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It's not necessarily a question of being offended. There's also improving the species. Also, let's not forget the simple pleasures in life - revenge upon the trollish being high on the list.
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Oscar Wilde (if I should believe my Google...)
edit:
with one exception:
"The Troll Hunter" by SweetWitch
I'm not NEARLY as offended by my perceived trolls as you are. Maybe Manu and Laurel should post a link for hostility counseling.
Sorry to be so PC, but really.
LOL. Now me, I don't find trolls offensive, most of the time they're entertaining. Day to day trolls are a different category from what goes on around the competitions...
Now MY hostility counseling involves going to my Tae Kwon Do school and kicking the crap out of someone when we're sparring. Mind you, they usually give as good as they get... but it does relieve stress and hostility very effectively.
And, apparently, another just now. Big drop in the number of votes since this morning, big jump in score.
Chloe - cancel the 20mm garlic rounds and thanks anyway.
It's a roller-coaster ride! This post made me go over and take a look. I don't have a clue what's going on! I think I'll just sit back and see what happens.
Reading through this makes me realize that since I haven't put up a story in about a year I haven't seen much trolling. They tend to not bother with older stories.
I wonder...do they miss me?
Then I think do I miss them?
Answer is most likely the same to both.
I am debating a Nude day entry that involves unfaithful wives so I could get a years worth just from that I imagine.
At the end, have the unfaithful wife win the lottery, just after her husband's 'punished' her by pushing her out the door and serving her divorce papers. Then write an epilogue where she heads off to the tropics with a man ten years her junior, who spends his days tending to her every whim, coating her with coconut oil during the day while she sunbathes, and licking it off at night.
This is still just preliminary. The final sweep will be tonight after voting closes and before the results are announced. The final sweep can be a doozy.
It was. My entry went from a contest pummeling low of 5.24 up to 5.74, which is a very pleasing result, given it's not a mainstream story, not by any definition of the word 'normal'.
5.74 would truly be an impressive score. Impossibly impressive, actually, but it is a fantasy story, after all.
On a more serious note, that story deserves its higher score. I'm surprised your story was trolled; it doesn't seem like the type. Maybe trolls have an aversion to mermaids? Whatever. I'm glad to see it got bumped up.
Oops - you know what I meant. 4.74.
My take is that the Sci-Fi/Fantasy readers coped with the story's strangeness okay, because they're used to, and expect, 'strange'. As evidence, it just brushed Red H while it was still on the Category first page, where it picked up its first several thou views. Then it had the contest duration to feed readers in from outside the Category, many of whom I'm guessing 'didn't get it, I don't like it, it's too strange, therefore I'll low-ball it' - regardless of writing merit. It's those scores the big sweep has purged, which is why it's jumped high post contest close.
Thanks, btw, for your serious words.
Nice meme, I hate hunters....these idiots go after animals with high powered rifles and think they're men. Go into the woods with just a knife and bring me back a bear and maybe I'll call you a hunter.
No, I'd still call you an asshole.
It sure is interesting, keeping an eye on the score, while votes are being taken away from all sides.
PS: Not complaining about the sweep or the result. Just confused...
I've had votes removed that had been there for several months (I don't get many votes for old stories)
I've had votes removed that had been there for several months (I don't get many votes for old stories)