So. I just want to know, when do you hide (kill) your posted pieces? I do it if they hit the 4.8 score mark (barring them being an RR or whatever). Yah, so, I'm a perfectionist.
Anyone else?
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Why would you hide a story? And what does reader response have to do with anything?
Some of mine have been less successful than others (either in popularity with readers or in my own esteem), but none of them have been so embarrassingly bad that I wish I hadn't posted them, and don't want to be identified with them. If they were, I probably wouldn't have submitted them in the first place.
Post-avant-retro-demelodicized-electro-yodel-core is my jam.
I'd never hide/remove a story. It's my belief all comments and scores are helpful criticisms to aid and improve your writing ability
No. If one of my stories is "missing", it's usually because an error has been found and I've resubmitted it after I've fixed it. I've got one in the vault because it's a Lush exclusive, and the rest are up and if someone wants to vote it down, so be it. I just hope that said voter gives me a reason as to why they would score me low (as in a 1 or 2). Perhaps it's something I can fix.
I have killed them temporarily for rewrites, sometimes because of some flaw pointed out in the comments that I agreed with, sometimes because I found it flawed. I don't bother even looking at the scores, as I get quite a few low scores, for whatever reason (I am perversely proud of my 1s, figuring if I cause that strong a reaction I must be doing something right). But a perceptive comment about how the story could be made better has made me take a story down while I tinkered with it.
And like Seeker said, there are a few stillborn stories I never bothered to submit.
I have killed story idea in the writing stage but I have never killed a story once it's published. Like others have said here once it it up, it is up to the reader to choose whether to read it or not. I write my stories to get them out of my head - the fact that others seem to enjoy them is a happy sideline!
That being said I do have stories too hot for Lush either in subject matter or degree and for that I have my tumblr site. But still I don't take down a published story just because it isn't doing well. Not all of them will.
I only worry about what I have self published and if it's in KU. If I decide to put anything in KU i have to take it down from Lush for the duration.