Subject: Some questions about sporking protocol
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Posted on: 2011-09-15 02:51:00 UTC

I don't have Permission yet, but I have a few questions about how some things get sporked.

1. I've been looking around The Pit, and I've seen several stories that say in the Author's Notes or even the summary, "Yes, this is a Mary-Sue." Some seemed concerned about this; most don't. What do you do about those?

2. And then there are a few fics like this Doctor Who one - http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7353177/1/Doctorwhogirls - that don't have any Mary-Sues (unless you count the Silurians with the stupid names), no Bad Slash, no Implausible Crossovers, nothing specific the PPC covers, really, but has excruciating SPaG, eye-searing format, OOCness all over the place, and is just pure unadulterated idiocy. How do you spork those kind of things?

3. And then there's Hans von Hozel http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1730364/HansvonHozel. He's... internet-famous enough to have his own TVtropes page, if that means anything. But he's special in the badfic community in that he has a fic for just about every fandom you can think of, whether he actually knows what he's talking about or not (one summary, I quote: "Someone make email and say 'I have request for Warhammer story', only I no know what Warhammer is! Oh no! Anyway here is story". The thing is, each one is about 200 words long - far too short to spork - but there are so many of them, all in the same style (and then there are his RPFs about ABBA and The Beatles)... I was wondering what, if anything, the PPC does in this situation.

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