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No, it's just you and scouries and sarahhh and your army of alts. And I believe that you don't have any alts about as much as I believe scouries makes money writing for this site....which is not at all (just thought I'd add that last part so your pea-brain can absorb it).
You really should lay off the steroids, Freddie. Not only to they make you a raving lunatic, they shrink your already microscopic dick. It'd be a pity for your dad, brother, sister or mom because you really can't satisfy them sexually.
And all of us at
[size=+2]ScouriesWorld[/size]
As well as
[size=+2][/size]QUEEN LAUREL and MANU the MAGNIFICENT
Believe that
[size=+3]Freddie Rules!!!![/size]
You continue to prove me right. You never have anything nice to say. You are a negative person. I bet you heard that before. Allow me to reiterate, "You are a negative person."
You will never turn your miserable life around until you start thinking positive thoughts.
You need to stop being the mean, nasty, and bitter bitch.
Listen, there is someone for everyone out there, even you. Maybe, if you did something with your hair, covered your acne with makeup, and lost a few hundred pounds, someone would want to touch you sexually.
Please, don't thank me. I'm glad that I could help you, not really, not at all.
Have a negative day.
MISS HICK posts but only to attack not to add something to the site.
SR71 please keep writting, as you are showing improvement in you stories.
I missed last years Annual Awards. So I went back today to check out what happened.
Do you know that last years “discussion thread” had only 9 replies and that of the nine only one discussed the nominations and none made any suggestions for change/improvement?
This year there are something like 50 different AWARD categories that have some 200+ stories nominated and something like 150+ authors in the running for some award or another…
…on a site that reports hundreds of thousands of weekly readers…
And yet when this site has their Academy Awards almost no one is willing to “discuss” the nominees.
Not even the inner AH circle who has so much at stake. Whose future happiness is riding on the voting. Instead they pull out their ALTS to attack the few LITEROTICANS who have the temerity to break the silence.
One would think that the members who spent their time in the AUTHORS hangout would enjoy discussing the various nominees. But no, these intellectuals instead seem to prefer HAPPY BIRTHDAY THREADS.
One longs to know which GAY story the famous critic ACE favors (and why).
What SCI-FI story DARKBOY voted for. Listen to his reasoning.
SERENA could perhaps bring her independent voice to the ANAL and EXHIBITIONIST categories.
POORBET repeatedly tells us she’s smart. Who are her choices in the 5 POETRY cats?
And where’s the good DOCTOR? Or our GRREK friend? She’s an expert on everything. Or miss ODIOUS? AMICUS? BANANA BOY? MISS HICK posts but only to attack not to add something to the site. The list is almost endless…
Why suddenly are all our “great ones” voices stilled?
…Of course to show a preference for one, to actually choose, means that you offend three or four others…
So you rest silent. Use the back rooms to politic and make your deals. How sad…
I’m james r scouries and I’d like to see some changes…
[size=+2]one Dolphin has more balls than any twenty AHers…[/size]
I hate to say this, but Scabies has a certain point. Not enough people vote in the contest, and this has resulted in BFW leading as both the most influential author and the most influential poet. There must be enough of Scabies's and Freddie's alts and sycophants to produce this deplorable situation.
As far as I can see, BFW is about the LEAST influential author, and he is even less influential as a poet. Scabs says he has 671 stories, which is not true. He has 671 items posted, which includes poems and essays. Even so, there is an impressive amount of stuff posted, or there would be, except that it is mostly crap. What I have read so far are masses of drivel cut into segments of about 900 or 1,000 words and posted as chapters, in order to score high in the Survivors' Contest. He probably has twice as many so-called stories as I have, but I'm sure I have a lot more total words.
By the way, I don't claim to be an influential author either. I write almost strictly smut, because it is fun doing it, but I like to think it is well-written smut. Freddie doesn't even do that.
His "poems" are even worse. They appear to be groups of random words put into lines, without saying much of anything. Once again, they are no more than entries in the Survivors' Contest. I don't claim to be an influential poet either. Mostly I just write doggerel, but at least I have good meter and rhyme scemes. Freddie doesn't have anything.
So, what, if anything can be done by Ahers to prevent the debacle that threaterns us? I say we rally behind one author, probably one of the kittens, and all vote for her, but first decide which one. As for poets, Wicked Eve is in second place, although behind BFW, so let's all vote for her.
This may be somewhat unethical, but it's no worse than what BFW and Scabies are trying to do.
as a person who has been reading here for years and never bothered to join until now. I am like most people who just read and never joined i felt I had to after reading some of the things posted here. most of you are crazy. at 80 years of age i think i can say this and ihave it be correct
The votes on the contests are low because (A) the contests are a sieve of cheatability that focuses on the writer, not the stories, and have resulted in increasing disillusionment and indifference among the writers, and (B) very few readers even know they exist. Very few of the readers (or a good many of the fine writers) at Lit. even know (or care) that there is a forum, where the focus of attention toward contests is. They are here for their daily (or hourly) arousal fix--or just to post their stories to be shared.
The notification of contests is far too hidden on the Web site for the casual reader who doesn't follow the forums to conveniently see. And the readers come here to read for arousal (most of them), not either to vote or to comment. The same neverending complaints on voting are given about the posted stories themselves. Lamenting it isn't going to change the natural voting pattern. Better advertisement, better constructed contests that offer up something closer to objectively determined excellence in content, and less voodoo results calculation might.
The system is corrupt and is likely to continue so. It wouldn't be much more than amusing if there wasn't money involved for some of the contests--which just heightens the grabbing and cheating.
As far as I can determine the "Scouries" foundation is just using the opportunities there in the contest system. No self-nominations that I can see (unless alts were involved, which many believe--and that no doubt other nominees have used as well); no rule against plugging one's candidacy either on the forum or in PMs.
Yes, several of the categories here are playing out as a joke. But the contest is set up that way. It always was a fairy tale contest system. The Barnum and Bailey posters are just pointing to/playing with the ludicrousness of it all--and, yes, sucking any fun out of it that there once was--just like BFW did with the survivor's contest.
So, I suggest, just sit back and grit your teeth at the monster the system has created--and let it roll over you and only pay as much attention to it as the entertainment you get out of it. It's all illusion anyway. It's not arms and legs.
Just because I finally lead a contest you automatically accuse me of cheating.
You don't read none too good, do you? I specifically said you and your friends seemed to be staying inside the rules (which, of course, only points out how weak the rules are).
I actually think you might be the most influential writer of 2008. The contest doesn't specify whether the influence has to have been for the good or the bad. You've done a bang-up job of tearing all the walls down to serve your minisule ego.
Bostonfictionwriter i was going to vote for you until your attack on sr71plt THANK YOU FOR CHANGING MY MIND FO ME