Subject: What Sedri said...
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Posted on: 2009-07-04 10:47:00 UTC
I had a few AFF Minis in the previous list. As Sedri says, all it requires is a quick skim through your story. It's not as if the AFF formatting erare ars rre subtle.
I'm betaing a fic for Cassie, and Elladan's name in the original fic has just appeared as Eln, bn. A mini perhaps, but it's a hell of a typo. In one of mine and Trojie's missions a while back (Ethul'waew, or something) there were a lot of similar typos. The author of that badfic actually came across our missions, and commented that the crazily mis-spelled names, and other words too, were a result of aff.net spazzing out. I'll believe her, as I've seen similar mangled words in many aff.net fics.
So, my question: would this mangling, as it's the fault of the website rather than the author, create minis? Only it doesn't seem quite in the spirit of things to my mind. Thoughts?
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.
I had a few AFF Minis in the previous list. As Sedri says, all it requires is a quick skim through your story. It's not as if the AFF formatting erare ars rre subtle.