Having just watched an episode of Criminal Minds, which included a quote from Cyril Connolly, this then gave me the idea of how people can deal with the problem of negative troll votes..

I have copied and pasted the quote below, and all those people that keep complaining about troll votes should read the quote and then think about what it means...

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Connolly is quoted as saying "Better to write for yourself and have no public than to write for the public and have no self" in Season 5, Episode 7 of Criminal Minds...

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You certainly like your quotes.

 

I'm betting about ten to one that this is the only reply you will get.

You really do need to get out more.

 

Maybe, but then my writing is done for fun and I don't care what anyone thinks about the story series, or how they vote on it....:excited::excited::excited::excited::laughing::laughing::laughing::laughing:

 

Then why post at all?
You know I could just keep my storeis inside my head, but I want other people to read them, the more the better because out of every 100 or 1000 or 1000,000,000, I get an e-mail with a comment like this. "The story you wrote on xxnx... Was very close to what happened to me so I felt as though you understand and as a stranger .. That you have connected with me. (Weird right?)"
I just got that today actually.
The longer it's on the front page the more it's going to get read, and that's a fact.
One of my favorite stories, one that inspired me to start writing daddy/daughter incest stories, I only read because I kept seeing it on the front page, and finally got Intrigued.

Basically what you are saying is, "Don't let it bother you.", and it's good advice seeing as how there isn't really squat one can do about it, but I don't think it's the type of solution that's going to fly with most of the writers here.

 

But until anyone can come up with a solution that is fair to everyone and an improvement to what there is now, just what is the point of all these threads screaming about how people are voting...

Sure I thought that I could write a sex story series, and maybe some people would read it. But I am NOT bothered if anyone has a problem with the story or how they vote on it.
Mainly because I know that the story genre is not to everyones taste, or that the ending is not how people would like. But it is OUR story, done to the best of our ability and how we wanted the story to be, and NOTHING anyone says about it will change that fact..

I have proved to myself that I can write a sex story series, and get it posted on the internet. Which is also something of an achievement because the site I first posted the sex story series on was Literotica, and we all know just how strict their rules are compared to this site...

 

Venting, that is the reason, and purpose of those threads.
It's really frustrating when you are in a situation that you can't really do anything about, and everybody needs to vent their frustrations once in a while.
And what do writers do to vent their frustration? They write about it.
I wouldn't start a thread like that, but I totally understand why somebody would.

 

But surely that is why there is a search function... WHY do we need so many seperate threads all basically saying the same thing..
Why not just add your comments to a thread that has already been started on the matter, that way you DO NOT look such a whinging, whining. low-esteem and no self-confidence author....:excited::excited::excited::excited:

 

Why didn't you take your own advice then and add your comments to one of those threads instead of creating yet one more thread about voting?

 

Good question, and my answer would be this...

This thread is NOT a screaming thread complaining about the in-justice of the voting system.

Considering that there have been at least 3 threads that I know of, all about how troll votes have influenced some people's story ratings.
Which thread would you suggest I posted my comment in, if I posted my comments in every thread relating to this matter then I could be accused of spamming the forum.
Which would then mean that the point I am trying to get across would not be read....

 

So what you are saying is that people should read your point, which is why you felt the need to start your own thread, but they shouldn't post to one of the already existing threads on the subject because according to you, there shouldn't be three threads on the subject, but that your fourth thread is justified because you had something important to say.

I know of a total of three Austrians. You, Arnold, and Hitler. Is arrogance a national trait, or, simply coincidence?

 

Slight derail...

That's funny, I'm off to the quotable quotes thread. :excited:

(No shot at you Chris, it's simply funny)

Tina :rose:

 

No that is not what I am saying...

My point is WHY start so many threads complaining about negative troll voting...
There was 1 initially started and then people who felt the same way could have easily added their comments and thoughts to that thread, instead of starting more threads which just repeated the first thread's comments...

If that had happened, then this posting would have been in that singular thread and NOT a thread of it's own. So that the forum is NOT spammed by a posting being repeated in multiple threads...

Maybe you should do some back-ground checking on posters before assuming their nationality. It has been posted by me in a few threads around this forum that, we are English and moved to Austria in July 2006..We will NEVER give up our birth nationality, which is British citizen, so there-fore we will NEVER become Austrian...

 

Well, if I made a lady from the great commonwealth of Massachusetts smile, then it's a good day.

I'm sure there are plenty of nice Austrians, but this guy thinks a little too highly of himself.

 

No worries Tina, what makes it funnier is that we are NOT Austrian...
Both Sylv and myself were born in England, which makes our birth nationality British citizen, but we moved to Austria in July 2006....

 

That was totally uncalled for! If you had taken the trouble to read earlier posts you would know that the OP lives in Austria but isn't Austrian. Please let us know where you live so we can compare you to your county's headbangers and criminals.

Wee Hector

 

If "this guy" thinks too highly of himself, WHY has he NOT complained about the number of negative votes on his story, or how many negative comments he has recieved...

 

Have you been to the pictures thread? Here is my cock, what do you think? Then another thread on the same subject, different person. Why not post it in the same thread? See how many Obama threads there are in the general discussion thread? Why not one Obama thread?

Why not? Because it is a forum. There are no rules that say you must search out a topic to see if that thread's topic matches yours. You start one, and if people want to comment, they will. If they don't the thread will die off quickly. You felt your comment was important enough to warrant a new thread. Have the courtesy to allow others the same thought.

 

I read about your citizenship in the earlier thread but I also think I read it somewhere else in the past.

Facts & truth be damned it was just funny.

Tina :rose:

 

Connolly is quoted as saying "Better to write for yourself and have no pubic hairs, than to write for the public who have no shelf"

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To tell you the truth I don't understand the quote, if you never had a shelf where would you put your books?