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I wasn't all that nice about it either. Refrained from cursing, since it doesn't do much good on FFN, but still wasn't nice.

This was the reply I got back, via Review Reply and PM
Thank you for your kind and helpful review. It is much appreciated and I
will
use it to improve my writing in the future..

I don't think this guy lives on the same planet as the rest of us. Even Suethors don't respond this way to honest concrit.

We don't usually pay them much attention. I think the last time anyone noticed them was when a troll had the same IP address as one of the Boarders. Turned out they were both using the same school computer.

I think thought has been given, but the Board has worked well for a very long time, so the thought hasn't been very serious.

The Board has been showing the IP addresses of the poster for at least a year (I say at least a year since that's about how long I've been posting here). From what I know, none of us can shut it off, my guess is that that is a setting that an administrator for the board would need to do if it is possible, but I think it has been years since the person who set up the board (P@L, if I'm thinking right) has had a presence here.

From what I know, looking at archived pages from the Way Back Machine as well as various links and pages from the LJ community, there have been a few times where the Board has given serious consideration to switching to a different venue, at least once due to a serious trolling problem, but despite that, this particular sort of forum has been stuck with for at least five years.

And that's about as much as I know.

I just noticed this ... has this board always been showing our IP addresses on our posts? Can it be shut off? That's a pretty serious privacy (and security) issue.

Has any thought ever been given to moving to a more conventional sort of forum system?

Try Lollipop456 from FFN. She's a reformed badfic writer. Well, reforming, anyway; it takes time. Tell her I sent you.

I'd like to answer them, too.

I tracked down a bunch of the original stories and linked some of them in my reviews. He just did a search and replace on character names. He didn't even proofread them afterwards. In one story, where a Kim Possible story was turned into a Star Trek:TOS story, he replaced "Ron" with "Spock", which led to "drones" becoming "dSpockes".

There's no science here. This guy is just trying to be an asshat. He's succeeding.

I've got more than just the HTML. My zealous little spider poked around the edit pages and grabbed all the wiki-code, too. With a bit of cutting and pasting, we can have everything back -- talk pages, everything.

The bad news: The save fills a CD. This thing is HUGE. My net connection can't handle uploading that; the download took hours, and that's the fast side of ADSL. Contact me through my FFN profile with a snail address to send it to (doesn't have to be yours; a friendly local business or something will do fine if you don't trust the Critic) and I'll get the CD out to you tomorrow.

The owner of the journal has said she finds suefic by skimming the front page of the Harry Potte section on FF.net. The website is pottersues(dot)livejournal(dot)com .

You know my e-mail and my LJ name, don't you?

cos they probably aren't perceptive enough to recognise pheromones, but a whole extra five letters in a word is most likely enough to trip even their alarm bells.

I'll log in and email it to you now. Thanks!

As in, I get paid for it. Not enough to support myself, as I'm a Poor Student who has uni work to do, but never mind... Who ever said that nothing useful will come out of internet hoobies? I found my career! Anyway...

I really don't like taking jobs where I'm paid by the hour because every different document will take different lengths of time no matter what the word count. Even the simplest document will be read three or more times.

Which isn't to say I can't be fast; I can. Often my first return for anything under ten thousand words will come within a day. If the author needs to make detailed changes in any section, we'll discuss that.

However, as much as I don't want to agree with this guy, I wouldn't say three days is a bad thing if you want to do it right - particularly if you have a life, too. I can beta-read very fast, but I hesitate to make any promises, as something could suddenly come up and delay me for quite a while. Most people would understand, but I hate to let anyone down.

- Sedri, who doesn't call herself an expert (yet)

and badficcers are a) dumb and b) not usually cooperative with people who aren't other badficcers (they can tell, you know, they learn to recognise subtle signs like how we spell things correctly) .. you're entitled to complain a bit :)

*grabs pebbles* The Hit Myrtle competition has nothing on this...

I've already had two replies from authors who missed by very final sentence of "PLEASE EMAIL ME AT..." (without the caps, I admit) and just PMd back through FFN, leaving me with no address to send the docs to. *sigh* Annoying. I would just find it from their profiles, but they've disabled it.

If that happens again, I'm just going to stick the questions in a PM and hope there's no character limit *sigh*

Ah, I complain too much. Thanks, Trojie.

Keep me posted; I'd be very interested in hearing anything either of them has to say for themselves :)

This should be interesting...

...but can I pester you about the details, given I dunno the canon?

Pretty please?

http://www.fanfiction.net/u/147795/AJ_Matthews
- AJ Matthews, perpetrator of some of the most horrific LOTR slashfic it has been my displeasure to spork

http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1264633/LBTwriter
-Author of LxC ... 'nuff said, right?

But is it too late for me to volunteer as well? My email is oozaruangel @ gmail .com (minus the spaces).

Actually, they don't say they copy-paste stories. They say they adapt them using certain tools and methods but keeping the core of the story. Keeping the core of the story sounds to me like: taking the plot and rewriting the whole thing.

I can't judge on whether they did that as they don't quote source. Proper research requires you to give others enough information so they can replicate your experiment. In this case that would mean acknowledging where the core of the story came from.

That, and the fact that half the profile is made up of copy-paste statistics make it that I do not take this person seriously. Though I find the first paragraph very intriguing and would really like to see some research like that.

I should've put this in the other thread, but oh, well...

For sake of variety (and, in many cases, Morbid Curiosity), I'd like to send my interview questions to a few badfic authors and see what comes back. I'm a bit scared of what they might say, but it's all in the name of research. *chants* the name of research... the name of research... the name of research...

Anyway, since the wiki's not exactly available in full right now, I can't get links to the Legendary Badfic authors (LittlefootxCera author, for instance), so I appeal to you for links to any particularly annoying badficcers or RPF writers (not the plagerist trolls, though) that you know of. I'm skimming FFN now for stereotype Suethors - there's certainly enough of them, so I'm going for those who are active (ie, posted recently).

... Let me also note, for the record, that I'm going to cut the question about OFUs and the PPC out of interviews I send to them, to avoid drawing flames if they find us. Oo, that sounded very Secret Agent-ish, didn't it?

I ramble. Shutting up.