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Dinkledash


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  • 486 weeks
    Rewatching MLP Season 4

    I almost forgot how good season 4 was. So here I am getting all hyped up for Season 5, which will be in...

    Wait, Spring? Spring!? It's like... March 20th... By Celestia's Beard, that's 74 days... at a minimum!

    Theoretically it could be as late as June 20th, which is 155 days.

    That would be...

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  • 510 weeks
    I don't mind getting downvoted, but...

    ...when I get downvoted without a comment it pisses me the hell off. If you're going to be critical, explain what it is you dislike so I can become a better writer.

    12 comments · 350 views
  • 513 weeks
    Reviews for Authors Helping Authors

    I'm going to post reviews here for the Authors Helping Authors group. Please go and check out that group; it is a cool concept. I think it will work better for me than the Equestrian Critics Society, where I was reviewing 4 or 5 stories, some with 100k words, every month. Now I can review what I want at my own pace and

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    3 comments · 380 views
  • 514 weeks
    Should I write a clop?

    My intent was to always keep it at worst R-rated but yesterday I was making breakfast and suddenly I was struck by a title. Little Clop of Horrors. And I wrote the outline in my head. I mean, clop isn't my thing, but I consider erotic fiction to be a legitimate form of literary expression. Plus this would be a parody of something that's already really campy and ridiculous and I love

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  • 514 weeks
    Twilight's Alternate Universe

    Here's my problem. The Twilight's Dawn saga relies on the Elements of Harmony being pieces of jewelry, not the fashion-challenged Rainbow Powers. Therefore the series is now AU. I tried really hard to keep the first story canon, and to tell you the truth, I don't really want to write an AU story. If I'm going to do that, I may as well write pure original fiction... that's why I wrote Pretzels

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Jul
21st
2014

I don't mind getting downvoted, but... · 7:08pm Jul 21st, 2014

...when I get downvoted without a comment it pisses me the hell off. If you're going to be critical, explain what it is you dislike so I can become a better writer.

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Comments ( 12 )

I strongly agree with you. As a novice, I need all the help I can get, and not getting an explanation as to why I was downvoted can be rather frustrating.

I wonder if the app could be modified to require the users who downvote to at least select a category when downvoting... for example:

Grammar/spelling
Mischaracterization
Lack of immersion
Mistagging

Dude! I've have only ever gotten one down vote that wasn't unexplained and anonymous! I'd love to get reasons... but it looks like it isn't common at all.

2305357 I've decided to write a fic about Twilight writing a fanfic and getting anonymous downvotes... and doing something about it. :pinkiecrazy:

People aren't obligated to give you a reason why they downvoted I'm afraid. Some people are just going to be like "....nah, I don't really like this", give it a downvote, and move on to the next story.

As nice as it would be to know why everybody downvoted our stories, it's just not going to happen.

2305390 I know they aren't obliged, but it is not constructive criticism if there is no context. I don't know if I've ever downvoted anything myself; I may not upvote, but I'll leave criticism about what I think can be improved.

2305470
My stance of voting is essentially this
i.imgur.com/bYRGX.gif

2305476 Thats my stance too. Except the rare occasion I already up voted something, then I don't like it, I might consider down voting to cancel my up vote. Which only happened once.

2305378
What could possibly go wrong? :rainbowlaugh:

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