Mean comments... Did I get mean comments? I mean, it's hard to tell, where does the line go between mean and simply negative? I definitely have my share of negative comments, after all, I post everything on FFN as well as AO3. And some of them... I don't know whether to call them mean, but frustrating? Like someone completely ripping off to how could I not explain my AU and it makes no sense... 3 hours after I posted the chapter that's actually explaining it, so that was like 'yeah, if you would have read past chapter 1...'
OH I KNOW! The people on FFN who don't understand that the characters listed ≠ ship and blamed me of ship baiting when I wrote a story whose main characters were Harry and Hermione (but Hermione was with Ron, because, hello, CANON). I had a bunch of those and I wanted to scream.
There usually isn't a smackdown because most people who post negative comments on FFN do it anonymously and I don't think I got a negative, let along a mean comment in a different website. So I just shrug and move on... and TBH usually even if they can be replied to I still don't bother. Nothing good can come out of it.
(I was actually afraid of posting Superheroes Anonymous to FFN because I was afraid of offending DC/Marvel fans. In the end I only uploaded it as Doctor Who and got no negative comments, so... huzzah!)
Re: stolen meme --> stolen request
Mean comments... Did I get mean comments? I mean, it's hard to tell, where does the line go between mean and simply negative? I definitely have my share of negative comments, after all, I post everything on FFN as well as AO3. And some of them... I don't know whether to call them mean, but frustrating? Like someone completely ripping off to how could I not explain my AU and it makes no sense... 3 hours after I posted the chapter that's actually explaining it, so that was like 'yeah, if you would have read past chapter 1...'
OH I KNOW! The people on FFN who don't understand that the characters listed ≠ ship and blamed me of ship baiting when I wrote a story whose main characters were Harry and Hermione (but Hermione was with Ron, because, hello, CANON). I had a bunch of those and I wanted to scream.
There usually isn't a smackdown because most people who post negative comments on FFN do it anonymously and I don't think I got a negative, let along a mean comment in a different website. So I just shrug and move on... and TBH usually even if they can be replied to I still don't bother. Nothing good can come out of it.
(I was actually afraid of posting Superheroes Anonymous to FFN because I was afraid of offending DC/Marvel fans. In the end I only uploaded it as Doctor Who and got no negative comments, so... huzzah!)