Victims of Architect ratings griefers

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You NEED other people's feedback in order to make your arc better for others. I've never understood why some people can't take criticism.

BUT on the flip side those that choose to give feedback need to be give it as maturely and responsibly as possible.



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Exactly. Constructive criticism is awesome. "Too many commas" is for lols.

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Exactly. Constructive criticism is awesome. "Too many commas" is for lols.

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I'm rating this entire thread 1 star because you said lol with a plural 's.' This does not conform with my requirements for a good thread. No sir, I didn't like it.

Beats the first arc I published. The player one-starred it and sent me a comment thing telling me they didn't even play through the first mish.

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Exactly. Constructive criticism is awesome. "Too many commas" is for lols.


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No, it's not. That's an editorial comment regarding grammar and voice. I would have no problem downgrading someone who consistenly wrote run-on sentences, strung clauses together haphazardly, and in general made their dialog a chore to read.

The chief test of whether or not something 'works' in fiction is if it assists the reader in becoming immersed in the narrative. Inconsistent grammar and syntax is something that has been shown to break that immersion. So while the individual in question may not have had the skill to articulate what it is precicely they felt was wrong, "too many commas" is one of the things that can do that.

EDIT - and, speaking as a technical writer: short sentences work better to communicate content. So they may have simply had trouble following your writing style, which is ALSO a valid comment that someone may have not had the ability to articulate clearly.

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Exactly. Constructive criticism is awesome. "Too many commas" is for lols.


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No, it's not. That's an editorial comment regarding grammar and voice. I would have no problem downgrading someone who consistenly wrote run-on sentences, strung clauses together haphazardly, and in general made their dialog a chore to read.

The chief test of whether or not something 'works' in fiction is if it assists the reader in becoming immersed in the narrative. Inconsistent grammar and syntax is something that has been shown to break that immersion. So while the individual in question may not have had the skill to articulate what it is precicely they felt was wrong, "too many commas" is one of the things that can do that.

EDIT - and, speaking as a technical writer: short sentences work better to communicate content. So they may have simply had trouble following your writing style, which is ALSO a valid comment that someone may have not had the ability to articulate clearly.

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No, it really is useless without specific examples or at least some clue as to where that problem lies. He didn't have trouble following anything, he was weird and nitpicky. I'm a bit of a grammar nazi most of the time, so it's hardly rife with errors. If there's a sentence or two where the comma is questionable, it's exactly that. It isn't a three page sentence held together by commas.

As with most everyone else in this thread who has tried it, I think if you try out the arc in question and then read his "review" you'll come away with a little different view of things.

Or, maybe, you, won't, I, dunno.,,,,,,,

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speaking as a technical writer

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Fiction is not technical writing and dialogue can break all kinds of rules. Like I said, it isn't a three page run on sentence. It's a conversation with a guy who is fairly impatient and in a hurry.

Saying, "Too many commas," without some indication of where said extraneous commas dwell is completely useless.

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speaking as a technical writer

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Fiction is not technical writing and dialogue can break all kinds of rules. Like I said, it isn't a three page run on sentence. It's a conversation with a guy who is fairly impatient and in a hurry.

Saying, "Too many commas," without some indication of where said extraneous commas dwell is completely useless.

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Just a curiousity did it ever occur to you that things like this thread, might just be why people don't like to give detailed comments.

Edit: I know after reading this I am certainly less likely to leave feedback.

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speaking as a technical writer

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Fiction is not technical writing and dialogue can break all kinds of rules. Like I said, it isn't a three page run on sentence. It's a conversation with a guy who is fairly impatient and in a hurry.

Saying, "Too many commas," without some indication of where said extraneous commas dwell is completely useless.

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Just a curiousity did it ever occur to you that things like this thread, might just be why people don't like to give detailed comments.

Edit: I know after reading this I am certainly less likely to leave feedback.

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Oh, good grief.

One guy leaving crazy, funny comments is not the same as someone leaving constructive criticism. I've gotten tons of feedback that wasn't just "HAY THIS iS AWESOME" and I've taken it all to heart. I've had discussions with people about things to change and have heavily altered the arc in question since it was first published based on said feedback and discussions.

This guy was loony, though (as were his comments).

You're a troll anyway, though. I've rarely seen you post in a thread where you weren't trying to rile people up, so I'm done with you here.

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speaking as a technical writer

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Fiction is not technical writing and dialogue can break all kinds of rules. Like I said, it isn't a three page run on sentence. It's a conversation with a guy who is fairly impatient and in a hurry.

Saying, "Too many commas," without some indication of where said extraneous commas dwell is completely useless.

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Just a curiousity did it ever occur to you that things like this thread, might just be why people don't like to give detailed comments.

Edit: I know after reading this I am certainly less likely to leave feedback.

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Oh, good grief.

One guy leaving crazy, funny comments is not the same as someone leaving constructive criticism. I've gotten tons of feedback that wasn't just "HAY THIS iS AWESOME" and I've taken it all to heart. I've had discussions with people about things to change and have heavily altered the arc in question since it was first published based on said feedback and discussions.

This guy was loony, though (as were his comments).

You're a troll anyway, though. I've rarely seen you post in a thread where you weren't trying to rile people up, so I'm done with you here.

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The man gave you his feedback and you spent how much time picking it apart ? Now I am a troll because I point out such behavior is unlikely to make anyone ever want to give you feedback ?

I gave this thread a zero star because it's mostly nothing but whinning and people trolling other people while telling those other people that THEY are trolls when the poster is the pot calling the kettle black.

Most people are scum. That is a simple fact. If they weren't then there would not be any talk of farms, rating issues, or griefing. Even the whinners are scum because all they're doing is spreading the hate.

And a clue... reporting an Arc as a farm IS a form of griefing because you are intentionally doing something to hurt another player. You are trying to get someone banned. If that's not griefing, I don't know what is. It's also the worse griefing because by reporting someone for a perceived violation is preventing someone from accessing a "PAID FOR" game. Therefore those who did the reporting and got someone banned, caused them to truely lose something they paid for. That is also called theft.

Now for all you ego maniacs who think you got something worth gold in MA, get over yourself. If you had something worthwhile, it would be in a book, not in a game.


IT DOES NOT MATTER! The best writers in the world could come to MA and write something and I can guarantee that they'll get some 0, 1, and 5 star votes. I could also guarantee that they wouldn't care either.

MA has proven that people are no better than a bunch of monkeys with chainsaws. A tool was given to the player base and most of them (which includes the farmers and farm-haters) found all sorts of ways to use it to spread chaos, hate and fear.

Many knew this was coming. Those who have greater intelligence knew that I14 was going to get pushed out before it was ready. They knew that there was going to be alot of effort made to find any way what-so-ever to turn it into a farming session. People have been farming things in CoH since day one. They knew that people were going to use it as a new opportunity to attack other people for grins and giggles. They knew that there were going to be whinners crying about being griefed. The same thing happened when the PvP zones opened up and they added badges to those zones mixing two radically different player groups together.

Most of the really good players who were good people have left the game for other things. All that is left are the diehards and the uptight, meddlesome, and retentive ones who'll whine about everything and spew out hypocritical garbage. Yeah loved the hate posts about too many meow spams because they couldn't waste $15 a month playing web kissyface under Atlas and waste broadcast space on stupid stuff like "how mean parents are and how they love to irritate peeps on the webz because they can get away with it".

Be more productive. Demand that the game be free of e-mail spam from those stupid scam sites. Other threads have touched on that topic but instead of focusing on that irritation, the playerbase is severely divided and whinning about everything else including 1 star griefing.