Work is boring

[rusty_halo]

I hate people who use my site to leave nasty reviews. Not negative-but-fair reviews, that's fine. Debate and discussion and disagreement are all important, as long as the debate is fair and doesn't descend into personal insults.

But *nasty* reviews, where they insult the writer, or demand that the writer write to the reviewer's own personal specifications -- those piss me off so much. Because not only is it rude and horrible and casts all fic readers in a bad light, but they're using *my* review system, that I put so much effort into building, to insult the wonderful writers of stories that I carefully chose for my site. And they're insulting stories that I spent all this time archiving and building a database for. AND, they're hurting the feelings of REAL PEOPLE over a piece of fiction. It feels like a personal violation, because they're using *my* site to spread their stupid immature self-important egotistical venom.

Yeah. I really hate those people.

(I was trying to figure out why this upsets me so much, and that's what I came up with).

Comments

[zyrya]

This is what stops me from sending my fic into the big wide world. I posted a link to one of my pieces on a (non-Buffy) bulletin board, asking for beta reading, and someone replied that it 'ought to be hit with a hammer'. I can take constructive criticism - and even non-constructive 'hated it' remarks - but that was just mean. Ow.

[rusty_halo.livejournal.com]

It's amazing, the things that people will say to each other online. I sure hope they don't talk to others like that in person!

I'm sorry you had to deal with a nasty review. I really don't understand what motivates bashing like that. Constructive criticism helps to improve the writer's ability, but bashing ... ? What good is it? I guess it feeds into a bullying personality type or something ... feel good by making others feel bad. :(