Phil,

I too, am sorry that you were offended by the ratings.

I'm one of those 'nasty' reviewers who gave you a 7 (guideline: Good. Was worth reading)

Considering you posted 7kb that contained little or no erotic content, I think the ratings are not at all bad. I'm not a fast reader, but still, 7kb equates to less than 3 minutes reading time.

I checked out the reviews for 'The Compound' that you mentioned. Apart from a nonsense 1*, I don't see much for you to be offended about. (Unless of course you are one of those writers that is offended by anything less than a 10*).

Phil, you've had many good reviews to your work, and you are a good writer, but I think you are being over-sensitive here.

Moggy

The reviews in question are show below:

Reviewer: ladyB (Edit) Rating: Aug 3, 2003
good start, can't wait for the rest of it... (7/10)

Reviewer: lex ludite (Edit) Rating: Aug 2, 2003
What's to review? I thought the webmaster had finally decreed the end to snippets. Guess not. In the event that future installments are timely and of more consequence, my rating will chance accordingly. (5/10)

Reviewer: Emily (Edit) Rating: Aug 2, 2003
Yes, nice read but short. (7/10)

Reviewer: Moggy (Edit) Rating: Aug 1, 2003
This looks like an interesting story, and is well written in literate English.
The story is probably better than a 7, however with such a small posting it's difficult to tell. A forum posting mentioned that this isn't a new story, I'm hoping we won't have to read this by the thimble full over the next xx months. (7/10)