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Date Posted: 16:28:27 11/20/02 Wed
Author: Shiver
Subject: Re: Things that annoy me about BetterBuffyFics
In reply to: bbf member 's message, "Things that annoy me about BetterBuffyFics" on 01:16:32 11/12/02 Tue

>>In reality, the board is not doing so well, and I�m not sure whether it�s because people members has no use to a community, they�re just here for the recs, period, or because, like you, they are annoyed with the whole concept and would like everything to stay on-list. Anyone would like to give me some help here?<<

This is the first time I've ever been to the board, quite frankly, and I probably won't come again - was only curious about this thread - it's because I'm lazy, and I prefer my discussions to come to me in my email box, and not have to go to a board to find them.

Heck, I wish the fics themselves would come to my box in nice neat format and save my eyes the strain of some of the garish color schemes they're presented in LOL.

Boards take time to visit and they're not as good for lazy people such as myself. You can assume that there's a bunch of people on BBF who tend toward lazy, otherwise, we'd be out finding the good fics ourselves and not counting on recs from others, LOL!

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[> Re: Things that annoy me about BetterBuffyFics -- Barb, 18:04:19 11/20/02 Wed

The "I can't believe.." and the " is the only one!" stuff can be a little bit annoying, but it's very, very, very minor. I suffer worse annoyances driving to work every morning. I think most people are tongue-in-cheek about #2 anyway.

As for #3, the existence of this board is no skin off my nose. If discussion here picks up, great. If not, well, it's not like I'm being charged for its upkeep or anything.

>4) Discussion of fics. Except for the recs discussion
>is so scarce that one might say it's non-
>existent. Presumably, this is due to the fact that the
>authors of the fics are subscribed to the
>group and their tender hearts may be shattered into
>million pieces by hearing something
>negative about their work. At best what one can say is
>"I don't like it, it's not for me". And
>heaven forbid you do say something harsher, then
>you'll become just like the meanies on TWoP.

As lakrids said, I'd phrase criticism which I knew the author was going to read differently. But knowing the author's going to be reading doesn't change what I say, only how I say it. The main thing that inhibits me from posting is a deep terror of accidentally saying something spoilery and forgetting to put spoiler tags on the post and getting hunted down and skinned by the mods.

The times (all one or two of them) I've gotten involved in a critical discussion on the list I try to give concrete reasons why I don't like a fic or why it's not for me. Otherwise it's not very helpful to other prospective readres or to the author, for that matter. Criticism can hurt, but if it's thoughtful we need to hear it. And if it's not thoughtful, we should be able to get over it. Go on, crush my tender heart. You know you want to!

Barb

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