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View Poll Results: Should True Stories Be In Their Own Story Forum
True Stories should be in their forum. 25 43.10%
Keep True Stories mixed in with Fiction Stories 19 32.76%
Who cares? True Stories are ficticious fakes anyways. 14 24.14%
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I didn't vote in the poll because none of the answers fit my opinion that well. It would be fine with me to have separate categories.

Over the last decade I have written dozens of fiction stories. Occasionally I have seen some of them reposted by other people, claiming that they were real. Amusingly, they get more online praise when others steal them and claim them to be real than when I post them as fiction. Go figure.

While Desertgoodguy and a few other people have posted stories that I do believe to be genuine accounts of real life encounters, many of the supposedly true stories I have read have a ring of inauthenticity to them...such as high school wrestling stories that don't even remotely follow actual HS wrestling rules.

Bottom line for me...I just like to read mixed wrestling stories that are well-written, whether they are fiction or non-fiction.
I don`t see how it would be possible to settle issues such as authenticity and stolen stories with a poll.

My poll is designed to elicit support for a real story forum that is separated from the fiction that comprises the bulk of the stories.

There are 3 generic ways to vote which are yes, no or don`t care.

I`m not seeing what I missed here
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How about a designation like a little icon that denotes whether its a true story or not? I mean there's ultimately no way to tell, but when you post the story it will ask if this is actually a true story or a work of fiction: I think some people put "true" on their stories just for a bigger audience / to make it seem more exciting, and not necessarily to be a dick or anything but just to make it seem more realistic.
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I think part of it is that another forum will take up more band width
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I like the idea of separate forums in principle. I can enjoy both, but a true story has a different meaning than fiction. On the other hand, this separation can be difficult. Is a "docu-drama" (a story that gets at the truth but is not an exact reporting of events) a work of fiction? I think this is an important question because a lot of true stories are enhanced to a degree. This maybe to fill in gaps, or it may be to write in a more dramatic style to make the story more interesting, or it may be because our memories inadvertently enhance certain aspects of a story.
The separation would just be a general guide line. It would serve the purpose of making it easier for site members to find the kind of stories they want to read.

As is, somebody looking for stories that are real, or from your perspective realistic, but somebody has to waste a lot of time sifting through ficticious stories to find these.

When I came here it took me about two weeks to pick through the story forum and by the end I was seriously considering deleting the link to this place and moving on.

I`m still here because I`m looking for a website to deposit a story collection into.
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I would tend to agree with you

A lot of people really like my recounts of my matches with my wife, but one administrator melded them all under one thread, and now no one knows when a new one is posted
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The separation would just be a general guide line. It would serve the purpose of making it easier for site members to find the kind of stories they want to read.

As is, somebody looking for stories that are real, or from your perspective realistic, but somebody has to waste a lot of time sifting through ficticious stories to find these.

When I came here it took me about two weeks to pick through the story forum and by the end I was seriously considering deleting the link to this place and moving on.

I`m still here because I`m looking for a website to deposit a story collection into.
Took two weeks to pick through the story forum?

How old are you..a five year old could have found some
"true" stories in that time

Stop whining and polluting the site with this sterile thread

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I was compared to Hitler but no one banned the guy who did that.
As for fiction--isn't the art of it to make it seem real?
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I was compared to Hitler but no one banned the guy who did that.
As for fiction--isn't the art of it to make it seem real?
Perhaps that is the intent sometimes, but most fail.

Real Stories are written from a first person perspective and read like a story you are telling to your pals.

Hard to achieve that with fiction. Writers with that kind of talent are able to make a living at it and you usually won`t find them in a place like this.
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Yes, but some of them apparently expect to be paid anyway LOL
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Yes, but some of them apparently expect to be paid anyway LOL
Ummmm....no comment I`m in enough trouble already.
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