So, I got a review for Romantic Notions (that monster fic that first got me into Raoul/Buri), but it wasn't exactly positive:
From 'shame' (anonymous review, natch, and I can't figure out if it's the person's username or if s/he is trying to make me feel bad)
i think this is very much like the story takrimon wrote...shouldn't you have mentioned
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If it were an original, newly contrived premise for a fic that was being copied, that's a different story. *grumbles*
The fact that the reviewer can't even be bothered to spell the other author's name correctly and use proper capitalization knocks them halfway down to the bottom on my taking-people-seriously scale. Shows little respect for the situation, no matter how dire. (Yes I'm a snob. If people are going to point fingers, they better make sure they don't have a blob of ketchup on their shirt first for me to point back and laugh at.)
I think your best bet is to ignore them.
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If they were really serious, and not just trying to stir up bad feeling, they'd PM you or e-mail you and ask a question, rather than making a public accusation on slender evidence. And if they can't bother to spell the alleged victim's name correctly, well, they don't deserve a response.
'Course, I'm the fanfic reader who hits the "back" button if there's more than one grammar or punctuation error in the first paragraph of a new story and never goes back.
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