If you've ever posted a fic and waited for the feedback to hit,

[timepiececlock]

then THIS is worth reading. A veritable rollercoaster look at the puzzling and indecipherable mystery that is your typical fanfiction reviewer; you'll sympathize I promise.


On a similar but unrelated vein (if there is such a thing?), I've discovered another thing about ff.net that really irks me: people who create an author registration but who don't post any fanfic.

They just do it so they can have signed reviews and a favorites list. I think it's inconsiderate of them, because it puts extra strain on an already overworked website system, and does so without giving back anything in return to the community. It's parasiticial and unnecessarily so, when you aren't required to be an author to read the fanfic anyway.

Comments

[klytaimnestra.livejournal.com]

in return I'm gacking this link to the all-purpose fanfic review, and thanks!

I haven't been on fanfiction.net for a long time; I kinda liked the signed reviews though, when I got them, even if the reviewers weren't writing themselves. It was interesting to see who else they were reading.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

It was interesting to see who else they were reading.

I'll admit I use the signed reviews I come across to find reccomended fic, but it still irks me that they do it. Sort of the "if you want the title of writer you ought to have to bare your guts to the world like the rest of us" feeling.

[xanphibian.livejournal.com]

Sometimes an author will have 'do not accept anonymous reviews' turned on. I think it's the default, actually.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

True. But I still think it's mostly stupid.

[spikewriter]

Actually, I created a profile because I was seriously considering putting stuff up (this two years ago), then decided it I wasn't comfortable with it there. (That's when I built my own site.) Since then, I've discovered you can't delete the damn thing, so there it sits, unused and unloved since I rarely hit ff.net.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Since then, I've discovered you can't delete the damn thing, so there it sits, unused and unloved since I rarely hit ff.net.

You can't delete your profile? Huh. That seems pretty sillly of the website (though right in line with their typical stupidity), not allowing people to delete their author membership. If they did, they'd have less to deal with.