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[sr71plt]

I will put an edit in the queue when somebody finds an error, no matter how petty they are about it *laugh*

The problem with this is that you show me a story (including any of mine) and I'll find a mistake in it no matter how hard it's been scrubbed. Show me a chapter in a published book (including one I've edited), and I can guarantee I'll find a mistake of some sort still lurking there (and someone looking after me will find another one). That's not because the writer is that bad or because I'm that good at editing--that's because that's the way it is, inevitably.

There's a point of "not worth the editing/reposting effort" no matter how high brow the Web site. And a few typos or misspelled words in a Lit. story won't make the ceiling fall in. I'm quite sure that the only readers of my stories here who are bothered by the level of misspellings or typos are ones who are reading the stories just to find the mistakes. I've never had a negative comment on my writing skills on one of my stories here that couldn't obviously be traced to my unrelated posting on the forums with revealing "since you think you're hot stuff" phrases such as the one included in this PC. (And I can only really remember four negative comments on presentation at all on any of my stories here.)

I often conceive, write, review, and post a story all in four- or five-hour's time. I'd rather go on to writing the next story rather than fussing around with ones already posted. Most of the stories I've posted here have subsequently sold--and then I review from the distance in time and do corrections--and the editors still find minor mistakes needing fixed. That's inevitable in publishing--and, again, is more important when paying readers are involved.

Another wrinkle on this. The poster said more could have been expected from "SwitcherooX2," and that doesn't really bother me all that much. I wasn't trying for a Pulitzer with it--just demonstrating a single hook (which the poster said was clever). I think my other story in the Halloween Contest, "Passion Is Blind," is superior as a literary work (and I dashed it out even faster than the other one, so God knows what typos, misspellings and grammar glitches are in that one). But, Lit. being what Lit. is, "Passion" has nice comments and is barely hot, but "Switcheroo2X" has more reads and is very hot. The target audience here don't seem to care about gud grammar and splling half as much as the critics do. I churn out enough stories, I think, to write to several different target audiences.

And the bottom line is that both stories have already sold beyond this Web site.

 

[sr71plt]

Thermometer ratings do count as votes if the commenter doesn't use the voting form. If they use both, then only the first clicked ( vote or thermometer ) counts in your vote total/score.

I tested this in more or less real time in two windows on two old stories that hadn't seen any action in quite some time, knowing that the sweeper would remove my vote in its next pass, thus not affecting the score. Voted in one window and refreshed my author page as quickly as I could change windows. Vote total and score changed appropriately to confirm the above.

I will put an edit in the queue when somebody finds an error, no matter how petty they are about it *laugh*

I don't know about this. By happenstance, I checked on the story's rating not long before I saw this new comment, with the 75% sign. The number of votes and the rating didn't change when the PC was added. Doesn't seem possible both would have stayed the same if the thermometer vote could translate into a real vote.

It's all a mystery to me.

 

[Darkniciad]

Been a while. Looks like some things have changed, in a good way.

The testing conditions I used are about as good as you can do without seeing the actual database with the timestamps for doubtless verification.

I did a comment only on a story that hadn't received a vote in several months on a Sunday morning ( about this time ) when Lit is as dead as it ever gets. The only time that passed was switching between windows and the load time for my author page. My votes went up by one, and a quick calculation confirmed that the vote was the same as the one I entered with the thermometer. No other score could have produced the same final score.

I then switched windows again, and went back to click the vote button. Upon refreshing my author page, my vote total and score remained the same as it was after posting the comment with the thermometer.

I then chose a different story with pretty much the same criteria, and repeated the experiment in reverse ( vote then comment ), with the same results. Whichever you do first ( or only ) counts as a vote, and goes toward your score.

As to the posting edits, that wasn't really directed at you. It was just my comment on the subject from my standpoint. I don't post that many stories, and I have days where I have zero muse. I take that time to gather up that .txt file of corrections and apply them all ( if any ) since my last editing spree. If somebody points out an error and I've got the time to fix it, I fix it. I even re-edited the whole of Danica ( 500k+ words - no, it's not tight and concise, but I love the story anyway ) over the course of two or three months this year to bring it up a little closer to how I write now.

I read over the top of typos, spelling errors, and grammar nightmares in stories on here all the time. If the story has enough oomph to keep me interested, my brain translates a lot of that so quickly on the fly that I may not even consciously notice them.

If I do, I may point them out. If I have a glowing comment about the rest of the story, I may add it as a footnote to the praise. If the comment I leave isn't gushing praise, I usually point out the error in private ( signed )feedback. I'm also more likely to note a single thing in an otherwise flawless ( to my eyes ) story than I am in one with a half a dozen.

Nothing wrong with choosing not to edit, and I certainly understand it's a never-ending process anyhow. There's always one more fly in the amber, no matter how many times you put it under the microscope.

 

[Guest]

Boo hoo.

This message contains feedback for: Daniellekitten
About the submission: A Case of Love Ch. 15
This feedback was sent by: Anonymous

Comments:

You've turned this into a stupid piece of shit.

 

[Varian P]

Boo hoo.

It's when her taunts take us back to second grade that Anonymous is at her cruelest.

 

[SweetWitch]

Boo hoo.

Ouch. I feel another troll hunter saga coming on.

 

[l8bloom]

Hello, friends & neighbors,

Being the CubsFanIAm, I was going to share with ya'll this feedback on my rant, When the Cubs Win the World Series :

Rating: 25
Thw Cubs got swept in 3 games
10/10/07 By: -----------
oh well

the Rockies will win the World Series

just so I could have the last laugh.

But today, for my H. contest entry Stumped! , I got this:

Rating: 75
Good story with huge untapped potential
10/29/07 By: -------------
The story started out with such poignancy, but ended up as 'merely' hot sex. There were so many threads that just got dropped. The meeting on the park bench ended up having virtually nothing to do with anything else. The fact that she still had the card was totally predictable but didn't end up having any real significance. There needed to be more reason for them to fuck each other. The stump didn't lead to anything more meaningful than just a big desk. The locked door problem was (pardon the pun) anti-climactic. The story was fine in spite of that, but if all those pieces went somewhere it could have been great rather than merely fine. Take all those bits and pieces and make them into something more. It was as if you had all these great thoughts and then had to meet the contest entry deadline and didn't have time to make good use of them.

To which I replied to the gentleman:

Rating: 100
In response to your concerns...
10/30/07 by l8bloom
The stumps in the story represent emotional amputation, as in, the loss of one's marriage; the severing of the bond with one's mate. People in those circumstances often have trouble believing that they will ever love again. The sex on the desk, itself a stump, represents new life springing from a place thought to be dead. Sex is a powerful affirmation of life, itself, of willing to be alive. The significance of having the phone number represents hope and suggests that the emotional re-birth will grow. Having said that, this story was written in response to a challenge by Unsung Muse near the end of the Halloween contest. She issued the challenge on 10/16. I submitted the story by 10/22. Personally, for a rush job, I think it's pretty good. (I'll leave you to figure out the locked door by yourself . ~~~L8.

And I COULD have pointed out the name & purpose of this-here website. Really? "'Merely' hot sex"? Excuse me, you were looking for ....?

 

[mjl2010]

I got this comment on my Halloween submission...

Rating 75
YEA!!!
10/11/07 by Anonymous in USA

I'M GLAD TOM FINDS SOMEONE NEW BUT YOU SHOULD HAVE MADE THE OTHERS PACK MEMBERS TOO...WELL ALL BUT DAVID.

Well this gave me a chuckle. It never ceases to amaze me when I get comments that tell me how I should have made the plot go this way or that way. This one was especially chuckle worthy because in a way, David was already represented in the pack...the young, almost adult wolf who is at the bottom of the pecking order...

Anyway, thanks to everyone who read and voted on my story. I did better in the contest than I expected to.

MJL

 

[mjl2010]

Maybe this doesn't qualify

I suppose that technically, this should go somewhere else since this comment came from a poem (darkness ) and not a story. But I couldn't resist.

Rating 50
*
10/27/07 By: --------
Goth cliche

I suppose less is more huh. I sat here in this dark mood and in about forty seconds I wrote this. I'm by no means a Goth. I'm not even sure exactly what a Goth is beyond black clothing and weird makeup. They all look like vampires to me...Oh maybe thats a story for my contest entry next year. LOL

MJL

 

[sr71plt]

Hello, friends & neighbors,

Being the CubsFanIAm, I was going to share with ya'll this feedback on my rant, When the Cubs Win the World Series :

just so I could have the last laugh.

But today, for my H. contest entry Stumped! , I got this:


To which I replied to the gentleman:

And I COULD have pointed out the name & purpose of this-here website. Really? "'Merely' hot sex"? Excuse me, you were looking for ....?

To quibble a bit, I don't think the comment on the second story really belongs on a bad feedback thread (the first one is a laugh, though). The commenter noted what he/she had problems with in the story--and did so in a reasoned and controlled way. Leaving loose threads is, indeed, a quality issue for a story, and I didn't see that you responded to all of the loose threads identified. If the reader didn't get the central stump = amputation theme, that would be only partially the problem of the reader if the reader was trying to understand--and this one obviously gave the story an attentive read.

The excusing for possibly an unpolished story doesn't rebound on the reader (and if you can't conceive, write, and polish one in six days, you obviously haven't ever been a deadline writer), so that too wouldn't qualify as bad feedback either, I don't think.

Bringing it up might entice me to read the story to see if I agree with the commenter, though--which I guess is good "sales" for the story.

 

[l8bloom]

...you obviously haven't ever been a deadline writer...

No, I am not. I'm a researcher at a state-supported university. I'm one step up from a civil servant. Guess what? Not everyone is *just like you*.

I'm not a paid chef, either, yet I am, by several accounts, a damn fine cook. You seem to look down on "amateurs."

I stand by my story and my rebuttal to -------- as well. You want a three-page analysis of every point? Go right ahead; it's your time. I, however, have no time for you, sir; life is too short to drink vinegar.

 

[SweetWitch]

Kids! Stop the bickering or I'll have to send you to your rooms.

 

[sr71plt]

Kids! Stop the bickering or I'll have to send you to your rooms.

Who's bickering? I8Bloom presented what she(?) thought was bad comment on her story, and I noted that I didn't think it was bad comment--and stated why. She didn't like what I said and said so. It ended there. I haven't come back at her.

That said, "worst public comment" isn't just comment you don't like to hear. The commenter here went out of his/her way to say why a problem was seen with the story--in a reasoned and controlled tone. I think they deserve some support when they are brought to the forum and criticized for that. "The end."

 

[SweetWitch]

You just love to stir that pot, don't you, Sweetpea?

 

[cloudy]

Who's bickering? I8Bloom presented what she(?) thought was bad comment on her story, and I noted that I didn't think it was bad comment--and stated why. She didn't like what I said and said so. It ended there. I haven't come back at her.

That said, "worst public comment" isn't just comment you don't like to hear. The commenter here went out of his/her way to say why a problem was seen with the story--in a reasoned and controlled tone. I think they deserve some support when they are brought to the forum and criticized for that. "The end."

Hate to say it, but I agree with you. It might have been critical, but at least it was constructive, especially when you compare it with some of the others we get.

 

[sr71plt]

You just love to stir that pot, don't you, Sweetpea?

No, but I don't run with the pack just because there's a pack--and to be unfair to those who aren't members of the pack.

 

[scouries]

here's an ugly one!!!

[size=+2]TODAYS WORST COMMENT[/SIZE]​

I was poised to ask the following question on my own thread today:

Who the hell are MungoParkIII and SamuelX anyway?


These two guys seem to pop up with two or three new stories every day. They are starting to make JustPlainBob look like a piker. Then I saw the following comment and decided to post it on this thread.

I gotta admit it; this comment tops just about every one I’ve ever received. Even the ones darkboy posted.

I’ve never read one of Mr. X’s 600 stories but I must say, this seems particularly harsh. Although I must admit that I'm tempted to read this one just to find out how anal sex made them wealthy.


SUPER CLASS IDIOT!
10/31/07 by Anonymous in USA
I doubt that Samuelx is even 18 years old! He looks like he is 14 or 15 years old! Literotica.com needs to make him prove his age! If he is 18 years of age or older; then he is truly a psycho-maniac who is in dire of need of psychological help before he implodes or explodes. He now has over 600 of same short, abusive, nonsense stories over a very, very short period of time are a total embarrassment to writers of all types and in the process he is ruining the Literotica.com story web site. ***Interesting how periodically Samuelx and/or some of his juvenile friends now use a different computer with a different username and a different E-mail account to write complimentary comments about himself and his writings! This is very juvenile! Samuelx you are complete psycho!*** STOP RUINING LITEROTICA.COM! ****>>Samuelx is a total EMBARRASSMENT AND ABOMINATION to all minorities [in particular black Americans] as well as the entire human race!

“ANAL SEX MADE US WEALTHY”
AN ANAL CATEGORY STORY
by SamuelX

 

[sr71plt]

If total irrelevancy counts as "worst" comment, I think this one, PC'd to a chapter of a Vampire novel, qualifies. It came with a one-bomb, naturally.

did 800000 ft plus
11/01/07 By: Anonymous in Nebraska
Did 800000ft plus damage your brain,I find it very difficult to believe you ever flew a SR71.I did maybe you inhaled the special fuel,in any event you are a weirdo.A REAL SR71 PILOT.Come clean tell me what was the type of fuel we used,also what engines and what were the power ratings.in ISO conditions.If you have decided to go gay thats fine by me,but dont bullshit.

 

[starrkers]

I suppose that technically, this should go somewhere else since this comment came from a poem (darkness ) and not a story. But I couldn't resist.


I suppose less is more huh. I sat here in this dark mood and in about forty seconds I wrote this. I'm by no means a Goth. I'm not even sure exactly what a Goth is beyond black clothing and weird makeup. They all look like vampires to me...Oh maybe thats a story for my contest entry next year. LOL

MJL

I saw that one. Nice of a fellow poet to offer such constructive criticism.

 

[SweetWitch]

If total irrelevancy counts as "worst" comment, I think this one, PC'd to a chapter of a Vampire novel, qualifies. It came with a one-bomb, naturally.

I see your point. That made no sense at all, if it's a comment on a Vampire novel. Sounds more like he/she was using your story as a platform to shove his/her political/moral views down the throats of others.

 

[sr71plt]

I see your point. That made no sense at all, if it's a comment on a Vampire novel. Sounds more like he/she was using your story as a platform to shove his/her political/moral views down the throats of others.

The headscratcher for me is that the Blackbird photorecon system isn't a classified system anymore. I could respond to the "demand" for proof answers to this dude from what's available on the Internet. So, other than him letting out steam about me rather than the story, I'm at a loss of what he expects.

 

[SweetWitch]

The headscratcher for me is that the Blackbird photorecon system isn't a classified system anymore. I could respond to the "demand" for proof answers to this dude from what's available on the Internet. So, other than him letting out steam about me rather than the story, I'm at a loss of what he expects.

I wouldn't give him the satisfaction. This comment doesn't deserve a response. He's just a wienie.

 

[scouries]

[size=+2]TODAYS WORST COMMENT[/SIZE]​

Weirder and weirder…MungoParkIII and SamuelX both have more new stories out today. And this Mr. X really seems to bring out the crazies…

Love To

I would love to blast your arse with a 12 bore shotgun.What do you do bribe Shiterotica to keep running this rubbish.Now this is serious Literotica this idiot is making you a laughing stock.,so much so that you now appear on a cartoon site,now I woud say thats not to good for business,wouldnt you.You publish one more of this maniacs stories and I for one will be off.And believe you me I am not alone,now for all those that like Literotica try the search engine ASK JOLENE,JUST TYPE IN WHAT YOU WANT TO READ ABOUT

Submission Title: Blasting Cum Up Big Girl Booty
Category: Anal
Author: Samuelx
Comment By: Anonymous
Submission Has: 3 Comment(s)

Clearly major drug use involved by the above commenter.

And then this one, same story:

Sicko-Shito has returned
11/01/07 by Anonymous
Has there ever been anyone worse on this site?

 

[MzDeviancy]

No, I am not. I'm a researcher at a state-supported university. I'm one step up from a civil servant. Guess what? Not everyone is *just like you*.

I'm not a paid chef, either, yet I am, by several accounts, a damn fine cook. You seem to look down on "amateurs."

I stand by my story and my rebuttal to -------- as well. You want a three-page analysis of every point? Go right ahead; it's your time. I, however, have no time for you, sir; life is too short to drink vinegar.

If you're gonna publish anything (on an amateur site or otherwise), you're gonna have to either learn to take constructive criticism or turn off feedback.

No one likes being told that something they worked very hard on isn't perfect, but if you want to grow as an author, you need to learn to deal. If you don't care about getting better or you just can't handle hearing critique, cool; turn off the feedback function, but know that you're missing out on a chance to improve.

Speaking from personal experience here, you gotta stop being so sensitive, take a step back and look at these criticisms objectively.

 

[l8bloom]

My apologies to all parties including sr71plt.