The Deletion Dilemma
Jan. 31st, 2015 12:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jeriendhalI'm feeling a bit conflicted here.
Background: A couple of years back I got a nice thank you gift of a couple of free e-books from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
haikujaguar, in return for putting together TVTropes pages for her Kherishdar and Spots the Space Marine. One of the stories she gave me was her early work Alysha's Fall, which was one of her founding stories in her Pelted universe, and that I was looking forward to reading.
I hated it.
Hated it.
Hated hated hatey hatehatehatedjames_nicoll-reviewing-later-Robert-Heinlein-level hated hated hated it. [1]
So, to put it bluntly, I dropped a page long, ranty, One Star review bomb at Amazon, detailing everything that stuck in my craw about the tale until I gave up trying to read it and deleted it off my Kindle.
I was reminded of it, somewhat guiltily, after Hogarth posted a note to her own LJ, about her income from her books actually earning her twice as much as her day job this month. Which in of itself is great news. She works hard at her craft, and aside from Alysha's Fall her stories are almost uniformly excellent. So I went over to Amazon to the review I'd posted to look at it again.
Out of fourteen reviews, it's received the most "helpful" clicks.[2] Which means it's the first review anyone sees when they start scrolling through them.
Err...
Look, I don't like Alysha's Fall. I seriously doubt I'll ever like Alysha's Fall. But plenty of other people do. Every other review save for a single Three Star are either Four or Five. Mostly Five. And Hogarth is putting her kid through private school with the money she makes, while I mostly use my profits to buy a new video game everymonth few months. On the other hand I'm not outright ashamed of it either. I think my points of contention are valid, and I stand by them. But I really don't like the idea of my rant against it being the first thing people see. So I'm faced with the notion of just deleting it entirely and letting the more positive reviews take the lead.
Opinions?
[Poll #1997483]
[1] Well, okay, maybe I didn't hate it quite that much, but in the words of Opus the Penguin, "Lord knows it wasn't good."
[2] Eight out of nine clicks. I shall refrain from guessing whom the single negative vote was from. :/
Background: A couple of years back I got a nice thank you gift of a couple of free e-books from
haikujaguar, in return for putting together TVTropes pages for her Kherishdar and Spots the Space Marine. One of the stories she gave me was her early work Alysha's Fall, which was one of her founding stories in her Pelted universe, and that I was looking forward to reading.I hated it.
Hated it.
Hated hated hatey hatehatehated
james_nicoll-reviewing-later-Robert-Heinlein-level hated hated hated it. [1]So, to put it bluntly, I dropped a page long, ranty, One Star review bomb at Amazon, detailing everything that stuck in my craw about the tale until I gave up trying to read it and deleted it off my Kindle.
I was reminded of it, somewhat guiltily, after Hogarth posted a note to her own LJ, about her income from her books actually earning her twice as much as her day job this month. Which in of itself is great news. She works hard at her craft, and aside from Alysha's Fall her stories are almost uniformly excellent. So I went over to Amazon to the review I'd posted to look at it again.
Out of fourteen reviews, it's received the most "helpful" clicks.[2] Which means it's the first review anyone sees when they start scrolling through them.
Err...
Look, I don't like Alysha's Fall. I seriously doubt I'll ever like Alysha's Fall. But plenty of other people do. Every other review save for a single Three Star are either Four or Five. Mostly Five. And Hogarth is putting her kid through private school with the money she makes, while I mostly use my profits to buy a new video game every
Opinions?
[Poll #1997483]
[1] Well, okay, maybe I didn't hate it quite that much, but in the words of Opus the Penguin, "Lord knows it wasn't good."
[2] Eight out of nine clicks. I shall refrain from guessing whom the single negative vote was from. :/
