3315: The Lost Lupin - Hermione Granger, Remus Lupin... possibly more

[pottersues]

Don't forget about the fanfic contest.

TITLE: The Lost Lupin
PERPETRATOR: MaryRoyale
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[pottersues]

Have you actually bothered looking at any of the other entries, or looking at the FAQs?

In the FAQ section the reason for not letting the writer know about the reviews written on the blog comes down to the fact we don't know if the writer is ready to handle critique, but we have had writers storm in creating sockpuppets to try and make themselves feel better. To sockpuppet, it can involve using multiple anonymous accounts, and also multiple LJ accounts, so logging in wouldn't disprove you're not the same person.

As for the author not being invited, far from true. If you'd bothered reading the Rule of Thumb before making assumptions about us, you'll find under the very first rule we don't mind the Suethor's finding their stories and participating in the conversations. It spells out the reason why we don't personally go out of our way to tell writers, the fact we've had "Not Bobs" come in and harass the commenters here, but we've had "Sals" who liked taking advantage of the fact certain writers weren't ready for critique to cause emotional trauma.

As for minions leaving reviews, that's also a bit hard, because again, we don't know how the Suethor will react to said review. So, Yemi's right. This isn't a burn book, because writers are allowed to come here as long as they act in a civil manner and make logical arguments and counters. Some even have come in and let me know they've improved or have had a good look back at their older stuff, so I can let the minions know, and I love passing the word on. You've no idea at all what goes on here, and judged us based on one entry.

In fact, check out the "good" and "okay" ratings, because while this blog features Mary Sues, I have at times found stories which contain traits associated with Mary Sues and featured them despite the fact they're not Mary Sues, because they're good examples of how to pull off said trait without making a Mary Sue. Pottersues is a fanfic critic blog, pure and simple, and like Egbert and any other critic out there, it doesn't matter how much effort gets put into the work. A critique pulls the work apart, yet you're asking Pottersues not to do that?

Telling us to move on - that's the excuse Twilight fans used for the Twilight books when people continued reading the series and criticizing the later books, but says reviews shouldn't be given based on the quality of the work. Everyone is to worried about hurting other people's feelings, yet she choose to publish just like Meyer did.

P.S. I don't think Yemi was trying to defend the fact I made a mistake, but pointing out that grammar mistakes should never be used to discredit a person's opinion. Call me out all you want on such things, but that doesn't excuse discrediting the points I made.

Not all grammar mistakes result from laziness either. I believe this entry is one of the ones I wrote when I was still html coding the entries, which made it hard to catch spelling and grammar issues, which is why I've moved to copy and pasting with no html even though the font changes format when I don't mean for it to.

[yemi_hikari]

I was definitely not trying to defend the mistake. I've honestly lost track of the times I've found myself discredited because of the grammar issues in my reviews AND my stories, of which I have no control over. We're not talking grammar where the writer doesn't bother using proper capitalization or end punctuation! It's an ad hominem attack, but so is everything else they've said.

I really hate the, "but someone's feelings might get hurt" part, because going through life attempting to avoid getting your feelings hurt is psychologically damaging. Getting upset because somebody didn't have something positive to say about your story does not compare at all to having someone say call you ignorant and uneducated because you're black, but doing so just trivializes what the latter goes through. It needs to stop.