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#1 2008-12-30 19:31:22
Complaint
I have been a lurker for a long time on numerous erotic fiction sites, and have only recently started to participate. When I do, I seek to participate, not critisize. I never complain.
When I contact an author, I praise their creativity or writing style, which of their stories I like and why, and maybe a suggestion or question about when more chapters will be posted.
Then there are these dickheads, who live to critisize and/or nitpick every spelling or gramatical error, weak plotlines or dubious facts. Why do they do it? Is it a need to show how superior they are?
I've seen too many online authores become fed up or jaded by these messages, leading them to give up writing for un indeterminate amount of time.
Get a life #$%holes!
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#2 2008-12-30 23:04:08
- Eric Storm
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- From: New Port Richey, FL
- Registered: 2006-09-12
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Re: Complaint
So your complaint... is that people complain? 
I like it! 
Eric
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#3 2008-12-30 23:14:41
- Neitherspace
- Completely Blotto
- From: Silver City
- Registered: 2006-12-03
- Posts: 575
Re: Complaint
dude go to a scifi convention sometime esp when some one from a beloved series is speaking not just apearing
Nitpicking DEFINED
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#4 2008-12-31 00:51:27
- unknown1000u2
- Inebriated
- Registered: 2008-02-04
- Posts: 76
Re: Complaint
What I particularly enjoy is when someone writes to tell you they are fed up with ypur story, have read it for months, but just can't take it anymore and are leaving. Never once in the months they read it and enjoyed it did they ever give any positive feedback, never wrote at all, but they sure write when they're leaving. Oh well. Doesn't happen on this site, of course.
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#5 2008-12-31 04:16:43
- Black Rose
- Evil Bar Wench
- From: The Edge of Nowhere
- Registered: 2006-11-26
- Posts: 164
Re: Complaint
"Then there are these dickheads, who live to critisize and/or nitpick every spelling or gramatical error, weak plotlines or dubious facts. Why do they do it? Is it a need to show how superior they are?"
I am guilty of this. But I am excused, because that's called editing or proofreading when it's me. :-)
Black Rose
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#6 2008-12-31 17:03:12
Re: Complaint
Editing and proofreading is acceptable, wanted even. So is contructive criticism.
Author bashing is a totally different subject.
Why would somebody take the time to tell an author how much time he lost reading a story he doesn't like? Why would he read it in the first place?
I only sent one message to an author that I could call "negative". I don't remeber who he was, but he wrote a series about enslaving and breeding centaurs in a modern world. There was nc, real slavery (not rp), beast and pedo. The message was something like:
"Dude... really? Is this what chose to create?
No! Not good! Stop!"
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#7 2008-12-31 21:28:31
- Eric Storm
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- From: New Port Richey, FL
- Registered: 2006-09-12
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Re: Complaint
Even that message was inappropriate. Just because YOU don't like the subject matter doesn't give you the right to tell someone else it's not worthy of writing. As you said, if you don't like it, don't read it. It is my standard rule that, if you really didn't like a story, NEVER give feedback. You should only give feedback if you liked the story, but felt it could be better.
Eric
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#8 2008-12-31 23:03:36
- Yellow Snow
- Inebriated
- Registered: 2006-11-28
- Posts: 34
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gee, does that mean all of those negative emails I keep sending myself for my stories aren't appropriate?
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#9 2008-12-31 23:17:08
- Eric Storm
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- From: New Port Richey, FL
- Registered: 2006-09-12
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Re: Complaint
Yes, it does. So knock it off!
Eric.
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