Work is boring
Jun. 20th, 2003 03:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rusty_haloI 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).
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).
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Date: 2003-06-20 02:13 pm (UTC)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)... ;-)
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Date: 2003-06-20 02:22 pm (UTC)I know that, intellectually, I'd just laugh and dismiss something like that. But emotionally, it'd probably hurt my feelings a lot. On those (rare) occasions when I've done something creative, I've been very protective and sensitive about it. So I can't blame an author for being upset, and I wish reviewers would take that into consideration. (I mean, it's not even like they paid for a bad product; it's FREE! No one is tying them down and forcing them to read it.)