I thrive on interacting with my readers.
I especially love the idea of writing a story with a partner where we take turns and they write the next chapter and that way I do not know where the story is really going to go.
However, I made the decision this weekend to turn off comments to all of my stories. I love having a forum where constructive feedback can be provided.
I reached a point where "Story codes? never heard of them" guy just got under my skin.
A reader left a passive aggressive comment of how much he wanted my story to be a romance.
Keep in mind, the story codes aren't about romance. They clearly say things like bondage, humiliation, incest, prostitution.
I tried ridicule as a form of response, and that doesn't stop the avalanche.
Turning off comments doesn't mean you can't provide feedback. It just means you have to send it to me directly instead of attached to my stories.
I solved one problem, if only there was a way to stop the the one-bombers who create multi-accounts to downvote stories in genres that they do not like. There is definitely a toxic subculture of trolls who identify authors that they are going to relentlessly downvote.
They aren't reviewing the story fairly. They are simply seeing "Femdom? downvote". Which makes the voting process skewed and somewhat pointless as a metric.
The only solution I can come up with is "ignore the vote score" - but try as I might, I still check it.
In other news: I am considering writing a Halloween story. It will be about a Goth girl with pumpkin sized titties. I just don't know what the plot is yet. I have a few ideas.
People have done the naked trick or treating trope plenty of times in stories, but it is still fun to do.