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Jun 24Liked by Michael P. Marpaung

Listen to Michael, guys, this works! I can actually see the people I follow, which will hopefully make the follower count more meaningful as a growth tool, and Notes actually useable!

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Jun 24Liked by Michael P. Marpaung

Geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez! Tara Dublin is a ====bleep!==== and The Bros Krynn's note to her was very polite. But I've gotten a few nasty items thrown at me, too. And she's a nutjob if she doesn't even take the time to look at Krynn's account before responding. Thanks also for the tip. I post both fiction and non-fiction on my 'Stack (mostly the former but always geared toward things to help other writers), so blocking one or the other isn't a solution for sure. Your idea is better. Hope it helps folks.

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She's a piece of work, to put it lightly. When I saw that, it was an automatic block. This isn't Twitter.

And yeah, I really hope this helps the writers here. I keep seeing this issue from time to time, so this is my definitive stance on all this. At least until things actually change.

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Jun 24·edited Jun 25Liked by Michael P. Marpaung

I don't understand, why is she making these wild assumptions?

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Who's to say? Politics is one heck of a drug.

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Yeah, I've blocked her, too. I gave her a chance to be rational. She failed miserably.

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Jun 24Liked by Michael P. Marpaung

I don't understand why did she go with all of these assumptions. Throwing baseless accusations of misogyny and outright calling people names does not work well building a reader base.

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Name calling is the last resort of the ignorant. If she thinks that's the way to get Hollywood's attention, more power to her. They'll probably just take her novel, train AI with it, and get a better script cranked out.

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It is just an attitude so negative. She, like everyone else on Substack, has a right to post whatever she wants on her own page, but there is too much negativity about her comments.

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Jun 24Liked by Michael P. Marpaung

The issue @The Brothers Krynn had made to her was the mis-categorizing her non-fiction posts as fiction. Seems a minor thing for her to make that change. Instead, she went totally ape.

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I went to her page and noticed that she has an infatuation with Trump.

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That will work for me.

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Jun 25Liked by Michael P. Marpaung

Oh, never knew about this! What a useful feature, thanks for showing us this :)

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Jun 24·edited Jun 24Liked by Michael P. Marpaung

Well said, I think I was a little aggressive, but whatever I will do as you said and already did disable the interests part sadly and they still pop up in my feed.

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Thanks for this. I already have all of mine turned off months ago. It's one of the "chief" reasons why I also turn off receiving notifications about new subs, leaving subs, and anything like that. Getting notified or seeing things in my timeline of which I cannot control does nothing to help my motivation or my production. So why bother seeing it if I can easily just turn off ALL the noise! Much appreciated.

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You're welcome.

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Geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez! Tara Dublin is a ====bleep!==== and The Bros Krynn's note to her was very polite. But I've gotten a few nasty items thrown at me, too. And she's a nutjob if she doesn't even take the time to look at Krynn's account before responding. Thanks also for the tip. I post both fiction and non-fiction on my 'Stack (mostly the former but always geared toward things to help other writers), so blocking one or the other isn't a solution for sure. Your idea is better. Hope it helps folks.

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