The good, the bad, and the wonderful

[speaker_to_customers]

Happy Thanksgiving to my American friends

and Happy Birthday to priscellie

I received some extremely venomous feedback recently. I posted this drabble at 'Twisting the Hellmouth' and someone reviewed it thus:
I have to say this is story was complete dribble, and resembles the work of a 5 year old with too much time on their hands. In the words of Jay Pinkerton, reading this is quite literally "like going to the bathroom after a six-burrito lunch, and the toilet paper is YOUR EYES."

Surely that level of vitriolic condemnation is entirely inappropriate for a drabble? Even were it the worst drabble ever written (and I had quite a few favourable comments and so it can't have been that bad, can it?) how bad can 100 words be?

The TtH account is newly created and this is the only review it has posted. Strange. I wondered if it might be a sock puppet specifically for the purposes of a personal attack on me, but the TtH mods say that no other users from that IP address have ever posted there. And I'm not aware of having any Internet enemies.

Anyway, I'm not going to let it upset me. I'll press on with 'Dojo Hard', which is within sight of the end after my burst of 3 chapters in 4 days, and hopefully I'll get it finished this week.

And on to a more pleasant Sock Puppet. The incredible shadowscast recently posted a story by that name at fall_for_sx and it is utterly wonderful. Even if (like me) you're not a Slash reader this is well worth reading. Simply superb. Sock Puppet. Praise her with great praise.

Comments

[audela.livejournal.com]

I'd managed to miss that drabble. Truly groan worthy.

I had to look up Jay Pinkerton as I had no idea who he was. My guess is that the reviewer was trying to be funny. Just as I might say "God, Speaker, that was truly HORRIBLE!" and you'd laugh because you know what I mean (and I do--mean it), I think that's what the reviewer was trying to do. The review seems to me to be much too complex and layered to be an actual insult.

I think that explanation is as likely as that someone for incomprehensible reasons attacked a DRABBLE viciously (talk about using a blunderbuss to kill a gnat). And if you take my explanation, then the review is just funny, though inept. And a compliment, of sorts.

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[speakr2customrs.livejournal.com]

There is a 1-10 rating system at Twisting the Hellmouth with the default being "Not rated". This reviewer rated it 1 out of 10. It really was an insult.