Reply To: None story “stories”

[Diacritical]

I’m feeling perhaps a little outspoken but I absolutely think they bring the quality and utility of the site down. There is a forum, there are comments sections. Both of these are much more suitable places for announcements or low effort content like matching images to stories. An author’s note at the start or end of a story would be fine too for an announcement. The site promises two things in its name: it is a site about hair, and a site about stories. You should be able to click on a title and reasonably expect there to be a story to read and for it to involve hair. In the same way I don’t think it would be right to allow stories that don’t involve something to do with hair, I don’t think it would be right to allow things that aren’t stories either.

Non-story posts have happened in the past, but I think the novelty factor of so-called AI means it’s happening more often. That’s a different discussion though, and one I think my position is clear on.

Incidentally, I don’t think the post that brought this up is particularly about hair either, it could easily have been posted to a site about anything, yes the characters in the image get their hair cut, but not in the post, you have to go to other actual stories to read about that, there’s very little in the post itself that makes it relevant. Given it’s so depdendent on the context of other stories I would consider it much better suited to the forums or a comments section.