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As an artist I saw myself being replaced by paint programs. However, after buying a really good paint program and learning how to draw digitally, I learned that without the human operating the program, the program won't operate. If Deep Blue beat world champion Kasparov at chess, it was because a person programmed it to. Deep Blue had every conceivable move and counter move at its disposal in a nano-second, did not require sleep or food and was always at the top of his game. Deep Blue was also unaffected by emotions and would never have an original thought without a programer. For me, it's the human element that makes a painting worth looking at, a piece of music worth listening to and a book worth reading. And I don't think I am alone.

She could have called it 'Fifty Shades of Earl Grey'....

Yes, I get site timed out messages on my Kindle all the time but I thought the trouble was on my end. Once I refresh my Wi-Fi they load fine.

Being one of the worst spellers on the face of the earth, I have to defend spell check. It transformed my writing. I went from using half of my vocabulary to using all of it, making my writing much easier to understand. Also, after hitting the same word over and over again I finally learned to spell it. I think it's not the tool being used here that's at fault but the person that uses it.

I have to agree. I joined two other sites and it was like getting a bill through congress just to post. One site required five credits to post anything, then you waited days even weeks to get your work visible, THEN after it had been up three months they LOCKED it meaning you had to come up with five more credits to get unlocked if someone saw it in your portfolio and wanted to read it. The other site put your work on a que, meaning it would be visible to the rest of the site as soon as the other work on the list got three reviews. To post a novel on this site required watching a video.

What I really like about this site is that my work will be seen as soon as I post it and will stay active until I decide to deactivate it. I also like all the controls over our content this site provides, that of dumping rude and unhelpful reviews, (on the old site a rude review would stay attached to your work forever unless you deleted it and republished or asked SolN to remove it), and that you can block those people who live to ridicule work from reading and reviewing yours.

I feel like I am in control here whereas at the other sites I felt I was being controlled.

I understand that NJC, I am a curious person, too. I just think this conversation is full of rabbit trails that have nothing to do with the original question and should probably be moved.

Well...and I never thought I'd say this...you can add about to be PUBLISHED critically acclaimed author...Ronan got accepted...and I had a good joke ready for when they turned me down..."My novel's so bad, I can't pay anyone to publish it!"

I'm teasing...you're so nice to put my pen name, I really can't ask you for more. And thanks for all the help with Ronan, the editing, encouragement, and the talking down when I was about to trash it. I know I could put this in a private message, but I want everyone to know that not only are you a great author, you're a pretty nice human being. (and I'm not just saying that because we're both progressives...)

You have my name just make sure 'critically acclaimed author' goes in front of it....

JP---this is about the best addition to the site. I am so glad SolN decided to give us more control over our content. In the old days people weren't likely to dump reviews so that they could make the top ten list. Now that there's no list, no reason to keep a review that was meant to make you feel like shit. Also, now that you can block people, and I do, reviewers are going to be more careful with their caustic remarks. You should have seen some of the reviews I got when I first joined.

Someone told me they wouldn't buy Ronan if it got published. I told them I didn't ask them to buy it and if they didn't like it that was okay. They went on to read the whole book and told me they didn't want to read the end because they were so emotionally attached to the characters...lol...I think some reviewers say things like they wouldn't buy your book just to get a negative reaction from you. When you don't give them one, it kinda ruins the fun.

Someone told me early on that if I got a bad review to go to the person's page and read something of theirs before I considered their suggestions. This is good advice.

However, I do keep valid criticism, I don't want you to think I just keep the reviews that tell me what a brilliant writer I am.

dags

JL--I try to be fair minded, but she reeked elitism. And what's really funny about this incident is I was in my patient's car, she and I were depositing some checks, a 2008 Cadillac worth about fifty grand when new, and even now is worth more than a restored Corvette. I should have been the one keeping cars away from me. Also, it wasn't even a cute little Corvette Prince sang about but the model that looks like a formula one car. It was boxy and ugly. You should have seen her when I pulled right behind her...her hands went up in the air, and she was about to turn around and let me know what she thought...then saw my smile and knew I was messing with her. That didn't stop her from screeching her tires when she pulled away from the ATM.

You can play the devil's advocate anytime, buddy....WHERE'S THE NEXT MCSHANE????

Dirk,
I am referring to the drop down menu on the send a message page. The scrolling bar will not go all the way through the list, leaving off names, the number of which will increase as I acquire more contacts. If I am messaging a contact below where the bar stops for the first time I can't message that contact.

What are you are describing is the search engine of your message archive. It doesn't work if there are no messages from that person to tack my new message on to.

I just have time to bitch a little...A reviewer, whom from the fiery rhetoric of his review is a republican, used his inline reviewing platform to let me know despicable I was, instead of simply reviewing my poem. I admit I call some republicans, republican scum in the poem and that probably pissed him off...but it was a poem, not an editorial piece and his opinion was not asked for.

On the old site this sort of vitriol would have been attached to my work unless I deleted it and republished it as a new piece. In the past nasty reviewers counted on the fact that people didn't want the loss of reviews deleting or disabling the work would cause. They also depended on the author not having enough credits to republish. This meant the whole site could view how they felt about another member until the author got rid of their review.

Thank God those days are over. On this site we can dump hateful reviews and block those reviewers with two clicks. YAY!!!!

So to that reviewer who wasted his time telling me how immature my poem, 'My Moment of Immaturity' was, buddy, you kinda proved my point about republicans. Even if you spell it out for them, they still don't get it.

Rant over...I'm glad I provided a safe place for bitching.

dags