designatedvictim
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TL,DR: why do you delete a comment on one of your stories? What is it about a comment that says 'This needs deleting'?
In the years that I've visited here, I’d never voted or commented until very recently.
My first low-vote-and-comment-explaining-it was to a relatively recent story that just bugged me. The more I thought of the story, the more I hated it. Hated the characters. I'd initially just left nothing, but seeing it again in the story list a few days later, after my festering hatred for the story grew, pushed me to vote/comment.
Another, more recent, story - this story was pretty basic trope, nothing bad, in and of itself, just no great shakes - was only three pages long, but I couldn't get past the typos.
Shock! If a story is poorly-enough written, it erodes my liking (thus, potential vote) for the story.
As I've freely admitted since I created this account, I get wordy (see: this post), and my comments follow that philosophy - these weren't two-word, drive-by comments.
There were several times the writer used the wrong words in places (still noted in other remaining comments), but his personal bete noire seemed to be your/you’re.
Typos happen. I get it. We all do it. Done it plenty of times myself. In some cases, it can get so bad that I can't not remark upon it.
I posted a rather negative comment (but left no vote, this time) on it. A few days later, I checked the comments on the story (after the sometimes-snarky follow-up comments regarding my first-ever comment, elsewhere, I like to see if anyone refers to it – it’s entirely possible that I may be a masochist) and my comment was gone.
On the first page of this particular story, your/you’re was used, IIRC, eighteen times. Twelve of which (I suppose it might only have been eleven) were the wrong choice. For me, shit like that is like stepping on a Lego in the middle of the night. It doesn’t matter that I might be heading for the bathroom, I stop to bitch and moan loudly about it right there.
I still have the account activity notification that I’d commented on the story, so I didn’t figure that I’d imagined that I’d done so.
I haven’t felt any burning need to delete any of the (fairly few) comments left on my own stuff. Even the guy telling me I needed to learn how to craft a basic sentence.
Why do you guys delete comments (if you have)? Some can be unhinged rants and ought to go, but what crosses that line for you?
Ironically, that first comment I made, where I trashed the characters, is still up. The author never commented upon it, other than a tepid, passive dismissal in one of his own later comments, but it's still there.
P.S.
I wish that I'd saved a copy of the comment. While it wasn't any Literary Award Winner, I really did enjoy writing something along the lines of 'One time is an accident, twice is a coincidence, twelve times is enemy action.'
In the years that I've visited here, I’d never voted or commented until very recently.
My first low-vote-and-comment-explaining-it was to a relatively recent story that just bugged me. The more I thought of the story, the more I hated it. Hated the characters. I'd initially just left nothing, but seeing it again in the story list a few days later, after my festering hatred for the story grew, pushed me to vote/comment.
Another, more recent, story - this story was pretty basic trope, nothing bad, in and of itself, just no great shakes - was only three pages long, but I couldn't get past the typos.
Shock! If a story is poorly-enough written, it erodes my liking (thus, potential vote) for the story.
As I've freely admitted since I created this account, I get wordy (see: this post), and my comments follow that philosophy - these weren't two-word, drive-by comments.
There were several times the writer used the wrong words in places (still noted in other remaining comments), but his personal bete noire seemed to be your/you’re.
Typos happen. I get it. We all do it. Done it plenty of times myself. In some cases, it can get so bad that I can't not remark upon it.
I posted a rather negative comment (but left no vote, this time) on it. A few days later, I checked the comments on the story (after the sometimes-snarky follow-up comments regarding my first-ever comment, elsewhere, I like to see if anyone refers to it – it’s entirely possible that I may be a masochist) and my comment was gone.
On the first page of this particular story, your/you’re was used, IIRC, eighteen times. Twelve of which (I suppose it might only have been eleven) were the wrong choice. For me, shit like that is like stepping on a Lego in the middle of the night. It doesn’t matter that I might be heading for the bathroom, I stop to bitch and moan loudly about it right there.
I still have the account activity notification that I’d commented on the story, so I didn’t figure that I’d imagined that I’d done so.
I haven’t felt any burning need to delete any of the (fairly few) comments left on my own stuff. Even the guy telling me I needed to learn how to craft a basic sentence.
Why do you guys delete comments (if you have)? Some can be unhinged rants and ought to go, but what crosses that line for you?
Ironically, that first comment I made, where I trashed the characters, is still up. The author never commented upon it, other than a tepid, passive dismissal in one of his own later comments, but it's still there.
P.S.
I wish that I'd saved a copy of the comment. While it wasn't any Literary Award Winner, I really did enjoy writing something along the lines of 'One time is an accident, twice is a coincidence, twelve times is enemy action.'
