I think that sometimes stories get reported for arbitrary or misguided reasons. If there are more than two report votes, though, there is most likely a genuine problem.

Your intention -- to make a primitive more evocative -- is of course a good idea. There are some ideas on this web site which seem to have been adopted by many users, e.g. thread --> Spiderman.

But the example above is a logical jump. The connection between City Walls and Superman is not clear. In such a case it might be best to include your reasoning (which you've given here) in the story page.

I've reported several stories acidentally, so I wouldn't rule out people accidentally pressing that button.

Superman can leap tall buildings in a single bound.
So imagine him leaping city walls in a single bound.
......... :-)

I don't think that feature was ever meant to be that serious. It's just something that might be useful when the number of reports is significant. One or two have no meaning at all (call them 'statistical fluctuations'). Certainly not something to get upset about.

Rich,

It's quite possible someone hit report instead of star by accident.  I've seen lots of stories that have 1 report and I haven't the slightest idea why anyone would report it.

I've had one rather perverse story reported lots of times, but at the same time several people starred it.  So is it better to listen to the prudes and hide the story or is it better to leave it if its useful to some people?

My two reported stories are

yawfosu88 wrote:

Imagine an interracial woman being rained on and overcome with frost, then along comes Tony the Tiger and throws a bowl of warm Frosties in her face to thaw her out.

and

yawfosu88 wrote:

Imagine awakening in your bed to find Osama bin Laden the cave dweller at its end, holding a tree, about to bash you in the name of jihad.

I only saw the 'check your reported stories' function today, and I laughed out loud for a good couple of minutes. These are now my favourite stories.

As story 1 I used 'interracial woman' as my primitive for the nebulous word 'inter' and to cement the idea of the character being about frost, rather than snow, cold, ice or all the other myriad possible confusions, i tied it in with Frosties, complete with Tony the Tiger.  The interracial woman I imagine in my stories is the sexy girl Peter Petrelli got involved with in the early 1st season of 'Heroes'.

I can see why someone might find it offensive because they might think I am inciting humour at racially motivated breakfast cereal aided attacks, but I did not mean it in such a way. My niece who's picture graces my phone wallpaper is 'mixed race' as we say in England and a lot of my childhood friends are mixed race. I'm currently living in Nottingham were interracial relationships are so common it surprises Americans that come here to study. My Canadian buddy (a black guy) remarked 'I've never seen so many mulattoes(sic) before'. Anyway, to whoever took offence to my story it is not meant in a racist way.p.s. I do not condone the use of the word mullato, just quoting.

Interracial women r sexy ne way n shud b used in kanji stories as much as possible, here is scientific proof.
http://www.superheroprofiles.com/wp-con … ess-01.jpg

As for the second story... I can only imagine three scenarios of it causing possible offence (btw it got two stars aswell). I am aware that technically 'jihad' means struggle as in a spiritual struggle, so bashing someone on the head in the name of jihad is misconstruing the 'true' meaning of the word as the western media does with many arabic words, such as fatwa, which the western media uses as a byword for 'Islamic death threat', when it its 'true' meaning is a judicial ruling by a shiekh (Islamic scholar), so a fatwa could be an authorisation of a divorce, or a judicial ruling of any kind.
The other way it could possibly be offensive is if people sensitive to 9/11 thought it in someway trivialised the event by making Osama a boogeyman at the end of your bed.

Also referring to Osama as a cave dweller could have offended someone that knows better, that he doesn't live in caves, but rather he lives in an apartment block in lower Manhattan and is an active member of the Remembering the Kanji Website in his spare time.(just speculation)

I personally only report stories if they are very short (usually about 3 or 4 words) and contain absolutely NO primitives, or just one primitive when there are many, yeah, there actually are some of those around.

Sorry for the double post.  I was thinking some more about this.  So 3 reasons why people may be reporting are:

1. It's offensive
2. It's not helpful, it's problematic, or there is a mistake.
3. It's irrelevant. (ie, people who report stories in another language.)

So I was thinking, what if we had 3 choices on each story such as 1. star, 2. report, and 3. offensive?  In time perhaps there could even be an option (for the prudes as Vosmiura put it) to hide offensive stories.  It would be a sort of parental control the same way google images can block offensive images. 
This sort of option may take care of some of these reporting problems?

What do you think?

zazen666 wrote:

This has been argued to death, so I cant really see any reason to argue it here as well

Woops, I did a search and I see what you mean.  (sorry)
Terhorst's comment on this thread looks quite similar to what I was trying to say.  After searching I also saw DrJones write something similar as well...

laner36 wrote:

Anyway, I am especially interested to know what you think, Terhorst (or others that reported it).  After the additions, do you still think I shold take it down now?

I don't think it should be taken down. It may work well for another. I guess my intent was more along the lines of, "be careful."

Since the story has changed a lot, I've retracted my report. I can't judge whether the new story would have helped me or not, so I'll let others decide as they come along.


Also, contrary to what you might think, sometimes the next best thing someone could do after loving what you do is to hate it, and the worst is when just don't care. If I hadn't thought Superman had great potential, I wouldn't have tried it in the first place.

-- Daniel

I find it rather ironic that I got the most kicks of all :



... I was testing of course. I guess I forgot I was on the "production" site instead of the local development version

Just found the button that lets you see which of your stories has been reported and had a complete heart-attack as I saw it ran to 15 pages! 

Then I realised it was actually only the first three stories and all the unreported stories were also showing below - much relief!