Feedback is great!

[MagicaPractica]

Wow, what a great ego boost. You open your e-mail and get messages from people saying how much they love your stories. This, I can live with.

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

Wow, what a great ego boost. You open your e-mail and get messages from people saying how much they love your stories. This, I can live with.

They love you for your virtues, and are kind and generous enough to take the time to tell you that - don'cha just wanna reach through the screen and hug 'em?!

Magica basking in acclaim - enjoy the bask!

 

[Aurora Black]

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[AchtungNight]

I know. Feedback is great. Wish I had more.

 

[3113]

I know. Feedback is great. Wish I had more.

Positive feedback, let's be clear Or at least constructive. I could really do without the trolls ("You Suck!")

Though, getting back in the spirit of this thread, it is true that the generous and enthuiastic readers far outweigh any others and I wish we could send them all a rose in return for their kind words

 

[rgraham666]

Wow, what a great ego boost. You open your e-mail and get messages from people saying how much they love your stories. This, I can live with.

It is a great ego boost, isn't it?

I ignore the trolls completely now. Life's too short to agonise over assholes.

 

[MagicaPractica]

Do you guys delete public comments that don't make sense? I was letting the negative comments remain, balanced with the positive anyway. But I just got a couple comments that don't even really make sense to me. Would you delete something like that?

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

Positive feedback, let's be clear Or at least constructive. I could really do without the trolls ("You Suck!")

I thought I had a franchise on those feedbacks. Good to hear someone else gets them too

But, yes. The constructive Feedback even though negative are Wonderful

 

[rgraham666]

Do you guys delete public comments that don't make sense? I was letting the negative comments remain, balanced with the positive anyway. But I just got a couple comments that don't even really make sense to me. Would you delete something like that?

I've only ever deleted two.

One was a horribly nasty one, directed at the woman who helped with the piece. It blasted her for being gay and me for allowing her to live. (Insert vomiting smiley here) Into the bit bucket.

The other was a double post.

I leave everything else. The good ones make me feel better and the bad ones make me giggle.

 

[MagicaPractica]

I've only ever deleted two.

One was a horribly nasty one, directed at the woman who helped with the piece. It blasted her for being gay and me for allowing her to live. (Insert vomiting smiley here) Into the bit bucket.

The other was a double post.

I leave everything else. The good ones make me feel better and the bad ones make me giggle.

They are kinda strangely funny. Makes your face screw up and your head tilt to the side as you say, "huh?"

 

[CharleyH]

Positive feedback, let's be clear Or at least constructive. I could really do without the trolls ("You Suck!")

Though, getting back in the spirit of this thread, it is true that the generous and enthuiastic readers far outweigh any others and I wish we could send them all a rose in return for their kind words

Children always remember the boo boos, but less frequently the good of childhood.

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

I thought I had a franchise on those feedbacks. Good to hear someone else gets them too

But, yes. The constructive Feedback even though negative are Wonderful

I have only deleted a tiny handful, less than five I'm sure. My standard is, would the comment detract from another reader's enjoyment of the story, more specifically, make another reader feel stupid or bad for having liked the story. Something that is a legitimate opinion on a point of disagreement is fine, like "Too long," or "Dragged after the third page" or even "The woman was not a credible character and the sex scenes lacked emotional content." Something like the following would get deleted: "The writer of this story is clearly a sociopath, and anyone who liked it should receive a visit from a court-appointed psychatrist accompanied by heavily armed state troopers." They can insult or criticize me via the anon or non-anon email thing, but they can't demean or take away from the readers.

 

[AchtungNight]

I have the same standard, Roxanne.

 

[Aurora Black]

You know the type of feedback that I can't stand? The PCs made by people who are too lazy to write their own message, so they copy and paste lines from my stuff and then post them as feedback. Seriously, what the hell? I can appreciate the fact that the "comments" were meant in a positive way, but write in your own words! Don't steal mine.

As for the "You suck!" variety of feedback, thank goodness that I haven't encountered that so far. The worst feedback I've received for anything (either poetry or stories) came to me recently, and I responded accordingly.

 

[3113]

I thought I had a franchise on those feedbacks. Good to hear someone else gets them too

Yep. One of the perks of being a writer. You get wonderful fans...and now and then, an assholes. I swear they hover about certain categories like flies, dropping "sicko!" comments on any new story in that category no matter what it's about or who wrote it.

 

[Oblimo]

Bah. Those grapes are probably sour anyway.

 

[sharpchick]

You know the type of feedback that I can't stand? The PCs made by people who are too lazy to write their own message, so they copy and paste lines from my stuff and then post them as feedback. Seriously, what the hell? I can appreciate the fact that the "comments" were meant in a positive way, but write in your own words! Don't steal mine.

As for the "You suck!" variety of feedback, thank goodness that I haven't encountered that so far. The worst feedback I've received for anything (either poetry or stories) came to me recently, and I responded accordingly.

I got one today that told me all about how I couldn't be a very sharp chick because I forgot to write the chapters before mine in a chain story.

Unfortunately, it was anonymous, so I didn't have the opportunity to respond to the uninformed reader. . .

 

[TheeGoatPig]

Most of my poor comments are about grammar. I didn't proof read my first few stories (I was too eager), and I got called on it. I still proofread, but I still get commentted on it. Oh well

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

Glory to God in His highest. I got this by email today.

""Delicious" is awesome!" That's it, the entire comment. Interesting since I've gotten only about 10 comments at all on that story. And since it was about biting off cocks, most have not been flattering