cks you designed to be ~exotic~ or whatever, and those rabid jerks at Disney can only grit their teeth now!
So apparently you can disable all feedback now...? · 10:31pm Jul 2nd, 2018
In the 'new story' checklist, right under a new paragraph called 'feedback.' One checkbox each for 'comments,' and 'ratings,' letting you disable both if you so wish.
At first I must admit my jaw hit the floor, thinking: 'This must be a bad prank. Did somebody sabotage Knighty's calendar, or something?'
BUT! Long term? On thinking a few minutes? I think this might be a really, really good idea for the site as a whole.
My thoughts behind the cut. Don't care? Have a nice day. 
Why? Curating the... well, not to be too unkind, but cry-babies that delete every comment, whine that their special snow-flake OC's dramatic origin story is getting a 1:100 up/down ratio? Not to mention the ones that go on down-vote sprees, harassment, and such, because somebody dared to give them, gasp, feedback?
Well, that has to be quite draining on not only the mods, but the site as a whole.
So... anybody that wants to raise a giant red-flag that they don't give one fig about other's opinion? Why not let them tie those fancy new cement-shoes around their own feet?
They get to sit there, smelling their own farts, happy as clams in muck. The rest of us, get a direct and visible sign that says: 'DON'T BOTHER!' in all but text.
Win-win, right? Hopefully, it'll work out that way, but I must admit I'm curious how it's going to go in practice, and how the rest of the site is going to react to this.
Credit to https://www.fimfiction.net/user/170944/NorrisThePony for drawing my attention to this, by the way.
https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/817888/this-is-the-dumbest-shit
This...this is very true. Hmm, we'll have to see what type of stories utilize this. Not something i'm interested in. Because you know comments feed authors. And we are often hungry.
4893655
True, true...
I do genuinely pity the few I know are never going to grow out of using this crutch, but... Well, to be blunt, would most of them ever do that anyway?
4893661
Agreed.
I have seen that feature before, on certain content hosting sites.
Even there it is rarely used, i have only seen it on commissions where the client took control over more than an artist was comfortable with, or on the 'works' of people who simply can't handle criticism or any kind of conversation they do not control, usually the latter ones just talk to nobody and even if there would be someone listening they would never know because the feedback is disabled, it is a really nice self containment. (unless they become a president or something)
Well, this feature would spare you from the worthtless snarky comments of trolls. But you would also lose all useful constructive criticism from those who mean you well. You pays your money and you takes tour chances.
Going by personal experience from other communities of this type, this will only make the incestuous circle-jerk of "famous" authors like MythrilMoth even worse than it currently is. It's an idiotic idea and I don't care how draining it is on the staff to actually have to do their job, they shouldn't enable the dysfunctional behaviour of people who already think they are entitled to never be criticized by anyone in such a manner.
4893747
Well, perhaps there will be a special work-around for moderators?
I can't imagine it will help cut down on the small communities of malodorous stories, but it would at least warn people to put on a gas mask before browsing. Or try to alleviate unfairly-attacked stories' comment problems. But how do you tell the difference...
It's certainly an interesting option, and it's probably to counter people getting just arbitrarily lambasted because of who they are rather than what they write, but honestly it has its own drawbacks too. Some stories only take off because of the comments. Many readers will ignore anything that isn't rated - or is overwhelmingly negative. And a lot of stories I've seen only really correct errors pointed out in comments.
Each has ups and downs, but having the option to do something like that inherently be bad. Just means you as a writer don't get to know about that thing if you disable it.
4893760
Personally, I'm questioning how that will even work with the site's sorting system. The ranking system relies, by design, on every story being rated in some fashion. Any list of stories that is sorted by ranking will have to show unrated stories at the very end of the list, because the sorting algorithm can't work with nil values. It's basically guaranteeing that no story with ratings disabled will ever be looked at or found by much of anyone ever again, unless they actively look.
4893752
Frankly, except for one or two outliers, I've never seen a story here that was UNFAIRLY attacked. I've seen plenty that were attacked for perfectly valid reasons that the author didn't like to hear about, though.
4893847
Yeah that's what I meant. Of course, I *think* you can sort by ascending order, but there's other ways to sort. A lot of folks also sort by words, or my personal preference - stories by date updated, filtering to a minimum length. And sometimes removing tags I just don't want to deal with at the time.
4893847
Staff has said that the stories are treated as having zero votes. So basically they can never be featured, and are unlikely to show up very high on searches, as well warning the reader that the person probably cares too much about internet points.
4893760
That's the point. Don't want to get rated, deal with getting no popularity.
Blocking the comments doesn't really do anything, since if an author is delete happy the same thing would've happened anyways.