Mostly for the sake of linking to the FAQ: For Other People, which addresses pretty much everything in that post. Also seconding Linstar's recommendation to bring any further discussion here, where people will actually see it.

~Neshomeh

So, uh, hello! No one really reads the Discussions section of the Wiki, which is why this took a month to be noticed.

There are, in view, two key things about this post worth noting: one, the PPC does NOT go out of its way to tell authors about missions. If we are going to give feedback on a fic, it'll be phrased as constructive criticism in a comment under the fic itself.

And, if we are going to mission something, many of us try to mission only older fics (5 years +) so that the author will hopefully be an adult, and more mature, by the time of the mission coming out. (13 is the usual minimum age to use on most sites.) We do not go out of our way to harass people or tell them to stop writing. The things we write are also creative expressions; "slaying" Sues is about writing a funny and interesting story, not making fun of the author (which is also discouraged). Me laughing at some other person's bad writing doesn't take away their fun or joy.

Um, honestly, if you are that upset over years-old negative reviews, you should not post your work publicly. People are going to criticize you. It's inevitable. People who don't like that should ignore people saying mean comments, or, barring that, find some kind of private way to express themselves. There are plenty of invite-only forums or places you can go like that.

Hopefully, no one will ever stop writing because of us. I can't guarantee that that's the case, but I don't know of any person who has stopped writing because of us. You don't seem to have stopped.

PPC missions aren't perfect either, and there's probably some older ones that have elements I would find distasteful. But they aren't, in my view, causing any harm either.

--Linstar