One of the way I found for coping with it is the investigation of some reviews. They seem to matter less when they praise the bad aspects of the story, or are rife with typos.

Very few reviewers ever bat an eye about the issues I've raised about a certain HP badfic that I have discussed at lenght in this thread of mine.

Even worse is the sister fic of the one above, called Positive, which basically is a rehash of Breaking Dawn in the Potterverse, only somehow it is probably worse. No one bats an eye when the Suethor just declares that the Weasleys simply don't exist in the story, for no apparent reason, or when Dumbledore threatens to force Hermione to either have an abortion or completely isolate herself until she has her child, only to give up said child to Muggles "for the Greater Good" (The child in question is the Sue herself, but still...) No one bats a Glaurunging eye when Harry can suddenly speak telepathically with his unborn daughter or when said baby reaches just about every single important developmental milestone impossibly early.

Let me put this in context.

An Aunt's Love, which I won't link to because doing so on mobile is an almighty pain in the neck, has close on twenty THOUSAND reviews on ff.net, most of them positive. And it squandered genuine promise. What could and should have been a frank discussion of mental health and its stigmas in two very different cultures turned into stupid, rambling garbage involving ninjas, gun-toting doctors, vile bashing, and DRACULA for some damned reason or another. Oh, and Harry is even more The Special than normal because of some genuinely insane segments involving Merlin's tutor and his dog. God it sucks.

And yet, close on twenty thousand people disagree. Huh.

This is often what happens when I go scouting for badfic to take down once I get off my lazy butt and actually apply for Permission.