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Temple Wang wrote:

Why, Hi, other Janet.  Good evening.  So happy you asked. Let me clear that up for you.  I am here to critique and have my work critiqued. I've been here not quite two months and I have ten chapters posted.  I have done 35 reviews in that time, all in line reviews, and thorough to the best of my ability.  Now, tell me, Janet—and asking with my best judgment and sincerest interest—would you say your efforts in the last two months as far as posting your work here and doing reviews is any match to that?   Because, unless I am mistaken, it looks like to me you have posted, well, nothing in the last, well, four months?  But I have noticed you've been quite active on the forums.

I sometimes also participate in Forum discussions.  These generally go pretty well until either some know-it-all steps into the middle of the discussions and throws the thread off kilter, or when some mysoginist (who might have the initials CB) decides to vent his hate.   I am not a troll. I simply don't like mother hens in the Forum. So, here's what you can take to the bank, Ms. Reid. Next time you feel the need to get bossy with me on the Forums, don't. And I promise you that you will NEVER have to deal with me again.  However, should you feel compelled to do that again, you can rest assured I will take a break from my busy writing and critiquing to set you on the right path.  Is that clear enough for you?
I have a suggestion for you.  How about you back out of my grille and go back to posting on topic, or whatever it is that you do and we just end this here before you embarrass yourself further.
Cheers yourself.

Hi Temple

Ten chapters in less than 2 months is a good indication that your writing is clicking at a good pace and 35 reviews are pretty decent too, in all seriousness, even though I don't really keep score as I'm of the opinion everyone is doing their best, and that is good enough for me.  And absolutely, we can only try our best to give good reviews and can only hope it's helpful.  A pretty daunting task for anyone like me that view themselves as aspiring writers.  Especially when you review the work of a published author!

Well, sorry to say, but I think you're mistaken with regards to me not having posted anything for the last 4 months.  I think it's probably been longer than that!  Do you think I should contribute/participate less in the forums and instead write?  Well, to be honest, I don't really think I spend too much time in the forums though, but then again, every bit helps.  So you have given me something to think about.

Do you know what?  I think I just found some common ground with you and understand where you are coming from.  There are two things I really don't like.  Motherly hens and people that kick puppies.  When I come across them, I get so mad it feels like someone had put a cracker where Max puts corn, and had lit the fuse.  Sometimes people leave comments and then they end it with "Puh-lease, get over it and move on people, nothing to see here."  This is after they repeated about half of the opinions, but just in different words!  As if they own the thread, pft!  I even had someone that left a comment when I said something in good will to the effect that they "slapped me on my hand or wrist" because my comment deserved it.  Honestly, those were their exact words!  Now, tell me if I'm mistaken here, but that is as motherly as it get, isn't it?! 

I like your style more.  Setting someone on the right path is way over there with advice your big brother or big sister would be dishing out.  So not something a mother hen would do!  But then again, big brothers and sisters can sometimes be really bossy!  Not saying you are, of course, since we're on the same side.

I haven't met any misogynists on the site though, but then again, maybe I should frequent the forums more.   But in any case, I think we're back on topic in this thread, so at least that problem is fixed.

Kind regards
Janet

I hate when I become defensive. I also hate when folks assume they know anything about me. Yes, I have advanced degrees--EARNED not given. Those degrees came about from my determination to rise above the circumstances in which I was born. Temple, I have never commented directly to you or about you in any way that should have been offensive. If you perceived my words as such, my sincerest apology. I, perhaps mistakenly, read your comment and thought you had confused my with the other Janet. I encourage you to read some of my short pieces on site--Fig Leaves and Toilet Paper as well as Stick Shifts and Modeling might give you a little insight into who I am. My short pieces are autobiographical anecdotes written with a touch of sarcasm. You appear to be an intelligent young woman with excellent writing skills. Use those gifts. I only ask that you refrain from making comments that could be construed as insults and attacks. I posted this here in open forum so that nobody can accuse me of such tactics.

In fairness, there are some authors who request nitting.

Different authors ask for or need different things.  Different reviewers have different skills to bring.  Do we make use of it or fight it?

The fellow who relates how he walked ten miles to school every day, in the snow, uphill--both ways--is establishing his own authority.  But shouldn't we be more concerned with the quality of ideas?  And don't good ideas, well-expressed, establish a reputation here better than any life history could?

Having a Bachelor of Science in psychology and a Masters in education, I can't help but smile. I'm starting a new thread in the writing tips forum if anyone would like to visit there.

Temple Wang wrote:

charles_bell wrote:

However, the benefit of the inline review belongs  to the reviewer (premium) and not so much to the one being reviewed (free) and yet the premium will have wasted his time if the free cannot read the review or the premium has to resort to a regular review though he may not want to -- the inline review being a kind of a cheap quasi-review, except on grammar and punctuation.

Hmm...I wonder if someone who has been on the site since 2006 and is a free member who can't read in-lines is the best person to be pontificating on the value of in-line reviews...just sayin'

Actually, yes.  I will say that inline reviews are of little use to me as a free- or premium-member recipient of them, but, and you would know this if you read and/or comprehended the first post in the thread, for a paying member it could be frustrating not to be able to post them to a free member in a way they can be of use to that free member. It makes no sense to me to have a service for which one is paying but cannot use without restriction, that is: to anyone.

I know that it is sometimes tedious to wade through several comments to a thread, but at the same time, it might behoove each person to at least scan previous comments in order to preclude repeated or very similar thoughts (unless feeling the need to reiterate). This would also MAYBE put a stop to comments that become argumentative. Give and take is a great part of this site, but when the thread takes on the guise of bickering, I cannot see its usefulness.

I'm getting the brackets for the word I touch, but touching it again highlights the rest of the sentence, and all I wanted to comment on was that one word. BTW, Sol, there's no "clicking" with an i-Pad.

Somewhere along the way, if you would consider removing the word count limit in the In-Line review boxes, it would be much appreciated.

I don't think we can remove it completely because of spam comments, but we can certainly increase it considerably. Will do that.