Generally, my reaction to badfic goes along the lines of: 'Meh.' It's a rare badfic that can get more of a reaction than that out of me. Not sure if that's good or bad.

I have a handful of reactions to badfic. If it's sexual, disgust. If anything else, RAGE, confusion, exasperation or I feel resigned.

The Emperor Protects!

I find that the only time that I get really angered by a badfic is when it contains a particularly awful self insert, or bad smut, or both.

I was never one to get frothing-at-the-mouth angry at badfic when I first joined, and still don't today. If anything, I've calmed down even more over time. My reactions tend to be as you described alongside a healthy dollop of aggrieved sighs (although I suppose that might fall under 'jaded cynicism').

There are a few things that will get me keyed up, mind you: blatant sexism, blatant racism, trivialization of rape, and so forth. Then again, I don't actively look for possible mission starters that have those things. I feel that when I'm angry, I don't write as well as I normally could. I prefer to look for something that inspires me to be funny, or to tell a good story.

I'm "blessed" with the ill fortune of being able to find the absolute worst dreck in the fanfiction world and take it to the snarking block. These days I'm more likely to take it to the Library than I am to the PPC, but still, I find all sorts of bad fanfic.

As for me, one of the odd things I've noticed about my Library snarkings is that the fics actually get worse as I go around. I actually even got into a few rants where I got very angry at various things. So I don't know.

To the point that while in my first two missions I "killed" badfics that made me angry (and I have to get back to rewriting those 'cause they're rather low-quality compared to the following ones), recently I found myself deliberately searching them because I wanted to write missions to further my Agents' story.

Basically, I care more about my Agents that about the sporking.

I don't mean that as a slight against younger PPCers, hear me out. It's usually the younger and newer to fandom members who get really excited and melodramatic about badfic, the ones who, not to mince words, seem to treat its existence as if it's personal insult. That's something that one outgrows and gains perspective on as they get used to communities like ours - I don't think most anyone thinks it's that huge a deal out of continuity (obviously in-continuity it really is a threat that can tear reality asunder! :P) but it's still fun to poke at a particularly bad one, or at least one that can be the backdrop for a good story.

But I speak as a PPCer who stopped really caring about fanfic pretty quickly, so who knows, I could be an outlier.

For me, I think it's a combination of becoming inured due to exposure and simply getting older, gaining perspective, and realizing that, in the grand scheme of things, badfic really isn't that big of a deal. There are still a few things that irritate me or even make me angry, but for the most part I don't find them to be worth my time. I prefer to write missions to fics that mostly make me laugh with their badness, with one or two really bad points upon which to build the mission's climax. It's no fun writing a mission when the subject matter is purely painful to deal with. I'm not on a crusade here; this is a hobby. It should be fun. {= )

~Neshomeh

I don't remember being terribly reactive like that. I mostly just start listing the problems in my head, then examine the effects of all the bad changes.

(Obviously, things that are flat-out abusive do get me angry, but for more than the canon.)

Being in the PPC has somewhat cooled my temper on Suefics and flames. And I've only been here for half a year. Wow.

Like you, I do take flames less seriously now, and I tend to laugh at badfic and such. But I don't think the term "less excitable" seem very appropriate. After all, the longer I stay, the more angry I get about the changes the Movies make. "Taking badfic less like an extremely-outrageous-and-offensive thing" would be more accurate.

~Autumn

There's plenty of stuff that I find funnier now than a year or two ago, and plenty of stuff that makes me angrier now in fiction than it did a year or two ago... for example, I've run out of rage for the present tense (I still despise it, but no longer can be inspired into an hour rant about it,) but I am much more angered by bad romance tropes, especially ones that involve unhealthy relationships, than I was a year or two ago.