Dear Anonymous,

[Trionyx]

Dear Anonymous,
You are obviously taking great pleasure in finding misspelled words in my stories and pointing them out to me and others. It is difficult to write a story without making some mistakes and for a writer to find said mistakes can be difficult. There have been numerous threads here giving suggestions on how to catch one’s own mistakes suggesting this problem is widespread. The volunteer editors have busy lives themselves and it is difficult to engage them for the tedious task of reading another’s stories to find these little mistakes.
I hate to find misspelled words in my stories but your method of pointing them out to me is offensive and rude. You never comment on the plot, characters or their struggles leaving me to assume you are either an anal pedant or a fifth grade teacher or both.
Until you crawl out from under your anonymity and use an LE handle, contact me via a private message and/or volunteer to edit the stories prior to publication, please STFU. In the meantime, I have turned off anonymous comments.
Trionyx

 

[Djmac1031]

The funniest ones are where they have typos in their comments.

 

[alohadave]

The funniest ones are where they have typos in their comments.

Muphry's Law in action.

 

[MrPixel]

I don't get many comments, and none about grammar or spelling. Well, one anon comment about "a missed period" and I wanted to reply "but I'm not pregnant." Anyway, he/she didn't tell me where the fault was, and I still can't find any punctuation flaw in the short story. My guess is they were complaining about a semicolon.

 

[Smuttyandfun]

I don't get many comments, and none about grammar or spelling. Well, one anon comment about "a missed period" and I wanted to reply "but I'm not pregnant." Anyway, he/she didn't tell me where the fault was, and I still can't find any punctuation flaw in the short story. My guess is they were complaining about a semicolon.

I think some readers thinks it's their duty to point out even one or two tiny mistakes. Sometimes it feels like their scanning the stories rather than reading them, like a game of Where's Waldo, looking for that lone missing period or misspelled word, so they can get up on their hind legs and pounce.

I just ignore them and focus on the ones that actually took the time to read the story and leave a thoughtful comment.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I've got a thirty thou story here, a collaboration, and some clown pulled me up on the use of "led" instead of "lead". I counted them up - did it twice. Whoa, such evil, such a bad mistake. So happy they pointed that one out.

I still have no idea what they thought of the story.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Somebody once said that an auditor is somebody who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. That philosophy applies equally to anonymous commentators.

 

[Seadog777]

I just don't give a flying figs fuck, about the opinions of people like them and their ilk.

They can all got sit on a rusty fucking fishing knife.

 

[dasgoodshit]

The funniest ones are where they have typos in their comments.

I once had a co-worker reply to me in an email chain. He said, "Your an idoit."

Yeah, he never lived that down.

 

[onehitwanda]

I once had a co-worker reply to me in an email chain. He said, "Your an idoit."

Yeah, he never lived that down.

three words, two mistakes...

 

[pink_silk_glove]

Dear Anonymous,
You are obviously taking great pleasure in finding misspelled words in my stories and pointing them out to me and others. It is difficult to write a story without making some mistakes and for a writer to find said mistakes can be difficult. There have been numerous threads here giving suggestions on how to catch one’s own mistakes suggesting this problem is widespread. The volunteer editors have busy lives themselves and it is difficult to engage them for the tedious task of reading another’s stories to find these little mistakes.
I hate to find misspelled words in my stories but your method of pointing them out to me is offensive and rude. You never comment on the plot, characters or their struggles leaving me to assume you are either an anal pedant or a fifth grade teacher or both.
Until you crawl out from under your anonymity and use an LE handle, contact me via a private message and/or volunteer to edit the stories prior to publication, please STFU. In the meantime, I have turned off anonymous comments.
Trionyx

I worked really hard on this story, then someone whose opinion means nothing criticized it and now I'm butthurt angry and going to throw a tantrum.

So I guess the anonymous opinion actually does mean something after all.

 

[Bramblethorn]

three words, two mistakes...

Three, if you count hitting "send".