Anyone notice @andrew smith liked every post in this thread, and in a few other threads? Do they have bots that do that in forums?
He has a business to promote, it's a website, gives awards to 'only' unpublished writers. Good luck to him, or, I dunno?
I figured he's trying to drive people to his web site. But I tried PMing him and there was no reply. It seems like it's a new kind of bot or something. I just wondered if anyone knew of software that would do that. I have reported him.
This andrew smith seems to be a new member (joined Feb 11) with 0 posts. And he's been viewing (and liking) threads/posts from 2008... That's got to be some kind of bot, though it doesn't seem like a particularly smart approach to get people to view a website...
“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.” ― Stephen King
@GingerCoffee - That would explain why I got 17 likes from posts I've made months/years ago from that guy. On-Topic: It's not really from a writer, it's more from a character in a movie. To paraphrase: "Hey, here's a bright idea: have a point! It makes things much more interesting to the listener!" Blunt and harsh, yeah, but I just couldn't help but think of stories when he said it.
It's an Internet forum. All 'likes' are meaningless in the grand scheme of things. It was supposed to be mildly humorous. I forgot it was this forum I was on for a moment though. You're right, they are meaningless likes. As you were.
Saadi (an olden Iranian poet ' about 700 years ago' that his famous poem about humanity is on the portal of UN building ) went to a trip and when he was coming back, he wrote this poem : I embarrassed to come back to friends with bare hands and don't bring them some gifts from those gardens I told myself that bring them some sugar from Egypt. If my hand is bare from sugar ( I didn't find sugar) There will be some writings sweeter than sugar Not the sugar that people eat apparently But the sugar that meaningful writers bring on paper
"A workshop is a way of renting an audience and making sure you're communicating what you think you're communicating. It's so easy as a young writer to think you're being clear when in fact you haven't." ~ Octavia Butler And if you're feeling frustrated: "No... A novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer. Even when I'm doing very well I write slowly." ~ Octavia Butler
A misquote surely? It should be 'it's so easy as a young writer to think you've been very clever. . .' or '. . . you're being very clever. . .'
Oh, that's appalling. I see what you mean. A shamingly common error in the American vernacular. ETA: Fixed by removing the screen caps and just typing it.
“I can describe an axe entering a human skull in great explicit detail and no one will blink twice at it. I provide a similar description, just as detailed, of a penis entering a vagina, and I get letters about it and people swearing off." “To my mind this is kind of frustrating, it’s madness. Ultimately, in the history of [the] world, penises entering vaginas have given a lot of people a lot of pleasure; axes entering skulls, well, not so much.” George R. R. Martin
I'm sorry to break it to you, but no, they don't. Meaningful relationships in life mean something; some guy, virtually high five-ing you on the geekosphere does, in actuality, mean the square root of fuck all.
