Subject: Well I think what he may/may not have meant is:
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Posted on: 2011-08-12 14:06:00 UTC
Something along the lines of not telling a fanfic author that we just sporked her stuff.
If they want to improve, I'll criticize.
If they don't care about anyone's opinion except for the drooly, "all yu do is grate!" type, then I'll spork. But I wouldn't tell the author, because it'd be pointless.
I've been following the PPC for a while - I just can't help but find the ill-treatment of moronic "authors" and Mary Sues to be hilarious. So I decided to pop in and say hi. Most of what I'll be doing on the wiki is posting grammar mistakes. I'm not quite sure that I'm gonna be able to spork a lot of badfic, but I might try if I have the time. And, uh, that's all I have to say right now.
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Welcome, welcome, welcome!
One thing: We don't really bash authors. We bash fics. Authors are people too, you know.
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You had me worried, popping in on the wiki with nary an introduction.
Well, nice to meet you. As others have probably said, it's not the authors that we find objectionable but their work... many of us too wrote badfic when we were younger, and grew out of it.
The Badness is merely a passing state: a transient phenomenon of immediate ego, inexperience, or laziness. Or all three. Often the ulterior motives badfic authors have are not ill will, but merely obliviousness to their own unfortunate subtexts and trampling of canon.
Of course, if a badfic writer goes on to prove themselves to be a thoroughly unpleasant person, like anybody we'll all probably groan with disdain and move on with our lives.
But nice to meet you!
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We don't really mistreat authors, but yeah, we find craziness to be appealing. So we make fun of it.
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Greetings, new friend. I'm glad our community is interesting to you, and I hope you'll be sticking around for a while.
One thing I would like to bring up about our Wiki: it would be best if the number of links to TV Tropes was limited to very few. There isn't anything wrong with TVT, but we are not that site. We would prefer that our Wiki stand on its own merits as much as possible.
Also, I see you've made another post just above this one. New posts push old ones off the Board into oblivion, so it would have been better to add it onto this thread instead. In the future, just keep in mind that we want to avoid double-posting, please.
Also, if you could please limit your number of edits in general until we get to know you better—especially on pages like the FAQ for Other People—I think that would make a lot of us feel better. Someone we don't know making sweeping changes to our stuff is really alarming.
~Neshomeh
Nice to meet you.
I have one problem with your post: We don't treat authors (and they are authors, not "authors") badly, no matter how poor their writing is. We also do not find treating real people badly to be funny.
Just for future reference.
Ah. I was thinking more of a "laughing behind their backs" sort of thing; calling a person moronic to his/her face just hurts his/her feelings.
Truth be told, I have some OCs of my own, but I'm not gonna bother with introducing them - they might wind up full of arrows or something. Let me just suffice to say that I've written myself into a few corners in my fanon...
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I, generally being the quiet sort who sits in a corner with a laptop or notebook, get to hear a lot of people talked about behind their backs. There's nothing quite so worry-inducing as leaving the room.
Personally, I would much rather be told that my writing skills need work, up-front, rather than have people go to lengths to coddle my feelings and then laugh behind my back. (She thinks she can ~*write*~!) What's worse, receiving an honest opinion of your skills so that you can improve, or having a flawed view of yourself based on half-truths and that sinking paranoia that the people around you are not being up-front with you?
And, another clarification that I think the others also covered but I feel the need to reiterate: Poor writing skills, poor plotting and characterization skills do not a moron make. They make a person who may need some help to improve, if they wish.
True. Which is why the people I laugh at are the people who refuse to improve themselves.
Something along the lines of not telling a fanfic author that we just sporked her stuff.
If they want to improve, I'll criticize.
If they don't care about anyone's opinion except for the drooly, "all yu do is grate!" type, then I'll spork. But I wouldn't tell the author, because it'd be pointless.
Sorry to pile on like that. >.>; It's... hm, call it a pet peeve of mine, that sounds about right.
Also, welcome! :)
(And Neshomeh, above. Also: welcome back, Neshomeh and Phobos!)
A lot of us know/are friends with both people who write badfic and people who aren't fans of the PPC; I, for one, get very angry with people who hurl personal insults at Boosette. And even those of us who aren't... well, it's a principle. Do as you would have done for you, y' know? None of us would like to be trashed and flamed behind our backs, therefore none of us should be trashing and flaming others.
Laughing at someone behind their back is not much better than laughing in their face. We are here to mock bad writing, not people. We are not bullies.