Quote by FieryRedhead69I'm aware, that Trump is a political figure, but I made no political statement, I just made a little fun about his hair.
uh, no
TPBM is hoping that we can keep politics out of the forums as much as possible, as it only pisses people off.
Quote by adagio_sabadicus
At times I'm frustrated, having to wait, but talking about conspiracies..that's all BS. It I thought that a mod was singling me out, I would report it. Why don't you go to the top banana, (Nicola) and say so? You are getting nowhere with rants. Why not move one to pastures that suit you. You have become very boring.
Quote by nollWhat remains unclear to me, is how members, who choose to be invisible when online, are counted in those statistics. If they're not, actual numbers could be a lot higher.
Ah, I see, I hoped you had a source with more hard numbers. While I appreciate your effort it's still rather speculative (well, web stats are always speculative of course) to suggest that "doing something else" equals reading stories. There's also Groups and member profiles for instance. And basing a conclusion on one or two points in time may skew the results a lot as well. But it seems safe to say that most visitors are indeed here for the stories.
Quote by Tricky_Dicky
Oh grow up and don't be so bloody childish. You're just spreading false rumors in a blatant attempt to push my thought-provoking post further up the page so nobody reads it. This is a good thread, and I'm disgusted that people are trying to derail it with infantile behavior. I'll post my thought-provoking message again. Please start your own thread if you want to act the clown.
Quote by Tricky_DickyI don't think anyone here is bothered by the "general consensus" as you perceive it, nor with the fact that some people clearly have issues with the standards, upheld here. The general consensus among the lush members is, that they are happy with how the site and its moderating team function. Maybe you should accept what several mods have already told you. As good as those writers may be, I cannot judge that, it is abundantly clear, that neither the owner nor the moderators of lushstories.com are willing to lower the standards of the site, in order to win them back. You can assume a hundred new identities and bring it up as often as you want, or you can accept the truth as it is and take your stories to where those other good writers you mention publish them. I wise person would save his energy and do the latter.
The general consensus on the other site is that Lush mods are too fastidious when rejecting stories. It goes way beyond grammar and punctuation. An example another member pointed out was that he can't use the name "motherfucker" because somebody may misinterpret that as a reference to . This is a perfect example of what I'm getting at.
People have had their worked bounced for the same reasons. People have been, in the past, asked to omit certain words because they are banned from the site, or change a paragraph because someone may interpret it as relating to a banned subject. It is, for a better word, farcical, at times. And it has become a much talked about issue on the other site.
It's childish and irrational, and has chased away many a good author over the years. Good authors will NOT alter story content because Lush mods have rejected their story for inane reasons. Good authors will take their work and go elsewhere. The other site has members with stories to tell about story rejections for ridiculous reasons, and those people will not submit work to Lush anymore. People don't like having their time wasted.
So an unintended consequence of that is other sites get the vast majority of good authors, and Lush get's lumbered with the pap.
It's an issue worth addressing if this site is serious about winning back more good authors.
Quote by Tricky_DickyDo you seriously think, anyone believes, that someone entirely new here, without any publications on his/her name, would become a lush member, only to repeat the things lusty_linda aka Wayne wrote in the recent past? I don't have the resources Liz has, but I came to the same conclusion as she did: I believe you're the same person that was here before as Lusty_linda. Your slightly more polite approach fails to conceal that. Even when I don't always agree with the mods, I do agree with the rules of this site. You obviously don't. There's a simple solution for that problem: leave.
I don't know what you're talking about, but you've obviously got me confused with somebody else. Let's just stick to the subject and not derail this thread with your rantings over a personal dispute with someone called "Desperate_Dan, Wayne_King, etc."
Next time you'll be issued with a warning.
Thank you.
Quote by SimmerdownchickOnly in American English. In British English (which is, where the language originally comes from) it's realiSe, with an S. The same goes for authorise, penalise and most other verbs that end with ize in America.
Um, REALIZE is spelled with a 'Z'.
