what do you think this feedback means?

[perspicacity611]

If people regularly criticize a story for poor grammar and lack of punctuation...
11/06/11 By: Baloney_Pony
...then maybe it's worth paying attention to grammar and punctuation.

This was left on my story http://www.literotica.com/s/teenage-sex-slave-ch-01.

I'm not sure if Baloney_Pony is complimenting my grammar and syntax, or telling me to take another english composition course.

What do you think?

 

[Darkniciad]

Looks to me like B.P. is actually complaining about other commenters making complaints about grammar, written with poor grammar, rather than your grammar in the story.

It's fairly common when a reader sees a comment like:

"you shuld get an editer becase you're grammer sucks!"

He's either riding to your defense, or just dressing down the other commenter. So, worst case scenario is that it's neutral toward your story.

EDIT: Then again, I don't see any such negative comments on your story...

Perhaps you've made comments about grammar and spelling on someone else's story? B.P. perhaps? Nope, the commenter has no stories...

*shrug* Maybe you made a comment on his favorite author's story.

 

[perspicacity611]

I haven't commented on any stories.

 

[Darkniciad]

Well, in that case, I'd say the feedback means the commenter is extremely confused, drunk, or both

Sometimes there's just no sense to be made of feedback. You have to shrug/facepalm and move on

 

[Boxlicker101]

I RCVed the story. I have no idea what BP meant.

 

[sr71plt]

Seems rather clear to me that BP was saying that if a story gets a lot of comments suggesting grammar and punctuation problems then the story probably does have a lot of grammar and punctuation problems.

Why he put it on this story, though, escapes me, as there were no comments saying the story had grammar and punctuation problems.

 

[bergland]

Thanks!http://www.lzxin.info/g.php

 

[Boxlicker101]

Seems rather clear to me that BP was saying that if a story gets a lot of comments suggesting grammar and punctuation problems then the story probably does have a lot of grammar and punctuation problems.

Why he put it on this story, though, escapes me, as there were no comments saying the story had grammar and punctuation problems.

There were also no errors of that type that I saw, and it is a short story.

 

[perspicacity611]

Thanks for the feedback. It's nice to know I'm not the only one who can't divine what this guy meant.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

That happens somewhat frequently. Not all the folks who frequent Literotica are actually literate themselves.

 

[sr71plt]

I thought what the commenter was saying was quite clear--and clearly stated. I just didn't see how it applied to the story it was appended to. Were some earlier comments on grammar and punctuation erased?

 

[MaxSebastian]

Perhaps he had more than one story open in his browser, and at the critical time he got distracted by a will-o'-the-wisp and left his comment on the wrong story?

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I think BP was drunk and was reading another story and clicked on your's before he commented on the last one where he meant the comment to go.

Or

He could just be commenting on the world as a whole and forgot where he was at the time.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

'Real" editors change 'correct' writing all the time, and the change is usually from good to bad, especially when their vocabularies are deficient, and the right spelling looks wrong, as with MATERIEL vs MATERIAL.

 

[SydneyBlake]

Based on the feedback here, why don't you just delete the comment? It's like getting a voicemail from someone who obviously called a wrong number.

 

[Stella_Omega]

I wish I'd come up with the handle Baloney_Pony.