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

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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.

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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.