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Post by Divia » Wed November 5th, 2008, 11:03 pm

[quote=""Eigon""]I think Divia is overly pessimistic about the 'Men Only' sign. After all, India's had a woman prime minister, and so have the Phillipines (sp?), Ireland, Israel, and we had Mrs T here in the UK, so why not in the States?[/quote]

Yeah, and here we are supposed to be the cream of the crop and we cant do it. Makes ya think about America and what it really stands for.

[quote=""donroc""]There's more than enough nastiness to go around on the political posts too where I am an arbiter at AW.

Some cannot handle disagreement and get personally vicious. Politics is religion for too many, and even genial skepticism is viciously attacked.[/quote]

OMG I HATE that place. I used to be there and everyone was sooo snarky. It was a mess and finally I had enough of their abuse and left. I learned more on here then I ever did there about writing.
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Post by Ash » Thu November 6th, 2008, 1:19 am

What is AW? (Not that I want to go there, just curious)

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Post by donroc » Thu November 6th, 2008, 2:08 am

[quote=""Ash""]What is AW? (Not that I want to go there, just curious)[/quote]


Absolute Write forum. It is an excellent site for reasons other than politics. Simply stay away from those threads if you want to avoid the poison that can permeate some posts.

They have threads for all genres and plenty of valid information about agents, publishers, and bewares of scammers and such.

I have met some great people on that site and received much useful information. And it is another place for writers to receive beta critiques as well as a place to promote their published writing.
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Post by Divia » Thu November 6th, 2008, 4:02 am

My experience was not the same. I had run ins with very snarky writers in the YA section and the HF section.
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Post by SonjaMarie » Thu November 6th, 2008, 4:19 am

[quote=""Divia""]My experience was not the same. I had run ins with very snarky writers in the YA section and the HF section.[/quote]

I think I remember when you stopped going there a few year or so ago. I'm so glad we don't have people like that here!

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Post by Divia » Thu November 6th, 2008, 12:12 pm

Yes, Everyone is very pleasant here! :)
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Post by Hoopking » Fri November 7th, 2008, 7:54 pm

Yes, Everyone is very pleasant here!
I have only been in this forum for a couple days and already see the difference in the quality of the comments. Most of the ones I have tried wind up in very stupid and crude undertone. The fighting and bickering is not what I want in life. I enjoy the pleasant debating and banter that I am finding here and the aknowledgement that you have all shown me.

Thank you all.

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Post by Divia » Sat November 8th, 2008, 1:20 am

Yeah we rock. :D
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Post by Eigon » Sat November 8th, 2008, 12:33 pm

I go on Absolute Write, and usually enjoy it - but I stay away from the politics threads.
I learned my lesson on ibdof, a site for discussing books generally (but often SF and Fantasy). Here in the UK my views are not particularly extreme in either direction, but there the American posters all seemed to be somewhere to the right of Attila the Hun, even when they had perfectly reasonable views on other issues, and they couldn't believe how left wing I was!

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Post by Divia » Sat November 8th, 2008, 1:30 pm

Some people have had great experiences on AW, but even I couldnt find anything helpful in the non political threads save more snarky people. To each their own!
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