, bam. Other than getting laid, what was the point? Did she get something other than laid? Clearly, he did not.

Sometimes the whole point is to get laid. If it happens to be with an unearthly beauty, so much the better, surely?

 

[TarnishedPenny]

I did a seven-part sugar-baby series. In the last part, another woman made it a threesome, which brought forth this comment from my always-helpful critic, Anonymous:

...if a Man is not satisfied with one woman, he is only lead by the devil himself.

 

[StillStunned]

I did a seven-part sugar-baby series. In the last part, another woman made it a threesome, which brought forth this comment from my always-helpful critic, Anonymous:

...if a Man is not satisfied with one woman, he is only lead by the devil himself.

Well, it makes sense. Devil tempts a man to find himself another woman. Man's life becomes a huge mess, trying to deal with two women. Man despairs, promises the devil his soul in exchange for getting him out of the mess he's in.

A very sound business model. Create a problem, then offer the solution.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

I did a seven-part sugar-baby series. In the last part, another woman made it a threesome, which brought forth this comment from my always-helpful critic, Anonymous:

"...if a Man is not satisfied with one woman, he is only lead by the devil himself."

First blush, it sounds like it was offered by the voice of experience, just sayin'...

 

[AlexFourways]

"...if a Man is not satisfied with one woman, he is only lead by the devil himself."

First blush, it sounds like it was offered by the voice of experience, just sayin'...

According to my story The-Devil-Does-Care About Attitude, all Old Nick wants is for people to chose if they are hater/users or lover/servers to keep the afterlife tidy. I really don't know where that idea came from! So is he doing for himself and doesn't care for them, or is he doing it because that what they need from him?

 

[Senor_Smut]

The most puzzling comments I've gotten were for a story I wrote in an unusual format -- the transcript of a fictional documentary made about the relationships of the people involved. I made it clear that the main reason I wrote the story in the first place was because I wanted to see if I could make such an unusual format work. At the end of the first chapter I got a comment from Anonymous (I swear, all the best crazy comments are from people who don't sign their names) saying that he (presumably) liked the story but hated the format and I should change to a conventional format for the remaining chapters. After a later chapter came out, Mr. Anonymous was back writing an outraged comment about how, since I had ignored his brilliant advice, he wasn't going to keep reading the story. Oh no, anything but that.

 

[TheLobster]

he wasn't going to keep reading the story.

Something tells me you still had Mr Anonymous commenting on later chapters anyway. He might've sounded a bit different, or used different phrasing, but it was clearly him!