I can appreciate how you feel. It is a lot of work to keep a site going as well as Stardust has been kept. When Stardust fisrt came about it seems to be just the right mix of quality stories and less XXX stuff. I don't deride the triple X stuff it is just not my bag. As a reader I am also sorry that more good authors do not post here but then your quality has been kept high. Then again I can imagine there is some 'loyality' to some about BCTS and there should be but Stardust does represent something different at least for me. I would be one of the 'loyal' reader of Stardust to see it change or go away but then again I am only one person. I for one really hope that does not happen.

Leia Marie

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor.

Hi Bob,
I check this website EVERY DAY looking to see who might have posted some little gem of a story that I know I will enjoy just because your site precludes stories I won't read. I hope you decide to keep it up and running,

Your best fan,
In Brooklyn

Nora-Adrienne

This is a fabulous site. Stardust provides quality stories and a site we have confidence in. Thank you.

We, the readers, have let you down by not commenting on the stories as we should and as you have asked us to. If you do choose to close Stardust we have only our selves to blame. I hope you choose not to close the site.

Peace -
Pere

Bob, I'll also urge you to keep up Stardust.

Indeed, I haven't encountered many transgender story sites were I haven't dropped a story on account of objectionable content, and I have pretty liberal standards for what is acceptable, but many sites cross the line regularly. Not so with Stardust.

Stardust is a pre-eminent example of what I'd like a story site to be.

While the writing quality is a bit more variable than on, say, the Whatley Academy site, it is mostly quite good.

I have to admit, being a shy (or perhaps privacy paranoid) person, I haven't registered to comment. And, while I've started to comment a time or two, the requirerment for registration has put me off.

Alas, I have not been moved to comment since you have enabled Guest Reader comments, but I'm sure I will.

PS - I miss reading new Bob Arnold stories!

Hi Bob. You may not recall my user name, but I am one of those that have followed the site since you opened it. I encouraged you even back then to keep the site going with the higher class of reading material that does get posted here. I would hate to see Stardust close down, as I check it a couple of times a day to see what is going on. Come to think of it, I am probably one of those types that, if I do comment, may have done so if the story popped up on another site first. I truly appreciate your efforts to make good reading available to us, but you do what you have to. Who knows. If you are not here busting a gut, maybe you could take the time, and get relaxed enough to feel you could add another chapter to your own saga that you have poured your sweat (and heart and soul) into.

Hi Bob

while i hope you do not decide to close Stardust i can fully understand why you might decide that the stats might leave you with little choice.

If you look around at the main TG story sites the one thing that strikes you most about Stardust is the feel of quality about the site and that is something i would be very sad to see vanish, I for one vist the site at least once a day and when i read a story always comment...I just wish others would do the same!!!

Kirri

Especially if it is a site you register for the sole purpose to comment on stories.

It is really sad to hear the reason why it closes down.

It's not lack of funds, what would be admittedly sad too,
and it also isn't lack of time,

but it is lack of comments from the readers.

So Stardust goes down because all of us readers neglected to do right.
This is sad.

I should have posted more comments to stories from writers like JuliO,
who seems to live in the rain forest of creativity.
But every time I try to post a comment I feel like living in the Sahara of creativity.

Finding adequate words to comment on the stories is hard.
Posting just "God story, continue writing" seems dumb.

So all I can say is:
Bob, follow your heart and do what you feel is best.
I have exactly no right to right to tell you anything else...

Nimrill

I will feel sad if you have to shut down Stardust. This has been a quality site from day-one!

While there are not so many authors/stories as other sites the material on the site is top quality and it is not necessary to filter out the second rate stories that are not appreciated by the more discerning reader.

Please reconsider your thoughts to end the site ---- we would be losing yet another great supporter of TG fiction.

DowydB

Bob,
I just want to express how much I appreciate all the hard work you have done to promote not just my stories, but those of all the other authors posted here. I hope the site continues as we are extremely fortunate to have some one so supportive of us and our community.
Much love,
Julie O

...will be missed.

As several have already noted, Stardust provides us all with a good quality site. I try to visit here daily because I know anything new on Stardust will prove to be a worthy read. But like others, I don't seem to comment enough and I am sorry for that.

Cumphy

Bob,

As others have said, it would be a great loss if Stardust would shut down. I've noticed the lack of comments here, and I too feel it's because of the cross postings. I know it's a tough decision to make, but it's yours and yours alone to make. If Stardust goes, it will leave a black-hole in our little universe.

Teddie

Will you send them elsewhere?

Stanman

May Your Light Forever Shine

Nothing like a kick in the pants to get the site moving again.

Hope you find happiness whatever you decide.

If it isn't fun... why do it? That's my motto.

Dayna.