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You have a real jag on this narcissistic issue, Duane (which, of course has absolutely nothing to do with this thread other than your need to be nasty with personal attacks). You claim to be gay, but it seems you don't acknowledge being narcissistic (which pretty much goes hand in glove with having a successful gay male life--and I've constantly admitted to being narcissistic when you bring this up). You must have been a real dog through life and a loser as a GM if you're not narcissistic.
Which I can believe, of course. You have a real complex about me here. When I don't give a shit about you at all.
It could be that one of us doesn't. I'm beginning to think that you may be one of the legion of female GM writers around here.
So, you tried to anger me with a personal attack that's never worked before and didn't work again. Tough. Go soak your head and get over your perpetual jealous snit . . . or don't. You're the one screwing up the forum with this crap.
Ah, another member of the not so secret society shows up just like clock work. that makes three in a row.
And you are wrong, voting blocks should be pointed out to everyone but in this case, I've been told by three other writers that BJ was the "chosen" winner this time around. fourteen 5 votes for story goes a long ways especially if there are fourteen 2 votes for the next closet competitors.
I had to laugh at that voting question he asked.
*No tin-foils were harmed during the making of this message.*
It was just past two in the morning as the last member of the secret group quietly slinked through the rain soaked streets and into a dark alley. Glancing over his shoulder one last time, he approached a nondescript door and knocked, using the super duper secret knock. The door opened a crack as his identity was verified before he was allowed to join the others in the darkened room.
They all sat around a large wooden table, faces barely visible, as they each wrote their vote down on a scrap of paper. The leader of the group went through the scraps one by one, tallying up the results.
"It's official," the leader said. "This contest goes to Blind Justice."
There were murmurs in the room as they softly spoke about the results. Then the laughing began, the maniacal laughing that always occurred as the group members realized they were taking over the world of erotica. Not only that...but the prize. One hundred fifty dollars! Their lives would be forever changed by the vast sums they would accumulate by rigging the contests.
I'd say you're just a little gullible, Tx. Have you considered the source of the big reveal that three different people told you about? Have you wondered how they would have known of such a decision if it took place? Who told them? Or are you just a jackass trying to stir a pot with nothing in it?
I had about decided to drop this but.... It's not about the money as you well know. It's about cheating and playing silly games. It's about integrity. Well, maybe you don't know.
I've been fortunate enough to have been befriended by a number of talented writers who provide encouragement and help make my own work better. That's the spirit of what we do in a nutshell. What we do is what the AH should be and isn't. The rest of this is all ridiculous nonsense.
My point exactly, Tx.
Several people "told" you that BJ was somehow "elected" to be the winner. How would they know that? The answer? They couldn't. They made it up, and a number of you are all too willing to take it as fact.
One might believe that making up such a thing IS cheating and game playing in an attempt to discredit the work of others. You're not a dumb guy, Tx. Do the math.
I've been fortunate enough to have been befriended by a number of talented writers who provide encouragement and help make my own work better. That's the spirit of what we do in a nutshell. What we do is what the AH should be and isn't. The rest of this is all ridiculous nonsense.
BING~fucking~O!
The AH is daily...DAILY...turned into a war zone by mainly ONE person who devotes nearly every waking moment to being here masturbating himself with his alleged resume, attacking other posters (including brand new ones he likes to publicly call "idiots" for asking a perfectly good question), constantly attacking the site owners, and referring to readers with as derogatory comments as he can come up with...and you wonder WHY a very small group of us have a separate place functioning?
I've always respected you for your successes and common sense HELPFUL viewpoints, TR, but buying into this Tin Foil Brigade crap is the epitome of bad judgment.
JMNSHO and YMMV
It's hard for one person to make a war zone. It takes at least two and in this case at least seven attacking one person. You want the war to stop, use the ignore function. Yes, SR is brash, overbearing and opinionated. But he is also right 95% of the time when it comes to the mainstream world, copyrights, and the correct rules for doing this and that.
Your separate place is your prerogative but quit fucking up ours.
And so far, I've got nothing to show me that my opinion is bad judgement. Everything I've said has been twisted by at least one member of your group and here you are starting the war you don't like. Nothing quite adds up.
So now it's up to you.
And that somehow gives him carte blanche to treat nearly every other author here (and Laurel and Manu) except you with complete contempt, and to ride roughshod over brand new authors that post an innocent and valid question here?
Just like the stories we all write...presentation dictates mood and the reputation one gets. He may well be the "go-to-expert" with many things we all need or want to know, but it's hard to respect (or trust) that opinion when so many of his posts read like something a menopausal Lizzie Borden would snarl.
And the new posters certainly do not deserve his snarky and at times, cruel slams.
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I never used the word elected, you did. And most of the rest of your group. I said, three other people had predicted that BJ would win even before he posted his story.
Next.
Actually, your exact words were:
I've been told by three other writers that BJ was the "chosen" winner this time around.
That's a little different than what you wrote above, isn't it? My mistake using elected over chosen.
The the presumption of guilt:
fourteen 5 votes for story goes a long ways especially if there are fourteen 2 votes for the next closet competitors.
For the record, I have yet to read or vote on a single entry in Summer lovin' and I read and commented on only a few in the nude day contest. No, I can't offer conclusive proof of that, but whatever. It's too bad you can change a vote once you've made it. I'd ask one of the NYC locals to meet me in a Starbucks and walk through the stories while logged into my account to see that I'm telling the truth.
I actually feel bad that I haven't supported my friends, not by throwing fives at them, but because I haven't read and given them my thoughts. As I've written before, that's what we really do for each other. It isn't surprising there are those out there that can't comprehend that.
Within an hour of me making that posts my contest story got 4 two votes. Coincidence? Maybe. maybe no. I don't know either.
I had decided to drop it all but some people won't leave it alone. Not to mention the tag team action.
Well, I can only speak for me, Tx. I was at the gym squatting while you were getting two votes, so it wasn't me. And it won't be me. That just isn't my style.
Frankly, I very seldom even write for the contests, because I just like to write whatever pops into my head. I don't care for being tied into a specific topic. I remember someone getting their panties in a bunch during one of the FAWC's because I took the very specific rules and took advantage of their specificity so I could write what I wanted, even though technically I was within the rules.
My point? I write because I enjoy it, and I write how and what I want. Do I like positive feedback? Sure. Who doesn't. But I can't be bothered wasting my time doing what this group of friends is being accused of. Is it out of the realm of possibility that someone in the group might down or up vote people? Of course not. But I'd bet my last dollar that there is no way in hell there is this wholesale manipulation going on as is being implied by some here.
Don't lose the point that the people who told you BJ had been chosen are surely playing a game. As I've noted, there is no possible way they could know such a thing if it were true. I'm sure you understand that logic.
OK. I've wasted far too much time on this already.
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And with that, unload everything you've got with your next response, because now that you've turned yet another thread here into an "all about me"
Well, I can only speak for me, Tx. I was at the gym squatting while you were getting two votes, so it wasn't me. And it won't be me. That just isn't my style.
Frankly, I very seldom even write for the contests, because I just like to write whatever pops into my head. I don't care for being tied into a specific topic. I remember someone getting their panties in a bunch during one of the FAWC's because I took the very specific rules and took advantage of their specificity so I could write what I wanted, even though technically I was within the rules.
My point? I write because I enjoy it, and I write how and what I want. Do I like positive feedback? Sure. Who doesn't. But I can't be bothered wasting my time doing what this group of friends is being accused of. Is it out of the realm of possibility that someone in the group might down or up vote people? Of course not. But I'd bet my last dollar that there is no way in hell there is this wholesale manipulation going on as is being implied by some here.
Don't lose the point that the people who told you BJ had been chosen are surely playing a game. As I've noted, there is no possible way they could know such a thing if it were true. I'm sure you understand that logic.
OK. I've wasted far too much time on this already.
And one more point. You all say Pilot is a arrogant and a narcissist and you're right, but hate to break it to you, you people make him look like he eats humble pie for breakfast every morning you hear yourselves?
How about we all be the adults we claim to be for a moment.
The reason a few of us banded together is because we were sick of the rampant negativity that the AH has become. ?