Peeve of the week
Mar. 1st, 2006 04:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
norsegirlPeople who give my module a bad rating who couldn't write their way out of a wet paper bag with a sharpened quill.
My worst reviews (out of 10) are as follows:
5.5 from someone who didn't even enter the contest. I believe it is a revenge vote for my poor rating of another module (the author of which put his website address into the dialog of a fantasy story?!?!?!) as he is the last vote on that module and writes "A shame that other contestants voted you down. You must have made them nervous lol" NERVOUS?!?!?! From someone who has to insert his website into a story? He also down-marked another contestant that gave the same review to this other module. Hmmmmm, fishy?
6.25 from someone who speaks english as a second language (seriously, are non-english speakers really qualified to mark a writing contest? I mean I know French, but I wouldn't pretend to be qualified as a French writing critic) and whose own entry was something right out of Alice and Wonderland, only without the hidden political and social statements. You know, like if you took out all the meaning and just left the madness.
5 from someone who didn't even finish their module. The requirement was 3500 words, they came up with 1000, and the 1000 they came up with didn't even work. The damned thing was as broken as bicycle that's gone under the wheel of a semi.
I have one other ESL mark (7) that I consider pretty illegitimate as the guy has a personal hate-on for me because I used too many words (when Bioware was pretty clear that there was no real cut-off), and another 7 from someone who has been widely accused on the forums of going around and often casting 2 unfavourable votes by using his "girlfriend's" account.
In fact, most of my low marks are from people who are marking me down for "too many words" or "too many characters". The too many characters thing MIGHT be legitimate, if the characters actually said anything substantial and if other people who are in the lead hadn't done similar things.
So today's writing project was to play the modules by these bad reviewers in an attempt to find some inspiration (it's worked before on other modules, I want to make sure I have the best story in my head before I start writing, explore all the possibilities before I commit pen to paper and all that) and it turned out to be more of an exercise of "what not to do". I hate the internet, popularity contests and all this crap. In summary: people suck!
My worst reviews (out of 10) are as follows:
5.5 from someone who didn't even enter the contest. I believe it is a revenge vote for my poor rating of another module (the author of which put his website address into the dialog of a fantasy story?!?!?!) as he is the last vote on that module and writes "A shame that other contestants voted you down. You must have made them nervous lol" NERVOUS?!?!?! From someone who has to insert his website into a story? He also down-marked another contestant that gave the same review to this other module. Hmmmmm, fishy?
6.25 from someone who speaks english as a second language (seriously, are non-english speakers really qualified to mark a writing contest? I mean I know French, but I wouldn't pretend to be qualified as a French writing critic) and whose own entry was something right out of Alice and Wonderland, only without the hidden political and social statements. You know, like if you took out all the meaning and just left the madness.
5 from someone who didn't even finish their module. The requirement was 3500 words, they came up with 1000, and the 1000 they came up with didn't even work. The damned thing was as broken as bicycle that's gone under the wheel of a semi.
I have one other ESL mark (7) that I consider pretty illegitimate as the guy has a personal hate-on for me because I used too many words (when Bioware was pretty clear that there was no real cut-off), and another 7 from someone who has been widely accused on the forums of going around and often casting 2 unfavourable votes by using his "girlfriend's" account.
In fact, most of my low marks are from people who are marking me down for "too many words" or "too many characters". The too many characters thing MIGHT be legitimate, if the characters actually said anything substantial and if other people who are in the lead hadn't done similar things.
So today's writing project was to play the modules by these bad reviewers in an attempt to find some inspiration (it's worked before on other modules, I want to make sure I have the best story in my head before I start writing, explore all the possibilities before I commit pen to paper and all that) and it turned out to be more of an exercise of "what not to do". I hate the internet, popularity contests and all this crap. In summary: people suck!
