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From: guest (Jayzie)
, 128 months, post #1 |
I left Writing.com for the longest time. The reason was because of
the interactive stories. Some of them would have very short
sentences and you'd be clicking on choices for hours getting stuff
like:
"And then what happened?
Choice 1: You open the door
Choice 2: You try to hide.
You chose to open the door. Who was knocking?
Choice 1: Your mom
Choice 2: Your dad"
I just can't take it when it gets to be for over 10 "chapters" as
they call them. Secondly, there was an abundance of stories with
the grammar of small children and the spelling just as atrocious.
What's funny is that I also got quite a few sanctimonious emails
about how my stories were "too violent" or advocated things that I
did not advocate. Just because a character mentioned she got raped
a long time ago does not mean I support it, it means I was giving
the character or story some depth.
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From: guest (SegataSaturn)
, 128 months, post #2 |
I quit the community at one point, when some people found out I was
involved in the fetish. After a few years, I decided to come back
to it because I really enjoyed it. Choose your own change is a site
that I quit, mainly because I preferred writing.com more. CYOC at
times can feel like a dumping ground for bad TF writing.
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From: guest (Wassel29)
, 128 months, post #3 |
I get what you mean about those short chapters on writing.com
Jayzie, especially when it's a storyline you either added to or
invested in. You see there has been a recent add and you think "Oh
goodie, I'll look forward to reading this" only to find it's like a
ten word sentence.
Though that has never actually made me leave, the amount of stories
that seemed to randomly get deleted all the time almost made me
stop adding to other stories and just work on things for my self.
Is really annoying when loads of your chapters just vanish one day
without any warning. Which is why I've since learned to backup :P
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From: guest (SegataSaturn)
, 128 months, post #4 |
I'm honestly considering quitting writing.com for good, mainly due
to the fact that free members get crap-all. That confuses me, I get
charging people for website services, but why a story site? Why
restrict my article amount to 10? I'm honestly just going to start
a wordpress like deviousmajik, because writing.com is driving me
nuts.
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From: guest (imaj)
, 128 months, post #5 |
There are some good interactives on writing.com. I guess you need
to find one that's been created by someone who is invested in the
process of editing it.
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From: guest (Jayzie)
, 128 months, post #6 |
Yeah, I understand all of these points completely. Thanks for the
input about CYOC, SegataSaturn, it sounds like Writing.com but on a
bad day. I believe I've been there before for some kind of "Altered
Fates" storyline, and found the entire thing difficult to navigate,
mainly because there seemed to be hundreds of different choices.
I tend to go to every chapter, regardless, by opening a new tab for
one option and clicking on the other one.
But there gets a point where the number of tabs slows your computer
to a crawl and that too hinders the reading process.
But the thing that bothers me the most about that Writing.com might
just be when there's a choice and someone adds a chapter that has
nothing to do with it. That sorta thing agitates me especially when
the choice was an exciting one.
lol, it sounds like I'm nitpicking, but if it only happened a few
times I wouldn't have felt the need to mention it. I'm not that
kind of person.
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From: guest (imaj)
, 128 months, post #7 |
I don't know what your prefered type of tf is Jayzie, but
http://www.writing.com/main/interact/item_id/1510047-The-Book-of-Masks
and its sequel
http://www.writing.com/main/interact/item_id/1942914-The-Wandering-Stars
are both well written interactives on writing.com (admittedly I
think that because I've written a fair bit of them). It's mostly
m2f, m2m with a smattering of f2m and f2f here and there.
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From: guest (Zap)
, 128 months, post #8 |
I used to really like Donnie's stuff (since bodyswapping is my
favorite type of transformation) but i stopped going to it because
all of his caps lately seem to be about "revenge" and are full of
anger. I mean, i can understand the occasional "angry/cruel" caps,
but I just feel like that's all he writes
but hey, I'm not knocking him on it, different kinks for different
folks, he should do what he wants to do, it's just something i'm
not into.
I've also stopped going to Fictionmania as much as I used to
because there seems to be too many people labeling stories ways
they shouldn't (like, cross dressing stories with no transformation
are labeled as bodyswap)
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From: rugal
, 128 months, post #9 |
Good to see you around imaj. I actually forgot all about the
Wandering Stars due to the Stellae stuff not being my particular
cup of tea but good to see you're still adding because you're
definitely one of the most quality guys on the site.
I'm trying to get back into the groove of writing too; I've had a
lot of stuff going on in my life that's distracted me as well as
general dissatisfaction with my stuff though I definitely still
read.
I guess to answer the question at hand I'm kind of like Zap in that
I read Fictionmania fairly often even 10 years ago but after a
point the crossdressing sissy/domination types pretty much invaded,
conquered, then declared that their way was law and if you don't
like it don't read. It's caused the site to very slowly slow to a
crawl in terms of new content in general and especially new content
outside of that scope. It's kind of like the fall of the western
Roman Empire... only with fetishes instead of Germanic tribes I
guess.
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From: Cobe
, 128 months, post #10 |
Many years ago, I had started a Yahoo! Group for extreme-shrunk or
extreme-tiny women. I don't know if it quite qualifies as
transformation as it dealt with tiny women without explicitly
stating the people had ever been normal sized. But I remember there
were images of a woman riding a flea, another sitting next to the
eye of a needle that she could easily step through, and a teen girl
complaining that it was unfair to be asked to change her sister's
diapers because she (the teen) was only a fraction the size of the
diaper pin.
One day I went to the group and discovered it was gone.There was
(upon diligent searching) a notice from Yahoo! that they had
received a complaint that I had violated their terms of service and
so my group had been shut down. I emailed Yahuh? about exactly what
had anyone complained about, and all I got back was an email with a
link to their Terms of Service.
That soured me forever on Yawho Groups. If (for all I know) ONE
PERSON contacted them with ONE COMPLAINT and for that reason they
pull the plug on me, then they can keep their lousy groups. And if
there was more than one person or more than one complaint, then all
I have to say is I never received one word of warning from Yahoo or
(this bothers me more) the people who actually had the complaint in
the first place.
I am still officially a member of a few Yahoo! Groups, but I can't
take much stock in them any more... not when they shut down groups
on the strength of one complaint.
[Just for the record: I don't think that YouTube, which goes to the
opposite extreme of letting it members get away with murder and not
doing Jack about it, is any improvement.
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From: guest (Disease)
, 128 months, post #11 |
I used to be on an Animorphs forum, where people would regularly
post stories of them turning into animals and joining the animorphs
and such. Eventually, the supposed "Fan-fictions" just turned into
TF stories. Some of the stories people posted there were great,
heck most of them were better then the fanfictions there. Then,
some guy who was anti-furry said stories of such calibre were to be
removed, because he didn't want kids being forced into fetishes.
The insane thing was, most of these stories were PG. On top of
that, there was an adult section to the forum where most people
posted these stories. Eventually, that part of the forum got
removed and I left immediately after that. It didn't really matter
though, the forum got shut down half a year later. There was a huge
trolling war, because of something that happened in the novels. I
heard most of the admins gave up on Animorphs, and moved onto being
in administration on furaffinity.
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From: Weirdoid
, 128 months, post #12 |
For a year or two I quit TGroleplay due to an op I disliked (who is
now gone). I am debating quitting again due to a fight with a
friend.
I still have a Second Life account but almost never use it anymore
as my big drag look that I liked didn't fit in anywhere, Gay sites
were all manly guys, TG sites all girly women. Plus the RP was
disappointing their as it was either BDSM (which I do not like) or
mere poseballs and xcite parts.
I rarely visit Fictionmania anymore as their are rarely stories to
my taste their.
Though I have not quit writing.com yet it has MAJORLY disappointed
me. Almost every TG story their has a no gay rule. The few without
it where gay scenes appear have them quickly destroyed by people.
(sometimes a feminization, or a THE END, in one case a death). This
annoys me for two reasons. The first is their is maybe 3 or 4 TG
fiction fans total who like gay scenes (I am one of them) and that
worse stuff (incest and underage) does not elicit that extreme
reaction but gay does. So on writing.com no role or life swap
between a guy and girl can have the guy love his new boyfriend, no
FtM half of a body swap can have a boyfriend, etc. But stuff more
frowned upon by the
public is freely allowed without issue.
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From: cj
, 128 months, post #13 |
Let's see... Here (Metamorphose), Crystal's Story Site,
FictionMania, IRC, SecondLife, The Wotch, Wotch Cheer, Misfile, El
Goonish Shive, Trading Post and Transplanted Life blogs... among
others that I fail to remember right now, have all fallen victim to
(or been graced by) my absence.
Reason: Real Life gets in the way. Sometimes I still struggle to
make enough time to stay involved.
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From: guest (Brayn)
, 128 months, post #14 |
I quit fictionmania.tv a long time ago because it shifted from MTF
to just crossdressing, and other crap like that. Completely
uninteresting.
From a writing perspective, I quit bearchive's adventure and
fiction branches (haven't posted new content to either of them in
years) simply because the site stories started moving away from
stuff that interested me.
writing.com has a few stories, but still doesn't have much to keep
me there, especially since their admins like to delete story
content when users quit or neglect their accounts. A lot of good
stuff is lost forever and never backed up.
I've been on my way out with TF for a long time, deviantart is
really the only thing that's still actively keeping my attention
and even that is waning.
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From: guest (Jayzie)
, 128 months, post #15 |
Yeah, tell me about it. And then there's all the story rules, which
admittedly I understand. But some of them like "no killing any of
the characters" can really hinder your enjoyment, especially when
one character like the douchy abusive step father beats the main
character's mom or something. Then you make a chapter killing him
off violently like he deserves and end up with some preachy message
about how your content "messed up" the story. LOL so I'm not
allowed to say a girl got raped a long time ago, but you're allowed
to put an abusive step father into the picture?
Ugh, and don't even get me started on yahoo groups. I quit that a
long time ago when they removed every bit of my favorite content. I
am not going back there again.
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