Subject: This is a problem...
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Posted on: 2017-11-11 21:17:00 UTC
I know at least three, maybe four or five, authors who post nothing but Mary Sue fanfiction on their accounts, and I'm worried that pointing it out will get me yelled at for singling out certain authors.
In my opinion, if anyone else finds an account that they want to do more than one story from, they should limit themselves to two stories from that account. Does that sound good?
https://supersaiyancrash.deviantart.com/gallery/
https://www.fanfiction.net/u/1235648/Super-Saiyan-Crash
Anyone want to take a pick?
...has at least one sequel and put it in Unclaimed Badfics? I know series are allowed, like the Rose Potter one.
https://supersaiyancrash.deviantart.com/gallery/31116749/Crash-Bandicoot-Retold
...I just couldn't decide which of their fics or comics to put in "Unclaimed Badfics".
Does anyone else have opinions on what to do when we find multiple badfics by the same author at the same time, or even an author who hasn't written anything but badfic? Because I think I may know another example, but I don't want to also be seen as "singling out" by folks like Iximaz who (if I'm interpreting this correctly) are concerned that it'll be more about the author and less about the fics if something like that happens.
-Twistey
If you find yourself going through an author's profile - or worse, multiple profiles on different sites - to see how much of their stuff is bad... then you're singling out that author, whether you say you are or not. Stop and step away; we're not really the fanfiction police,and we have no obligation to list every badfic we see.
If, on the other hand, you find that three different fics you peg as bad are by the same person - maybe they're one of the only writers for a specific minor character, or they write lots of crossovers of two specific fandoms - fine. You didn't seek out their stuff specifically - you analysed each story as you found it. And that's okay.
hS
*Picks splinters out of my id* Hmm. So if we accidentally find ourselves doing that, how do we decide which fanfics get sporked and which ones we leave alone and forget (at least until somebody possibly rediscovers them in a more ethical manner)? Do we choose the top 3 worst ones, or what? And when sporking said fics, is it okay to start on them then or would it better to wait until you've forgotten about how much terrible fiction the author wrote?
-Twistey
I know at least three, maybe four or five, authors who post nothing but Mary Sue fanfiction on their accounts, and I'm worried that pointing it out will get me yelled at for singling out certain authors.
In my opinion, if anyone else finds an account that they want to do more than one story from, they should limit themselves to two stories from that account. Does that sound good?