I used to be such a nice person.

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K pointed out that there's an anonymous meme going around where you can tell writers what you *really* think of their writing, which you know, hey, go ahead. Personally, I'm always getting abused anyway whether it's anonymous, or in sekrit (which really not sekrit at all), or to my face, so if you're feeling that need, knock yourself out. I didn't actually think anyone needed a *day* or some shit, but hey, I'll even start.

[Name here] is not a very good writer. Actually, she fucking sucks. Same stories, same characters, same characterization. I mean, damn, what happened to all the mass murder? Can you just get a new story or something? Also, you are so not all that. I don't know why people like your stories. Are you famous for sucking someone's cock or something? I could totally do better. And I spell better than you too. And, I make less typos. So there. Also, where the fuck is my chai latte? You are fucking fired.
-Ari

ETA: I adore you all madly for rushing to my aid, but I think what I just don't get about this exercise is the simple idea of if you don't like something, why the fuck are you reading it? Is someone holding a gun to your head and forcing you to? I highly doubt that, so why go around being needlessly rude and cruel? That's just fucked up.

Comments

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I think it's truly all about presentation. If you have issues with a story, there's this wonderful thing called the "Back" key, you know, people could stand to use it a lot more. However, if you want to talk the story over with the author and say X didn't work for me, you know, you don't have to just say, OMG!THIS IS THE WORST STORY EVAR!!1111 YOU SUXXORS!!! Everyone isn't going to love everything, and more often than not, they're not even going to like 50%. I get stuff like this often enough (http://hackthis.livejournal.com/333196.html?thread=8591756#t8591756), but you know, that's criticism and completely different from, "You suck! All your stories are shit! I don't know why anybody likes you." There's a line to criticism is which you should be focusing on the story and not the author. It's when people cross over that I get irate.

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yeah, I think that's the problem. People start hating people and then read their fic to hate on them. It's a whole cycle. And then they get an outlet like this meme, and SHIT. Whatever. People, just hate in email to your friends like us.

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People, just hate in email to your friends like us.

Truer words ... Hee! I maintain what I like to think of as frosty silence in public when I don't like something. And I think the problem with this meme is that you're not critiquing a particular piece of writing, just the author's entire ouevre, where it's hard to separate writer from what is written AND where it's hard to say "this thing in THIS story didn't work for me" versus saying "I kind of hate your style in general." The latter is not really constructive criticism ;) It's just ... an opinion.