But fewer people are reading your story. You don't win that way. Posting a story costs you nothing. You're putting the same amount of work into writing it that you would anyway, and it takes, what, less than three minutes to fill out the extra form? No offense, but it sounds like this is about ego. Nothing hurts a writer more surely than ego.

 

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I make sure that I read the tags before even reading stories. Although I am very kinky, everybody has there limitations. I never marked or commented bad on a story as long at it is understandable as to what the author wants to express.

 

Call it what you want, but when stories that I work very hard on are repeatedly attacked anonymously, preventing me from understanding why (if its a legitimate read vote) or responding to the attacker (if its not legitimate) is frustrating. As far as winning? When I write sexual stories I do it for fun. Posting on xnxx lost its fun factor for me and posting sexual stories has become unfun. There is no winning when I post a sexual story on xnxx because of that.

 

I was going to leave my previous comment as it was and move on, but I couldn't do it.

I couldn't do it because that last comment pissed me off.

If I were a marathon runner the last marathon race I would enter would be a race where I was required to wear a ball and chain, along with 90% of the other runners wearing the same chain, while ten percent of the other runners weren't required to wear that ball and chain. The chances of me "winning" that race under those conditions are so slim that the only way I could ever "win" it is if the runners without the ball and chain died of heart attacks in the middle of the race.

As far as "ego" goes the very idea of "garnering" readers is an ego based desire. You might have a point if my goal were to publish books under my current pen name. It isn't. So getting readers for my stories will always, no matter what, be an "ego" based desire. Your point was completely moot.

Ultimately the marathon comparison is what is happening on the stories side of the site. For the longest time I naively posted stories on the stories side of the site. For as long as I did it without understanding what was really happening over there I was having fun. My goal was always to write a story that was good enough to remain on the front page. I liked the setup of that. I liked the philosophy of it. The stories that are the best, inspire the most people to vote positively on your story, get the most exposure. Its a good philosophy and I really wish that it worked that way in reality, but it doesn't. If it did I would continue to post stories there, and continue to try and hone my skills until I could write something good enough to hold that honor.

What happens in reality is something entirely different. What happens in reality is that a few of the writers have figured out how to circumvent the system. I say that because I see their stories remaining at the top of the front page, with a very high rating score, and when I read that story to see what makes it better than my story, I can't find anything unique or special about it. The characters are cardboard, there is no real plot, the grammar is often horrible, and often times the sex scenes are poorly described. Yet it somehow gets hundreds upon hundreds of positive votes? hogwash!

This commentary is by no means a reflection on xnxx itself. I see how they at least tried to fix the problem and the fact that they did at least try means a lot to me as a writer. It took them a long time to before they tried to fix it, but maybe its not an easy problem to fix. At one time every anonymous voter had the ability to vote multiple times on any one story. They somehow made it so that isn't the case anymore. But there must still be some loophole because the inferior stories at the top of the page phenomenon still exists. Until that is fixed I won't worry about posting sex stories on the site. Like I said before I write these stories for fun and its the spirit of competition that motivates me to do it. Not garnering readers.

 

I'm sorry if my comment got on your nerves. Like I said, it's well within your rights to do whatever you want with your own material, including locking it in a drawer if you so choose.

But as I said, I don't see why anyone would ever want to take a step whose only material effect is to guarantee fewer people will ever read the story you put so much work into. So other people are getting more reads, perhaps unfairly? Well, that's disheartening, but refusing to publish doesn't affect that one bit. All it does is cheat you of whatever exposure you would have gotten anyway, which is 100 percent certain to be more than you get by not doing anything. And getting those readers takes virtually no additional work at all. The only downside to the whole arrangement is that it's unpleasant to perceive a negative reaction to your work. But so what? That's a small price to pay for the privilege of having even one more person as your audience. It's not like it costs us anything. It's not like we have to write more to make up for the bad clicks. All other factors are absolutely equal.

But again, it's your call.

 

I still think that you are missing the point. To me its not just about getting a lot of reads. I had quite a few stories that got what I considered to be a lot of reads. Some of them garnering 100k some as many as 150k. A feat which even those stories written by authors that know how to cheat the system are not always able to achieve, but it was never about that for me. Even if my stories were reached 1 million reads I would still feel the same way. I wrote my stories for fun, but I also, until I realized what was going on with the stories side, used the site as a sounding board. I intentionally implemented different elements into my work, whether it was plot, style, voice, point of view, whatever, to see what effects that would have on how well it was received. My goal was always to write a story good enough to stay on the front page, figuring that if I became a good enough writer that I could accomplish that. What it took me a long time to figure out was that my goal was actually an impossible one, and trying to figure out how well a story does by its ratings is impossible because as soon as every one of my stories made it to the front page it was negged repeatedly until it was off again. That same phenomenon still happens today.

And again I remind you that just because I am not writing stories for xnxx as fingerhut.john (a persona that writes only sexual stories) does not mean that I am not writing at all. I have just gotten completely bored with writing sex scenes and I am not more interested in other things, but I haven't fallen off of the face of the Earth or anything.

 

I personally only down vote the violent taboo stories if they are "not" tagged and I feel tricked into starting a story I discover I hate, however one of my friends has bragged to me that she started voting negative on all taboo tagged stories once she got pissed at the site for censoring some topics and not others. And while I agree with her, I can't be bothered with going through the time of opening every story just to vote on it, especially when it makes it appear that story got another view. I prefer to only give "views" to stories I think might be enjoyable, which is another reason I get pissed when I feel tricked into reading violent and abusive crap.

It does suck that some peoples taboo tastes are allowed and other peoples taboo tastes are not. Makes me realise that her "gorilla tactics" and the obvious fact that it does piss people off, actually makes me happy and proud of her.

If they do require logging in to vote, I may take up her fight and begin down voting all taboo tagged stories as well.

 

That pisses me off as well, but ive had a lot of people who go through every story you have and downvote ALL of them.

 

Wow you are a fucking douche. Do you realize I read these stories fantasize being in the victims position? I'm a girl in real life and enjoy being a submissive in BDSM type sex. I like to fantasize much more hard core than actual sex and I assume many doms are the same way. Why the fuck, if you disagree with censoring some things, would you want MORE things censored?? Fuck you you fucking ass hole and fuck your dumb twat friend as well. Why do you guys waste your time ruining thus site for the rest if us?

 

People downvote well written taboo stories that are properly tagged for the same reason why they downvote threads concerning subjects that they don't like that are clearly titled and tagged in the Pic & Movie Post section....



They're douchebags.

 

And THAT, dear friends, is the root of the problem -- douchebags. These are the same types of people who get their jollies breaking random car windows, spray-painting obscenities on store fronts, knocking over gravestones, and doing doughnuts on the turf of the school athletic field. They do nothing to add to society. All they do is destroy and laugh about it. Cowardly douchebag vandals.