Subject: Hi!
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Posted on: 2012-05-29 07:23:00 UTC

It has been brought to my attention that you left a review saying that the 'fic was bad enough to be brought to the attention to the PPC, and then another that you had sporked it. Now, one of my comments is a simple aside - you haven't sporked it. A sporking is, basically, an MST (or in a generous definition, a mission), and since you have not written one of those, you have not sporked it.

The second comment is more serious. We really don't just exist to smack people down for writing badfic. Your first response to "Wow this is bad" fanfiction should be leaving concrit. If they don't respond or get defensive or whatever else, then you can very well move on to the snark, but please refrain from going "Hey, I'll be over here making fun of you, have a link to the wiki page of the group that is laughing at your story!" It is entirely sufficient to go "I'm writing a story to make fun of this, since you're ignoring my concrit," if you really want to, and then link to your sporking. We really do not need a bunch of badfic authors charging us with torches and pitchforks.

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