Gained an idiot nitpicker on FF.Net

[wiseheart]

Some 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!

Comments

[artemis10002000]

Ugh, I'm so sorry, that's awful!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

It is indeed. I seem to attract such idiots - mostly probably males who are only interested in the fictive tech and such, and they always bother authors who're trying to stay as close to canon with the background stuff as possible. Idiots.

[red-day-dawning.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. That sounds awful.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

It is. I'm sick and tired of such people who have no interest for the story itself, just looking for chances to prove their so-called superior knowledge. As I said, most likely men; the female equivalent used to haunt the Tolkien fandom for a long time.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Oh god, I so feel for you... some people just seem to live to pick nits :(

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

And I seem to attract them, especially in sci-fi fandoms. :(