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It could easily be the case where she sounds quite unpleasant in a short bio like that, but come across much better in a fully fleshed out story. You can really only tell so much with these little bio's - that's one reason why I don't really like them, because they can give wrong impressions. The only way anyone can really tell what the character is like is to read the finished product. Ultimately, the person you should be trying to please most is yourself, so if you're happy with it then you should go with it as is. But just keep in mind that a character with no redeeming features will appeal to no one, unless, perhaps, they're the villain. So if they're not a villain then you need to give the reader a reason to care about them. Good luck with it!

My only real concern is that she comes across as a rather unpleasant person, one that I think I would find hard to have any real sympathy or empathy for, so you'd need to watch how that develops, I would think. Because if the reader has little empathy with the character then they're less likely to care what happens to her - and, consequently, with the story. But if you can pull it off then it should make for quite an interesting read.

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Does the person have a fairly unique sounding username or pen name? If it's not something really common, like "Horseshoe", then you could try doing a search on the name and see if the person has posted elsewhere, because maybe they might have included an email address there that isn't hidden.

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I'm reading Frankenstein by Mary Shelley for the first time. I'm only 50-odd pages into it, but already it's virtually nothing like any movie ever been made based on the book.

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Or USB drives.

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I have to have a story pretty much mapped out completely, from start to finish, before putting metaphorical pen to paper, which can be a real problem sometimes. But I've tried the "suck it and see" method and it really doesn't work at all for me, so I'm stuck with that method.

They do that to make themselves look smart, so people can gaze in wonder at their multilingual skills.

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If it's an anonymous review then there's little that can be done. If that happens, and continues to happen, then you can change the setting so that you don't allow anonymous reviews.

Because it's NOT a simple little thing. There is one person only doing everything technical with the site, and she does that after working loooong, awkward hours, doing things with her family, living a life (sort of) and battling to not fall asleep. I know enough to know that the archive software is old and complicated, which makes it a nightmare to do much beyond simple things with it - and even then it's still time consuming - which means a new software needs to be written from the ground up (and no, existing software just doesn't cut it with the size and workload that would be required of it). And that would come down to that one person again. Most of what she's doing is behind the scenes stuff so people don't get to see it, but it would be really nice if she got an occasional thank you for expending SO much effort and energy for no reward whatsoever and almost constant abuse.