Comments that leave you shaking your head

[ShelbyDawn57]

Just been branded “as gay as shit” by the ever present account ‘Anonymous’ commenter

A fresh take on criticism of LW content for sure

Despite not being able to vote the reviewer then went on to award me 3 stars

Anyways, apparently homophobic comments are acceptable and pass the Lit filter these days

Maybe it was a compliment???

 

[cw5523729]

Maybe it was a compliment???

I dunno, gay as shit sounds pretty negative. Now if he'd said "gay as fuck", it could clearly have gone both ways

 

[Zootonius]

I has one recent story where two women hook up while being involved with their respective company's negotiations. Seems one reader was shocked:

but there is the jangling / troubling notion of becoming intimate with someone who was introduced as a "counterparty" in a negotiation...

As if inappropriateness is foreign to the business world.

 

[PennyThompson]

I has one recent story where two women hook up while being involved with their respective company's negotiations. Seems one reader was shocked:

As if inappropriateness is foreign to the business world.

Send your characters back to HR ethics training! ...where they can hook up with the HR trainer

 

[Actingup]

Send your characters back to HR ethics training! ...where they can hook up with the HR trainer

On that note, if anybody here hasn’t read @Bramblethorn’s ‘The floggings will continue…’ , stop what you’re doing and read it immediately. Particularly if you’re still at work.

 

[TheLobster]

Send your characters back to HR ethics training! ...where they can hook up with the HR trainer

I always thought that Sexual Harassment and Discrimination Training is a name that’s way too easy to misunderstand. But this potential for confusion is also a simple problem, and it can be solved very easily by just removing all the words in the middle.

I’m sure the employees’ eagerness to actively participate in such modified training would increase immeasurably!

 

[ADirtyPerv]

I always thought that Sexual Harassment and Discrimination Training is a name that’s way too easy to misunderstand. But this potential for confusion is also a simple problem, and it can be solved very easily by just removing all the words in the middle.

I’m sure the employees’ eagerness to actively participate in such modified training would increase immeasurably!

The Lucy Liu "Barracuda" scene from Charlie's Angels could've been this very easily.

 

[Actingup]

Just been branded “as gay as shit” by the ever present account ‘Anonymous’ commenter

A fresh take on criticism of LW content for sure

Despite not being able to vote the reviewer then went on to award me 3 stars

Anyways, apparently homophobic comments are acceptable and pass the Lit filter these days

 

[Dark_Logan_]

This is my head space when writing content …perhaps it’s pulling through into my words

‘Anonymous’ was right all along

Now considering dropping the Dark from my moniker

 

[Zootonius]

Reviewing some recent comments,

Nothing but nonstop sex without any backstory or character development.

Eh, it's porn and a mom/son incest story, were you expecting Dostoevsky?

 

[Trionyx]

“4 pages of shit, hot and cold frigid bitch and a hopeless fool”

Go ahead. Don’t hold back. Tell me you really think.

 

[Actingup]

From Anon on "Memories of Sandy", a tragic incest tale that includes twins keeping the full nature of their relationship successfully hidden in a small town - a major achievement, I would have thought:

Bittersweet. Didn’t like the swapping, but that’s just me. Really didn’t like that Andy kept Christine's parentage a secret, although it was a natural assumption. Really didn’t like that that you killed her so young. I feel like they never had the chance to really break free. And now I’m just sad.

My first reaction was 'there's no swapping!' (nor is there anybody named Andy). And then I remembered that there is swapping, but it's really, really brief, and it's in the context of the twins breaking free on an overseas holiday:

The following year we had a surfing holiday to Hawaii, staying at an adults-only resort. We pretended to be a young married couple looking for excitement, and we found it with a fast talking, athletic husband and wife from New York: rich, well-bred, and eager to have their own adventure with the exotic Australians. We had an edgy, tense card game before finally agreeing to the wife swap that we were all angling for, and I spent the night fucking an impeccably groomed, shaven brunette while my sister was moaning through the wall to the next room.

"Imagine if we'd told them we were twins!" said a satisfied Sandy the next day. "Would they have flipped out or asked us for a repeat?"

So, my reader wants my incest siblings to be able to break free, but not with other people. What a maze some categories are....

 

[TheLobster]

So, my reader wants my incest siblings to be able to break free, but not with other people. What a maze some categories are....

The “taboo” in Taboo/Incest stands for all the myriad ways incestuous relationships are not allowed to go.

 

[old_prof]

I just got this on my How To (after the mandatory review days for an anonymous comment):

I liked your article and gave it 5-stars. It's informative in many ways. In one way, however, I believe it's outdated. Since November 2025, the website has been using artificial intelligence to select their stories, and their AI robot doesn't care if the story was written by an algorithm or a human, it only looks for markers. Many excellent stories are not being published. It's unknown if Literotica considers this a problem or doesn't care.

I assume the anonymous commenter is an attempted author here. I'm sure there rejected (or in purgatory) piece was a masterpiece about to win a Pulitzer prize and maybe a Nobel.
I did leave a comment strongly stating that I believe they are wrong, but I would listen to any evidence to the contrary.

I should make an update to include purgatory in the background info people should know.

Clarification edit: The How To is How To Be an Author on Literotica.

 

[TheLobster]

I did leave a comment strongly stating that I believe they are wrong, but I would listen to any evidence to the contrary.

The evidence is all those anecdotes of people swearing they didn't use AI but getting rejected for using AI anyway. It's just a matter of whether you believe them.

The part where he says it's unknown whether Literotica considers this a problem is obviously correct. We don't know; we received zero communication on the matter from powers that be.
The part where he says the checking algorithm (not "AI robot", that's just using "AI" to mean "anything a computer does") only looks for 'markers' is correct, too, at least if you believe @AwkwardMD who claims that is the case.

 

[AwkwardMD]

The evidence is all those anecdotes of people swearing they didn't use AI but getting rejected for using AI anyway. It's just a matter of whether you believe them.

The part where he says it's unknown whether Literotica considers this a problem is obviously correct. We don't know; we received zero communication on the matter from powers that be.
The part where he says the checking algorithm (not "AI robot", that's just using "AI" to mean "anything a computer does") only looks for 'markers' is correct, too, at least if you believe @AwkwardMD who claims that is the case.

I would add, here, the following unscientific evidence observations.

Out of every 10 people who I've come across who have received a rejection for AI use, 1 admits up front that they used AI. Thought it was a tool, used it for translation. Whatever. They did it, please help.

Out of that same hypothetical 10, 1-2 will, in the course of explaining their process, reveal things they did that might trigger a false positive. I can do nothing to help these people, and it deeply sucks. I do not have the time to rewrite their stories, but neither can I explain.

The remaining 7-8, I am usually doubtful of. Lit's AI Detector is looking for something specific that doesn't happen by accident, sorta like a Tamper Evident Seal. Usually, if you let them talk long enough, other minor red flags show up. AI artwork for an avatar despite repeatedly suggesting AI use is wrong and they would never. We're just letting AI tell us whose human so how is that better? That sort of thing.

Out of this last 7-8, it's really hard to tell, but my take is that 6-8 of them were rejected correctly. That being said, I could also be correctly accused of actionable cynicism.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Out of this last 7-8, it's really hard to tell, but my take is that 6-8 of them were rejected correctly. That being said, I could also be correctly accused of actionable cynicism.

A gut feel is always fairly accurate, I've found, especially when tempered with Murphy's Law. I've worked around systems, hardware and software engineers all of my career, and the best of them always said, trust your gut. If it looks wrong, it probably is. It might not be, it might be a true perturbation, but the chances are, there's an error - you just haven't got enough data yet.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

Can we please not get into the AI discussion in this thread, and get back on topic. Thank you.

 

[ADirtyPerv]

From our Heavenly Father Anon:

"Literally the definition of cuck. It wasn't hot enough. Like it was woman perspective written by a man. Needs work"

One of the most disjointed comments I've ever read. The couple reconcile by the end of the 3500 word story, but yeah, she cheats. It's the "it wasn't hot enough" that got me, though. What does that even mean?

 

[ElectricBlue]

Can we please not get into the AI discussion in this thread, and get back on topic. Thank you.

Oops, sorry.

 

[SmilingLez]

Dedicated to the trolls and the idiots when it comes to commenting.

Voices rise from silent lips,
critics with empty hands,
casting judgments like shadows
on vibrant pages filled with soul.

They never tasted ink,
never bled stories,
yet they dissect,
as if words were mere trophies
to be claimed.

Outside the dance of creation,
they watch,
unmoved,
while we bold breathe life
into their dreams.

 

[Zootonius]

I Started a series on an incestuous family and got this comment:

"One quibble only, and this has more to do with my own tastes, but I wish there was only either the father or the son. I don't read stories with more than one male. Just kinda icky for my own preference."

A, I'm not writing for your preference.
B, you're really not going to like part 2!

 

[AlexFourways]

Comment on 1x: To Fool a Nerd and a Geek
Anonymousabout 9 hours ago
Maybe I got this wrong, but did you allude to Ada Lovelace and Alan Turing getting together and having sex? That would be very unrealistic as Turing was gay (and was prosecuted by government for being gay) in his time.

I have commented back that I didn't have that in mind at all. But if I did I would have had clues like Amy and Adam and would have relied on the alternate universe that dealt with the 100 year age gap to solve the sexual orientation issue.

 

[PennyThompson]

Comment on 1x: To Fool a Nerd and a Geek
Anonymousabout 9 hours ago
Maybe I got this wrong, but did you allude to Ada Lovelace and Alan Turing getting together and having sex? That would be very unrealistic as Turing was gay (and was prosecuted by government for being gay) in his time.

I have commented back that I didn't have that in mind at all. But if I did I would have had clues like Amy and Adam and would have relied on the alternate universe that dealt with the 100 year age gap to solve the sexual orientation issue.

Time travelling Victorian femboy Ada Lovelace is a story I would read

 

[AlexFourways]

Time travelling Victorian femboy Ada Lovelace is a story I would read

Is your muse speaking to you loudly enough for you to write it?