Moronic Feedback

[anteros]

Just a bit of a rant if you will permit me. It is really directed towards someone that probably won't read this message.

A few weeks ago someone started a thread called "Inexplicable Feedback". This is more about "Moronic" than "Inexplicable".

I've gotten both good and bad feedback. I've had people DEMAND that I tailor the next chapter of my story to their particular needs.

I had someone write and tell me he was trying some of the things he read in my story. I wrote back and advised him against it. I hope he didn't get hurt.

Eventually I had to block his email because he started sending me chain emails and I got tired of deleting them.

I don't have a problem with any of those kinds of feedback. In fact, I respond to every non-anonymous feedback with a thank you, even if they didn't like my story. I really appreciated the guy that told me that I made several typos. I hate typos so I corrected them and resubmitted the story.

What I can't stand is MORONIC feedback. When I write a story that I call a fantasy, I don't need to hear that I have the FACTS messed up. Wake up and smell the coffee. IT'S A FANTASY. That means I MADE IT UP!
(I'd like to have heard Sam Kinison read that!)

I'm perfectly aware that the iron age came AFTER the bronze age. If you bothered to read the first 3 paragraphs of the story, you'd see that the story takes place thousands of years before recorded history. Bronze wasn't invented yet and no one was working with iron then. You must have missed that.

There is also no hard evidence that Atlantis ever existed. You missed that too.

There probably was no warrior race of women called Amazons. Oops. You missed another factual error you could have criticized.

Even if there were, I'll bet they couldn't effortlessly launch arrows into a man's head from 100 yards away. You missed that one too.

I doubt there were marble floors or indoor baths 100,000 years ago either. You missed two more. You should be ashamed of yourself! Did you pass high school history?

You forgot to mention that my characters are speaking English and that language didn't exist that long ago.

Did you know that the earliest flush toilets known to exist were in a palace in Minoa and were constructed about 1500 BC? I was going to put flush toilets in my story, but since it takes place long before that, I didn't want to make a factual error and ruin the story for someone.

If you'd like to read a history lesson, send me your email address and I'd be happy to send you some of my history essays.

Thank you for reading my rant! Have a great day!

 

[KillerMuffin]

Feel better?

 

[pointless]

i know i don't. that hurt my eyes.

 

[anteros]

Feel better?

Yes. I feel much better. Thank you!

Sorry I hurt your eyes, Pointless.

 

[pointless]

it's okay. i'll get better. i need to step away from this fucking brain sucker anyway.

 

[KillerMuffin]

That's good to hear, that you feel better not that pointless's eyes hurt. Venting is good. Unless I do it. I usually get told off.

 

[TheEarl]

Hey, venting is always good. We all get to see the weird and wonderful stuff inside your head when you're pissed off with the world.

The Earl

 

[MathGirl]

Moronic feelback

Dear Anteros,

You must be new at this. I've come to expect moronic feedback. Anything else is a pleasant surprise.

MG

 

[SlaveMasterUK]

It's not FAIR! I've been REALLY looking forward to getting some moronic feedback, so I can read it and laugh at someone who really is so stupid and petty that they'd tell me there's no such thing as Flexilon, people won't be driving cars (crystal induction or otherwise) in 1,000 years time, and Levnet will never really work. But thus far NOBODY HAS!

What am I doing wrong?

ax

 

[DVS]

Hey, venting is always good. We all get to see the weird and wonderful stuff inside your head when you're pissed off with the world.
The Earl

Not to mention the "vents" when you eat Mexican!

 

[pop_54]

That's it

That's it get it out of your system, now just carry on as before, and for God's sake don't take any bloody notice of the morons.

You write primarily for you, it's nice to bend a little to please the target audience, but never try to change your ways for the idiots.

 

[DarlingNikki]

Oooh. The Inexplicable Feedback thread was mine. I feel like I'm famous now.

I have to say though, with the exception of that one I quoted, all of my feedback has been quite sane and pleasant, if sometimes graphic. I admit that the first time someone mentioned his erection I was all "why are you telling me that??!!" until I remembered, duh...

I was sort of expecting moronic and/or mean feedback based on what I read here before posting my first story, and I was planning on having a good laugh. Which is what you should do, anteros. Nothing like a good rant though.

 

[MathGirl]

Moronic

It's not FAIR! I've been REALLY looking forward to getting some moronic feedback, so I can read it and laugh at someone who really is so stupid and petty that they'd tell me there's no such thing as Flexilon, people won't be driving cars (crystal induction or otherwise) in 1,000 years time, and Levnet will never really work. But thus far NOBODY HAS!

What am I doing wrong?

ax

Dear Ax,
I thought you were talking about feedback from real morons. That's the type I get. E.g.

"Der Mathguil,
O your so hot. I wantto .......... on your're ....... and hav U ...... my nut's. Im fourty to year's old and hunged liike a gasse pump.
Buster"

Now that's what I call moronic feedback. I think it comes from being female and writing low grade smut.

MG

 

[Pookie]

Re: Moronic

"Der Mathguil,
O your so hot. I wantto .......... on your're ....... and hav U ...... my nut's. Im fourty to year's old and hunged liike a gasse pump.
Buster"

Now that's what I call moronic feedback. I think it comes from being female and writing low grade smut.

MG

Wait a minute now! That's MY boyfriend, NOT yours!

Now I'm jealous of MG!


Pookie

 

[Chicklet]

now i really want to read your story, anteros = )

 

[MathGirl]

Re: Re: Moronic

Wait a minute now! That's MY boyfriend, NOT yours!
Now I'm jealous of MG!
Pookie

Dear Pookie,
You can have that one, dear. I'll forward his future feedback.
MG

Dear Chicklet,
I sure like the shoes in your AV. Ever since you've been using that, I've been shoe shopping. Not much in size two narrow but Mary Janes and pink sneakers.
MG

 

[openthighs_sarah]

It's not FAIR! I've been REALLY looking forward to getting some moronic feedback, so I can read it and laugh at someone who really is so stupid and petty that they'd tell me there's no such thing as Flexilon, people won't be driving cars (crystal induction or otherwise) in 1,000 years time, and Levnet will never really work. But thus far NOBODY HAS!

What am I doing wrong?

ax

You know, people really won't be driving cars in 1,000 years time. And in fact Levnet, though promising, is unlikely to work.

Does that help?

~sarah

Oh, I don't know what the hell Levnet is, either. Does that mean I'm a moron?

 

[openthighs_sarah]

Re: Moronic

"Der Mathguil,
O your so hot. I wantto .......... on your're ....... and hav U ...... my nut's. Im fourty to year's old and hunged liike a gasse pump.
Buster"

I have to admit that, after seeing that paragraph, I look at my readers with new appreciation and wonder.

 

[MathGirl]

Re: Re: Moronic

I have to admit that, after seeing that paragraph, I look at my readers with new appreciation and wonder.

Dear Sarah,
Be thankful. I seem to have a corner on the idiots.
MG

 

[openthighs_sarah]

Re: Re: Re: Moronic

Dear Sarah,
Be thankful. I seem to have a corner on the idiots.
MG

Oh, I am. But still, I sometimes worry that I'll be reading a really bizarre and terrifying email from an obvious psycho... and then a little IM window will pop up, and it'll be the chief of police (possibly named "Buster"):

"Sarah. Get off the computer. He's writing from inside your house. Get out n--"

<shivering>
Comic book guy: "There's no emoticon for what I'm feeling right now..."

 

[Guest]

LMAO

Every once in a while....we ALL need to vent.

BTW....I think it was on Survivor? They DID indicate that once a tribe of women did in fact exist in the Amazon. Hence...the name and the title given to this particular group of women who lived and survived there.

Though I also believe that Wonder Woman came from a similar place. And I still happen to believe in her too. Anyone that can look good in stripes has my vote!


I remain,

 

[Guest]

And by the way KM........

I like it when you vent. It usually starts a whole new wave of interesting posts!

*giggle*

I remain,

 

[Svenskaflicka]

does your daughter age 4 also belong to the black monkey you have taken
to your bed.......shame

I can't remember the last time I had such an IDIOTIC feedback from anyone. Racists...
lol

 

[BIGBobbie]

I can't remember the last time I had such an IDIOTIC feedback from anyone. Racists...
lol

Is this black monkey suppose to be somehow symbolic, or is there a monkey in one of your stories?

Monkeys bite, you know. And, they play with themselves in public. An interesting parallel?

 

[MathGirl]

Monkeys bite, you know. And, they play with themselves in public. An interesting parallel?

BigB,
I think you're missing the point here. Svenska is quoting from some bigoted asshole who sent her that comment.
MG