Well, sometimes lotrfanfiction turns poor Eowyn into "...owyn", which she definitely doesn't deserve.

...but I don't think they can be let off the hook entirely. FF.N has a system that will remove scene breaks if you don't go back through the uploaded document and check it, which doesn't take very long. I would consider not taking the time to check that as being along the same lines as not bothering to run a spell check, if not exactly the same.

If it's not something they can fix by taking a little extra time... probably not. But someone ought to nag the admin of that site until it's fixed.

As I recall, it's the publishing of 'fics that lets them affect canon worlds and therefore show up on our Consoles; if it's what's shown and changing the Word Worlds (and on a more mundane level, what we see when we're trying to read a good story), then I don't think it should not create a mini, because the problem is still there.

Sorry to ramble - thinking out loud. Overall, I think it should create a mini, but that we shouldn't charge the author for it.