An Act of Revenge Story Challenge 2017

Given your story had been previously submitted and rejected and merely modified for the challenge and given it contained the following extracts I'm bewildered as to why you're bewildered that we rejected it:

I'm interested in this as well. In the challenge I've come across a story of someone literally spanked to death, and a case of a woman enacting revenge for the end of a spanking relationship by an arson killing. I found both a little disturbing, but other people's mileage may well vary. But given that rather broad latitude, I admit to sharing the curiosity as to where these lines are being drawn. Is it that the actions themselves are not particularly important as long as the descriptions are not particularly vivid?

All of us had stories rejected for various reasons. It's not a big deal, we write another one and go on. Have to trust the administration to keep all of us on track, and I don't think that is a easy job.

Win some, lose some I say, so keep smiling and writing, I am looking forward to the next story.

CS

I've also had stories rejected... Most of the time I find a way to rewrite them and submit them later as regular stories. For example, "Moms Taking Charge" was rejected from the F/m contest because the main had a flash back to a birthday spanking and witnessed a videp pf a F/f spanking on his computer - when it was only for F/m stories with characters over 18. So I rewrote large sections and later submitted as a two part story.

I'm unclear why you feel you need to post on the forum because your story was rejected, given that the Challenge rules state clearly no spankees under the age of 14. We rejected your first story because of that and politely explained why. Unfortunately, when you resubmitted it there were still lengthy descriptions of 11-12 year olds with purple bruises following a paddling, so your story was rejected a second time.

Monitoring content is a thankless and hugely time consuming task, but we do it in an attempt to ensure that this site remains a platform for spanking fiction that can be enjoyed by people who share our interests. We're not a porn site, nor is the site a vehicle for grossly abusive and offensive material. It isn't possible to provide prescriptive guidelines, as each story is judged on its merit, and many factors come into play including overall tone and inference, and detailed descriptions. Unfortunately there are certain people who repeatedly ignore content advice, and who consistently push the boundaries of what is deemed acceptable. And yes, some things inevitably slip through the net, but we manage to catch most of them.



Spot on, Canadian. Anyone who has a complaint about a particular story should notify myself or Februs and we'll do our best to investigate and address any concerns. In the meantime, I'm sure that most of you appreciate the Challenges for the purpose they're intended: a bit of fun.

I would have loved to play for fun, but I wasn't allowed, so Burgundy = sad and still bewildered.

I've now also encountered two instances of pussy-whipping, and one of a woman being flogged from neck to knees. That's in addition to various physical struggles resulting in bleeding faces and injured body parts, arson murders, death by spanking, egregious slut-shaming, and even more shocking abuses. Don't get me wrong, all this fiction is fine by me. But if the above exerpts from my entry were the reasons for rejecting it, then the inclusion of about half of the 49 entries seems a bit contradictory.

Yes, I know 'everyone sometimes gets rejected'. (Oh BELIEVE me, I know.) But in this instance, I feel like the elderly lady walking through security in Airplane 2:

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I am participating in a discussion. I am not complaining. I am not attacking. My post was merely part of a discussion of the topic of rejected stories.

It is true that I had hoped it would be acceptable in the challenge to include the aftermath of a spanking of a younger child; you have told me otherwise which I accept. I write the stories for my own enjoyment and share them with others to enjoy. I can accept that my story is not in the challenge as you have told me that it is slated for inclusion as a regular story listing.

I sincerely regret that my posting could have been misinterpreted.

Tess

Bear in mind there are very few sites which would accept a spanking story involving a young teenager rather than an adult (the cutoff for the challenge was 14) which results in a lot of silly and unbelievable school stories being found elsewhere involving 18-year-old "schoolgirls". And moderate and well-written erotic content is also acceptable if no minors are involved. I had a story rejected on TWO grounds - that there wasn't ENOUGH spanking in, and that there was an ironic reference to blood. Beef one up, take the other out, no big deal.

Also any challenge entries are guaranteed a lot of reads and comments, so might get an increased focus from people who don't love our site and/or our mods, so discretion is needed. Context and tone play a factor beyond the basic use of words.

Very true. And as Flopsy pointed out earlier, each story is based on its own merit when evaluated; many factors go into determining if stories are appropriate for the site. And just like mobile carrot, I've also had a submission rejected for not being enough of a spanking story, which goes to the other extreme of what we have here. So you try to fix it, and if you can't then you move on.

As to the plot lines involving some "disturbing" elements, keep in mind that the theme was REVENGE, so it doesn't surprise me that authors are looking to find different (perhaps violent), creative ways to incorporate that theme. How to express it is up to the author; but whether it meets the standards of the challenge and this site is ultimately up to the admins. Let's not spoil things by calling out specific stories/actions for condemnation, or bemoaning why one entry was accepted over another. It serves no purpose and really detracts from what is supposed to be a FUN activity.

As CS stated a few posts ago, "...keep smiling and writing."