Lazeez's Corner

I knew that as soon as I create this Blog, that the issue of scoring on the site will be brought up into the discussion of every article that I ever post. So, I thought I would address the issue with my first actual article. I hope, whether you're an author, or a reader, you'll read this article with an open mind and a bit of understanding. I've dealt with the subject for the longest time, since the scoring system started on the site in 1999. And rest assured, ever since the start, the subject is brought to my attention by an author or a reader a minimum of once a month, if not more. Needless to say, I've put quite a bit of thought into it over the years, and in this article, I'll try to share the results of these thoughts. The concept of scoring an artistic work like stories by people is a difficult one to tackle. Ideally, scores on the site would enable any reader to take a story's score as a measure of what to expect of the story in any facet. The...

As you can see, I have a new blog online. I know it sounds and looks a little strange for somebody with a site like storiesonline to have a blog on another service. I have good reasons to have this little blog here. I don't want to add more load onto the site's line, it's already loaded enough. What I will be posting here may or may not have anything to do with going ons on the site. I don't feel like creating a full blogging system with comments and everything that goes with it, the services that I want to use are all ready available here, and I do want a comments section for you to post replies and discuss things. So, hopefully, this blog becomes more useful with time and a spot for interaction with me, something that is not really possible on storiesonline the way it is now (and which I don't really want to put in the effort to change).