Recommended writers on XNXX

[donb9033]

So far as I can tell, the only thing not working is the rating of the stories shown on the author's home page. Missing some decimals.

[ejls]

Things seem to be back to the way they were prior to the melt-down. I don't see anything has changed, expect for on my own page, the percentages are listed differently. I guess we won't know if there are any modifications on voting and/or commenting, until we submit.

[donb9033]

Comments appear to be working well, also. It looks like, dear friends, that we have the site in operation. It's really nice that my poor little story rates 8000%. Wow!

[Mark Twayn]

I've started to eat my hat. I didn't believe it would happen.

It seems that new stories are being rated higher than before. There could be three reasons for this.
1) A new generation of Hemingways has surfaced
2) The trolls have given up over the last few months
3) They are somehow filtering trolls

The section Top Rated Stories is a mess because the top 80 or so are 100% rated with virtually no reads, detritus from the bad ol' days. Not the end of the earth I guess, but I do like to go through top rated in each theme to find some class.

[ejls]

Welcome home, sweetie. We've missed you.

Oh, and something I noticed. Yesterday I had two negative on Nora - 3, today there is only one. I'm not questioning, but maybe they'll provide us with an update of what has changed.

[Mark Twayn]

Originally Posted by ejls

Welcome home, sweetie. We've missed you.

Oh, and something I noticed. Yesterday I had two negative on Nora - 3, today there is only one. I'm not questioning, but maybe they'll provide us with an update of what has changed.

Hi there WAM

Even before the debacle I noticed that they were not counting all the negative votes and sometimes deleting some of them.

This doesn't alter the fact that some illiterate ass licking troll has dared to give you even one negative vote. I miss the good old days when we could have got a posse together, hunted such varmints down and hung them from the nearest tree.

[seeminglysatisfied]

Originally Posted by ejls

Things seem to be back to the way they were prior to the melt-down. I don't see anything has changed, expect for on my own page, the percentages are listed differently. I guess we won't know if there are any modifications on voting and/or commenting, until we submit.

The percentages are listed in 4 digit format minus the decimal point. I.E. 8000% = 80.00%. It appears to be more accurate, though I noticed a record low vote on one of my stories I do plan to post more in the future since I am not a force to be reckoned with.

Originally Posted by donb9033

Comments appear to be working well, also. It looks like, dear friends, that we have the site in operation. It's really nice that my poor little story rates 8000%. Wow!

I am very happy for you and your first (hopefully not only) story doing so well. It is rewarding to see something that you struggled to create become so successful, especially since it quite the first effort indeed.

Originally Posted by Mark Twayn

I've started to eat my hat. I didn't believe it would happen.

It seems that new stories are being rated higher than before. There could be three reasons for this.
1) A new generation of Hemingways has surfaced
2) The trolls have given up over the last few months
3) They are somehow filtering trolls

I think they are filtering trolls somewhat, but I also believe trolls are still actively voting down stories just to try and piss off people. In my case, a few trolls seem to love me and gave one of my recent postings a 12.5 rating though it was received well by the forum.

Let's see a troll post a story. Karma's a bitch

And welcome back MT!
As long as AP is still around we can celebrate

[JackassTales]

Originally Posted by donb9033

Comments appear to be working well, also. It looks like, dear friends, that we have the site in operation. It's really nice that my poor little story rates 8000%. Wow!

I'm going over to find your story and give it an ass-kicking jump! Let's see if a logged in MEMBER's vote really counts as much as 10!

P.S. You have a link to this story on the forum in your signature; how about putting a link to it on the main stories page here too!

[seeminglysatisfied]

Originally Posted by JackassTales

I'm going over to find your story and give it an ass-kicking jump! Let's see if a logged in MEMBER's vote really counts as much as 10!

P.S. You have a link to this story on the forum in your signature; how about putting a link to it on the main stories page here too!

I thought a logged in member's vote counts as 1, and a 'logged out' person's vote counts as 1/10

[donb9033]

Originally Posted by seeminglysatisfied

I am very happy for you and your first (hopefully not only) story doing so well. It is rewarding to see something that you struggled to create become so successful, especially since it quite the first effort indeed.

I realize, full well, the reason my little story received so many wonderful comments on the forum. In spite of knowing, I love all the commenters anyway.

[donb9033]

Originally Posted by JackassTales

P.S. You have a link to this story on the forum in your signature; how about putting a link to it on the main stories page here too!

Mission accomplished. No boost necessary, but love the thought.

[Daddycums]

Originally Posted by Mark Twayn

I've started to eat my hat. I didn't believe it would happen.

It seems that new stories are being rated higher than before. There could be three reasons for this.
1) A new generation of Hemingways has surfaced
2) The trolls have given up over the last few months
3) They are somehow filtering trolls

The section Top Rated Stories is a mess because the top 80 or so are 100% rated with virtually no reads, detritus from the bad ol' days. Not the end of the earth I guess, but I do like to go through top rated in each theme to find some class.

Actually, this isn't much different from the way it was before. The first vote on a story always puts it to 100% or 0%, and it's not until someone votes opposite the first vote that that changes. I generally ignore the 100% stories on the Top Rated - Last 30 days list. The really interesting ones are the 90's and 80's.

By the way, you might try ketchup with that hat. Trust me; I've had to eat my hat more times than I care to admit. I've also had to eat crow (barbecue sauce is a good choice of condiment) and my words (honey goes nicely with words).

[Hardrive]

Originally Posted by Daddycums

Actually, this isn't much different from the way it was before. The first vote on a story always puts it to 100% or 0%, and it's not until someone votes opposite the first vote that that changes. I generally ignore the 100% stories on the Top Rated - Last 30 days list. The really interesting ones are the 90's and 80's.

By the way, you might try ketchup with that hat. Trust me; I've had to eat my hat more times than I care to admit. I've also had to eat crow (barbecue sauce is a good choice of condiment) and my words (honey goes nicely with words).

I arrived at xnxx just a few days after the system went down. At that time I read that some writers were asking for changes and it was believed that the system was down while the changes were being made.

My questions are:
1) Have any of the requested changes been made?
2) What were those changes?
3) Is everyone happy now?

HD

[JackassTales]

Originally Posted by seeminglysatisfied

I thought a logged in member's vote counts as 1, and a 'logged out' person's vote counts as 1/10

The way CHUNKY last explained, he was going to try to get 'them' to allow anonymous votes to count as 1 while member votes counted as 10. Whether this has been implemented or not, I don't know.

[JackassTales]

Originally Posted by donb9033

Comments appear to be working well, also. It looks like, dear friends, that we have the site in operation. It's really nice that my poor little story rates 8000%. Wow!

Your "poor little story" now has a rating of 88.9%. Wow, indeed!

Originally Posted by Hardrive

3) Is everyone happy now?

I, for one, am happy as a clam. I can respond to my readers again. Yippee!

One nice bit of anecdotal evidence that things are better: my scores are creeping up, and staying that way. I could be imagining it, but I get the impression that it is harder for readers (and perhaps even other authors, mon Dieu) with sour grapes to intentionally tank high scores.

Oddly enough, my hit counts are creeping up, even though my novel has not appeared in a "top rated" list in months. So people are coming back, from somewhere, and somehow finding my filth. That is nice.

In short, to quote one of my characters, "I am a happy girl. I am the happiest girl there is."

A.P.

[donb9033]

Originally Posted by JackassTales

Your "poor little story" now has a rating of 88.9%. Wow, indeed!

Keep an eye on the new stories list - part 2 coming.

[seeminglysatisfied]

Originally Posted by JackassTales

The way CHUNKY last explained, he was going to try to get 'them' to allow anonymous votes to count as 1 while member votes counted as 10. Whether this has been implemented or not, I don't know.

That would essentially mean the same thing, the 10 to 1 ratio.

[ejls]

Either way, I don't see that anything has changed.

[seeminglysatisfied]

The voting hasn't changed except in my case. I have a submission rated 12.5, so that says something. Posting here has reached its heyday much before the site fell dead to technical problems. Certain people will remain top rated while others scrape the bottom of the barrel for a read or two.

Though I can't say I have been happier now than any point in my life before. New writers don't have exposure on the stories site, nor do any other writers that don't kiss up to the more well known literary scholars. I wish I had attained the degree required of me to write any of the works worthy of praise here.

[donb9033]

Originally Posted by seeminglysatisfied

The voting hasn't changed except in my case. I have a submission rated 12.5, so that says something. Posting here has reached its heyday much before the site fell dead to technical problems. Certain people will remain top rated while others scrape the bottom of the barrel for a read or two.

Though I can't say I have been happier now than any point in my life before. New writers don't have exposure on the stories site, nor do any other writers that don't kiss up to the more well known literary scholars. I wish I had attained the degree required of me to write any of the works worthy of praise here.

You and me both, SS. I hated school, but the older I get the more I wish I had stuck it out. Oh, well. Life's a bitch then you die.

[ejls]

Originally Posted by seeminglysatisfied

The voting hasn't changed except in my case. I have a submission rated 12.5, so that says something. Posting here has reached its heyday much before the site fell dead to technical problems. Certain people will remain top rated while others scrape the bottom of the barrel for a read or two.

Though I can't say I have been happier now than any point in my life before. New writers don't have exposure on the stories site, nor do any other writers that don't kiss up to the more well known literary scholars. I wish I had attained the degree required of me to write any of the works worthy of praise here.

You don't need a degree to write. I don't have one. But I had a mother who instilled the love of reading into me. It's more important to tell a good story, than it is to be technically correct. You have a great imagination, now pretend you're talking to a friend and tell them the story. Write it exactly the way you would say the words in conversation.

[Hardrive]

Originally Posted by ejls

Either way, I don't see that anything has changed.

Okay, I'm new and don't really know my way around so I'm still asking questions and not giving opinions about how xnxx works.

Having said that, I'd like to share some information with you and ask if this seems normal and the way it has always been?

My question is about a story that I have not read. I picked it out because it is listed as the TOP RATED STORY FOR THE LAST 30 DAYS.

Apparently this is the first story of Jtool, member since 2010-02-26. He Posted his story, "Michelle's sleeping Bag" on 2010-03-09 during the time when the system was down. Since the system has been back, his story has been Read 22962 times | Rated 96.8 (310 votes.)

I ask with no prejudice, do those stats seem normal?


HD


PS: If the stats are correct, congratulations Jtool. You should be on the list of recommended writers.

[seeminglysatisfied]

Originally Posted by Hardrive

Okay, I'm new and don't really know my way around so I'm still asking questions and not giving opinions about how xnxx works.

Having said that, I'd like to share some information with you and ask if this seems normal and the way it has always been?

My question is about a story that I have not read. I picked it out because it is listed as the TOP RATED STORY FOR THE LAST 30 DAYS.

Apparently this is the first story of Jtool, member since 2010-02-26. He Posted his story, "Michelle's sleeping Bag" on 2010-03-09 during the time when the system was down. Since the system has been back, his story has been Read 22962 times | Rated 96.8 (310 votes.)

I ask with no prejudice, do those stats seem normal?


HD


PS: If the stats are correct, congratulations Jtool. You should be on the list of recommended writers.

Having been on the front page of the stories site gave jtool more exposure than other persons who were pushed lower onto the 2nd 3rd or 4th pages. Thus, more people who read his story remembered they hadn't voted for him, and probably just voted for his work.

Even if his story was crap, it was given the opportunity to be read by being stuck on the front page. By being given said opportunity, it was read more often and voted also. Had a few people voted him negatively, his story would be 10 pages down the list never to be seen again.

[donb9033]

Has anyone read his story?

[ejls]

Originally Posted by Hardrive

Okay, I'm new and don't really know my way around so I'm still asking questions and not giving opinions about how xnxx works.

Having said that, I'd like to share some information with you and ask if this seems normal and the way it has always been?

My question is about a story that I have not read. I picked it out because it is listed as the TOP RATED STORY FOR THE LAST 30 DAYS.

Apparently this is the first story of Jtool, member since 2010-02-26. He Posted his story, "Michelle's sleeping Bag" on 2010-03-09 during the time when the system was down. Since the system has been back, his story has been Read 22962 times | Rated 96.8 (310 votes.)

I ask with no prejudice, do those stats seem normal?


HD


PS: If the stats are correct, congratulations Jtool. You should be on the list of recommended writers.

SS is right. If you're lucky enough to be noticed while in the first 15 spots, you're going to get read. If your story is good, the votes will come. But if a story is utter crap, nothing you can do will save it. That being said, if you immediately start with negative votes, it's extremely hard to recover from. I think that's happened to a lot of us, when people deliberately vote us down right from the start.

Notice too, his story posted around 3/11 and received votes and comments until the site went down again. It was commented and voted on again starting 3/19.

[seeminglysatisfied]

Originally Posted by ejls

Notice too, his story posted around 3/11 and received votes and comments until the site went down again. It was commented and voted on again starting 3/19.

So from around 3/11 to 3/19 jtool's story received a "free pass" of sorts, enabling him to retain exposure for about a week without harm of negative votes.

[CallMeRave]

I would like to know how they work out the top rated in the last 30 days list. There is still a full page of 100% stories in the top rated list, all of which can only have been voted on in the last 30 days but they don’t appear in the other list. Is there a bias for the number of votes and if so does anyone know how it is calculated? I had thought it could just be the number of positive votes in the last 30 days but the vote counts don’t match.

I would also like to put forward one CoolNix as a recommendation, who has managed to come out of the shut down with all four of his stories in the top rated of the last 30 days.

[seeminglysatisfied]

Originally Posted by CallMeRave

I would like to know how they work out the top rated in the last 30 days list. There is still a full page of 100% stories in the top rated list, all of which can only have been voted on in the last 30 days but they don’t appear in the other list. Is there a bias for the number of votes and if so does anyone know how it is calculated? I had thought it could just be the number of positive votes in the last 30 days but the vote counts don’t match.

I would also like to put forward one CoolNix as a recommendation, who has managed to come out of the shut down with all four of his stories in the top rated of the last 30 days.

Top rated in the last 30 days tend to be of a different list (encompassing the top rated stories/poems/etc of the past 30 days). The top rated list is not of the past 30 days, but of the presently highest rated stories. as someone else mentioned in this thread, a member vote is supposed to count as 10 votes, while a non-member vote counts as 1 vote. That could explain the ratings being as they are.

[Mark Twayn]

Originally Posted by CallMeRave

I would like to know how they work out the top rated in the last 30 days list. There is still a full page of 100% stories in the top rated list, all of which can only have been voted on in the last 30 days but they don’t appear in the other list. Is there a bias for the number of votes and if so does anyone know how it is calculated? I had thought it could just be the number of positive votes in the last 30 days but the vote counts don’t match.

I would also like to put forward one CoolNix as a recommendation, who has managed to come out of the shut down with all four of his stories in the top rated of the last 30 days.

They seem to have done the sensible thing by keeping 100% rating stories with low votes out of top stories last 30 days. But they haven't followed this logic with top rated all time.
This is a bit tough on some of those stories where the scores were stuffed by the site being stuffed. Who knows, there might be one which does really deserve 100? Perhaps they should be deleted and automatically resubmitted.

One way or another the votes % are higher than before. Perhaps the trolls are being excluded. So, all you authors, you can get your egos massaged by higher scores now.

Me, my ego is shattered because I did have 2 on the front page which now seem destined to languish several pages down in never read land.

[CallMeRave]

The one to ten ratio hasn’t been implemented yet so far as I can tell. (I voted on two different stories one logged in, one logged out, and watched their percentage change both only altered by one vote. And yes I am that sad). I have also voted positively on one of the stories with 100% to see if it would move into the last 30 days list to see if there was just some overlap from when the site was being fixed and it didn’t move. They could have decided to keep 100% stories off the list until the site gets it legs back under it which I guess would be sensible. I would try a negative vote but I don’t want to mess someone’s stats just to experiment. I am sure it will resolve itself.

[CuriousKat]

Originally Posted by donb9033

Has anyone read his story?

Oh yes he is very well spoken for I thought he was already on the list. The aforementioned story is indeed a well written one with a hot sex scene in a winter storm

[donb9033]

Originally Posted by Mark Twayn

Me, my ego is shattered because I did have 2 on the front page which now seem destined to languish several pages down in never read land.

Mark, your stories will never languish and you know it. We still need to discuss your ego.

[donb9033]

Originally Posted by CuriousKat

Oh yes he is very well spoken for I thought he was already on the list. The aforementioned story is indeed a well written one with a hot sex scene in a winter storm

Thanks, Kat, I'll have to try it. Can we count you as a recommendation? If so, here is the link: http://stories.xnxx.com/profile370802/.

[CuriousKat]

Well, uhm, uhh, maybe, uhmmm...lets wait for you to pass judgement on it before trusting it to me lol. I mean I am very easy to please so I would recommend just about every author here but it was indeed a short and sweet story written with the least bit of grammatical errors

[donb9033]

Originally Posted by CuriousKat

Oh yes he is very well spoken for I thought he was already on the list. The aforementioned story is indeed a well written one with a hot sex scene in a winter storm

I'm currently trying to read the story. I agree that the story appears to be very well written, but I must not be the intended audience. I have not given up, but am taking a break from all the 'cool', music, high school, etc. Hoping to continue later when I'm in a better mood.

I just read a post from an asshole that thinks porn causes child-abuse. Sounds like he should run for president. I am too steamed to continue reading new stuff, so I think I will go back to some old favorites: Mark Twayn, JackassTales, ejls, Daddycums, etc. There is some lovely piece (peace?) and quiet.

I'll get back to you when I finish the story. But, as far as I'm concerned, he has become a 'Recommended writer' - two recommendations. That's more than some of those recommended got.

Peace to us all - everything else has forsaken us.

[Mark Twayn]

Under age girls. I guess there has to be a legal limit in real life. It's 16 where I live. There were a few girls who were virgins on their 16th birthday but fortunately I didn't meet too many of them. Except for my wife #1 who had "kept herself for her husband". I certainly wished she hadn't as our sex was a disaster. And I suspect she now wishes she hadn't, given that she now regards me as somewhere below the dung beetle on the evolutionary scale.

I really can't think of girls before puberty in a sexual way and don't like stories about sex with them. Even if she "consents" it still has an element of rape. But does that mean they shouldn't be published or read? No way. It's no-one else's business what people should read or write.
Except people who write bad comments about ejl's stories. These bastards should be horse-whipped, tarred and feathered and hung by their balls.

On ol' Cannon's point about the location of the server. I doubt that's relevant. It's the laws in the country of the downloader not the server which will send you to a life of masturbation and anal sex in prison.

[donb9033]

MT, I honestly believe that you have the right to read, think, and believe anything you want and I have the same right. Acting on those beliefs may be wrong, but believing them is not.

A comment for all those who would control our reading, thinking, and believing - fuck off!

And now for an apology to my lovely friend Ellen. Dear lady, I'm sorry to use such language in front of you, but, to paraphrase something I've heard 'The bastards are wearing me down'.

Okay, I'm all finished now - at least until some other idiot posts another idiotic post.

Peace to us all - it may be fleeting.

[Hardrive]

Originally Posted by ejls

if you immediately start with negative votes, it's extremely hard to recover from. I think that's happened to a lot of us, when people deliberately vote us down right from the start.

Notice too, his story posted around 3/11 and received votes and comments until the site went down again. It was commented and voted on again starting 3/19.

Are people here really so petty that they would deliberately vote a story down because they don't like the writer? That would imply that the negative voters are regulars here at xnxx. How else would they get to know anyone well enough not to like them. Furthermore, you really can't tell too much about a person based on what they post on the forum. All you can do is agree or not agree with their opinion. Posting your own contrary opinion would seem the appropriate response. Voting the other person's story down would be the act of some sad and petty individual who is both cowardly and intellectually bankrupt.

Also, I'm still trying to get my head around the fact that a new story, even if it is kept at the top of the "new story" list for 5 or 6 days, could be read 23,000 times? That still averages about 3,800 reads a day. I may not be like everybody else but when I first started reading xnxx stories I started with the best rated and most read stories first.

Am I really way off base here? Do you know any writer that got 23,000 reads and 330 votes in 6 days? I'm either totally ignorant about how xnxx counting system works (and I'll be the first to admit that is very possible.) or the system is not working right. Anyway, I won't be posting about this subject again. I just wanted to check again with you guys.

HD

[donb9033]

Originally Posted by Hardrive

Are people here really so petty that they would deliberately vote a story down because they don't like the writer?

In a word - yes. We've seen it time and again. There are some who, when encountering a well-received story feel they must vote it down. I call them assholes, but I guess they are just haters.

Sad.

[ole_crannon]

Originally Posted by Mark Twayn

On ol' Cannon's point about the location of the server. I doubt that's relevant. It's the laws in the country of the downloader not the server which will send you to a life of masturbation and anal sex in prison.

Mark, I agree with you on that last sentence, but I do think it's very relevant.

If some moron who has emotional hangups about age or anything else purposely goes to any server and accesses the content hosted there, the onus is on that surfer, not the host site. If the surfer lives under laws which make accessing the content illegal, it's his/her problem, not the host site. (Or even the ISP's as common carriers.) As you said.

What's relevant is that if said surfer is concerned about what he has access to, then he needs to curtail his access, not the content of the server. If the surfer is so emotionally invested in opposition to a certain topic (that he has sought out or exposed himself to), such as under age subject matter, and has such serious emotional hangups that he feels compelled to force- one way or another - a webserver or anyone else to change the content that he objects to, then the psychological problem is with that surfer and he should seek some professional help, because use of defense mechanisms can be a sign of serious underlying psych problems. The OP should look up 'projection', 'denial', 'dissociation', 'reaction formation', etc.

Contrast this with the average person who doesn't have such psychological hangups -- they will either just avoid such subject matter knowing that they don't enjoy it, or shrug and give it little thought, not seeking it out. Only those seriously hung up on something will join a porn site (for pete's sake) just to post their emotional opposition to the subject and try to get the site to change... or rally others around their 'cause' to effect the change, viz. his statement that he'd been here a year but his sign up date was probably today when he posted.

It just gets very tiresome reading these hypocrital and bigoted ignorant rants, although I must say that this one at least can spell and has some grasp of grammar. Most usually proudly display their pure stupidity and ignorance by the semi-intelligiblity of their rants. And they seem to lack the capability to discern between reality and fantasy, a serious problem.

While these people will watch murders, rapes, violent attacks, and every other illegal action under the sun on teevee (LawnOrder, CSI, etc.) and think nothing of it or not have a violently emotional reaction, the fact that they DO have such a reaction about "underage sex" or sex with underage persons in a pure fantasy context shows they have some problems/obsessions. That can lead to some pretty nasty behavior. They recognize that they can't control themselves regarding those obsessions, so they must require others to do things (make laws, remove content) to keep them from it. Classic basic Ab Psych cases.

Back on track, what I was just pointing out to the OP was that his ignorance of the location of the server and the laws governing it just goes to show how judgemental and stupid he himself is. Wanting everyone else to change to fit his views. That was the point I was trying to make.

[Daddycums]

Originally Posted by Hardrive

Are people here really so petty that they would deliberately vote a story down because they don't like the writer?

In a roundabout way, that was what caused the commenting and voting to be disabled for a while.

The short version: I discovered that someone was systematically voting down my stories (exactly 2 negative votes every day, no more and no less, for about a week). I started a thread ranting about it. The moderators said they would make some changes to the site to fix the problem. They temporarily disabled voting and commenting while making the changes. Three months later, they re-enabled voting and commenting but I see no evidence that the promised changes were made.

At least the unfair voting seems to have gone away, at least on my stories. I can't speak for any other author though.

[Mark Twayn]

This is a response to someone's comment - I think it was HardDrive. I as usual stuffed up on the quote.


He (she?) wrote

Also, I'm still trying to get my head around the fact that a new story, even if it is kept at the top of the "new story" list for 5 or 6 days, could be read 23,000 times? That still averages about 3,800 reads a day. I may not be like everybody else but when I first started reading xnxx stories I started with the best rated and most read stories first.

Am I really way off base here? Do you know any writer that got 23,000 reads and 330 votes in 6 days? I'm either totally ignorant about how xnxx counting system works (and I'll be the first to admit that is very possible.) or the system is not working right. Anyway, I won't be posting about this subject again. I just wanted to check again with you guys.

End of quote

Yup, 23,000 is a low score for a story which stays in the top 4 - 5 for 6 days. It used to be up to 50,000 in that time, which certainly gave me a buzz on the few (very few) occasions that happened to me.

The high ranking stories are having relatively low reads now because the site was stuffed for so long and readers left in their thousands.

And yup on your other point. Great authors on this site have been targeted. A few negative votes which get a story off the front page will do it. Jealous authors, destructive petty minded idiots who take time off from pulling the wings off flies to do this? Who knows.

Tough? Sure. But once we put our work on an open forum we've got to take the rough with the smooth.

[donb9033]

Originally Posted by Mark Twayn

And yup on your other point. Great authors on this site have been targeted. A few negative votes which get a story off the front page will do it. Jealous authors, destructive petty minded idiots who take time off from pulling the wings off flies to do this? Who knows.

Tough? Sure. But once we put our work on an open forum we've got to take the rough with the smooth.

I've seen it time and again and cried about it often. I have feared that some of my favorite authors will give up because of this crap. Thankfully, most of them have stood fast. However, some of the very good authors gave up and even had their stories removed from this site. So very sad. Too much hate.

[Hardrive]

Originally Posted by Mark Twayn

This is a response to someone's comment - I think it was HardDrive. I as usual stuffed up on the quote.

He (she?) wrote .... yada, yada, yada.
.

Just for the record... it's HE and not she. If you'd like photographic proof I could send a picture, soon as I find my super wide angle. Or, you can look at my avatar. Notice the the size of the horn. Males have a bigger horn.

Anyway, thanks for the info.

HD

[Mark Twayn]

Originally Posted by Hardrive

Just for the record... it's HE and not she. If you'd like photographic proof I could send a picture, soon as I find my super wide angle. Or, you can look at my avatar. Notice the the size of the horn. Males have a bigger horn.

Anyway, thanks for the info.

HD

Since you're He not a SHE no photograph is required.

[ejls]

Damn, here I am thinking you guys are going to pull out your horns and compare. I always arrive too late.

Don - I love you, and you know that, but I have been know to drop an f-bomb now and again. I've been told it's cute when I say it, but I do say it. There is very little you can do to offend my sensibilities, as you call it. I mean, we are on a porn site.

Oh yeah, one more thing - I read Mark Twayn's No Escape last night. Holy crap, it was wonderful, and it made for some really beautiful dreams.

[donb9033]

Ellen, I am of the opinion that you are indeed a lady and I was taught to never say anything to offend a lady. The only thing I can say in my defense is that yesterday really sucked, then I had to run into a censor. Again, sorry.

[ejls]

You are my knight in shining armor, and its not at all tarnished.

[donb9033]

Originally Posted by ejls

Oh yeah, one more thing - I read Mark Twayn's No Escape last night. Holy crap, it was wonderful, and it made for some really beautiful dreams.

Not my all-time favorite of his stories, but erotic as hell. Very talented writer and perveyor of porn. Great guy, as well.