So a quick look at todays top scoring story finds the usual story in the lead
But to see 17 comments saying how brilliant it is has floored me
NO ITS NOT
A pretty much Daddy fucks daughter storyline together with zero presentation,
makes it abysmal in my mind...Thank God I am not a Moderator I would not even
have let that go out in that form...perhaps its time this site followed others and
took more care of presentation than content.
Rant Over... Return to your normal program.
Never thought I'd take the other side of an issue like this, but...if the story meets the stated guidelines, isn't a moderator more or less obligated to let it stand as written?
I realize you are really wondering out loud whether said guidelines should change to prioritize 'presentation', as you call it- but that seems like a difficult thing to write guidelines for, and to put the judgement on story quality in the hands of the moderators seems like a recipe for frequent vitriol between prospective authors and the site administration. Maybe that wouldn't bother the moderators, who knows? But they already get bushels of attitude when a story with 300 misspellings and child gets rejected...I'm just saying it seems to be trading one set of problems for another.
I seem to recall a thread from a few months back that I came across one afternoon- it asked whether lushstories was porn or erotica. Clearly, the story you are referencing is 'porn', if we're to draw a distinction. It's a 'Wham-bam-thank-you-Daddy' story, and I've made uneasy peace with the fact that stories will get five times the votes that most other types of stories will get, they will be generous in their judgement, and yes they will get 3 times the comments too.
Somewhere I saw written that accounts for something like 14% of the total site traffic- all I can say is that's a bunch of enthusiastic voting mo-fos, because the other 86% is certainly not voting at anywhere near the same clip.
Having written a few stories myself, perhaps I am biased and shouldn't throw my hat into the ring. But I will anyway. This site - as with all erotica sites - is all about fantasy. Yes there are limits - ie minors, violence, etc. - but overall its' about fantasy and fantasies are very subjective. Adult fantasies are repulsive to some and extremely hot to others. Like with any medium, the best way to avoid being offended by a astory or genre is to not read it. I find some stories on here pretty tasteless too, but that's different from violating guidelines.
Perhaps I am not being clear enough.. Its not the story content I have problems with,
but the gushing from the gallery like its some wonderous piece of literature
where in fact the layout presentation and grammar is no more than poor to mediocre...
When I wrote my first story it took three rejections before I got it good enough for them
(not this site) but it was a good learning experience
Does that make sense...
I look at some of the good writers and wonder why
they don't get the enthuiastic comments
I understand where DB is coming from; I write because I feel the need to share, and I know I’m not a perfect writer. I have more than my share of mistakes (please excuse me, English is not my first language) but I try..!
I would however like to find more comments on my stories, good or bad and I do enjoy a good rating; does this make me an attention whore..? I don’t think so, uhmm well I think I got off the subject let me go back. I wrote a story a while ago, that I am not proud of full of mistakes, and just awful; but it’s one of the stories that has gotten the most comments. Obviously a couple negatives, but mostly positive feedback. Which brings me back to my point – when I come across a really good story it hardly ever has feedback, but I read an awful story and it’s full of comments on how good it is, or how wet they got --- and yes those are all stories.
So this is what I’m going to do from now on, If I find a really good story I’m leaving feedback hahaha this is the best that I can do, as far as the site goes I love it, I have fun here..!
I know I'm quite new to this site and to writing in general but I have to agree with both Ali and DB. If there's a subject - like or humiliation - that doesn't do it for me, I don't read it because I know I won't enjoy it. Simple as!
But I have started reading stories which are full of bad grammar, dreadful spelling and - my favourite pet hate - text talk. So that puts me off as well and I give up and don't bother to finish it.
When I come across a badly writted story -be it lack of plot or bad grammer or no paragraphing my eyes glaze over and like a bad book I refuse to read anymore...When I find someone on here that I like I read all their stories...you are going to get the good with the bad...maybe if you leave a constructive comment regarding grammer and how to improve on it maybe the writer will try to improve...
We're talking about two kinds of audiences here: those of us in the forums and the rest, who read the stories and maybe peek at us in the forum. They seem like two far different kinds, based on years of observation in here.
And like Nic said, what can we do about the ones who come in, read, and leave? Do we want to do anything about that?
If you're talking about the story with the avatar of the pretty young blonde, know that an avatar like that has a lot to do with votes on a story, too. It's the same principle as the "Info Babes" on network television. It works in getting more views. Couple that with the fantasy of the story along with the girl in the av and you'll see the author knows how to garner votes and views.
I'm dying to see this animated willy gif now. I think the forum software is uploading images as the wrong file type or something. It's on Gav's to-do list.
