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Originally Posted by Lloyd Tackitt
You may be correct, over time I hope to find out one way or another. I am keeping statistics so I can analyze this, but it is too soon I think to be able to do a decent analysis. Now I am off to read up on the milli-HarlanEllison scale - haven't heard of it before.
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Well for the purposes of your information gathering, I can tell you straight up that your disproportionately rude and personally denigrating response to ficbot, who was trying to provide helpful advice which may perhaps not have been phrased sufficiently to your liking, is a turn-off from my point of view and you'd have to have serious talent to compensate.
Anyway,
Harlan Ellison is a highly influential and multiple award winning author, who is also fairly notorious for picking fights with just about everybody. But he really is that much a innovative genius wordsmith (at least at his peak) that people are willing to overlook his lifelong jerkishness.
With other considerably less capable authors who don't even possess a fraction of his sheer brilliance, that doesn't happen as much.