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akatnamedeaster February 17 2015, 14:33:12 UTC
Do you receive more hate than before? Oh gods yes. You're not wrong love, fandom in general, no matter which one, has become a much less friendly place in the last few years. I'm not sure what's driving it but yes, there is a lot more hateful crap going around than there was way back when ( ... )

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alexicyn February 17 2015, 14:37:00 UTC
Wait!?!?!? Who is giving you a hard time??!?! Let me at em! So help me Circe, if they make you sad and you stop gracing us with your beautiful talents.... GRRRRRR

**Looks around and wonders who she has to bite!**

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akatnamedeaster February 17 2015, 14:41:02 UTC
Thanks babe, it's all good though but I do have a lot of detractors out there, comes with being loud, opinionated, and prolific. It used to make me really upset and sometimes still does but overall, I just shake my head and hit the delete button.

The one that cursed me out was funny though. I honestly thought they were joking at first. Ah well, at least they're really passionate about the material. ;)

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alexicyn February 17 2015, 14:48:25 UTC
I will never understand that *shaking my damn head* I've seen some comments where I'm look 'well, you entitlement happy little asshole'. I read an author who says plainly on the start page of her site that unsolicited beta and con crit is not asked for, or welcome. And folks still try to do it. It's rather amusing watching her rip someone a new one, but rather bullshit that she has to do it all ( ... )

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alexicyn February 17 2015, 14:34:28 UTC
My thoughts on this... http://archiveofourown.org/works/1978749... )

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akatnamedeaster February 17 2015, 18:21:35 UTC
I agree with your rant for the most part. I will say, there are times I really wish a writer would double check their spelling and run their story through a word program that might pick up on spelling and grammar errors, since too many time I've been thrown out of a fairly good story because of them. But, I don't know that my telling them that in a public forum would help ( ... )

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carolinelamb February 18 2015, 01:49:35 UTC
Yes, I'd also definitely opt of t a private way of communication to point out stuff (if possible).

Esp. if it's something like "Waste" and "Waist" ...

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akatnamedeaster February 18 2015, 02:06:16 UTC
"He put his legs around Sirius' waste."

That just...yeah.

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bererjs February 17 2015, 14:36:53 UTC
I don't have that problem on Ao3, used to get it many times on Ff.net, but then decided that ff.net is full of Anon comments trolls so got the hell out of there. I got a comment once that wasn't even anon, but it was about a person who call me out on it because according to her I didn't wrote the proper warning. Of course, being the nice person that I am, I told her I didn't even needed the warning because if she had read the notes (call her stupid but don't think she notice. Lol), she would have found out that I didn't needed it.

I welcome critique comments, even anons that I do not mind; in my opinion they take their time and read and trying to help you get better at what you do. However, I hate anon comments that go out for blood just because of something they hate or didn't approve. Those, I used to delete them and didn't waste my time even replying.

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carolinelamb February 18 2015, 01:58:45 UTC
I think you are a greater person than I am :p seriously!

I haven't encountered many anon comments that were really only trying to help but there are definitely different nuances! Also comments pointing out embarrassing misspellings are good!

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torino10154 February 17 2015, 14:53:17 UTC
I think there are a variety of things at work. Tumblr/FB/Twitter culture creeping in to AO3. Here on LJ pretty much everyone is a creator or IDK knows the "rules" about how to behave, basically. Yes, I know some people wish we could offer concrit more rather than only positive!squee! but that's still not what most of those AO3 comments are like. They are mostly just saying something nasty, very entitled or selfish. You don't like character X bottoming? Awesome. But IDGAF unless I wrote it for you ( ... )

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carolinelamb February 18 2015, 02:55:48 UTC
God yes, that whole Twitter/tumblr thing really does affect communciation a lot! I know it has really, really changed me ( ... )

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alisanne February 17 2015, 15:11:54 UTC
I hesitate to say anything lest I jinx myself, but AO3, for the most part, has yielded reasonable comments.
I've had a few questions about phrases that someone didn't understand, so I directed them to dictionary.com and thesaurus.com to explain the usage, and haven't heard back.
Most of my critics on AO3 aren't anon (yet) and it's mostly stuff like "why do you write short things all the time?" (I'm paraphrasing).
The entitled comments were always around, though. People always want you to write the characters how THEY see them, and, as Torino said, if it's not a specifically tailored gift then I don't care what those people think. *shrugs*

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carolinelamb February 18 2015, 02:58:38 UTC
I always love your little gems!

You know me a little perhaps and may know I'm generally not into fluff AT ALL, but sometimes I really like to click through your little snippets mainly because it's like sitting in a cosy little living room and there is tea and cake and Snape is reading his newspaper and Harry is chatting with Hermione and everyone lives and it's just really sweet! No wonder you don't get evil commenters <3!

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