RE: Reviews are meaningless if you aren?t being honest
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On the subject of muting, people whose work I have never even reviewed have me muted. Which is hilarious. I know these folks still end up accidentally reading lots of our stuff that is in blind contests, and knowing that you accidentally read it and have some sort of internal reaction to it leaves us immensely satisfied. Muting and revenge reviews are for sissies.
Julie Helms
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RE: Reviews are meaningless if you aren?t being honest
How can you tell you've been muted?
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A yellow bar comes up that says "This account is not available."
Mark Jackson
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RE: Reviews are meaningless if you aren?t being honest
I gave someone a 4-star review for his poem Ambiguous Angel, I told him I found what I thought to be several errors in his work: double negative: 'shan't never', so sncrocrniciously's withal bleau, and thores. They look like errors to me.
His response was to read my poem Mary's Handbag a 4 star review; his reasons were.
'I suppose it to be poetry for lack of punctuation' and 'the use of whilst instead of while is not congruent with the rest of the more modern tone of linguistic expression. '
He finished 'Overall, this is a solid work.'
I pointed out the lack of punctuation is called poetic license and that whilst is British English as is my story.
I suggested that his review was in simple revenge for my own. He doubled down calling me 'arrogant' and then wrote this: 'You have an attitude, but I'm not tye one to buffalo. Go away of you're too insecure for a dose of another opinion. You are so arrogant. I didn't defend my work, you brought an eroorto ny attention. Thanks, but my opinnion is as good as yours, so don't you dare put it on me for retaliation.'
Looking for opinions, is this the usual standard of behaviour on the website?
nor84
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I suggest muting him so he cannot read your work. Giving him four stars was the correct choice in the first place. It sounds to me like there is something mentally wrong.
Sallyo
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It's not usual... but you get the odd few who go off like rockets. I suspect I got muted once by someone whose book I was following. I could see s/he had made posts, but the site wouldn't let me read them. I don't even recall giving a bad review.
The last review I felt like arguing over was when someone gave me 3 stars because the poem was too short. It was one of those syllable poems. Bit like complaining that a historical novel takes place in the past.
Julie Helms
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My favorite was a one star review I got because it didn't sound like a good poem. So I politely explained it wasn't, it was an entry for the dialogue contest...
RE: Reviews are meaningless if you aren?t being honest
LOL!
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