More self-proclaimed "critics" on FF.Net

[wiseheart]

Really, some people make me want to climb the walls. For them "I don't agree with your characterization of Character X" is equal to "You're wrong, Character X isn't like that". It's almost as annoying as when they find so-called canon errors - which aren't actually errors, they're just too stupid to check their facts correctly. That doesn't keep them from giving lectures on the review board, making me look stupid, although they're the ones who don't have a clue. Then I have to review my own stuff, correcting their "corrections", just so that I won't appear as an ignorant fool.

Why don't they go and bother people who write wildly OOC characters in settings that wouldn't recognize canon if it would hit them upside the head is beyond me.

Comments

[kln1671.livejournal.com]

I've always found it strange that reviewers nit-pick canon on stories that ARE canon, just not the reviewer's head-canon, but stories that are wildly off canon are left alone.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's annoying like hell. I wish the people who DO like one's stuff would be half this eager to comment.

I usually block the idiots after the first know-it-all review because I don't see why should I put up with such harassment. I've got quite the list already.

[disthrainsdotte.livejournal.com]

Such people can be annoying.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

That they are.

[disthrainsdotte.livejournal.com]

Sending lots of hugs your way.

[ithilwen.livejournal.com]

Maybe they figure those writers are hopeless, so they concentrate on the ones they think they can "improve" with their advice?

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

IMO it is the "I am smarter than you"-syndrom. Which is perticularly annoying when they are wrong.