Using ABCtales to be cruel, argue or mock others.

http://www.abctales.com/user/whoisdoeslittle

After all that I was so upset I forgot to paste the link.

I have emailed David about this - such behaviour is disgusting and certainly not in the spirit of the site.

It is a shame that a certain cruel element wants to ruin it for the genuine writers on here by being petty and vindictive.

Don't let it get to you, they're really not worth your notice,

J x

Am I missing something?

I am so sorry to see that you've deleted your work Doeslittle, it seems the relative anonymity afforded by an internet account allows cyberbullying, overt and implied; a puerile form of cowardice and nastiness that strays beyond the pre-pubescent.
Keep writing.

I am thinking that the person here has misunderstood your motives in choosing your handle [doeslittle]. Those are wounding words to someone who is trying to be a creative person and I think they were offended by this comment in your name. I would not worry too much about it myself.

maddan - Yes, perhaps me just posting the link isn't very clear. I'll explain. The Theresa business already had made me feel very uneasy as whilst I had argued with her I felt I tried to do so as reasonably as I could, but it desecended into a few people mocking her and laughing at her. I didn't like it for lots of reasons which are not worth me labouring to spill out here. I also feel that it's part of a wider and growing pattern of ego-jostling, cliques and facetious 'look how amusingly clever I am' behaviour. There is also a sense in which only the more dominant members make full use of the site and others get ignored or overlooked. Now there's lots I could say to make these points better and explain myself more fully, but I'm sure it would be dull to read and truly I did just want to quietly remove my work and leave it at that. Besides, this is just my opinion, I quite willing to accept that many people will not share it. I don't want a full scale forum row telling me why I'm wrong!

Yesterday, however, someone emailed me the above link. They did so for friendly reasons so I'm not complaining about that. It did upset me. Now, I don't know for certain that this account was set up to be nasty to me in some way - by some crazy coincidence it could be an account from 2005 and someone who has no ill intent towards me whatsoever and if that's the case I'll happily apologise - lord knows I've been wrong many times before. It seems unlikely to me though and in the event that someone deliberately set this up for malicious reasons I felt that I wanted to highlight it. I was upset last night when I found it, this morning a quiet departure as intended seems a better idea again, but still it's done now.

I realise that many people on here may well think I'm being ridiculous, but as I pointed out this is just my opinion. I do occasionally naively expect the world to be full of kindness, friendliness and other lovely things like kittens and am stupidly disappointed when it's not.

Thanks lenchenelf, I will keep writing, of course. And yes, rt, there may be a misunderstanding, it matters less to me this morning as these things tend to after a good night's sleep.

I can see how you might think the Teresa business went too far. And the other account could be upsetting. But why delete all your work? What did you hope to achieve by that. Just curious.

The other account has been deleted.

J x

Good.

Now delete Yerka's account.

The Newbill episode was unfortunate, but once she refused to concede a single point, even when it was ridiculous not to, her fate was sealed. She couldn't turn back without losing face, unthinkable to a ego of such dimensions, and her attitude encouraged the wolves to snap ever more closely at her heels. She was forced to follow her path to its inevitable destination.

I don't know what caused Doeslittle to leave but I must say I haven't seen much genuinely malicious behaviour on ABC. I suupose I'm implicated in the "facetious 'look how amusingly clever I am' behaviour", although that's not how I see it! There isn't any showing off or competitive element in the banter indulged in by Cracker, Skunk, Ewan et al. If there were it would rapidly become uncomfortable and embarrassing and probably dissolve into hostility. I can only speak for myself here: I indulge in silliness because it's effortless. I worry that everyone will think me an eejit, it never occurred to me that anyone might think it an attempt to be 'amusingly clever'. Just mention raccoon eggs and you're half-way there. Anyobody is welcome to join in!

"There is also a sense in which only the more dominant members make full use of the site and others get ignored or overlooked."

I'm not sure I understand this. Overlooked for what, exactly? For cherries? For comments on their work? Some people make a lot of noise on the site but I don't think they get any advantage from it. Do they?

If you're a quiet person, people tend to assume that that's the way you want it, so they leave you be.

"I do occasionally naively expect the world to be full of kindness, friendliness and other lovely things like kittens..."

I admit I've never seen a kitten on ABC, but there's lots of friendship and kindness, isn't there?

Forgive us all our clumsy, clod-hopping ways, Rachel. When we sin it is by thoughlessness and errors of judgement, not through malice. Come back to ABC!

Hear, hear! Well said!

J x

I posted a story about kittens once. It wasn't cherry-picked.

Just goes to show.

Raccoon eggs is food son, the only thing I can eat that several others don't eat first! Wait a minute! Do you mean you find it amusing I am so desperately hungry that I eat raccoon eggs? This is cruel! And what's the matter with all of you? Kittens don't lay raccoon eggs! Every barber knows that!!

Meanwhile here is what one of my raccoons did last night. Very heroic! I hear people laughing. This world is so cruel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWqb2U8KnvM