Not to bash; I'm just curious

Subject: Not to bash; I'm just curious
Author: son_of_heaven176
Posted on: 2013-07-24 00:41:00 UTC

HOW can someone write so badly?

Certain spelling errors, I can understand; a Suethor can be so in a hurry to publish that she just posts without spellchecking. (And we get minis and the Suvian Color Spectrum courtesy of them!)

But I don't think that even a learning disability (the excuse of the Suethor in question here, not my own words) can excuse such horrible writing, especially after being told multiple times to use a spellchecker! Either she is some special kind of stubborn, or she is a troll. Assuming that what you said is true (I have not checked), then it's probably the former.

To be clear, here's the Suethor in her own words and spelling, from Chapter 6 of her fic:
SO ALL U MEN PEEPZ WHO were criticcalizing myspelling, mabey you should focus on the storey on and btw i got a lerning dinstability SO THERE, NEHOW I have done some spell better in this cpater.

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A couple badfics from the Pit by Lenore Snow on 2013-07-20 05:22:00 UTC Reply

And the sad thing is that these are only from the three most recently updated. I haven't the heart to give you guys more.

http://m.fanfiction.net/s/8902405/1/Take-Me-Away

http://m.fanfiction.net/s/9272369/1/

An idea and possible solution by Kitty Eden on 2013-07-21 13:39:00 UTC Reply

Well, I think I've mostly fixed my spellcheck problem although there might be some errrorss.
On to my idea, which is this: We get a whole bunch of PPC agents from a variety of fandoms. We then make a big list of who's in which fandom, sorted by the ones which get updated more often. Then, we email all the agents a list saying which fandoms they are to monitor and check for badfic. Logically, the bigger fandoms will have more people watching. The group in one fandom will get all of the other group members emails so they can communicate. And we will be able to find all badfics methodically.
Speaking of which, I found a horrible HP fanfic. Becoming Female.

~Kitty

Hmm, seems... organized. by Lenore Snow on 2013-07-24 03:44:00 UTC Reply

As a hopeless dingbat of an INFP, I don't compute well with organization. Or "statistics and hard logic." But who needs logic anyway? Point being, it's not my place to decide that sort of thing, but it sounds awfully formal, a little bit contradictory to the general hectic siliness of the PPC that makes it so endearing. Since it's hardly plausible that we'll be able to spork every badfic in the world- even every badfic in a popular fandom would be a feat of unfathomably epic proportions- couldn't everyone just patrol the fandoms they're interested when they feel like writing a mission? Report the rarer abominations that are so horribly eye-bleeding that they cannot go unchallenged? Wouldn't that just be simpler?
Maybe I'm just not processing the more advanced thinking behind this, but that's my thoughts. Meh, it's an old thread anyway.

-- Len

Mmm. by Kitty Eden on 2013-07-24 16:25:00 UTC Reply

Yeah. I have this not exacly mental dsorder. It means Im kinda obsessed with being organized and strategy. Although this is great in logic tests and means Im great at capture the flag, I sometimes cant control it online. I sometimes say rude things that I dont mean and/or start being over stratigic. So I understand perfectly. But we need a permanant location for postic badfic.

Well... by Outhra on 2013-07-24 17:39:00 UTC Reply

Not every reported badfic is up there, but there's an Unclaimed Badfic list on our wiki that people can scan through for potential mission fodder. You could post everything up on that page that you think is worthy of missioning, and it would be kept as a repository for future mission writers and the morbidly curious.
Now that makes sense. by Lenore Snow on 2013-07-24 16:55:00 UTC Reply

I haven't applied for Permission yet, nor do I mean to for a good while, so I'm not educated on the ins and outs of reporting badfic. I'd assumed there already was such a place, a list of the reported badfics, but if there isn't that's definitely something I would support.

On a random note, I'm good at capture-the-flag because I'm sneaky. XD

*pokes about IRC things* by Techno-Dann on 2013-07-24 03:13:00 UTC Reply

Ahoy!

In case you've been wondering, the vast majority of people on the IRC are in continental north america - which means that a reasonable hour for you ends up being something like six in the morning our time. Thus why nobody seems to be paying attention. It's nothing personal, we promise.

:)

-Dann

I have a crossover to contribute to the pile. by IntelligentAirhead on 2013-07-21 11:15:00 UTC Reply

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7638151/1/Finding-the-Cute

I honestly have no idea what's happening in this fic, but it's a Supernatural-Homestuck crossover.
Pit fic under surveillence update by Cyba Zero on 2013-07-21 10:43:00 UTC Reply

For those insane enough to read it, a certain Trekverse bleepfic that the PPC has been monitoring for some time has grown another three chapters... *Repeated headdesking*

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7089561/16/THE-NEW-GIRL-on-Voyager

Read at your own risk: probably NSFB.

Re: Pit fic under surveillence update by son_of_heaven176 on 2013-07-23 21:14:00 UTC Reply

Just took a glance at the story (actually, at the chapter titles). Is this writer for real, because there is no way that any halfway-educated person can write that badly unless it's on purpose. Trollfic, maybe?

That's what I thought. by Outhra on 2013-07-23 21:37:00 UTC Reply

But as it turns out, the writer updates her online persona in such a way and with an amount of effort that it's hard to believe a troll would go for. If she is a troll, she's a very dedicated one.

I imagine that the original trollfic writers were inspired by this sort of illiteracy. They didn't engender it, only propagated it.

Not to bash; I'm just curious by son_of_heaven176 on 2013-07-24 00:41:00 UTC Reply

HOW can someone write so badly?

Certain spelling errors, I can understand; a Suethor can be so in a hurry to publish that she just posts without spellchecking. (And we get minis and the Suvian Color Spectrum courtesy of them!)

But I don't think that even a learning disability (the excuse of the Suethor in question here, not my own words) can excuse such horrible writing, especially after being told multiple times to use a spellchecker! Either she is some special kind of stubborn, or she is a troll. Assuming that what you said is true (I have not checked), then it's probably the former.

To be clear, here's the Suethor in her own words and spelling, from Chapter 6 of her fic:
SO ALL U MEN PEEPZ WHO were criticcalizing myspelling, mabey you should focus on the storey on and btw i got a lerning dinstability SO THERE, NEHOW I have done some spell better in this cpater.

Ah, you beat me to it. by hermione of vulcan on 2013-07-22 22:41:00 UTC Reply

Honestly, at this point, it's just funny. It's not even bothering me anymore, it's too entertaining to watch it spiral deeper and deeper into insanity. I'm actually curious to see who she finally ends up with. Are they going to find Janeway? Will Chakotay become an adult again? Are the Borg involved anymore? I really want to know!

Maybe I'm going insane.

Re: Ah, you beat me to it. by Cyba Zero on 2013-07-23 19:47:00 UTC Reply

It still needs missioning at somepoint. The way I see it, there are three stages of reaction to a fic this bad: the horrified stage, the numb stage, and the stage of stunned pain just beyond both of them. Sounds like you just reached the numb stage, but I think I'm at stage three. Unless there is a stage four, where you go more numb and slightly detached and amused?

*Gibbers incoherently before scrambling for the bleepolate.*

Thoughts by AelinTheAmazing on 2013-07-20 23:08:00 UTC Reply

I read the first one, and I was thinking, "Oh, another cliché Sue, that's all right then, I wonder what the next one will be like..."

And then I read the second one, and thought, "What?" and then, "Ugh."
Bit hesitant to go into these blind, but... *clicks* (nm) by Endless Sea on 2013-07-20 20:25:00 UTC Reply

Sorry. I probably should have provided some info. by Lenore Snow on 2013-07-20 20:41:00 UTC Reply

The first one... Well, in the summary we are cheerily informed that "Sophie" was kind of short and teased because she had brown hair and an Irish accent.
Here's an excerpt: ""Hey, are you okay? And what is a human doing so near to the Shire?" Weird memories of a world beyond the Grey Havens, and its destruction, came to her and made her feel momentarily offended. She brushed her dark brown hair out of her deep green eyes and her Irish accent became very noticeable.
"I'm not a human, my race has no name, and as I said before, I am lost." She told them. They nodded,

"Well," Kili spoke up, "You can travel with us. We are heading for Hobbiton where we might be able to get you directions home."Sophie sighed.

"My home shattered and burned. The Spire of Glass was collapsed, and the wooden homes burned to the ground." This information was provided by her Middle Earth memories, her Earth memories telling her that this was all fake, but she played along."

The second one is a good argument against slash, featuring a particularly mind-bending love triangle between Elrond, Bilbo, and Thorin. The writing is so machine gun paced that it makes my head spin. And the whole thing is one paragraph.
And another excerpt: "Radagast and Gandalf start talking and then Radagast takes off on his rabbits. "We need to go now!" Gandalf says. "We can't! We have no ponies, they bolted!" Ori yells and we all freak out. "We need to hurry. This way now!" Gandalf says and starts running. We take off running and trying to stay out of the Warg's sight. We end up being surrounded and Gandalf pops up behind some boulders. "This way, you fools!" he shouts, and we all slide down the rocks"

Another from the Pit. by Storme Hawk on 2013-07-20 12:30:00 UTC Reply

Browsing for some decent fics in the Pit and came across this.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9448719/1/The-Deadly-Twin

Unclaimed Badfic List by Storme Hawk on 2013-07-23 21:26:00 UTC Reply

was going to put this on the Unclaimed Badfic list and then realized I had no idea how to. It may be something obvious and I'm just being a ditz (actually it's highly likely this is the case) but I just can't see where I edit the page.
Wait, what? by DawnFire on 2013-07-22 16:26:00 UTC Reply

I mean, the summary alone...

*goes off to ~~melt brain~~ read the badfic*

~DF
... by Bausiren on 2013-07-21 02:51:00 UTC Reply

BWAHAHAHA...*ahem*. I apologize for that deeply regrettable outburst. What I really meant to say was, this story is quite...interesting..in a very...trainwrecky...way...
What. Is. This. by AelinTheAmazing on 2013-07-20 23:12:00 UTC Reply
Oh. Oh, wow. (nm) by Lenore Snow on 2013-07-20 17:36:00 UTC Reply

I second this opinion. by Endless Sea on 2013-07-20 20:49:00 UTC Reply

I'd probably hate it even more if I could actually make sense of what was going on. >_

Ayup. by Lenore Snow on 2013-07-20 20:52:00 UTC Reply

The self-concieved edgy wit of the writing interferes with legibility. I don't think this one would take too kindly to ConCrit...

I second this opinion. by Endless Sea on 2013-07-20 20:49:00 UTC Reply

I'd probably hate it even more if I could actually make sense of what was going on. >_