Just a note....

[author_by_night]

Never get me started on the reviewers at ff.n. The reviewers are either disturbing, odd, or completely mean spirited, trying to get ff.n to be what it was before by randomly reviewing people and giving long explanations as to why their fics should never have been written. And then go and report those fics to their friends or to deletrius type sites, and thus the poor authors are mass flamed...

So yeah, doon't get me started on that place.

Comments

[kewii.livejournal.com]

All I can say is that the fewer reviews I get on my stories at FF.net, the better I think my story is.

Kewii

[imadra-blue.livejournal.com]

Heh. I hate the trolls or the flamers on there. I have nothing against sporking, per se, but I cannot stand the flamers. There's no point to that. At all.

[irised.livejournal.com]

I agree; when I actually tried writing fanfiction, it was really hard to get anything review-wise out of ff.net. It was hard to get any at all for one, and then when you got them they usually didn't help much. I mean, simply telling someone that you liked their story is encouring, but just leaving 'hurry up and write more' was kind of annoying to me.

[shalli.livejournal.com]

I just don't understand why they thought I would care that they think Seth from the OC is hot!!! Seriously, what has that to do with a Harry Potter Fanfic?

And the reviews which are really attacks on other authors... they're just wrong.

[bjtruong.livejournal.com]

The reviewers are either disturbing, odd, or completely mean spirited, trying to get ff.n to be what it was before by randomly reviewing people and giving long explanations as to why their fics should never have been written.

Really? I've never gotten those types of reviews (well not much), then again it has been a while since I last posted anything on FF.net, maybe the atmosphere of reviewers has changed since I last posted.

[readerravenclaw.livejournal.com]

What I find so interesting is that I know perfectly well that this is the general sentiment towards fanfiction.net - and yet I have had such a great experience with my reviews there. The majority of them are specific and at least several sentences long. Maybe because my fic is a genfic, and doesn't involve any "shipping"? I think maybe that romance tends to attract the... less ideal element.

[story645.livejournal.com]

Word!. In general, the reviews I've seen for fics matches the quality of said fic, and gen fics don't get idiot fangirl reviews. I'm always going to be a proponent of ff.net cause it's the best, easiest place to start, and a great place to store/test out beta fic that you're not yet ready to hand over to an archive or beta, but want some feedback on. Plus, cause of bored.com, it's how I entered the fandom in the first place.

Tiny excuse for deleterius is that we're not supposed to go and harasses the authors, it's one of the rules of the com. Yes, it's trollish to go and boher anyway, but a lot of poeople don't, and the original sporker almost always leaves a nice concrit if they bother reviewing at all. (Plus, the two fics I've ever wanted to spork were from FA and Checkmated.)

[lee-calafalas.livejournal.com]

I have been spammed on FF.NET
LOL
Spam is the last thing I expected.

Anyhow, I can't complain about my current FF.net reviewers. Most of them are nice like hell.

[niphredil-04.livejournal.com]

I think that *points up at main entry* holds true for all the major/large communities, such as LotR or Harry Potter. Some of the newer ones and/or those too old fandoms that lack a lot of teenage participants tend to be a little smaller and a littler tamer. IN GENERAL. I'm not saying teenage participants are all crazy little runts who should be banned for writing, but we are very emotional and,at times, mean-spirited and completely unreasonable.

I usually stay with the TV show sections and generally it's 'safe' there because of the shows' airing time and content. There's Hogan's Heroes, which is a show that aired in the 1950s, 1960s. Most of the fans of that show are adults who write and encourage each other. Numb3rs is a newer show, but it's on at ten at night and the community is still pretty small, so everyone sort of knows everyone else because we're all registered at the same forum board or same lj community.

I've been lucky on FF.Net. My stories have either received good reviews or been ignored, not flamed. But I try to hold to a high bar of standards to avoid being mass targeted. *shudders* While it's funny to read what other people write and shake my head at what people come up with, I don't think communities like deleterius are at all polite, especially with their usually borderline insulting comments.

[das-mervin.livejournal.com]

Oh, I completely agree. All the reviewboards on ff.net are just extensions of message boards. All the reviewers do (if you could call them that) is mindlessly praise fics, exchange recipes, pat themselves on the back, blanket-flame anyone who DARE not like the fic, and review with stuff like this: "UPDATEUPDATEUPDATEUPDATE!!" They don't review! They just babble on and on about how great stuff is, not bothering to say what is good and what needs improving! I mean, no author is perfect. What's the point of a review that does nothing but say how WONDERFUL everything is? Every fic has a mistake or two, and I'm SURE the authors want to correct them. I mean, I know I do. *shakes head* Total nonsense.

[author-by-night.livejournal.com]

I mean, no author is perfect. What's the point of a review that does nothing but say how WONDERFUL everything is? Every fic has a mistake or two, and I'm SURE the authors want to correct them. I mean, I know I do. *shakes head* Total nonsense.

Oh, I know. But sometimes, reviewers go too far, and the author's friends want to defend the author. Trust me, there's a difference between concrit and flaming.

[jamc91.livejournal.com]

'...trying to get ff.n to be what it was before...'

What do you mean, 'what it was before'? You mean like chat rooms? With all the spamming and stuff?

Well, not ALL of the reviewers are like that, obviously. There are some good people out there who give proper reviews, with some constructive criticism, not just like 'OMG THIS FIC IS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ST00PID FLAME FLAME FLAME FLAME FLAME'. Only some, though. Most people just go 'UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE PLEASE UPDATE'.

I am guilty of this.

Hey, don't kill me! At least I do add other stuff to the review besides 'PLEASE UPDATE SOON'.

Of course, most people don't even bother with the capitals. Flamers try to sound smart, and so, they use lowercase letters. With punctuation. Except it's still all wrong.