Do you 'Accept Anonymous Feedback' on your stories?

[Voboy]

I allow it, but if it's some mindless nasty comment like "This sucks" (without saying WHY it sucks) or an attack on me or another commenter or writer, I delete it.

I'd keep that up. I don't think that's abusive, merely crude. Whether I like it or not, they get to have an opinion. I delete almost nothing that gives an opinion.

The only things I delete are either rants (which are very rare) or "piggybacks," people who write their own mini-stories and then use my comment space to post them.

No thank you, dick. Submit like the rest of us if you want to do that shit.

 

[OddLove]

Offensive comments are unacceptable.
At the same time, keep in mind that when reading a new story, readers will not necessarily click on the author's introduction page. Therefore, it is advisable to mention in the first part of a story if content is expected later on that is not obvious in that category but may bother some people. As a reader, it is quite disappointing to become emotionally involved in a multi-part story and then find something in later chapters that turns you off. It is true that these are free stories, but the reader still pays - with their own time spent reading your story.
In a given topic, e.g., femdom stories, relatively common tropes are public humiliation, cuckolding, and forced gay. However, not all femdom enthusiasts find these appealing, so they avoid such stories. Therefore, it is advisable to warn them at the very beginning. And as I see it, there is no indication of gay content at the beginning of the story you refer to.
And if the appropriate tags are not included because even the author does not know at the beginning where they want to take the story, why shouldn't the reader be able to write what they would like to see?
Of course, the reader should do this in a civilized manner.

I've definitely learned that their is a group within the femdom group who have very strong preferences of No Gay and No Cuckholdry.

But I also just don't feel like I'm owed trigger warnings about future chatpers/episodes/sequels of a story I read.

It sucks to get invested and then let down, but that's a very normal experiences we all deal with. It's the risk of investing in a show, story, movie.

Most recently I stopped watching The Rookie because it started out as a funny cop comedy and morphed into a work place romance drama.

I didn't hit up the writers and tell them how wrong they were, but I for sure ain't going back to finish, so I hold no ill will towards someone who sees bisexual stuff happening and walks away from a story. I think it's more than fair.

 

[SmilingLez]

I have no issues if someone anonymously comments on something I've written. There is no way to know if the person who left the anonymous comment has an account on Literotica or not. IMO, people with accounts on Literotica who leave anonymous comments are cowards. YMMV

Truth - I will never leave (nor have I ever left) an anonymous comment.

 

[YmaOHyd]

I haven't deleted any comments yet. Don't know what my line for doing so would be, other than really grotesque racism/transphobia/sexism or stuff that breaches the content policy. I do give anonymous comments less weight than signed ones, especially ones that are strongly critical. I suppose I feel that, if you want me to care, say it with your chest.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

I welcome comments, so include anon ones. It's not like anyone posts under their actual name, so from my pov there's no real difference.

I've deleted a couple personal insults just because they annoyed me, but others have survived because they were at least grammatical and mildly entertaining. If I got a flood of abuse, I might reconsider.

 

[pink_silk_glove]

That's legit the opposite of what I said, though. I said that the ratings should be taken out of the calculations for who gets space on recommendation tabs because the ratings are dumb and gameable.

Obviously you want to make the toplists, so you need an awesome score, so you care about your scores ... a great deal.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Affirmative.

Obviously you want to make the toplists, so you need an awesome score, so you care about your scores ... a great deal.

 

[Duleigh]

Obviously you want to make the toplists, so you need an awesome score, so you care about your scores ... a great deal.

Absolutely

 

[pink_silk_glove]

Absolutely

Yes we all know you do. If anyone cares about scores above all else it is you.

 

[Duleigh]

Yes we all know you do. If anyone cares about scores above all else it is you.

Of course. High scores mean that I am accomplishing something special - I'm providing my readers with a story (now with novels) that they enjoy, good stories that provide a smile.

Yeah, I work awful hard to get the scores I deserve and earn, but then it beats sulking like a child.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Oh, my word!

 

[lovecraft68]

So ... you care about the score. And you care about it more than maximizing feedback.

The other part of the post is more of the "People on the top lists don't deserve to be there, but I do."
That's a common theme here

 

[Britva415]

So, who has had one of their own story comments deleted? Anonymous or otherwise

(Me, I wouldn't even know.)

 

[ChuckWolf]

Yeah, I feel that the anonymous comments are raw, unfiltered and honest opinions on my stories, which I like.

 

[SmilingLez]

So, who has had one of their own story comments deleted? Anonymous or otherwise

(Me, I wouldn't even know.)

I have had one Literotica member delete their comment from my vignette.

 

[MillieDynamite]

I wish an adult or two would put the kiddies in line here.

 

[MelissaBaby]

I wish an adult or two would put the kiddies in line here.

Sorry, but I haven't finished my popcorn.

 

[AwkwardlySet]

Aww, Laurel has been through the thread.

 

[pink_silk_glove]

Aww, Laurel has been through the thread.

Yea, see no evil, hear no evil. Lousy way to mod. I'm not surprised. She's fucked up a few threads around here.

 

[RocketGrunt]

The other part of the post is more of the "People on the top lists don't deserve to be there, but I do."
That's a common theme here

The toplists are valuable real estate for picking up eyeballs, and the current way they are given out is insane and also broken even on its own terms.

The "Popular Stories of All Time" top tens haven't been updated since October 2025, and the top spot of Science Fiction and Fantasy was given to chapter 71 of a Warcraft Fanfic that was only favorited 4 times because no one had ever bothered to downvote it. That gave it a perfect 5 "average" out of a ludicrously tiny number of ratings. That's a broken system.

The "Most Talked About" stories hasn't updated since October 18th, 2025. It's just a list of what stories had comments put in a few hours before the broken update went live.

There are lots of things that the "popular" spots, "most commented" spots or "toplist" spots could be highlighting to give readers an idea of what's popular, what's liked, and what's trending. To build discussion, to build community, to push forward stories that people are likely to enjoy. And the system is just failing completely to do fucking any of that.

Now obviously, the biggest problem is that it's literally broken and not updating for months at a time. But reliance on "Average Rating" means it will still be broken even when it is fixed.

 

[ElectricBlue]

So, who has had one of their own story comments deleted? Anonymous or otherwise

(Me, I wouldn't even know.)

I recall @SimonDoom reported comments disappearing from one of his stories. Several years ago, now. Over the years other AH members have said the same - to the extent they remembered the comment before it was zapped, mostly hate speak.

 

[MelissaBaby]

The toplists are valuable real estate for picking up eyeballs, and the current way they are given out is insane and also broken even on its own terms.

The "Popular Stories of All Time" top tens haven't been updated since October 2025, and the top spot of Science Fiction and Fantasy was given to chapter 71 of a Warcraft Fanfic that was only favorited 4 times because no one had ever bothered to downvote it. That gave it a perfect 5 "average" out of a ludicrously tiny number of ratings. That's a broken system.

The "Most Talked About" stories hasn't updated since October 18th, 2025. It's just a list of what stories had comments put in a few hours before the broken update went live.

Can you link to where these "Top Ten" lists are? I am not sure what you are talking about.

I'm looking at the SciFi/Fantasy all time top list right now, and the number one story has over 9,000 votes and has been favorited 1774 times.

 

[MelissaBaby]

Okay, I see what you are talking about, the top lists on the individual category hubs. I've never paid attention to those, I have always just checked on the Toplists page. I assumed they were the same.

 

[RocketGrunt]

Okay, I see what you are talking about, the top lists on the individual category hubs. I've never paid attention to those, I have always just checked on the Toplists page. I assumed they were the same.

https://www.literotica.com/c/science-fiction-fantasy

If you go to the category page it gives you ten new stories (way too few, but that's another issue). Below that it gives you ten "popular stories" which has subtabs for 7 Days, 30 Days, and All Time. These are naively generated based on average rating from a sample that is artificially small and the inclusions are fucking wild.

To the right of that, there's Recommended For You, Contest Winners, Top Category Authors, and then Most Talked About Stories This Week. Unfortunately, "this week" is actually October 18th, 2025 and not further updated. So more than one of the ten "most talked about this week" chapters have had their most recent comment "about two months ago."

Interestingly, if you click on the "more popular stories" button under the popular stories, it takes you to the Top Lists page that you're talking about, where literally none of the top ten popular "of all time" stories feature because that page uses a different minimum ratings cutoff.

So there's two issues: one is that the spaces that are supposed to be highlighting stories to generate hype are not working properly. And the other is that the rubric it's trying to use would be bad even if it was working correctly. Average Rating is not a measure of interest, it's not even a measure of positive interesting, it's a measure of lack of negative interest. We have lots of ways to measure interest (total ratings, total 5* ratings, number of favorites, etc.), and average rating would be a bad proxy even if the site was checking it correctly. Which it is not.

 

[pink_silk_glove]

So there's two issues: one is that the spaces that are supposed to be highlighting stories to generate hype are not working properly. And the other is that the rubric it's trying to use would be bad even if it was working correctly.

I call that one issue: crappy lazy site design. : P