downvoting as retaliation

[cymbidia]

(Note: There's a link to a dictionary posted at the conclusion of my post for those of you who don't know all the big words i'm going to use.)

Just a little while ago, i posted the following on the Author's Hangout Board here at Lit. It's directed at those (relatively few, i think) of you who are morally bankrupt enough to think it's fun or acceptable or okay in some manner to downvote other people's work for strictly personal reasons. You're accumulating a karmic debt with these kinds of activities that's going to be painful when it comes back on you. (Not that you worry overmuch about karma, though, that being a somewhat esoteric concept.)

People who practice downvoting-as-retaliation are scum. They probably don't write erotica and couldn't if their lives depended on it. They either envy those of us who try to express our views of sexuality in intelligently and thoughtfully worded stories or they're so sunk in the depths of their appalling ignorance that they just giggle inanely while trying to hurt others in the only way they have available, through votes on stories they can't read cuz the stories contain too many polysyllabic words.

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From my post to a thread the Author's Hangout:

Yesterday, apparently, i pissed off some of the GB fluff-heads. Today the scores on every one of my stories, including my singleton nonthreatening and unassuming little poem, are at least .5 lower than they were yesterday. Coincidence? Hmmm... the Mary Poppins part of me would like to think so.

Good thing i'm not watching my scores anymore! (Okay, i take peeks.)
Sooooo...
Good thing i'm finding it all amusing these days!


Seriously: I never vote anything up or down because of how i feel about the author; that's contemptibly dishonest and outside the spirit of helping each other get better as authors. If i don't like someone, i just don't read their stuff.

People who vote according to GB spats, or for any other personal reasons, are both exceedingly immature and failures as moral people. They know that their covert activities identify them as grotesque and pitiful, too, during those quiet moments when they're drifting off to sleep.

I content myself with the knowledge that what goes around, comes around. The Universe never lets good deeds go unrewarded and doesn't allow nastiness to go unremarked, either.

Fuck 'em. I believe i'll cross-post this to the GB (since they'll not ever be coming here to see it).
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Here's that link i promised you:
http://www.dictionary.com/

I will not post to this thread again, children. I've said what i needed to say. Now i'm going back to the grown-ups table.

xoxoxoxo
cym

 

[TinaG13]

That all makes sense to me. I agree it would be childish to do that, just like toilet papering someone's house is a childish prank..

Hey, I didn't even have to use the dictionary! lol

 

[nitengale]

offering cym my support for this thread...

I work hard on my writing as well, and find it less than amusing that people feel the need to down vote my stories just because I pissed in your oatmeal. This forum is an avenue for us to come and vent, to share opinions, to play, to argue points, to challenge posts, to agree with thoughts...

We should not have to worry that the story we worked hard on with be downgraded the minute we leave the area.

It's fucking childish. It's playground crap. If you don't like what I posted, then say it here...argue with me, challenge my thoughts, tell me I'm crazy...but please leave my stories alone.

It's not like The New York Times is watching my stories for voting increases to make me their next story. I alone should be the only one who really cares about my measley little stories. The're not HOT material, but I did write them myself.

Please think twice before hurting people this way.
Now did I attract all the mean people just by adding my thoughts here? I hope not.

 

[willywanker]

I have yet to submit a story, although I have been considering it (well, I did submit one but never heard from it again) but I do enjoy reading the stories other have written.

I guess I may be different than some but I still just read the stories that hook me with the title, I know not a real measure of the story. If I really like a story, I vote for it, giving it the score I feel like giving it. But usually, if I don't like a story, I simply go to another story. I never saw it as helping the authors to have low scores posted.

 

[Fleshmachine]

I never would downvote anyone because I didn't like what they said to me. Actually if anything I'm probably far too generous with my votes. It is deplorable that someone would do that. So pull up your soapbox and get on as many rants as you want. You have been done wrong.