I don't have anything to say about your question that hasn't been answered by everyone else, so I'm just going to say hi! Here are your presents:

1) A fluffy white bunny (I suggest you never take it off its chain leash; it has great big teeth.)
2) One can of urple spray paint
And 3) A giant donut with chocolate sprinkles

Welcome to the Board!

I don't have anything to say about your question that hasn't been answered by everyone else, so I'm just going to say hi! Here are your presents:

1) A fluffy white bunny (I suggest you never take it off its chain leash; it has great big teeth.)
2) One can of urple spray paint
And 3) A giant donut with chocolate sprinkles

Welcome to the Board!

Because newbie is completely neutral. :D

First, your stuffs! You can have a muffin tin (slightly less melee damage than a frying pan,) one massive bag of almond bark, and a nifty space pen. (Guaranteed to look exactly like a regular pen except that you use it on things like Star Trek PADDs.)

As for your question, I'm going to throw in my two cents despite the fact that I don't actually have permission here. (Combination of school and the fact that I have trouble doing any fanfic longer than about a thousand words...)

Here's the thing: people aren't the best judges of their own work, mostly because their brains autocorrect a lot of their stuff to what they meant to say. When you find an author who does decent shorts, it's possible that the ideas that they had just didn't sustain a multi-chapter fic, that they grew too attached to an idea that didn't fully make sense, or simply that they don't have a good sense of timing yet and don't know when to end their stuff. On the other hand, they may have been trying too hard to drive up readership with a multi-chapter fic, or had a beta for the short ones... the list goes on and on. I can't quite make a judgement not having seen the actual fic.

My advice for dealing with that is to do what you appear to be suggesting: leave constructive criticism like "I liked x fic better than this one, I feel you kept character Y in character very well there. In this fic they were kind of OOC."

If the fic really sucks, feel free to spork it elsewhere, like here, so that those of us who are interested can learn where things went wrong, but don't tell them or link back: that cuts down on drama. :D

Personally, I think that when we select badfics to spork, we should consider the general quality of the author's work. If they appear to have produced multiple good works and a single spork-worthy story, giving the author constructive criticism should be our first response.

It could be the lack of beta-readers, it could just be how the idea somehow didn't translate too well on paper (word processor?), or it could just be a really off day for them. Regardless, telling the author-- any author in fact-- what we enjoyed about the story and what we feel could have been better executed should be the first course of action.

On the other hand, if said author continues to churn out some ridiculous and unintentionally silly fics and actively ignores polite constructive criticism, then I believe it is permissible to spork a story.

Just like Kittythekatty said below me, we're not here to bully authors into giving up writing, nor are we the fandom police. We're here to make light out of the very best of the very worst.




Oh, and welcome to the Board! We hope you enjoy your stay here.

Nice to meet you. To answer your prompt, I would have to say we all make mistakes. We all, at one point post a badfic. Good or Bad author, we should n't be rude to them.
I guess, at the PPC we deal with the fic, we don't bully the author.
I admit, I do get frustrated when tryinv to deal with someone who is unreasonable. But I guess, you treat the author as you would want to be treated.