Feedback and suggestions

curiousv:
I remember there was once a rating system.
It was probably removed when too many people who couldn't write, started complaining that they were offended by not getting a full score of 5 for their bunch of misspelled words thrown together and pretending to be a story.

curiousv:
I remember there was once a rating system.
It was probably removed when too many people who couldn't write, started complaining that they were offended by not getting a full score of 5 for their bunch of misspelled words thrown together and pretending to be a story.

Now, without a rating system, and only the number of clicks being used as some kind of rating, the only thing influencing the visibility of a story is how many people clicked on it, so a clickbaiting title is the only thing to decide the fate of a story.

I tried writing a few short stories, and despite English not being my first language, I tired to make the spelling and grammar as correct as I could, I concentrated on having as few clichees as possible, and tried to give personality to the characters. (people who wrote me about them seemed to like them).

But they are still out-competed by far by stories with a title like "[female name] gets fat", with no punctuation, horrible spelling, and a two-paragraph story about someone gaining a gazillion tons of weight without any story, any characterization, and description, and any explained motivation.

BBWcreator82:
If you don't care about what you're doing, you shouldn't do it.

No one is asking for professionalism. We are asking for a tiny bit more effort. Proofreading. A sense of pride, maybe?

People, new people, come to this site. They click on the stories and you know what they think when they see that unreadable trash??

"God these people are just as dumb as the internet says they are."

That is what they think.

By god man, is it too much to ask to run a spell check through some of these stories? Is that seriously too much to ask? Really?!!

If you spend THAT much time trying to craft a story, wouldn't you want it as good as you could get it before you sent it out?

No one is asking anyone to be perfect. But, try, at least to do the best you can. No one should have to "Get around the bad grammar, punctuation, style, and spelling" to see the story that is "there"

If you're going to create something, why do a terrible job at it? Do the best you can.

To excuse these patterns is to encourage laziness and bad habits.

If you're not going to even bother to spell check it, don't bother to upload it.

clive2007:
This is the perfect way to alienate just about everyone who might have an inkling to maybe upload a story.

If people want to upload here, then let them, that's the mark of what makes a community site - well - a community, when people contribute. People will stop sending them if they are judged using the standards of sites where writing is expected to be of some exemplary form.

Let them be, if you can't stand reading what you are seeing - then move on to the next one, there are plenty to choose from.

... a community, when people contribute. People will stop sending them if they are judged using the standards of sites where writing is expected to be of some exemplary form.

clive2007:
I don't believe any form of "gatekeeper" is required other than basic monitoring to ensure that stories that are posted are appropriate, but to dig down and check for spelling, grammar, etc., no no no, this is not school where you get red ink over a badly prepared story and have to repeat it until you get it right. Instead this is a place that encourages to you post what your mind can create, however that manifests.