The price I pay for amazon fame
Is to be a part of the trolling game.
They leave their votes, it’s never clear why
Then I check my profile and give a big sigh.
All I do is review with truth
All they do is comment uncouth.
So, the price I pay for amazon fame
Is to be a part of the trolling game.
No, I haven’t lost the plot (or maybe I have, I’m not sure), but that was an attempt at the Daily Prompt which anyone can take part in. I decided to write that poem with the prompt ‘Price’ after waking up today and finding a barrage of negative votes on my amazon reviews, coupled with rather harsh words once again on how I only give a 5 star review for something because I received it at a discount or free.
Of course receiving such negativity after just being in a bout of depression wasn’t very nice and I saw only two ways of dealing with it. Either get all upset and depressed again or channel that negativity into something creative….Like writing a poem. I don’t know if it’s any good, it’s just a bunch of rhyming, and I don’t know if anybody cares to read such things on a reviewing blog (sorry if you don’t), but it was my way of coping today :). Feel free to tell me what you think of this post, all comments welcome, whether positive or negative :o.
Happymeerkatreviews 
The poem is excellent, creative and unique!
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Thank you 🙂
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Nothing makes me more upset that people trolling authentic people. Those trolls are definitely not worth your time, but something good did come out of it: Creativity!
I really like the word you chose to rhyme truth with… I actually had to look up uncouth (lol). Thanks for teaching me something new!
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Lol, not sure the poem’s any good, despite people’s kind words but it just came to my head so I went with it. Actually it was quite the cathartic experience and really took away all the stress that I would have felt if I hadn’t written the poem :), so I might write more of them in the future :o!
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Don’t doubt your creative outpouring! I think what your poem does is take a negative situation, and make it more light-hearted, so I can see why it was such a cathartic experience for you. Now you can see why I’m addicted to poetry! 😀 Keep on writing!!
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Will do! I think I might take part in that daily prompt more often too. Not sure if it’s supposed to just be for new bloggers but sometimes a word can trigger a whole story or poem in my head, lol.
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I think you should! 🙂
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The site’s back up, just so you know! 😀
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That’s great! I’ll take a look later on but right now don’t know what’s happeneing. I think I just got some sort of spam-like thing happening on my site. I’ve just logged in and keep having the same page viewed over and over every minute :(. It’s messing with my statistics, I currently have over 225 views from turkey, same visitor but hundreds of views. Not sure what to do :(.
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Thank you!! 🙂
Oh no! I hope that stops. That has happened to me before and eventually, that viewer simply stopped viewing. I’d say just change your password to be on the safe side.
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I will do, but the hits we’re more likely some hack or something :(. I was getting 20-40 hits a minute, I don’t think people can view the same page that often in their browser 😦 I really hope somebody hasn’t done some sort of virus or hack.
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Yeah, that’s true. I really think those crazy amount of views should subside. If not, maybe contact wordpress.com?
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Any idea how to contact wordpress? When I look for support all I get directed to is the forums and they haven’t helped me at all. 😦 I mean literally nobody has left a message on my question. Oh well, just gotta hope my blog’s okay.
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Yeah, it seems like maybe you can’t contact them directly then. At least you posted on the forums! Honestly, I think your blog will be fine!
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Hope so 🙂
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The poetry is good. I have voted on Amazon now and again, they bombard me with invites to asking me my opinion. To be quite honest I never bother to see what the reaction is, I just move on to another book.
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I know, I get those emails all the time too, but I’m a top 500 review on amazon so sometimes it gets to me when I don’t see genuine votes but pure trolling.
Thank you for the compliment on my poem. It’s the first time I ever put anything creative out into the blogosphere :o. I will take a look at your site more tomorrow, I really like it and noticed you have one about cats too on your gravatar page? I love cats :).
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I like your poem and the best way to fight back against haters is to be clever with words and that is what you have done here.
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Thank you. And having your support here means a lot, it really does :).
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I`m glad. 🙂
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I believe you most certainly handled this with great pride! Congratulations!
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This is a great poem and a high five to you for not letting others bring you down.
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Thank you :).
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Well done! Don’t let these trolls get the better of you.
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Thank you :). I won’t. They are not worth the effort of getting worked up and stressed. I’m so glad I’ve got my wordpress friends, I don’t think I’d be so cheery and strong as I have been without you :).
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Good for you, that’s the best way to deal with negativity.
I’ve only ever been able to write poetry when it’s about something personal. I suppose it’s a way to let off steam. You’ve inspired me to dig out some of my old poems. I wonder how much they’ll make me cringe!
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I’m sure your poetry is wonderful, just like your fiction writing :). I’m not sure about my poem, that’s the first time I ever posted anything creative like that online 😮
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