Thanks For Trolling, Have A Nice Day

[OhMissScarlett]

I just checked my submissions and my story Feast Of The Rose Garlands fell two points abruptly after being at the same rating for months. There were no pc's saying I'm stupid or that I suck, it was just a lurk-by bombing. Okay, I know I'm being a baby but it just gets on my nerves that they didn't bother to tell me why they didn't like it. That's really the first time it's happened to me. I've had a few beers, thanks for letting me vent.

Feel free to tell me all about your trolling woes.

 

[BlackShanglan]

*nuzzle*

My poor Hesperus got torpedoed a month back. Straight from 4.88 to 4.68. It does hurt It's hard not to think that someone got mad about it staying at the #1 slot for a while.

Still, I'm trying to let it go. I know it was decent work, and I was happy with it when I posted it. If I look back over the story and like it, I'm just going to be happy with that. If I hate it - well, that's why I spend half my life revising And I have to just swallow the fact that maybe someone out there really thinks it merits a one. Maybe it just rubbed someone really the wrong way.

For what it's worth, I thought "Feast of the Roses" was a delicious and charming story wholly worthy of the 5 I voted it.

Shanglan

 

[OhMissScarlett]

*nuzzle*

My poor Hesperus got torpedoed a month back. Straight from 4.88 to 4.68. It does hurt It's hard not to think that someone got mad about it staying at the #1 slot for a while.

Still, I'm trying to let it go. I know it was decent work, and I was happy with it when I posted it. If I look back over the story and like it, I'm just going to be happy with that. If I hate it - well, that's why I spend half my life revising And I have to just swallow the fact that maybe someone out there really thinks it merits a one. Maybe it just rubbed someone really the wrong way.

For what it's worth, I thought "Feast of the Roses" was a delicious and charming story wholly worthy of the 5 I voted it.

Shanglan

Thanks for that, Shanglan
I know, being in the top ten does seem to make you a big target. I thought down at 50th or whatever I was free from that.
I've had another beer and am feeling much better about the whole thing.

 

[Guest]

I have yet to get a negative feedback to go with a serrious bobing run.

In fact the only negative feedback I ever got was the 12 yr old that sent me "You're so stupid. You're so stupid. You're so stupid. You're so stupid. You're so stupid. You're so stupid. You're so stupid. You're so stupid. You're so stupid. You're so stupid. You're so stupid. You're so stupid."

But I don't really count that one. I got a good laugh so it wasn't all bad.

 

[OhMissScarlett]

I have yet to get a negative feedback to go with a serrious bobing run.

In fact the only negative feedback I ever got was the 12 yr old that sent me "You're so stupid. You're so stupid. You're so stupid. You're so stupid. You're so stupid. You're so stupid. You're so stupid. You're so stupid. You're so stupid. You're so stupid. You're so stupid. You're so stupid."

But I don't really count that one. I got a good laugh so it wasn't all bad.

Oh, Dran, that makes me laugh every time I read it. How did you not piss your pants when you read that feedback for the first time?

 

[brightlyiburn]

Oh, I've got some astoundingly trollish feedback.

Until this day, my favorite:

This message contains feedback for: brightlyiburn
About the submission: White Trash Mouse Ch. 10
This feedback was sent by: Anonymous

Comments:

He hadn't seen or heard from her since, although he hadn't really expected too.

A spell checker doesn't help if you're illiterate to begin with.

Dorothy Martin

Now, aside from the fact that that is very obviously a typo...how am I the one whose illiterate if she can't read more than one sentence of my story? I mean, seriously, if you're going to call someone illiterate, it might not hurt to have more than one example.

 

[OhMissScarlett]

I mean, seriously, if you're going to call someone illiterate, it might not hurt to have more than one example.

Right, obviously you can't be completely illiterate and get even that far in a sentence. It cracks me up that she signed it too.

 

[BlackShanglan]

Yeesh. No kidding. I have a healthy respect for grammar and spelling, but I hate when people turn it into an obnoxious little game of "GOTCHA! You have a typo so BURN IN HELL!"

I'm actually a little baffled at the moment on that ground. I got a PM from someone with the title "In Response" and the message "To be honest I saw some glaring errors. For what its worth I'm a good editor. (etc)" This has me just a touch baffled because on the whole, I think my grammar correct and my proofreading fairly decent. I haven't really posted anything that I would have guessed would have "glaring errors." My only guess is that s/he might be looking at Pope's diary, which attempts to reconstruct some of the flavor of 17th century diction. But I don't know, and the poster has not responded to my return PM.

Now I'm haunted by the idea that I've got something with glaring grammatical errors in it posted to all the world.

Damnit, I need another Guinness.

Shanglan

 

[OhMissScarlett]

Yeesh. No kidding. I have a healthy respect for grammar and spelling, but I hate when people turn it into an obnoxious little game of "GOTCHA! You have a typo so BURN IN HELL!"

I'm actually a little baffled at the moment on that ground. I got a PM from someone with the title "In Response" and the message "To be honest I saw some glaring errors. For what its worth I'm a good editor. (etc)" This has me just a touch baffled because on the whole, I think my grammar correct and my proofreading fairly decent. I haven't really posted anything that I would have guessed would have "glaring errors." My only guess is that s/he might be looking at Pope's diary, which attempts to reconstruct some of the flavor of 17th century diction. But I don't know, and the poster has not responded to my return PM.

Now I'm haunted by the idea that I've got something with glaring grammatical errors in it posted to all the world.

Damnit, I need another Guinness.

Shanglan

You know what? It's probably not even you. I've gotten some bizarro pm's. One time a guy went on and on about what a great writer I was. I was so flattered until I got to the bottom where he said he loved the lesbian three-way in my story. Hmm, seems I've never posted a lesbian story on Lit at all.

 

[Guest]

Oh, Dran, that makes me laugh every time I read it. How did you not piss your pants when you read that feedback for the first time?

Who says I didn't?

 

[OhMissScarlett]

Who says I didn't?

silly me.

 

[Guest]

Shang, I'll have another drink, too -

I have a story about a lecherous priest - kind of a period piece.

Decent feedback, solid voting, nice PC's.

Except for one.

PC - Nicely written, but very predictable with no subtlety at all. I am a bit tired of the under aged sexy girl in distress scenario. She's like the same girl, over and over who is constantly getting herself into sticky (ho-ho) situations; she is a blank flaccid thing and here she is again too scared to even say a thing.

At first I was a bit annoyed by the comment and with the obvious 'one' vote that accompanied it. (I always assumed if the writing was poor you gave it a one. I don't agree with low voting a story just because you don't like the category.)

And then I thought - this reader is truly missing the point. In this story, that is what is supposed to happen. On purpose I focused on the lechery of the priest. The girl was supposed to be almost faceless.

*sigh*

But apparently I'm being blamed for all the people who write a story in this type of category. Evil people, all of us! How dare we use the same type of plots!

Spank me.

 

[brightlyiburn]

Re: Shang, I'll have another drink, too -

Spank me.

O-Kay

 

[Guest]

Re: Re: Shang, I'll have another drink, too -

O-Kay

Now don't tease me!

 

[Boxlicker101]

I just checked my submissions and my story Feast Of The Rose Garlands fell two points abruptly after being at the same rating for months. There were no pc's saying I'm stupid or that I suck, it was just a lurk-by bombing. Okay, I know I'm being a baby but it just gets on my nerves that they didn't bother to tell me why they didn't like it. That's really the first time it's happened to me. I've had a few beers, thanks for letting me vent.

Feel free to tell me all about your trolling woes.

Hi, Miss. Do you mean to tell me that your story had a total of one vote for some months, and that vote was a 5, and somebody came along and voted a one-bomb? That would be the only way a story could drop two whole points from one vote. Do you mean it dropped .02 points? For that to happen, considering that it now stands at 4.75 with 53 votes, somebody voted it a 4, which is no big deal.

Figure it out. For it to stand at 4.75 after 53 votes, those votes have to total 252. If the total were more than 252, the score would be more than 4.75; if the total were less than 251, the score would be less than 4.75. That means that, if the score stood at 4.77 for 52 votes, the total of the 52 votes was 248. I woldn't call voting a four on a story to be the act of a troll.

252/53 = 4.75

248/52 = 4.77

 

[Lucifer_Carroll]

I usually give the trolls milk and cookies.

But then they want controlling interest in Brief Glimmer of Hope Industries so they can loot it.

That's about when the 1-bombs start raining down.

 

[brightlyiburn]

I usually give the trolls milk and cookies.

But then they want controlling interest in Brief Glimmer of Hope Industries so they can loot it.

That's about when the 1-bombs start raining down.

*sigh* If you give a troll a cookie...

 

[OhMissScarlett]

Re: Re: Thanks For Trolling, Have A Nice Day

Hi, Miss. Do you mean to tell me that your story had a total of one vote for some months, and that vote was a 5, and somebody came along and voted a one-bomb? That would be the only way a story could drop two whole points from one vote. Do you mean it dropped .02 points? For that to happen, considering that it now stands at 4.75 with 53 votes, somebody voted it a 4, which is no big deal.

Figure it out. For it to stand at 4.75 after 53 votes, those votes have to total 252. If the total were more than 252, the score would be more than 4.75; if the total were less than 251, the score would be less than 4.75. That means that, if the score stood at 4.77 for 52 votes, the total of the 52 votes was 248. I woldn't call voting a four on a story to be the act of a troll.

252/53 = 4.75

248/52 = 4.77

Well, thanks, Box for doing all that fancy figuring for me. I'll be the first to admit that I do not work things out mathmatically. Also, I'm pretty overly dramatic. So, don't mind me, I hope you didn't go to a lot of trouble with a chalkboard and a scientific calculator just for little ole me.

 

[Guest]

*sigh* If you give a troll a cookie...

They'll only want a glass of lighter fluid.

 

[Guest]

Re: Re: Re: Thanks For Trolling, Have A Nice Day

Well, thanks, Box for doing all that fancy figuring for me. I'll be the first to admit that I do not work things out mathmatically. Also, I'm pretty overly dramatic. So, don't mind me, I hope you didn't go to a lot of trouble with a chalkboard and a scientific calculator just for little ole me.

Nahhh.

Box counts on his toes.

 

[Lucifer_Carroll]

They'll only want a glass of lighter fluid.

Yeah, they need it to raze Brief Glimmer of Hope Industries because I won't give them controlling interest.

 

[OhMissScarlett]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Thanks For Trolling, Have A Nice Day

Nahhh.

Box counts on his toes.

At least he's sexy barefoot when he's making me look like a total dork.

 

[Guest]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Thanks For Trolling, Have A Nice Day

At least he's sexy barefoot when he's making me look like a total dork.

Nahhh, no dorks here. No matter the vote tally it helps to talk to others about the asshole readers out there.

And Box is a gentleman - I hope he isn't too offended by my toe comment.

 

[brightlyiburn]

They'll only want a glass of lighter fluid.

We don't need no water, let the mother fucker burn...

 

[Guest]

We don't need no water, let the mother fucker burn...

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