Blotting Cloth Plans =/= Reality

Well everyone, I slacked again. Sorry. It happens.

Writing has been slow. Things have felt slow. I now sleep at midnight instead of six am. Feels... odd. Not quite acclimated.

After discussing the blotting cloth mroe with val, we agreed that it only would foster to encourage negativity, annoyance, and well... we're not funny in the way Maddox is funny. We don't need a funny hatemail section for this blog. So . . . we're not having one. Val wrote up a post on the topic to be posted along with mine, and is as follows:

This is Valbot.

The Blotting Cloth was a bad idea.

Drama and derailment will be deleted. I will not tolerate receiving belittling lectures, being called an abuser, being indirectly told I'm going to be a bad doctor, and being called nuts over my literary opinions. My response to Jo was idiotic and rash; I'm not proud of that. Not responding would have prevented the rest of that drama.

I know I've crossed the line between snarky and nasty. Sans direct provocation, I haven't been nasty lately. I don't appreciate people searching for the faintest bits of negativity to pontificate against. The only promotion beyond Madam's website has been word of mouth. No one has to see the Kistublot.

Also, why should I care about opinions from people too cowardly to own them? I feel annoyed even by positive anonymous comments. Madam finally got around to disabling anonymous commenting. You need a Google or OpenID account to post. Those are not difficult to obtain.

I understand my snark went past constructive and was dominating the blog. Of course that drama was my fault. Am I not allowed to move forward? Restrained nipping is not vicious mauling.

I find it amusing that we never heard from some of these people until they had negative things to say. None of these people commented on the positive posts. In fact, lately, these people have been picking the tiniest negative things out of overall positive posts and textually blaring at us. Some of them have such lacking lives that they are niggling over blog comments I make to others to find things to lecture us about.

Perhaps deleting drama and derailment is shushing or heavy-handed, but restraining negativity is difficult when comments such as the ones removed from a previous post show up in my inbox.

I don't expect everyone to agree with my posts. Please do voice your opinions! But drama, derailing comments, and provocation will not be tolerated.

~Valbot

Well, there you have it! I agree with her, and she's much more articulate in the past (she wrote this days ago) than I am in the present... enjoy, and thanks for reading. Will have more news soon, but I'm just too tired to be entertaining.

~Madam Kistulot