I just checked my emails and found this little gem waiting for me.

Now, pardon me for being a little clueless here, but since when do authors submit to the whims of their readers? Especially rude ones who believe that this kind of review is appropriate or encouraging at all?

Like.... Honestly...

What the fuck kind of review is that?

 

I was once told that if I didn't update soon They would do witchcraft and send demons to torment me at night.

That really isn't much of an incouragement to threaten one of your 'favourite' authors.

P.S love the Alyssa Milano pics mmmmm

 

I honestly don't care. All those flames or people nitpicking the story to death (recently two people have asked me where in the world would Harry get a zippo!), I take as a guide to how to improve things. Yeah I get annoyed at the folks who just write "j0uR 570RY sUxzzz!" or "update this one next k thx byers", but when people submit an honest complaint or suggestion I'll at least think it over. My response to the lighter question; he's a teenage male, he has some method of making a flame (especially considering that he knew he'd be roughing it for a few days). F.A.M.I.B. especially when you're sixteen.

 

just send an e-mail back and tell him or her to shut the fuck up and that you will update whenever the fuck you please.

 

Why are people so rude! thats awful

 

I'm an unspeakable.

It's this kind that irritates me. When they reply just to tell me that I wrote my story wrong and that it would be better their way. Especially since chapter 2 ended only like 5000 words into it. Bitch.

 

True, if they want a fanfiction done their way then they should dust off their keyboards and write one

 

I once got a review for The Rune Warrior telling me that if I was intelligent enough to create a fic like that I should be intelligetn enough to finish it.

Not sure if thats a compliment or not.

Nearest thing to a flame I ever got about a fic, apart from the neg rep I got about The Tale of Haroldus Potter for having that as a name. I did get a flame about my bio page but its pathetic.

 

I got this review:

Quite sick or something, but that perspective didn't make me any less furious at the time.

>>>>Yes, I am back!

 

Monkey shit and dog piss blended together.

I want to know how they know what that is like.

Anyway, your fic can't be as bad as the one I saw once. It was 160000 odd words in the one chapter.

 

I'm more interested in the fact that the "couldn't read past chapter two", yet they were reviewing chapter 13. What a crock.

 

Promios is a member here. Stupid cunt.

 

Just looked, and the sad thing is that your reviewer Avitus, has Witchcraft in their favourites list.

 

I... think the same guy came across my story too...

Fuck, I'm still in shock. I expected my first flame ever to at least TRY to be funny.

BTW, if liath is reading this thread, the same person kindly left me a review for my translation of 'Young Again: the Rewrite':

Pity this cowardly excuse for a gorilla, who somehow found himself in front of a computer, left me an anonymous review. I could've written back to tell him his French is "monkey shit". But of course, he can only do what his IQ of Brussels sprouts allows him to do.

That said, he really should be pitied. He's so glad to have found one supposedly funny line that he's been using it for two months now... How pathetic is that?

 

heh - at least some of those reviewers indicated what they didn't like.

What are you meant to do with something like this?

sdf
2006-11-06
ch 1, anon.

u r gay

 

I find that funny, because the first story I ever submitted (Which will not be referred to with name as it was 'monkey shit') I only ever got positive reviews... Not 'OmGz! Yru Like teh bhest everyt12!' But real constructive reviews...

Eh... just wanted you to know that not all reveiwers are pricks...

A message from your freindly neighborhood Stalicon

 

Not suggesting they are - but the quality of reveiwers has defineatly declined since 2001 when I joined