Writers blocking

Baby Ricochet has been pissed a few people off on Writerscafe. Really? No!

    Ricochet's blocked by writers

         Two I know about

    One I know his reasons why

        The other I do not

 

One writer wrote a spiteful poem

   cursing the uniform I wore

Said it brought joy to his heart

When Marines were killed in war

 

Artistic expression is a good thing

    That much I do agree

 Smear the uniform of the corps

 You're gonna hear from me

 

I wasn't looking to start a flame war

That wasn't my strict intention

There were just a couple of things

I felt compelled to mention

 

The Marine corps follow orders

With American interests at stake

We went where the president sent us

There was no such thing as debate

 

Army Air Force Navy Marines

No we don't ask reasons why

We did what was expected of us

That was my review reply

 

      So I posted my opinions

No swearing threats or name calling

The poem was deleted I was blocked

He must have found me galling

 

I must have struck a writers nerve

      S**t happens in this biz

The other dude that's blocking me

I don't know what his problem is

 

Maybe he doesn't like my sewer mouth

and perfurs words dripping with honey

Maybe he doesn't like Jarhead marines

Maybe he doesn't think I'm funny

 

     Either way it's all okay

I can lived with being blocked

 WritersCafe is not for those

who get their panties in a knot

 

 

 

 

Author's Note

The guy that was writing trash about US armed forces was an Amrerican. I'll let some of that crap slide from Europeans but Americans? Talk shit about the war and it's architects all you want. But when you start in on the men and women who did the fighting, bleeding, crying and dying cause we were ordered to? No. Bad, very, very bad.
It's that stupid civilian line of " soldiers should ask why" What in the hell kind of army debates orders? You figure that shit out the first two minutes you're 18 year old ass is in boot camp. The other guy who's blocking me I've no clue who he is. I don't recall ever reading his work but he's obviously read mine. I stumbled on him by accident during a conversation between That_girl and Philgod. His posts were kind of snarky so I clicked on him and what do you know, I'm blocked. So I chimed into the conversation and he promptly deleted all his posts. Marines can make a retreat happen even in cyber space. HOORAH!

Reviews

[Kaylor Mason]

Ha! Don't worry about people blocking you--I've been blocked by more people than I care to mention on here, and I don't have a clue as to why--nor do I really care. My view is anyone that blocks me must have a problem with my work (or me personally) and as such, it's their problem--let them deal with it. If I've slandered anyone or offended anyone on here, unintentionally, then I'm sorry. I wish someone would tell me why they block me before they do it--that would be nice.
For the most part, when people block me on here, I just forget about them. They obviously have issues.
Except for one. Tate Morgan blocked me--I have no idea why. I really admire his work, and before he blocked me I really enjoyed reading it: he's an EXCELLENT writer; but I must've said or did something wrong (wish I knew what it was) and he just blocked me . . . ah well. C'est la vie.

This guy who was bad mouthing you--he comes from the free, individualistic world of the calm, rationally minded civilian . . . the kind of human being who is not required to kill in order to survive. It's not so much that these civvies hate soldiers as it is that they--very literally--cannot comprehend the world soldiers live in. All they really know is the sheltered peace you guys fight and die to preserve every day, whilst they live on, blissfully ignorant. They can't comprehend hardly anything outside their civvie lives, for that matter; and if they do, they prefer not to dwell on it. To the true liberal civilian, soldiers will always be an enigma . . . they just don't get it.

That doesn't justify this man's slander by any measure, though. Here's a thought: Put him in the desert and surround him with insurgents, men who would gladly tear him to pieces just for being American and over there, and then give him a rifle and say: Survive.
He'll sing a different tune after that, guaranteed.

[Baby Ricochet]

HA! That's the longest review I've gotten ever. Blocking's weird. I can understand it if you're a young girl and some guy is creeping you out or if you're being harrassed by somebody. But over a review you didn't like? That's a little over sensitive. There's a lot of things civilians don't understand about the armed forces.

[That_Girl]

That goddamn Tate Morgan... I swear...

[Kaylor Mason]

I agree with you about the oversensitive part--though we writers are artists, and we all have artists' temperaments . . . which might account for our oversensitivity to our "hurt" feelings and all

[Kaylor Mason]

@ That__Girl: What about Tate Morgan? What do you mean?

[That_Girl]

lol he's not very well liked. Especially by me. Don't take his blocking personally.

[Kaylor Mason]

I never did.

[Marie]

Tate Morgan blocked me once, and I got very upset, because I couldn't imagine why. Later on I found out that it was some kind of mix up; he hadn't meant to block me at all and didn't know it had happened.

[That_Girl]

He and I had some words shared. I know why he blocked me.

[Pax]

Mr. Tate did block me..once...too.. but that's in the past now..

[Baby Ricochet]

FOR THE RECORD: Tate Morgan is one of my friends. I read all his work and he's a talented writer. I've had no problems with him and don't excpect too.

[Falling Leaf.]

Some people do deserve to be blocked, because in all actuality, they're jerks. But that's only a very few people, and it's none of you.

[Ees]

Don't buy into the stereotype that artists and writers are a sensitive lot. I work as an artist, selling paintings and I attempt to write. I am not overly sensitive. I am harsh sometimes. I have often been called "cold-hearted", most frequently by my own mother. That's something that bugs me, so I just had to make my statement about the writers as artists are sensitive remark. That's bullshit. People are people, they're all different.

I have a temper that flashes, but I'd rather attribute that to my red hair than being an artistic person.

I try not to be a jerk and when I offer criticism, I also always try to point out the good things too. I think that the only people who should be blocked are creepy people hitting on you, basically.

[Falling Leaf.]

Some people think that just because they are older and more experienced they can stomp all over younger writers. Of course this isn't every older writer; I've only ran into two. I believe that reviews shouldn't be sugarcoated, but they should be polite. Someone called my writing boring, which, you know, can be expected from some people. I can't please everyone and I won't try, but when this person came back later and said my writing sucks to read, that's where I felt they went too far. And, if you go to said person's page, their biography does say that they are biased against younger, inexperienced writers. That person isn't on here to help us youths grow. They're on here to put down others so that they can feel good about themselves. That, in my opinion, is the kind of person who should be blocked. Yeah, creepers should be too, but so should stereotypical a******s. They aren't worth anyone's time.

[Baby Ricochet]

Writers eat their young. HEY! I'm a young writer. EAT ME!

[Baby Ricochet]

OK maybe not that young,

[Pax]

I agree with Ms. Ees, a great constructive criticism is balance...there is a far difference on a insult to a constructive criticism...

[Baby Ricochet]

IS 32 young?

[That_Girl]

Yes, Baby R. Just maybe not on here. :)

[Pax]

I guess...its still young at heart and physically... :D

[Baby Ricochet]

Look at my avitar. I'm just a baby.

[That_Girl]

lol I always feel weird calling you Baby.

Have you seen a pic of that kid recently? Super cute.

[Ees]

32 sounds young enough to me!
I like people to actually critique my work, it doesn't mean I will necessarily agree with their points, but it makes me look at my work and think about it and maybe take their advice. That's why I joined this site. When I review, I always try to review the way that I hope people will review my own work. Apparently that has the potential to completely offend some writers on here, but I keep trying. A sugar-coated review is just as useful as a flat out insult.

[Baby Ricochet]

That's the only reason I came up with the name Baby Ricochet. So chicks would call me baby.

[Baby Ricochet]

and you can't not love that Avitar.

[Baby Ricochet]

yep. 32 and it's all over

[Ees]

cute. what about when guys have to call you baby too? haha

[Ees]

When I was a kid I always said that you had to call boys boys until they reached the age of 32, when they would become men. I don't know why that was the age that I picked. Now as an adult I commonly refer to those who are 32 as boys still. ahah.

But yeah, you're officially old and a man now that you are 32.

[That_Girl]

If you haven't noticed BABY, guys call you that too. :) I find it a bit odd, especially for the straight ones but... eh. ;)

[That_Girl]

lol I know plenty of 32+ that are most definitely boys. XD

[Baby Ricochet]

I once had a picture of Bridgette Bordot as an avitar and this dude started PMing me. He thought Bridgette Bardot was actually me. It was like 6 PM'S before he figured out I was a guy and I wasn't leading him on either. I felt kinda bad. I mean you're a lonely guy and you think you're PMing a woman that looks like Bridgette Bardot and then, Man that's gotta be a buzz kill.

[That_Girl]

Bahaha poor guy. I would have been disappointed as well.

[Ees]

haha, that's hilarious.
I mean, until you told me you were thirty two, I totally thought you were a baby. A really advanced for his age baby.

[Baby Ricochet]

THat would be Tai. He's 14. I swear he's a 35 year old Midget. If you haven't read his work you should.

[Ees]

hahaha.
I was just kidding. I knew you weren't the baby in the picture. haaha.

okay, cool, I'll look for him.

[Baby Ricochet]

Tai's big on the violent metaphors but not in a silly teen aged comic book slasher movie way. There's a strong sense of forlorn aching in his work and he takes criticism into consideration.

[That_Girl]

What's his screen name?

[Baby Ricochet]

Tai

[That_Girl]

Huh... didn't bring up any members.. odd

[Baby Ricochet]

First poem of his I read I thought "Jesus Christ what in the hell is wrong with this kid." No way could I have written something like that when I was 14. I'm not sure I can right something like that now.

[That_Girl]

I want to read! Send me a link to his profile???

[Baby Ricochet]

K

[Michael G.]

Welcome to the club of "been blocked." I had a gentleman block me after he went off on one of my poem about patriotism. (Sound familiar?) He later apologized for his words; but, then blocked me from reading his work. Not that I really want to read his.
You wrote this well. I don't know the "why" or the "what" started this. Sounds like you got a taste of what a lot of Vietnam Vets ran into, back in the day. It hurts and the ego gets a strong jolt. But then, we would still do what we did, again... and our reasons would be the same.
In case you are curious, "A Face to Believe."

[Baby Ricochet]

The way the Nam vets got treated was dispicable. That was a bad clash of competing cultural revolutions combined with horrifing images of war in everyone's living rooms the Nam vets had stacked against them during the most unpopular war America ever waged. People that don't know history don't know what a disaster that was. You guys faced an intelligent, determined enemy with solid leadership. We faced a pack of hoolagans with little if any leadership. The word "insergent" makes them sound so bad a*s. Most of them were unemployed young men looking for excitment and in that region of the world that meant JIHAD. unfortunatly they could be really sneaky, tenatious and really brazen. I'm convinced if those guys had girlfriends most of them wouldn't have taken up arms against us.

[Art]

dang...dude now that's why we have a Marine Corp....cause they kick a*s when needed...hell nobody likes war it just so happens its all over the place...somebody has to fight it...poets just write what they understand...Americans stand up to what we are assigned to accomplish...no questions asked...

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you for reading my work Art Sun. I've read several of yours and they are gorgeous. A couple of them really got to me. That's what art is supposed to do.

[Heather]

I tend to not wear panties when on WritersCafe, its easier that way :) and I hate knots.

Freedom of speech is a good thing, its what the people in our military fight for. When you put something out on the internet you have to be prepared for people to have an opinion about it. Clever write and expression of your opinions dear Ricochet. I enjoy your poems, and I love love love your love of the Military and our country.

[That_Guy]

I knew it!

[Baby Ricochet]

THank you so much for reading my work heather

[RachelReaper]

What an ignorant thing for that guy to say! Both of my grandpas died in the war and I never got to see them, my uncle used to be in the marines... who is this guy?! If you won't give him "potty mouth" I certainly will! If I knew who that was, I'd verbally pummel him into the ground

[Baby Ricochet]

He had a few other negative reviews before mine. I think mine was the icing on the cake that prompted him to delete it. Tank you for reading my work Rachel

[Mic]

Ric, say it ain't so! lol.

Honestly, can't understand the whole blocking thing. Sounds odd.

[Baby Ricochet]

I've never blocked anyone and doubt I ever will. You don't like something don't read it.

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you for reading my work mic

[Sirius King]

lol... very nice

[Baby Ricochet]

thanx

[The Analog Kid]

Yeah I think I know the one clown. I have had run-ins with him (if it's who I think). No loss there:)

ANyway, nice poem to put them on notice...lol

[Baby Ricochet]

Thanks for reading and welcome back to writerscafe

[The Analog Kid]

YW...and thanks...just needed a break for a few weeks...

[Marie]

I can't imagine why anyone would block you. Your delicate language, subtle wit, exquisite phrasing all combine to create the perfect classical poems we love.

[Baby Ricochet]

LMAO!!!!!!!!!! Marie I love you...

[Marie]

You understand me perfectly.
I've been blocked more than once, but I've never blocked anyone and I doubt I ever will.

[Baby Ricochet]

I've never blocked anyone either. I did unfriend crown court cencored poet for one day when we got into a tiff over a poem he wrote called "Obama the Bomber" but we shook cyber hands and I frieded him right back.