response? do you want me to congratulate you for noticing that "punctuaition" was underlined in red, after you had declared yourself the forum's arbiter of English? that's pretty funny. in fact, I think you deserve more than congrats... you deserve a little prize. how about a plaque? we can have "SNR's Worst" inscribed on top, and then, "7400 posts." just don't expect your name to be on it.

mindless is right...

and have "we?" to whom am I speaking now, Mr. WB or Ms. WB? Ms. WB, are you in there? go to a safe place!


this is just plain awesome.

we've apparently gone from softball to tee-ball. I'm getting a little bored, to be honest with you. set me up another one, arbiter (sigh).

here's my claim, you pompous, cretinous braggart: you wouldn't know your ass from a hole in the ground if someone drew you a map.

you would be right, if you didn't set yourself up as the arbiter of English on this board. as it is, you can't have it both ways. you need to take some pills or something to make yourself smarter.


in related news, it's a message board, and I'll assume any damn style I want. I'm not screwing up simple words like "dweller" and contractions like "you're," so watch who you're calling an idiot. ask your peg-boy for some smart pills, and then come after my chosen style of capital-letter-less presentation.

once again: there are no legitimate companies in this industry. there are just competitors. when you make a living doing people's homework for them, I think it's very risky to try and take the moral high ground. and it's even riskier to assume anything about a stranger on a message board. "write what you know," WB. save us your disturbing, idiotic laughter, and tell us a few things about the inner workings of *********/SNR.

*you're an asole who...


what about knowing small words, relative pronouns, and simple contractions? ...or maybe this is for some kind of poetic effect?

interesting... a chapbook, or a book? self-published, or a publisher? for coming off here as such a money-hungry twerp, I never took you for a poet.

WB-- it is Father's Day, son, and I'm asking for you to come clean and disclose your conflict of interest. make your mother and I proud.

Pheelyks-- sorry; if not a screenplay, what have you attempted to write? cookbooks?

WB, I think you're engaging in what psychologists call, "projection." projection happens when you take characteristics you feel inadequate about in yourself, and foist them onto strangers whom you know nothing about. your post makes you look insecure about your own social life and the way you are perceived on this board, but it doesn't really affect me.

I suggest you adjust your ammo, and instead of projecting your fears and insecurities onto the blank canvas of my persona here, try finding some kind of realistic, or at least demonstrable, fodder. for example, I happen to know that you work for *********, and so, I say so. while it may be tempting, I don't make blind assumptions about your personal life... simply because this is not something about which I'm sure.

racists, btw, are great examples of "projectionists--" the idea is that one may feel that one's own group has inherent problems, which are negated by stereotyping other groups as having these problems instead, or being their cause, exclusively... your recent profiling of Indians and Kenyans shows that you may be engaging in a less personal, but just as insidious, form of projection, on a larger, and more potentially damaging, level.

it's just something to think about.

how's the screenplay going, ace?

there are no legitimate companies in this industry. there are companies for which you work, and their competitors.

which reminds me... WB, when are you going to disclose your conflict of interest?

"the criticism was addressed to your colleague."

how hard is it to understand that, and not be a wheedling pin-cushion about it?


"rather." btw, speaking of pedestrian, when a dumb like you tries to come off looking intelligent, it just makes you look pathetic.

that still doesn't make fire-fighting a criticism. but how's this... you're a dumass.

"fighting the fire" is hardly a criticism. you apparently did not see the part where I stopped the plural and addressed WB singly. not very nit-picky...

I have nothing against defending Essay openly as an employee, pheelyks, although I sort of doubt that they have zero ESL writers on the books. the criticism was addressed to your colleague.

I see the defenders of Essay are here to fight the fire, as usual. WB, that is a pretty funny post up there-- you really seem to think you can have your cake and eat it, too. are you still sticking to the lie that you don't defend and promote the agenda of your employer against its competitors on this board?

I usually just ignore such errors, because after all, it's a ******* message board.

but if someone sets themselves up as an arbiter of English, I'm going to be the first to snipe, every time. while you're collecting stalkers, I'm laughing my ass off. cheers!

like I said, keep 'em coming. it's like home run derby up in here.

once again, is right. and enough of your excuses. if you're going to set yourself up as the arbiter of English here, you'd better start proofreading.

right on the heels of


-- classic. keep 'em coming.

don't worry about it, pheelyks. just hold onto your dreams of screenwriting fame (whatever that is) tightly, and pray that your smart-ass, bitter, pissy avatar doesn't get the real you into any serious trouble.

judging by those pics, pheelyks, if I were you, I'd say as little about schoolyard fights as possible.

who's "we," WB? do you mean you and your sock puppets, or have you split your female and male personas into different entities?

I hope this isn't the poorly concealed dig at your colleague and role model WB that it looks like, pheelyks. it looks like you need all the help you can get right now.

hi WB. you sound irritable. is business at ********* slow?


"you're English sucks!"

Pheelyks, now is the time to show them your "golden turd" award. and try to stop from sounding so rattled!

you mean, besides acting as their customer service rep, or do you want me to include those?

I can't believe you took the stuff about pizza seriously, and missed the whole point. the point was, if I disguised my identity as a Pizza Hut franchise owner, and said that I was simply an industry observer, I would be intentionally covering up my allegiances, in order to disguise my natural propensity as a representative of the company for which I work to disrespect my competitors and play up the benefits of my own brand.

you are openly against your competitors, posting as a neutral 3rd party.

let's say this forum is about pizza. it's pizzascam.org. the mission is to note which pizza delivery services produce cold or unappetizing pizza.

now, let's say I'm a male owner of a Pizza Hut franchise. I come on, and I do nothing but insult people who say that Pizza Hut is greasy. I also rail against Domino's and Papa John's. when it starts to become obvious who I am, I identify myself as a female, and lie and say that I don't work for Pizza Hut. then, I backpedal and say that it doesn't matter who I work for, or whether I'm lying or not, because Domino's tastes funny, and Papa John's delivery people are often late.

what an insane and stupid waste of time this would be! I'm glad I'm not this hypothetical, transparent liar.

you don't like what I type, because it unsettles your veneer of objectivity. since you work for *********, and I reveal this often, it's obvious that you have a personal interest in disparaging certain companies (your competitors) on this board.

I don't have to have a vested interest in the industry to want better treatment for writers. I just have to be a human being.

you're really grasping at straws. you've tried denial, insults, and deflections, and now you're down to one-word interjections. backpedaling is right.

I may be over-optimistic about industry change, but at least I'm not a liar. I'm open about what I'm promoting here.

I picked my name randomly, based on a former profession. I have no vested interest in this industry, nor do I use this forum to promote any agenda besides exposing hypocrisy and promoting better treatment for writers.

my position here is one of an interested observer. I do not purport to expose scams under the veil of crusading morality, while hiding the fact that most of my allegations are against my competitors.

WritersBeware is in a hysterical tizzy of denial, and getting more and more insulting. just admit that you work for *********, WB. you'll feel a lot nicer. you can obviously still keep up your denial about that fact not clouding the accountability and integrity of your pseudo-objective position on this board.

...but you don't, do you? you relish the extra money from the urgent paper, and take more papers, because you know summer and/or January is coming. you probably wind up working more like 50-60 hours a week, as a result. and even that little bit extra per page from the urgent paper isn't time and a half.

say I'm an accountant, working 40 hours a week, and I love doing it. maybe I don't "count the hours" because I'm having fun-- but I still work on a time-clock in order to achieve salaried employment. I do this because it's what determines that I'm not just a part-time employee or freelance contractor for the company, which then gives me the appropriate benefits and perks.


still backpedaling and throwing insults. this is known in the military as a rear-guard action... something most often done during a retreat.

all... completely... utterly... any... absolutely...

who do you think you're fooling?

while we're on the subject of absolutes, here's an absolute truth: you work for *********.

1. the treatment is okay, for an independent contractor relationship. unfortunately, most writers work more than 40 hours a week writing papers, which makes them more employees than contractors. from an employee standpoint, they are treated like trash.

2. most writers fear being taken advantage of by liars, scam companies, and sweat-hogs.

3. writers get under 50%, generally, for doing 100% of the work. at most companies, during peak periods, there are too many assignments, so that some go unwritten. you can get as many assignments as you can take. during slow periods, there aren't enough.

I stick to the truth, which I don't think makes me a coward. you're entitled to your opinion, but it's hard to justify calling someone a coward from your position-- you're too scared of putting out identity markers on this board to even be honest about your gender.

thanks, WB. I do still think that writers in this industry need to be treated better by their bosses, who don't do as much of the work. if this makes me stupid to you, maybe you should check on your honesty level regarding your position in this industry. you're still telling people you don't work for *********, right?

for what, being honest? I'll take that karma. all I'm doing is telling the truth about you working for *********. why does that make you mad? why don't you want to tell it yourself? I'm not afraid of you. I have the truth on my side, and all you have is lies and subterfuge. I feel sorry for you.

thanks for the link.