As an author who contributes to the site I can say that I do look forward to any reviews or opinions of my product and, yes, I do think more readers should take the time to say a word or two. even if the word or two is detrimental. We do learn from all this.

The suggestion that reviewers be rated has some merit but we don't want to orchestrate here. The one thing that I can say is that a reviewer should not be able to "low grade" an authors product simply because he/she doesn't like the subject matter. I had this happen to me and it was not only disappointing but took an otherwise highly reviewed story and dropped it's rating severely. As so few readers DO review, one can have several 5 star reviews and the one that didn't like the subject matter can drop it's overall rating to a 3 regardless of the story's quality and appeal to the larger audience and that truly sucks.

Stories should never be rated on subject matter. What's unappealing to some may be the height of erotica to others. Sort of like saying "everything in the story was great but I'm not really into the ball gag thing so I give it a one".

Anyone agree?