And it was by someone uniquely familiar with trolls, I might add. 
I will attribute it properly in due time (it surely isn't my own) but I want to see if anyone recognizes the source, first.
"As a guide I had only my own feelings for what is appealing or moving, and for many the guide was inevitably often at fault. Some who have read the [story], or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible; and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer. It is perhaps not possible ... to please everybody at all points, nor to displease everybody at the same points; for I find from the letters that I have received that the passages or chapters that are to some a blemish are all by others specially approved."
Incidentally, I posted elsewhere that the number of readers overall, as well as the number of trolls, seems to have increased exponentially since the point at which colleges would typically have gone back into session. Is this something that others have noticed?
I will attribute it properly in due time (it surely isn't my own) but I want to see if anyone recognizes the source, first."As a guide I had only my own feelings for what is appealing or moving, and for many the guide was inevitably often at fault. Some who have read the [story], or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible; and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer. It is perhaps not possible ... to please everybody at all points, nor to displease everybody at the same points; for I find from the letters that I have received that the passages or chapters that are to some a blemish are all by others specially approved."
Incidentally, I posted elsewhere that the number of readers overall, as well as the number of trolls, seems to have increased exponentially since the point at which colleges would typically have gone back into session. Is this something that others have noticed?
