Public Comment - odd? Anyone else?

[MagicaPractica]

Got an odd public comment today. Anyone else gotten one on this topic?

"Do You Know
11/10/07 By: Anonymous in England
I love your stories,but do you know that 200,000 american ex servicemen are living rough in the land of thr free,now come on Magica DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.Please use your influence or even better write a story about this terrible plight.TO THE REST OF YOU COME ON AMERICA WAKE UP SOD THE REST, CAST OUT THE MOAT FROM YOUR OWN EYES BEFORE EVEN THINKING ABOUT HELPING OTHERS,LOOK HOW YOUR DOLLAR IS SO WEAK AGAINST THE POUND ,AND WATCH THE BLOODY CHINESE.how is that for a real friend?"

My response:

Well, no, I didn't. Thanks for pointing that out. I did look up an interesting Web site on it. http://www.nchv.org/background.cfm According to them, those numbers are accurate.

My influence? What influence would that be? (Granted, I may write a story about it now anyway.)

What does this have to do with my Civil War letter series?

According to your "Anonymous in England" signature, you don't live in the U.S. so why are you posting about homeless American veterans?

Just one more thing that confused me today.

Oh, and "the bloody Chinese?" My sister in law is Chinese so... ahem... on that point... GO TO HELL!

 

[somberReality]

WTH???? Gahhhhhhhh don't ruin a good erotic story with that crap!!

 

[MagicaPractica]

WTH???? Gahhhhhhhh don't ruin a good erotic story with that crap!!

It's not an erotic story. Just romantic type letters between a couple engaged during the Civil War. Maybe that's the problem.

 

[somberReality]

Nah, just someone to rant about politics. It still kinda ruins the moment in reading erotica for me.

 

[starrkers]

CAST OUT THE MOAT FROM YOUR OWN EYES

I want to know how he thinks you got all that water in your eye in the first place

 

[MagicaPractica]

Nah, just someone to rant about politics. It still kinda ruins the moment in reading erotica for me.

Well, at least he waited until the second in the series. Maybe he got bored after that.

I want to know how he thinks you got all that water in your eye in the first place

I've heard of water on the knee and on the brain but that would be a heck of a lot of water in the eye.

 

[Weird Harold]

I want to know how he thinks you got all that water in your eye in the first place

Not to mention the Moat Monsters and all of the noxious stuff normally found in moats.

Magica, I'd delete the comment as spam because it's not about your story, it's about a political hobby horse that rears it's head every Veterans/Remembrance Day.

 

[TE999]

And the sad part is he's runnin' around loose.

Drivin', votin' and everything.

Maybe he's confusing Iraq with Seven Pines or Cold Harbor.

 

[MagicaPractica]

Not to mention the Moat Monsters and all of the noxious stuff normally found in moats.

Magica, I'd delete the comment as spam because it's not about your story, it's about a political hobby horse that rears it's head every Veterans/Remembrance Day.

Ugh, I've never deleted a comment. I hate to do it. Even the truly mean ones. I know it's my right but I just hate to.

 

[MagicaPractica]

And the sad part is he's runnin' around loose.

Drivin', votin' and everything.

Maybe he's confusing Iraq with Seven Pines or Cold Harbor.

Think he's sufferin' from past lives intruding on this one? I kinda doubt it.

 

[TE999]

Think he's sufferin' from past lives intruding on this one? I kinda doubt it.

Nah--not really.

The poor devils' all over the map from the Bible to world monetary policy.

It was prolly rainin' and he couldn't walk the streets with his sign proclaiming
"The End is nigh--be ready" or some such twaddle.

I'm with Weird Harold.

Delete it and forget it.

 

[MagicaPractica]

Nah--not really.

The poor devils' all over the map from the Bible to world monetary policy.

It was prolly rainin' and he couldn't walk the streets with his sign proclaiming
"The End is nigh--be ready" or some such twaddle.

I'm with Weird Harold.

Delete it and forget it.

I may simply because of the last line.

 

[Weird Harold]

Ugh, I've never deleted a comment. I hate to do it. Even the truly mean ones. I know it's my right but I just hate to.

If you don't delete the off-topic comments, your public comments could turn into the General Board.

Seriously, this PC has nothing to do with your story or with the intended purpose of the Public Comments function (to give readers a better gauge of a story than the voting provides.)

 

[MagicaPractica]

If you don't delete the off-topic comments, your public comments could turn into the General Board.

Seriously, this PC has nothing to do with your story or with the intended purpose of the Public Comments function (to give readers a better gauge of a story than the voting provides.)

I hadn't thought of it that way. However I did delete it simply because it isn't fair to use my story as a place to spout racism.

 

[Weird Harold]

I hadn't thought of it that way. However I did delete it simply because it isn't fair to use my story as a place to spout racism.

Same principle, different way of looking at it.

I don't have public comments turned on for any of my stories because I don't want the hassle of managing them. However, I wouldn't have any qualms about deleteing anything that wasn't relevant to the story if I did have them turned on.

I would think twice or even three times before deleting a derogatory comment that was relevant to the story, though -- unlike some authors, I dont see negative reactions to my writing as personal attacks on me.

 

[MagicaPractica]

Same principle, different way of looking at it.

I don't have public comments turned on for any of my stories because I don't want the hassle of managing them. However, I wouldn't have any qualms about deleteing anything that wasn't relevant to the story if I did have them turned on.

I would think twice or even three times before deleting a derogatory comment that was relevant to the story, though -- unlike some authors, I dont see negative reactions to my writing as personal attacks on me.

Yes, I guess so.

I think, with the new public comment portal, they actually help bring reader's attention to a story.

Yes, that's why I haven't deleted them in the past.

 

[lloyd_5]

The PC you quote is not rational. A sensible comment about veterans might have been acceptable, but the wide-eyed rant about currencies and the Chinese just destroys all credibility.

This is one of those PCs that just needs weeding and forgetting. Not worth a second thought IMHO.

 

[MagicaPractica]

The PC you quote is not rational. A sensible comment about veterans might have been acceptable, but the wide-eyed rant about currencies and the Chinese just destroys all credibility.

This is one of those PCs that just needs weeding and forgetting. Not worth a second thought IMHO.

I wasn't offended by it, just wondered if anyone else had gotten such a wildly off topic comment in that vein lately. Curiosity gets the better of me sometimes.

 

[oggbashan]

I've been stalked by a lesbian who gets off on my AV...



















...my AV as Jeanne, of course.

But it is irritating that the stalker hasn't read Jeanne's profile.

Og

 

[MagicaPractica]

I've been stalked by a lesbian who gets off on my AV...

...my AV as Jeanne, of course.

But it is irritating that the stalker hasn't read Jeanne's profile.

Og

Pfft! Clearly an amateur stalker. We need better stalkers. Perhaps Dampy should write a "How to" article on that.

 

[oggbashan]

Moats and Motes

Anonymous in England should have researched our own treatment of veterans. Despite the Welfare State and the British Legion, we have little to be proud about in our treatment of injured soldiers, especially those suffering mental distress, nor should we be proud of our treatment of the dependants and relatives of those killed or injured serving their country.

Whatever the politics and however correct or flawed the decisions might have been to commit our troops to fight, the troops are doing their duty for us, to the best of their ability. They fight. Some get injured. Some die. We owe them thanks and should give our support to those who have impaired lives as a result of fighting for us.

If a war is unnecessary, or was undertaken rashly on incorrect intelligence, it makes no difference to the families of the troops who have died, or whose lives been damaged beyond repair.

America has begun to come to terms with the treatment of Vietnam veterans. We still have to accept that our treatment of veterans of Suez and other "little" wars has not been good. We don't give parades for such wars. Perhaps we should. So many veterans feel that they are the forgotten ones because they weren't injured in the full glare of publicity.

Whenever our troops are committed they should know that their families will be looked after. Unfortunately they still don't know that and until we recognise our debt is more than can be paid by wearing a poppy and attending a parade once a year, soldiers' families will still suffer.

Og

 

[damppanties]

Pfft! Clearly an amateur stalker. We need better stalkers. Perhaps Dampy should write a "How to" article on that.

*stalk*

 

[MagicaPractica]

*stalk*

See? Right there, so much better at it than any I've seen.

 

[Just-Legal]

I don't get many PCs. I'm surprised I didn't get one like that on The Warcheif and the Magus though - its tagged as a "war" story.

I think.

 

[MagicaPractica]

I don't get many PCs. I'm surprised I didn't get one like that on The Warcheif and the Magus though - its tagged as a "war" story.

I think.

Ahhh, interesting idea as to why. Mine is tagged as Civil War besides the title. Though it happened the day it first posted so I think he just saw it in the new stories.