Anonymous drive-by shooting at its finest

[emmuzka]

This I have not seen before: Using Del.icio.us to diss fics

Shitty story by a good writer - Pete fucks Patrick goodbye after asking Ashlee to marry him. Because he's the biggest asshole EVER! Cheating on Ashlee, using Patrick...gosh! Isn't that peachy?! *stabs*

'Hello, my name is Ryan Ross and I'm Mute.' Hello, my name is iamthatgirl, and I wish I was blind. "Author Notes: I do need a beta" TRUFAX

Well written crap. No seriously. Technically proficient but the author felt a need to make it as depressing an ending as she could. Fuck that.

In my opinion, that's a pretty shitty thing to do, since there are no means to comment or respond. And who actually uses their time to especially bookmark fics that she/he hates? With special (admittedly somewhat hilarious) "crap level" tags? I know people diss fics and writers, I have done it, too, but the common sense etiquette should tell to post them locked and in your own journal. Another common sense thing should be showing your face when dissing. A way to go, to throw shit and run.

But, on the lighter side of things, miserylovedme has now compeled her fic With the Moon in His Arms (Patrick/Pete NC-17). Go! Read!

Comments

[lazenby.livejournal.com]

I saw those on Del.icio.us too and couldn't really believe it. What bothers me the most is that the author can't defend themselves unless they track down the lj username of the person, which is a little extreme. And I didn't understand why that person would bookmark fics they obviously didn't care for, unless it was just to be mean.

[emmuzka.livejournal.com]

I even went so far as trying to find out something about that user, but as delicious is almost anonymous and the person with the same lj name isn't this person, there was nothing to be found. If this person seems to have the need to talk shit about other's fics, why not boast all the way? If this person feels that she has better taste or something, why not connect these hate-bookmarks with her fic/blog? It's pretty infuriating, but hey, it's the net. What wouldn't we find here..

[cimness.livejournal.com]

The point of reviews at social bookmarking sites, just as in any other context, is to share opinions with other readers, not to feedback the writer. The writer might be freely able to read them, but she isn't the intended audience: if communicating with her was in mind, they could easily do it a hundred other ways. It could be that that bookmarker has people who use her bookmarks as a source for badfic to read - there's a fair number of people who enjoy a laugh at badfic, but read it only at the recommendation of someone else because they can't stand going through the other badfic to look for it first. If that's the case, it's not much different from communities which post funny badfic excerpts with links to the source, like that HP newsletter a couple of years ago that inspired so many copycats. I'd probably subscribe to her bookmarks on the basis of those comments alone if I cared to read in the fandom.

[emmuzka.livejournal.com]

Her comments are admittedly entertaining, if a bit elitist and containing a few mistakes (Her wondering why a couple would talk about being together then years, which would make them meet when they were eight... That is actually canon. The men in questions are/were best friends from when they were little kids) Also, even with the witty, she doesn't seem to understand a few basics, like that writing a fic about a subject that the reader doesn't personally like (like infidelity in the first tagged fic) doesn't make the fic itself fundamentally shitty.

But, anyway. I'm so used to it that bad fic recs are done friendslocked, and with your own face, that this felt wrong. Personally I have never bumped to open communities that would openly diss fics or writers, so I kinda always thought that in the name of hygiene, these things weren't so openly hateful. I'm not a person who advocates a thought that one should never point out the bad, but. Some things are to be laughed at. Laughed, yes, hated, no. Public anonymous hating just isn't my style.