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

[estepheia.livejournal.com]

Smooch! You're a sweety.
I suppose I'm not the only one who got flamed, huh? Well, don't worry about me, you saw in my LJ that I took that review with a pinch of salt. But I do feel sorry for people who are not as thick-skinned.
Mind you, I'd probably throw myself under an oncoming truck if someone really articulate said the same thing (with fewer exclamation points and a fancy vocab)... ;-)

[mahaliem.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry that you're having to deal with that on your site. It's like you built something beautiful, then some jerk spray paints graffiti all over it. I hope you aren't too bummed about it.

I've always found that the stories you've chosen to archive are extraordinarily well-written.

[klytaimnestra.livejournal.com]

Is it possible to delete the venomous ones? I mean, it's your site, you shouldn't have to host ignorant egotistical vitriol ...

Or is there an easy way for you to have a quick gander at the reviews posted each day? If you're going to have to hunt for them, it's just more work for you, which would be a further burden for something you shouldn't have to worry about in the first place.

[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.