Subject: Personally...
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Posted on: 2014-02-03 04:19:00 UTC

I just have very little interest in badfic posts in general, regardless of fandom. There are constantly new badfic posts being added to the pile, despite many admonishments to reply to a preexisting badfic thread rather than starting a new one, so there's this trend of bad writing being implicitly treated as more important than good, intelligent discussions. This annoys me. Also, most badfic is not that unique or interesting—that's part of what makes it bad, after all—so it takes more than a generic list of common failings to convince me it'll be worth my time to mock.

Please don't take this personally. I have these problems with almost every new badfic post, not just this one, and it's nothing to do with the fandom or the fact that it's your own fic. Since you wanted to know why people aren't biting, I felt like explaining my reasons.

~Neshomeh, jaded old-timer.

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