Downvoting

One of my poems went into the recent top rated "Love" section list, and soon it was downvoted. I love it how people get jealous and do it just for fun. Does anyone else feel the same?

I agree that votes do not mean a thing, but it is still annoying to get downvoted for no reason.

It pisses me off when people do that to other people! it hasn't really happened to me, cause I suck compaired to a lot of people on this site, but who cares? This is a place to improve, not prove.

but I do agree that votes don't mean much.

by the way, Congrats, HansRik!

Well, thanks, but I did not make it into the first page, my first message was ambiguous. What I meant is that my poem "The Elegy of the Lovers" is in the list of top rated recent poems in the Love section:
http://www.best-love-poems.com/

yeah, but I've never made it there, so I still say congrats. Your work is still admired even if some loony meanys downvote it.

Bob, thanks indeed for your opinion. I was just looking at the Love section, and all of the poems on the top rated recent list were downvoted since I last checked the link. Haha, I think some imbecile is just trying to downvote the poems that are considered to be among the best on this site (of course, mine is not that good, but mneh, such is life: full of jealousy.) I agree with you mate in that most people here are unable to understand good poetry.

That happened to me once. I had just posted it and all of a sudden it had a one less than five minutes I had posted it. So don't worry about it.

It happens all the time....people are jealous and insecure. Let your work stand on its own. The comments mean more to me, as they are true indicators of what people feel.

yeah same like i think someone got far to jealous and said that i didnt write any of the poems that i had sent
so i had to start over again all because someone got jelous of me poetry

**ghetto chocolate**

HansRik,

That happens, It happened to me this morning. I had a poem posted for 2 days and the comments I received and votes were all very positive and this morning I found it had been downvoted in less then 12 hours to below 4 (3.8).

I am seeing this sort of trend happening to quite a few people. But this is not what our writing is about is it?

Steven,

I definitely agree with you, but I really think those who downvote other people's poems for no reason are simply wasting their time. They could use it more productively, by researching on poetry and improving their skills, for example.

it realy doesn't matter anymore if your poems get downvoted anymore, if you havent noticed the rating doesnt matter anymore. its starting to get annoying seeing the same authors on the lists, but they are good poets

yea it's fun to try to top the same charts

I hate down voting, I recently made quite a few of the top rateds and all the poems were written for my gran, its seriously isnt funny and it bugs every part of me. its immature and people need to stop...

yeh ive done a lot of ranting about this before...