Leaving no fail stone unturned
Jul. 9th, 2010 03:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skaubleDear non-author,
At the end of a story summary on FFN you left the following note:
Written by someome else, edited by me. Enjoy :D
I checked your profile and both of the stories you have up are by different authors and edited by you. First of all, there's no mention of permission anywhere in either the stories or your profile. You don't even seem to know who wrote one of them, so I doubt you got the go ahead from that person. Second, editing someone's stories without permission is uncool. Third, the stories are porn and thus a violation of the rules.
All of that is obnoxious and report worthy, but the thing that really makes me ranty - if you're going to take someone's story and fix it up in whatever way you choose, why wouldn't you at least pick a good story?! There are so many fics out there with great plots but crappy writing and you pick some blah porn? Really? Not even unbelievably fantastic porn? Couldn't you have been a thieving jerk who was even moderately entertaining? At least something good could have come from this, but instead you've failed on every level.
I feel bad about being the most upset by the wrong thing here, but I find it doubly annoying when people do obnoxious things for no real pay off. It's like robbing a bank for 37 cents.Also, I'm incredibly shallow.
At the end of a story summary on FFN you left the following note:
Written by someome else, edited by me. Enjoy :D
I checked your profile and both of the stories you have up are by different authors and edited by you. First of all, there's no mention of permission anywhere in either the stories or your profile. You don't even seem to know who wrote one of them, so I doubt you got the go ahead from that person. Second, editing someone's stories without permission is uncool. Third, the stories are porn and thus a violation of the rules.
All of that is obnoxious and report worthy, but the thing that really makes me ranty - if you're going to take someone's story and fix it up in whatever way you choose, why wouldn't you at least pick a good story?! There are so many fics out there with great plots but crappy writing and you pick some blah porn? Really? Not even unbelievably fantastic porn? Couldn't you have been a thieving jerk who was even moderately entertaining? At least something good could have come from this, but instead you've failed on every level.
I feel bad about being the most upset by the wrong thing here, but I find it doubly annoying when people do obnoxious things for no real pay off. It's like robbing a bank for 37 cents.