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1. The Excerpt Board is not part of the LOL boards. It is run by Vicki and has nothing to do with me or the LOL boards. How she runs her board is her prerogative so you'll have to take up your complaints about that with her. I have a link to it because so many people were tired of excerpts on the Books Board so it made it easy for people to say "there's an excerpt" and folks could click on the link and go to Vicki's board. There have been many posts on the BB where people just HAVE to post about an excerpt and then they get careless and start to tell people what it's about and then, rightfully so, people get upset!
2. You perceive a "bar for negative posts" and that it supposedly gets lower and lower, but the rules have been the same since day one. Maybe I'm just raising the bar of intolerance for this negativity that seems to surface. I think this type of situation occurs way less frequently than, say, 10 years ago. And lots of times the posts are from people we've never heard of - hiding behind their anonymity. And, no, I don't mean you.
3. You keep asking where someone can go to post whatever you want about The Exile - I keep repeating - go to Compuserve. You've already been told by a Compuserve board monitor that you can do that there as long as you don't attack other members. Diana is right there - tell her how you really feel. It's her book, so how she wants to respond to your comments or complaints about her books is up to her, and as the author of the book it's her place to defend it however she feels appropriate.
4. There will always be new people who don't know about 'the ghost' and all the other story lines. If you have no patience for that then, by all means, do not participate.
5. If you feel you are being "jumped on" and it's a pattern of behavior, especially if it goes back years, maybe there's something in your postings that causes that. And I don't think I'm the only person who ever responded to you.
If you've been around as long as you say you have (and I have run the Excerpt board 11 years next month) then you should know that. As far as people jumping on you for posting, on my board it would be a puppy pile of happiness because excerpts are so few and far in between. On here, I get what you mean because (sorry Judie, but it's true) there are people on here who think if you don't agree with them then you are wrong. And they are way meaner than Judie could conceive of being. That's one of the reasons I rarely visit these boards for more than a quick glance. The other is what you mentioned about repetition. But seriously, if you think it's going to happen then don't post. If you want to slam Exile, feel free on my board cause I'm not going to jump on you. Others might though, lol. But anyone slams DG on my board gets their ass banned. No second chances. And since it's my sandbox, like Judie said, I can.
Judie