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Review Penalty Box; share the most epic troll/soapbox comments you've received
Topic Started: Dec 17 2012, 09:09 PM (3,805 Views)
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Holy geez Cythy, good on you for the replies! Wow, people can be mean huh :(

It's surprising there's still not the option to disable guest reviews...
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rookieD
Dec 20 2012, 03:20 AM
Holy geez Cythy, good on you for the replies! Wow, people can be mean huh :(

It's surprising there's still not the option to disable guest reviews...
There used to be and then they 'revamped' the site and 'made it better' (yeah...still :censored: that the author and arrows no longer change colors so that you know what you've read already) - instead of disabling, you can now "moderate guest reviews" - the plus side is that if you have it enabled you can filter (I think it is 24 hours) but those reviews are still hurtful even if you don't allow them to go through.
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Just received a pm from someone asking why I hate Andy so much.

News to me ... I love that character, but loving her and agreeing with her choices are two very different things.

UGH! crappy way to start the morning ...
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Mar 2 2013, 05:31 AM
Just received a pm from someone asking why I hate Andy so much.

News to me ... I love that character, but loving her and agreeing with her choices are two very different things.

UGH! crappy way to start the morning ...
Is it a review for Home? I don't read Andy hate stories and I love Home so.... :flower:
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Just a general opinion I think of my stories, which I for one don't get. So, I replied her back as nicely as I could after she had completely thrown me a curveball. But my opinion is that if you don't like a story, then DON'T read it!

I don't get these people who have this need to send you negative feedback constantly.

Rant over now ;)
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Megan
Mar 2 2013, 06:57 AM
Just a general opinion I think of my stories, which I for one don't get. So, I replied her back as nicely as I could after she had completely thrown me a curveball. But my opinion is that if you don't like a story, then DON'T read it!

I don't get these people who have this need to send you negative feedback constantly.

Rant over now ;)
As a PM? That is interesting. Most of my "troll reviews" have been done anonymously...I was under the impression that most people didn't want the author to know it was them (and truthfully, if I got a PM like that, I'd probably block the user from commenting)

And you hating Andy...where in the world do they get that from?
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Megan
Mar 2 2013, 06:57 AM
Just a general opinion I think of my stories, which I for one don't get. So, I replied her back as nicely as I could after she had completely thrown me a curveball. But my opinion is that if you don't like a story, then DON'T read it!

I don't get these people who have this need to send you negative feedback constantly.

Rant over now ;)
As a PM? That is interesting. Most of my "troll reviews" have been done anonymously...I was under the impression that most people didn't want the author to know it was them (and truthfully, if I got a PM like that, I'd probably block the user from commenting)

And you hating Andy...where in the world do they get that from?
Originally as a review where she posted as "guest" which I removed. But then she sent me a pm under her screenname where she yeah, accused me of hating Andy, thinking Sam is always right and that he should sleep with ..... WTH?!!!

None of that is true. If there has been a season where I have been weary of anyone it has got to be Sam in season 3.

I don't get it either Cythy, I actually began watching RB FOR Andy, then Sam and then of course McSwarek as I watched more and more I got invested in the entire arch of characters, I'm really stumped in regards to her comments. She even asked if she could bring my stories over to another board, where I gave her an outright NO - why would she even want to if my writing is so horrendous in her opinion?

Oh, well ...

Off to block her now.
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That...is beyond bizarre. Seems she would only want to do that to pick it apart with other similar fans and moan over how unfair things are for Andy/bitch about Sam. Weird.
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Yeah, I know ... and now that I've blocked her screen name she just posts it in reviews of the story as a guest. I can moderate it of course but ugh! Why can't people just be respectful about the work that's put into it instead of disecting it and putting their own spin on it?
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Mar 3 2013, 09:52 PM
Yeah, I know ... and now that I've blocked her screen name she just posts it in reviews of the story as a guest. I can moderate it of course but ugh! Why can't people just be respectful about the work that's put into it instead of disecting it and putting their own spin on it?
Yeah, this SUCKS! Hopefully after a few times of her guest reviews not showing up publicly, she'll leave you alone :uhh:
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Hopefully ...
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Megan, did this strange exchange with your reviewer have anything to do with the person being a non-English speaker? I did not get that impression from anything you posted in this thread. But it has been brought to my attention by PM that someone who has tried to contact you on ff.net thinks that's what was going on. AND now some fanboard from another country has screen grabs of this discussion and somehow is interpreting it that we do not have patience for people whose first language is not English.

So just to be clear to any visitors reading this: that is NOT what we were talking about. We were talking about Megan's interpretation of reviews of stories that Megan published on ff.net in which she thought the reader made the assumption that Megan hates Andy, and more importantly, how out of line it is to ask a fanfiction writer for permission to post their original work someplace else. That is a ridiculous request. Authors post their stories only to the sites where they want them published. No one should expect an author to agree to have some stranger post their story at some unknown site.

Further, taking screen grabs of this site to complain about opinions expressed here is not cool. We obviously can't stop it, but whoever did it and started a whole bunch of crowd anger by taking a conversation out of context and implying it was about something that is was not should be ashamed of themselves.
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Just to follow up a bit, the person who brought this issue to my attention has passed along a few more details.

Apparently, the ff.net reviewer in question is a 14 or 15 year-old girl who does not speak English well, and did not actually intend to ask permission to post the story to another site. Rather, she was trying to ask if she could copy the PM exchanges about her review to get help with her English because she felt she wasn't getting her thoughts across clearly. I'm not sure about this, but her initial comments about the Andy hate may even have been about other reviewers rather than Megan's stories in the first place.

I'm still not sure I really understand the full story here because I'm hearing all of it third hand. BUT if I am interpreting things correctly, one take away as far as the topic of this thread goes is that if reviews seem disjointed, they may not be the bashing they seem, but rather indicate that it's coming from someone who is not fluent in English. Just a possibility for authors who post there to keep in mind when interacting with reviewers.

At any rate, I want to repeat for anyone visiting from that Latin American station's fan site: no one here had any idea we were discussing a situation involving the issue of non-English speakers at the time comments were made here about the situation. We thought we were simply discussing a reviewer persistently attacking a ff.net author who also happens to be a member here and asking to copy a story elsewhere for some unknown purpose. We certainly are not hostile to members or visitors whose first language is not English. We're excited and proud that we have members from all over the globe.
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Just to add to what LAwoman is saying (going a little off topic...sorry) - as an author, I have had reviewers who felt they would not be able to get their point across in English so they reviewed my story in another language. Thankfully there are a lot of awesome people on this board who speak more than one language and are perfectly happy/willing to translate the review since sometimes translation websites detract from what is trying to be said. If you think your review will be misinterpreted because of language, asking/reviewing in your own language might be a better option (and as a beta reader, I've seen this so I know it works).
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Whoa I had no idea it had gone this far out ... and no it had nothing to do with english not being her first language, it's not mine either. What I objected to was her opinion that I hated Andy, which I don't. Never have I pointed out anything to do with her being a non-english speaker.

What I objected to was her reviews to my stories, which were never-ending which is also why I blocked her.

Just sorry to see that writing fan fiction has come to this :(
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Yes, the whole thing was unfortunate. I was hoping the possibility that the young reviewer meant to ask why you thought so many reviewers were hostile toward Andy rather than accuse you of that might make you feel better. Like I said, I don't know if that's the case or not, but it sounds possible.

I think the other thing that may have made the anti-Andy phenomenon we've all noticed from some people over on ff.net particularly surprising to this girl is that I believe the Latin American station whose website is where all of this ended up being dragged and, apparently, turned into a whole misinformed discussion on bigotry etc. has just started airing Rookie Blue. I think their audience is just seeing season 1. They certainly haven't seen how disastrously the season 3 attempt at a 'normal' relationship between Sam and Andy went yet. So the venom coming from a few reviewers was bound to seem extra strange. I don't know. Just a thought.

At any rate, I'm sorry you ended up having a negative and upsetting experience as an author, and I hope it won't discourage you from writing. The person who brought the whole thing to my attention was just trying to defend this site, defuse things her aunt had told her were being said about us, and point out that this kind of cross-cultural dust up could happen to anyone. :hug:
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I have re-read her pm's to me and she blatantly asks me why I write Andy like I hate her. So...I don't see how I can misunderstand that.

I am still writing though ;)
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Got another "lovely" review today:
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this sucks...so stupid

So then why'd you bother to spend the time reviewing?
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Cythy
Mar 22 2013, 01:51 AM
Got another "lovely" review today:
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this sucks...so stupid

So then why'd you bother to spend the time reviewing?
LOL because he or she clearly has nothing better to do and has no idea how difficult it is to create a story. :baseballbat:
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Cythy
Mar 22 2013, 01:51 AM
Got another "lovely" review today:
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this sucks...so stupid

So then why'd you bother to spend the time reviewing?
LOL because he or she clearly has nothing better to do and has no idea how difficult it is to create a story. :baseballbat:
Nope! And I just got another one, saying that it's not my best work and I should take it down...HELLO!!!!!! I wrote in the author's note that it was unedited but I just had to get it out because it was stuck in my head, if you don't like it, just don't review it!
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