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athersgeoI've been flamed.
This is not normally something that reduces me to hysterics, but this one is special.
As a few readers know, I can/will/do hand out smackdowns to deservingly bad writers. (If you have a candidate story, by all means, nominate it and I'll see what I can do.) These tend to be extremely abrupt, blunt reviews, usually pointing out where the author's gone wrong and suggesting (im)politely that before they post again, they fix their issues. On occasion, I will drop into outright flame mode, but the story has got to be pretty **** awful before I do that. (I can only think of one in recent past where that's been the case - look up someone calling themselves Phoenixfire [mis-spelled, and off the top of my head, I can't remember how they've mis-spelled it] on ff.net and marvel at the truly awfulness that is their Power Rangers story.)
The following story was nominated from PotC - a category that seems to have an over abundance of badfic at the moment. It was (is) a first story, and so it has many of the issues that entails (like no description, no development and a very stilted narrative tone). That alone was not enough to earn my wrath (hey, I try to use my powers for good and not just for my own amusement, here!), what got the nomination was the TWO self-reviews *AND* the pure ego involved in putting yourself on your own Favourite Authors list. (I mean, puleaze...).
http://www.fanfiction.net/read.php?storyid=1701757 - and then check the reviews.
This evening, I got the following 'response', via ff.net anonymous review (but left with the username, so really, what was the point of leaving it anonymously - except leaving me the extremely easy option of deleting the review? C'mon, flamers! Be intelligent about it! Don't make it easy for me to get rid of you...sheesh!...ahem):
From: adamorcslayer()
In my personel oppinion, I thought that this story really wasn't all that interesting at all.
So in short all I wanted to say is this story SUCKED.
My response? (When I'd stopped laughing, that is):
Thank you for your review on my story, Soaring Eagle - you've just given me the biggest laugh of the evening. Nice to see that the level of maturity I wasn't crediting you with was about right.
1) You're entitled to your opinion of my story, just as I am of yours. You're not, however, convincing me that you will ever be anything other than a mediocre and irritating author.
2) Flames work so much better if you spell them correctly. The word is "opinion" not "oppinion". Personal, not personel. Oh, and your first sentence had a horrendous piece of repetition in it.
Oh, and by all means, flame me again - I need another laugh.
Rach (aka The Fink)
I'm just betting I get an email now from a very puzzled 14 year old who's just found themselves well out of their league and who wants to know how I got their email address...
This is not normally something that reduces me to hysterics, but this one is special.
As a few readers know, I can/will/do hand out smackdowns to deservingly bad writers. (If you have a candidate story, by all means, nominate it and I'll see what I can do.) These tend to be extremely abrupt, blunt reviews, usually pointing out where the author's gone wrong and suggesting (im)politely that before they post again, they fix their issues. On occasion, I will drop into outright flame mode, but the story has got to be pretty **** awful before I do that. (I can only think of one in recent past where that's been the case - look up someone calling themselves Phoenixfire [mis-spelled, and off the top of my head, I can't remember how they've mis-spelled it] on ff.net and marvel at the truly awfulness that is their Power Rangers story.)
The following story was nominated from PotC - a category that seems to have an over abundance of badfic at the moment. It was (is) a first story, and so it has many of the issues that entails (like no description, no development and a very stilted narrative tone). That alone was not enough to earn my wrath (hey, I try to use my powers for good and not just for my own amusement, here!), what got the nomination was the TWO self-reviews *AND* the pure ego involved in putting yourself on your own Favourite Authors list. (I mean, puleaze...).
http://www.fanfiction.net/read.php?storyid=1701757 - and then check the reviews.
This evening, I got the following 'response', via ff.net anonymous review (but left with the username, so really, what was the point of leaving it anonymously - except leaving me the extremely easy option of deleting the review? C'mon, flamers! Be intelligent about it! Don't make it easy for me to get rid of you...sheesh!...ahem):
From: adamorcslayer()
In my personel oppinion, I thought that this story really wasn't all that interesting at all.
So in short all I wanted to say is this story SUCKED.
My response? (When I'd stopped laughing, that is):
Thank you for your review on my story, Soaring Eagle - you've just given me the biggest laugh of the evening. Nice to see that the level of maturity I wasn't crediting you with was about right.
1) You're entitled to your opinion of my story, just as I am of yours. You're not, however, convincing me that you will ever be anything other than a mediocre and irritating author.
2) Flames work so much better if you spell them correctly. The word is "opinion" not "oppinion". Personal, not personel. Oh, and your first sentence had a horrendous piece of repetition in it.
Oh, and by all means, flame me again - I need another laugh.
Rach (aka The Fink)
I'm just betting I get an email now from a very puzzled 14 year old who's just found themselves well out of their league and who wants to know how I got their email address...
ba-WHOOM!
Date: 2004-01-25 10:43 pm (UTC)they do say with great power comes great responsibility.
xo
j
Re: ba-WHOOM!
Date: 2004-01-25 10:45 pm (UTC)They certainly do say that ;)