tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1209220937063434171.post8101508932864502266..comments2023-07-26T05:48:07.472-04:00Comments on Papa Pat Rambles: Provoked by Christopher Nuttall on "According To Hoyt": about reviewing Habakkuk21http://www.blogger.com/profile/11928724752057162332noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1209220937063434171.post-60995321357323683262016-02-29T13:37:19.320-05:002016-02-29T13:37:19.320-05:00It's pathetic; like one preschooler breaking a...It's pathetic; like one preschooler breaking another preschooler's crayons.Habakkuk21https://www.blogger.com/profile/11928724752057162332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1209220937063434171.post-62760458229247496792016-02-29T13:04:37.866-05:002016-02-29T13:04:37.866-05:00Detractors: Some people just want to tear others d...Detractors: Some people just want to tear others down. Did a BaBW post on that once.<br /><br />I'll share a story from my own experience: The site I post my fanfiction at has a simple upvote/downvote ranking system. If you like a story, you can upvote, if you dislike a story (in theory), you downvote. In practice however, most people just use it to troll. The biggest example I ever had of this was when one of my stories reached the top 250 of the site (out of ... 150,000?). I mentioned it in a post about other things, that it had been a nice moment to see it land above the top 250.<br /><br />Within minutes it was no longer there. Someone went in and hit it with a downvote, and it dropped. <br /><br />Everything I write for that site gets at least one downvote within a few minutes of posting. One story was descended upon en masse after I embarrassed a group of like-minded circlejerkers (or more accurately, got them to embarrass themselves) who mass downvoted it all at once.<br /><br />Some people are just jerks who have never accomplished much in life, and the only thing they have going for them is tearing others down from the dreams they don't have the will, inclination, or skill to reach. It sucks, but you've got to push through, because you really can't get rid of them.<br /><br />Sorry to hear you've begun to attract the trolls. Just keep at it. I know I appreciate you doing what you can to leave a lot of authors reviews.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com