![]() Unqualified negative comment gets seen as the behaviour of a troll. People do not react to negative and positive comment equally. ![]() Reading comments that use emotive language to criticise puzzles without qualifying this as “in my personal opinion etc” really does lead to bad feeling. However, it also became clear to me that reading unqualified negative comment really does invoke anger in people. Readers do not assume the (positive) poster is an extremist who believes their view is the universal truth, they are just stating a personal view and typing fewer words for the sake of convenience. People don’t write “in my opinion this puzzle is wonderful”, they just write “this puzzle is wonderful”. Over the hundreds of blogs I wrote here it became clear to me that in general people don’t qualify their positive personal opinions. There is no universal “truth” here, neither of us is wrong, our statements are not contradictory, they just represent personal views coming from different viewpoints. You thought this puzzle was rubbish, I loved it. What one person views as improvement is seen as retrograde steps by someone else. Whether one puzzle is “better” than another depends on the person doing the judging. Without this imbalance site would descend to the level of the rest of the Internet, and that would spell the end for fifteensquared. Actually I see this as a very good thing. Hi Moly, I also think that there is a tendency on this site for people to praise puzzles more than to criticise them. MILITES GLORIOSI is the plural of MILES GLORIOSUS, a stock character of a boastful soldier in classical comedy, so the whole clue is the definition. MOS – styles when acting, ie plural of MO (modus operandi) I had a different parsing for MILITES GLORIOSI – not necessarily better but see what you think of this… The word order is a bit tricksy but it works for me. I think ALL EARS is fine if you take it as both being gripped. Not familiar with DWAM but got the solution from the crossing letters – though it’s ambiguous whether we want EDWARD VI or IV until you’ve solved OWING. I’m sure there must be more going on in IF LOOKS COULD KILL than just a cryptic definition, but I can’t see it. Yes, tough going with the parsing in a few places. FERMI also made me laugh when the penny dropped. Superb puzzle, tough but hugely entertaining – I especially liked PUT OUT MORE FLAGS, not least because I love the book, and “WORD ON A BUYER” is a priceless Spoonerism.
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