First:
I have read and agree to the Constitution and FAQ (how the heck do you manage to agree with an FAQ?! There's nothing to agree to! :P), although the former was common sense anyways, and even if I didn't agree, it's in my nature to do that stuff anyways. XP
Fandoms? Well, I'd say, but I'm undercover at the moment. I told my fandoms I had things to do when the truth was that I simply didn't feel like socializing anymore (and frankly, I still don't, but I felt the question was important enough to me to break my internet silence to ask). I'm a terribly paranoid person, and also one that tries not to hurt anyone's feelings (well, until they do something incredibly stupid or tries to hurt someone else- then you meet my rude side. XD).
TVTropes Has Directed Me Here. :3
What else I do for fun? Not much. Fandoming is pretty much all I do, either physically or in my mind. It's just sometimes I get tired of dealing with the fans- it's not them, it really is ME. I have some kind of disorder, so I socialize for a while, then get really paranoid and retreat. I'm in the latter, but this question has been bugging me for nearly a decade.
Gender pronoun: Have fun- I'm genderfrak, so nyeh. *pllt*
What I wanted to ask was this. Why do I want to ask you guys? Because you're professional badfic sporkers, and I wanted your take on this:
I was involved in a small uproar about 8 years ago on fanficition dot net wherein an author (thankfully not me, as I wasn't posting to the site at the time) posted ONE badfic out of misjudgment. Normally, he was a good author, but for some reason, his brain shut down on this one. Needless to say, he was sporked. It wasn't the sporking, but one single comment that set him off: basically, one sporker in particular treated him as a child, saying that she was glad he wanted to write for a particular fandom. I agreed that the comment was out of line, because I mean, WTH? What purpose did it serve?
Anyways, he goes off, that attracts ants (in retrospect, that was a reference and not an insult; just wanted to put that out there before I got MYSELF sporked :3) that tell him he just wants mindless good reviews, when I know him and know that's not the case- there were others that sporked him before that that he didn't retaliate against. He would have just admitted that it was a badfic, and maybe taken it down if she hadn't made that comment. What made me want to ask was he did indeed use the "It's fanFICTION!" argument, to which I burst out laughing for reasons I can't exactly explain.
So, I was wondering: How you do guys feel about sporking authors (and authoresses- I don't care for political correctness, but technical term correctness, I'm a stickler about) that are otherwise good but make one slip-up?
Although let me disclaim in advance: Upon rereading his most prolific work, that... yeah. That one turned out to be major suckage as well, but all his one shots were of quality, at least. That one appeared to be another error in judgment, one that scarily continued on for about 2 years... I have no idea what happened to that man's sanity for that work. Yee. Unless the point was to with hold sanity, that sounds like something he'd do... but the badfic in question was serious, and an actually honest lapse in judgment.
TL;DR: What about when good authors go bad? How do you feel about sporking then? And my bigger concern was with the senseless comment: I've done my share of sporking as well, and I can get very... uh... "condescending" when I need to, but even I felt that "I'm glad you want to write for such-and-such" was just way too far. I don't know what it is, but... what do you guys think of that?