What does this mean?

[Boxlicker101]

I just received this PC on my latest story.

I love it
03/11/07 By: Anonymous
so good. i love it. this is a good fantasy and i loved reading it. my husband loves to play this one out sometimes and it always makes me so wet,and the sex couldnt be better. good job and keep em coming

This is an extremely laudatory comment, just the kind I like to get, especially from women, and the kind that keeps me writing. However, there was one thing that puzzles me. The little thermometer next to the PC was at 75. I know the thermometer isn't supposed to mean anything, but the default on it is 50. This would mean that the woman who posted the PC went to the trouble of setting it at 75. Presumably, this would mean she voted the story a "4".

I have no problem with somebody rating a story of mine a "4". Some of them, I would rate lower than that. However, if the woman who posted the PC thought the story was as good as she says it was, why wouldn't she vote it a "5"?

I guess some people think a "5" is "perfect". Personally, I think of it as meaning something like "top 20%". I wouldn't even say the story is that, but the reader seems to be saying so.

 

[jomar]

Maybe she got "distracted" and hit the wrong button. With that PC nothing less than a 5 would do.

 

[Trombonus]

Some people don't believe in posting the highest score available. To them that score is deserved only by something that is "perfect." I know I've had teachers that flat out told us on the first day of class that practically no one gets A's in their classes. While I respect their quest for perfection, I resent the fact that I'm already behind the 8-ball before I've even had a chance to turn anything in. Not a very strong motivational tool for me.

 

[SlickTony]

Without having read it yet, I'd guess that the reader is a real grammar Nazi (something I've been guilty of myself) and while it got him/her real hot, he/she felt honor-bound for taking points off for the neuter possessive spelled with an apostrophe or something like that.

Later...

Well, which story was it? I know it wasn't "Me and Lisa's Dildo" because 1) it had no such problems and 2) no public comments yet either.

 

[only_more_so]

Well, maybe she thinks "good" is only worth a 4, and didn't think the story is "great" which would get a 5. I've had cases where I enjoyed the story, but didn't think it merited a 5 (from some flaw or lack that kept the story from being "great"). I left a positive comment, although not as positive as the anon one you got.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Without having read it yet, I'd guess that the reader is a real grammar Nazi (something I've been guilty of myself) and while it got him/her real hot, he/she felt honor-bound for taking points off for the neuter possessive spelled with an apostrophe or something like that.

It could be something like that, although I proofread pretty carefully for things like that. I have very few mechanical errors. There was a big anomaly in the story, though, which several readers pointed out to me, in PC or emails, but this one said nothing about it.

 

[Jubal_Harshaw]

Wow. Seems like every day someone is pissing and moaning about shitty PCs and trolls one bombing them or getting a 3 when they thought their story deserved better. Now we got someone complaining because they got a good PC and a 5?

I don't get it

 

[mckai777]

I guess some people think a "5" is "perfect".

Indeed. I always vote just once on my own stories, and after much deliberation, rated my latest a "4".

 

[jomar]

Wow. Seems like every day someone is pissing and moaning about shitty PCs and trolls one bombing them or getting a 3 when they thought their story deserved better. Now we got someone complaining because they got a good PC and a 5?

I don't get it

You probably read it too quickly. The PC was glowing, then she gave him a 4. Boxlicker was commenting on the apparent discrepancy.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Jubal_Harshaw
Wow. Seems like every day someone is pissing and moaning about shitty PCs and trolls one bombing them or getting a 3 when they thought their story deserved better. Now we got someone complaining because they got a good PC and a 5?

I don't get it

You probably read it too quickly. The PC was glowing, then she gave him a 4. Boxlicker was commenting on the apparent discrepancy.

And, I wasn't really complaining about it, just expressing puzzlement. A PC like that one is much more welcome than a vote of "5", which is really not that big a deal.

This is what I actually said:

I have no problem with somebody rating a story of mine a "4". Some of them, I would rate lower than that. However, if the woman who posted the PC thought the story was as good as she says it was, why wouldn't she vote it a "5"?

 

[SlickTony]

Box, my question: which one was it?

 

[Boxlicker101]

Box, my question: which one was it?

It was "Mother's Milk", which has 12 PC the last time I looked. Some of them describe the anomaly I mentioned.

 

[SlickTony]

I guess your mystery critic hit the wrong choice by mistake. Certainly there was nothing a grammar Nazi would take exception to.

I liked it, myself. It reminded me of a weekend I and my husband took in New Orleans. I was nursing our son but we'd left him with grandparents. We went to the Desire Oyster bar and drank champagne and ate oysters, and while we were there it started to rain. We ended up running back to our hotel in the rain, and since we were cold and wet, we got in to the hot shower. Since I hadn't nursed for a while, my breasts were full to the point of pain. I asked my husband to please take some of the pressure off. He wasn't a lactation freak like your protagonist, but he agreed to do so. The sucking sensation, which felt totally different coming from a man from when a baby is doing it, shot straight south and I almost raped him in the bathtub. We couldn't get in the bed fast enough.