If only Literotica had an actual editor

[KittyOfSteele]

Curiosity got the cat, so I looked for the story. Whether it's snuff or not it's something I'd leave up to you to decide, but all I can say is that it's gory enough to have made the BTB sector go "this is messed up" in the comments. All I can say is that the author seems to be making a lot of slop.

 

[YmaOHyd]

Curiosity got the cat, so I looked for the story. Whether it's snuff or not it's something I'd leave up to you to decide, but all I can say is that it's gory enough to have made the BTB sector go "this is messed up" in the comments. All I can say is that the author seems to be making a lot of slop.

That's kind of the thing. You've got the people in the category most likely to approve of it saying stuff like 'dude, you've got a problem.'

 

[alohadave]

No, you obviously don't need my permission to be stupid.

It's fine to feel something shouldn't be here. It's even fine to report it. However, claiming it to be something it's not to increase the odds of it being removed is not. That is fraud.

Fraud. Fucking amazing.

Enough of you. Goodbye

 

[ElectricBlue]

Does anyone use a site like Pro Writing Aid or Grammerly to help with the editing/error correction part or writing? I use a tool like this (not the AI rewrite features) in my non-erotic writing to help catch grammar and spelling issues but I’m wondering if the taboo/erotic nature of my new story will violate the platform’s terms of service.

The latter, not necessarily, but the use of Grammarly, very likely.

The content rules are in the FAQ.

 

[SyleusSnow]

Does anyone use a site like Pro Writing Aid or Grammerly to help with the editing/error correction part or writing? I use a tool like this (not the AI rewrite features) in my non-erotic writing to help catch grammar and spelling issues but I’m wondering if the taboo/erotic nature of my new story will violate the platform’s terms of service.

Can't speak for Grammarly (which is oriented to business writing) but I use ProWritingAid as my grammar checker and it works fine for erotica. It does a great job for fiction (be sure to set it to "creative" as the writing style, of course)... though I've seen it get a confused trying to figure out some sex scenes... all that grunting and overuse of exclamation points

 

[M_K_Babalon]

Literotica has no capacity to do a thorough edit before stories are published. Even if they hired a couple of full-time editors/proofreaders I don't think they could do it. They get at least 170 story submissions every single day. They do the bare minimum needed to clear the story, and even that process has holes in it.

And even less obligation.

I for one bristle at the entire notion of Lit enforcing "quality" in any of its facets. Typographical, spelling and grammatical quality are only a couple of small facets. Others include editorial quality judgements with regard to any and all of: Content, narrative coherence, taste, logical consistency, making-sense, plausibility, relatability, any of it.

The proofreading part isn't somehow special compared to the other editorial functions, and as much as I dislike clicking into a story and seeing inexcusably bad proofreading and even worse storytelling, to the idea that Lit should take responsibility for any of it, I say "No."

I should probably @ the OP
@TheWritingGroup

Lush.

 

[IWroteThis]

Fraud. Fucking amazing.

Enough of you. Goodbye

You should invest in a dictionary, or a muzzle. Probably both.

Yes, it's fraud to use deception to deprive a victim unfairly. Having another author's story removed because you made false statements to Literotica about it is fraud, plain and simple.

 

[SyleusSnow]

Lush.

Yes. That site has volunteer(?) editors that edit stories (without author approval) before posting. Sometimes heavily. Which reenforces their idea that your stories are their product, published solely for the purpose of attracting eyeballs to their swingers hookup operation that brings in the bucks. And why I don't publish there anymore. But they have nowhere near the volume of submissions (and readers) Lit does, so can afford to look more closely at each submission.

 

[SimonDoom]

Yes. That site has volunteer(?) editors that edit stories (without author approval) before posting. Sometimes heavily. Which reenforces their idea that your stories are their product, published solely for the purpose of attracting eyeballs to their swingers hookup operation that brings in the bucks. And why I don't publish there anymore. But they have nowhere near the volume of submissions (and readers) Lit does, so can afford to look more closely at each submission.

I was curious about Lush so I just signed up. I was disconcerted by all the information it wanted about me. What I like about Literotica is that it is so simple and easy, with so few hoops to jump through to be able to read and publish stories. I'm not interested in a hybrid story/personals site. They seem like apples and oranges to me.

 

[TypoTales]

I was curious about Lush so I just signed up. I was disconcerted by all the information it wanted about me. What I like about Literotica is that it is so simple and easy, with so few hoops to jump through to be able to read and publish stories. I'm not interested in a hybrid story/personals site. They seem like apples and oranges to me.

Felt like that too until lit sent me into the 'Pending' shadow realm

 

[M_K_Babalon]

I was curious about Lush so I just signed up. I was disconcerted by all the information it wanted about me. What I like about Literotica is that it is so simple and easy, with so few hoops to jump through to be able to read and publish stories. I'm not interested in a hybrid story/personals site. They seem like apples and oranges to me.

Most of that dating portion slop, you can ignore. The way the site opperates is fucking annoying.

 

[SimonDoom]

Felt like that too until lit sent me into the 'Pending' shadow realm

I understand that. You're not alone. It's a widespread problem.

 

[BobbyBrandt]

Oh yeah, plus, I did look it up, and I was right: The site does call it snuff, so, if fictional snuff weren't possible, you'd be right, but the site believed in it, so, it's not just me.

People can call things whatever they want. That's life in the big city.

 

[TheRedChamber]

Whatever anyone's definition of snuff, if I remember rightly there was a story here a few years that had a hitman kill his wife's lover with a sniper rifle during the act which got reported and pulled. It came back later with the lover getting shot immediately afterwards as he cleaned up in the bathroom. My impression is that death during sex is a definite red line.

 

[Voboy]

Whatever anyone's definition of snuff, if I remember rightly there was a story here a few years that had a hitman kill his wife's lover with a sniper rifle during the act which got reported and pulled. It came back later with the lover getting shot immediately afterwards as he cleaned up in the bathroom. My impression is that death during sex is a definite red line.

Thankfully, my characters are always polite enough to wait until they finish. I didn't realize I'd cracked the code for that kind of story.

Actually, now that I think on it, although several of my stories feature death, I believe I've only had one instance of murder-by-sex-partner, and it was indeed shortly after the act. I was in the middle of writing a story once where I was going to have a hostage escape some mobsters by seducing them, then killing them while their pants were down (so to speak), but I abandoned that story for other reasons. I wonder now whether it would have gotten posted.

One of my favorite writers here (long since inactive) had an early story in which a guy gets killed (presumably) and subsumed by some sort of succubus at the moment of orgasm. I just checked: that story's been posted since May 2006, and shows no signs of getting pulled. It's in SF&F, however, so maybe the readers there have less delicate sensibilities?

 

[TheRedChamber]

Thankfully, my characters are always polite enough to wait until they finish. I didn't realize I'd cracked the code for that kind of story.

Actually, now that I think on it, although several of my stories feature death, I believe I've only had one instance of murder-by-sex-partner, and it was indeed shortly after the act. I was in the middle of writing a story once where I was going to have a hostage escape some mobsters by seducing them, then killing them while their pants were down (so to speak), but I abandoned that story for other reasons. I wonder now whether it would have gotten posted.

One of my favorite writers here (long since inactive) had an early story in which a guy gets killed (presumably) and subsumed by some sort of succubus at the moment of orgasm. I just checked: that story's been posted since May 2006, and shows no signs of getting pulled. It's in SF&F, however, so maybe the readers there have less delicate sensibilities?

I get the impression more leeway is given to horror style stories, but I'm not entirely sure how far the line moves.

 

[Voboy]

I get the impression more leeway is given to horror style stories, but I'm not entirely sure how far the line moves.

Yes. I know that vampire stories are usually good to go, even though they twine sex and death pretty closely sometimes.

Which is fine, I think; as a "don't like it? don't read it" disciple, there are few stories easier to avoid than vampire stories.

 

[TheWritingGroup]

This one is either a funny spelling error or a fetish I wasn't familiar with.

On the 28th, someone describes a story as about a "wonton" wife.

(It's an error.)

--Annie

 

[Dark_Logan_]

This one is either a funny spelling error or a fetish I wasn't familiar with.

On the 28th, someone describes a story as about a "wonton" wife.

(It's an error.)

--Annie

This is a common flaw within spell check via Word and predictive text …as well as the author being somewhat lackadaisical

 

[MillieDynamite]

Isn't there an editor's choice badge that some people get?

 

[TheWritingGroup]

This is weird. One story now in New ends in mid-sentence, after a comma:

At the next stop, they finally helped me out of my misery situation and asked me if I already had plans on finding a job. I told them,

That's it. The story ends there.

Didn't Laurel used to catch those?

--Annie

 

[alohadave]

Isn't there an editor's choice badge that some people get?

Yes, awarded by Laurel. Green E.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Well, there you go, the editor is Laurel. But it's more like an Editor-in-Chief at a newspaper or magazine, not a copy editor.

Yes, awarded by Laurel. Green E.

 

[MillieDynamite]

So, I posted a comment, asking what they told them. It's barely over a 750-word story.

This is weird. One story now in New ends in mid-sentence, after a comma:


That's it. The story ends there.

Didn't Laurel used to catch those?

--Annie

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

'Ema works on fibdibg a job and creates a modeling portfolio.'


Blinks.

Double blinks.