That's verrrrrry interesting. ::thinks:: I mean, it would be almost guaranteed to cause anger and hurt feelings, just by the nature of fandom. And I have personal issues with the idea of breaking down the evaluation of fiction by numbers (movie/book reviews on the "x stars out of five" scale make me flaily as well; again, though, this is just me). And of course there's the problem of subjectivity: "there would be no question as to whether or not they would be good," you say, but not everyone has the same definition of "good." If a reader DISLIKED a story linked there and argued that it should be removed, how would you deal with that?
But I can see how it would be useful, too, because the idea of one-stop shopping for fic, and the idea of a profile for an author's writing patterns, is kind of cool.
Unfortunately, I too have no web skillz and thus cannot give advice on how to go about it.
See, yes, I'm sick of having to read dialog and events and exposition all wrapped up in the same paragraph.
Gah, I meab BETAS!
And see, it's not really about garunteeing you LOVE it, just garunteeing it won't suck ass because you want one thing and get another.
The whole point would be to have objectivity. If you write a story about Xander getting vamped and it's slash with Angel, don't mislead people into thinking it's a completely original AU involving Xander and a mysterious dark man.
The whole point would be to have a group of people who know fic to give the cold hard truth about the story.
But I can see how it would be useful, too, because the idea of one-stop shopping for fic, and the idea of a profile for an author's writing patterns, is kind of cool.
Unfortunately, I too have no web skillz and thus cannot give advice on how to go about it.
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Gah, I meab BETAS!
And see, it's not really about garunteeing you LOVE it, just garunteeing it won't suck ass because you want one thing and get another.
The whole point would be to have objectivity. If you write a story about Xander getting vamped and it's slash with Angel, don't mislead people into thinking it's a completely original AU involving Xander and a mysterious dark man.
The whole point would be to have a group of people who know fic to give the cold hard truth about the story.
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That's too funny that it's that sentence...
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