Gained an idiot nitpicker on FF.Net
May. 20th, 2018 06:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wiseheartSome anonymouse - and I strongly suspect it's a male one - has discovered my Trekverse stories and now apparently considers it their destiny to point out my mistakes. Every. Single. One. of them. During the recent week, I got about a dozen reviews, each of them starting with: You've a typo in this chapter... You have a technical mistake in this chapter... You have a biological mistake in this chapter... and then explain what I got wrong and why in loving detail.
Now, if this person would offer to do the beta work for these stories, I might even be grateful, even though I really don't think that in a fictional universe fictional technical details would be so over-important. But one of said stories is 21 chapters long, so understandably, the person in question wouldn't even think of taking over such a gargantuan task. It's much easier to be obnoxious and list errors (some of which probably only exist in their imagination, as I always do a great deal of research), without making any comment on the actual story, in which the author (in this case me) has invested a great deal of time, thought, effort and love.
And people wonder why I hate nitpickers with the energy of a thousand burning suns!
Now, if this person would offer to do the beta work for these stories, I might even be grateful, even though I really don't think that in a fictional universe fictional technical details would be so over-important. But one of said stories is 21 chapters long, so understandably, the person in question wouldn't even think of taking over such a gargantuan task. It's much easier to be obnoxious and list errors (some of which probably only exist in their imagination, as I always do a great deal of research), without making any comment on the actual story, in which the author (in this case me) has invested a great deal of time, thought, effort and love.
And people wonder why I hate nitpickers with the energy of a thousand burning suns!
