i think this might be a bug. some poems i can't vote on for some reason?
on 'it's valentines day once again' by mysteria27 (on the front page) the little drop box is grey so i can't click on it.
i haven't already voted a score on this one.
some other poems are fine and i can select a score on those.
thanks
trolls are real here it is sad ..both story trolls and cyber trolls .. they make a profile low ball score a story or two the delete .. if only paying members scored stories then that would fix this imo... so this is why writers are defensive here .. they spend lots of time writing here for silly shit like this too happen
I see. no i had not already scored that poem.
sounds like the author has blocked me then. **Content removed by moderator. Personal disputes should be handled outside of the forum.** I only gave an honest score and was not nasty in my comments. If she does not want me to read any more of her poems then I won't. **Content removed by moderator. Personal disputes should be handled outside of the forum.**
Sorry for the trouble and thank you for letting me know!
I'm not defensive about my work... Like it, Lump it., PISS ON IT!!!
(I WRITE it, it EXISTS and then it is read or it is not...) Mostly NOT with me if I am to be perfectly honest...
I've written things I THINK are not very good and I've CONSIDERED taking them down... (I've written some things I REALLY don't think are very good at all...) I LEAVE THEM UP because some people liked it...
My WRITING is not ME!!! (I'm IN IT but it isn't ME!!!) I never take the responses PERSONALLY, because, people are NOT TALKING about me AS A PERSON when they talk about the pieces...
And YES!!! I WISH everybody LOVED what I do!!! (They don't... I have FRIENDS here who don't GET how I write...)
OF COURSE YOU TAKE IT PERSONALLY IN THE MOMENT!!! (But that's just silly!!!)
SEPARATE YOURSELF FROM THE WORK!!!
(You are NOT your work!!!)
xx SF
(I USUALLY get a LOT of fives... BUT ONLY BECAUSE the buggers who READ ME like what I do and KNOW what they get!!! I get, ON AVERAGE, about 20 comments Per Piece... (That's not a lot...) I DON'T advertise and I don't spam and I don't PUSH IT!!!
(Read it if you want...) It's not like it's making ME any money!!! (If it WAS I'd push it!!!) But it isn't... So I just do it because I like to do it and it's fun...
I remember discussing this at great length on another thread some time ago.
I have to ask myself: Why are people so finicky about votes lower than five? I mean, it's still the same story, with the same amount of votes and the usual myriad of comments extolling the author's writing abilities. So why is the avg score so important to people?
I've come up with a feasible explanation as to why people on this site care so much about avg score.
I've noticed that on the homepage, on the right-hand side, there's a league table entitled Top Authors. I get the impression that many authors are motivated into writing by that league table and, subsequently, seeing their user name up on that leader board. It's a massive incentive for most people to see their name up on that honours board.
So if a vote is placed on their story which, ultimately. ruins their chances of a mention on that league table, they take offense to it, working on the assumption that that person has purposely low-voted a story just to knock them off the honours board.
I might be talking rubbish, but if anybody can offer a better explanation, I'd like to hear it.