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Dazed: Yes the three subbies being friends would be too cute. I must figure out a way to do that. I watched the youtube of the song you suggested and DAMN!! I love those guys already! So hot and yummy I got new story ideas just watching it! ((HUGS)) thanks hun!!!! And thanks for the reviews, I love ya!! Tabfan: Thank you for the review and I'm glad you liked the spanking. I think you will love where it goes Slash reader: Thanks for the review and I am so glad to like my stories!! You are very welcome, I like updating fast because I know the stories I like drive me nuts when I have to wait!! LOL Katniss: Yes Tom has shown great restraint but not any longer Sammy is going to try to hide things and that will make their new relationship much more steamy than the old one! TRUgrit: LOL about Regina! Yeah she's a bitch and so is Andrew's father but they will both get theirs, just not until I have a little fun with them first! Don't worry I am going to have some Malcolm and Kirk love coming up! Thanks for reviewing! Itsy: Tom and Andrew were made for each other as far as the bonding time is happening! LOL Thanks for the reviews they are soo great! Jessie: Tom's true purpose is going to be a surprise and a half! Thanks for your reviews they always make me smile!! And I know you meant Andrew! See how it's so easy for me to mix the boy's names up!! Makes you wanna write M/F fics instead, but I won't TNels: Thanks for the review and so glad you like this like you liked Biker Trash. I loved writing Biker Trash and couldn't let those characters go yet! LOL Celtic: Glad you liked the spanking LOL! Thanks for the reviews and there will be much more to love from both of these couples! Jade: Thanks, yes I do feel better, that cold or whatever hit me hard but didn't last long thank goodness!! Thank you for the review and I'm glad you like the story!! Rachel: Glad you like the sequel! thanks for reviewing! To everyone, I am glad you like the second story and there will be a lot more to come. Just FYI Tom and Andrew's SL is a loving relationship, or it will be, with incredible amounts of B&D. Andrew's need for attention makes him crave it and Tom is the man to give it to him. I won't let on yet where Tom gets the need but that will come in later chapters. Sammy and Neil's dynamic is changing a bit from their original relationship because they are going to do more exhibitionism/voyeurism. Sammy is still a sub for Neil but in a different scale completely from Tom and Andrew and even from Mal and Kirk. Thank you all for reading and reviewing and I appreciate you all! Back to work now after I post! LOL

*shakes head* These writers apparently have NO idea just how much time and work goes into a concrit review. I have spent over an hour on some of my concrit reviews, it depends on the number of errors and how long the chapter is. I try to make them as professional as I can because the purpose of these reviews is to help the author improve their writing skills. Nobody is going to spend that kind of time on someone who can't appreciate it. You get one solid review and cry FLAME? The writer should be sending the reviewer flowers for taking the time to read their story and for writing a review meant to help them grow in the craft! If all a writer wants is fluffy reviews, they should put an author's note at the start of the story saying: Praiseful reviews only.

I'm going to be honest, I’ve been avoiding this thread like it's nuclear waste because it's the kind of thing that can lead to serious rants and some very hurt feeling but, after today, I decided to add my two pennies to it (and Apollo is checking those pennies to make sure I don't step over the line with this rant). For those on here that don't know, I've been an archive moderator since '08 and seen a lot of things over those years so I can quite honestly say that, despite what someone asserted, it's not a few bad apples that have ruined reviews for most everyone but a whole lot of them rotten apples that have killed it! That's no joke, folks! And the biggest problem with getting reviews is the authors themselves. They are the ones that have, bluntly, made it to where so many are out and out scared to leave a review of any kind for anyone. It's sad, but it's true! I know people are going to argue with that assertion but hear me out. One very shining example of this happened today. A few days ago, I was working on doing my ten reviews for AFF's Review Association (for those of you that don't know what that is we go in and review stories each month that have none. Our reward for that? We get a banner. Nothing else. If interested, they are always accepting members-plug over, back to rant...). It's been a few days since I did it so I didn't think anything of it until I woke up today and was getting ready for work. Checking the standard pages I do when I get up, I found that one of the beings I left a review for reported me for it! Now, being a mod, I know what the difference between what a flame and concrit is. I also know where the line is drawn and don't even step close to it. If I feel something I’m saying is too harsh, I get BW or Apollo to check it over for me to see if there isn't a way to soften up what I said or to ensure that I didn't step over any kind of line with it. The review in question wasn't even one I had to do that with. It was nicely worded, slightly blunt but not overly so, giving the issue, a link about how to fix the issue and how what was done affects the reader when trying to read it. I started and ended the review with positive things about the story. Nor did I rip the thing apart. But, still, I got reported for it and there was a long rant from the author about the whole thing basically saying I need to quit pretending this is a professional writing site or Hollywood and stop leaving those kinds of reviews. I was... STUNNED. Then I laughed my ass off! Am I mad about it? No, I thought it was funny as hell! Am I in trouble for it? No, because I did nothing wrong and I didn't flame or attack anyone. Is this odd? Yes and no. It's odd that I got reported but these kinds of tantrums over concrit reviews are quite common. There are plenty out there, more than just a small handful of them, that want nothing but fandpoodling OMGWTFILUFFIT reviews and for you to say nothing else though they ask for reviews. Other examples are just as bad. Plenty pimp the hell out of their stuff all over and ask for reviews but when you give them an honest one, they just delete it and don't bother to fix any of the issues you pointed out even if you give them a very easy way or solution to fixing what is wrong. Talking to Rogue, another member of the RA, we figured out that we are running about 50/50 with reviews we leave. About 50% stay up and the other 50 either get rid of the review or out and out delete the story (this month's 5 I did serious concrit for has resulted in 2 reviews already being deleted and one reporting me for what I had to say so you can see this is not an exaggeration). That is sad but true. And, generally, they all but beg for reviews in the story, the thread in the forum to promo the story or elsewhere. But if you don't just gush, they get rid of it. How many times are you going to go through with this until you give up? It generally doesn't take long before you throw your hands up and say 'I give' then quit. It get's worse though. Though many of you might think I’m joking (I can assure you, I’m not), it goes downhill from there. Like I said at the beginning, I’ve seen a lot over my time as a mod and a common thing to happen is the flame baiting by authors. BW and I have both had this happen to us because we're mods and the author didn't like something we told them to change. We've had them say something in the story then had their readers go after our stories with reviews that are intended to be retaliatory and bombing our ratings. And if they'll do it to a mod, who knows what's going on and how to handle it, you can damned sure bet they do it to reviewers that say something they don't like! They have too, many, many, MANY times. They leave a butt-hurt, whiney ass AN about how someone was so mean to them in a review or that they think they should just stop writing because of something that is said then BAM the reviewer gets nailed. It happens more than you think, folks! And if you think it's just younger authors that do this, think again! There are plenty of older ones that do the same thing. This, more than anything, has made it to where people are afraid to leave a review. Would you want attacked because you were honest or were giving feedback to someone that's not mean but intended to help them improve what they do? The majority of you would say no to this but it's what happens. And plenty have seen this so they back off and say nothing rather than be on the receiving end of that kind of flaming. That results in people not reviewing. Since this has gone on for years, the end result is what you see now; reviews are minimal. If someone gives one, it's just standard fanpoodling OMG update soon or something like that. So, know what? You want to bitch and complain to someone about this? Go find the authors that do this bonehead stupid stuff, and more I didn't mention, and let them know because they are the ones that have killed the reviews for the rest of you more than just the readers that never bother.