Note to author about author notes
Aug. 17th, 2010 10:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Dear Author,
It is really obnoxious to post the warnings at the bottom of a story, especially if they are controversial such as in this case "explicit shouta". There are 127 words in your authors summary at the top, you can add a few more. (How about five? Warning: story contains explicit shouta.)
I assume that you did this, so that people would give the story a chance. The first chapter is gen and sets up a decent introduction.
So while I will agree that it is marginally more courteous than leaving me to discover the shouta as I don't even want to know happens in the middle of whatever.
But I can't help but feel that I'm left in this conundrum:
</3,
Mew3
It is really obnoxious to post the warnings at the bottom of a story, especially if they are controversial such as in this case "explicit shouta". There are 127 words in your authors summary at the top, you can add a few more. (How about five? Warning: story contains explicit shouta.)
I assume that you did this, so that people would give the story a chance. The first chapter is gen and sets up a decent introduction.
So while I will agree that it is marginally more courteous than leaving me to discover the shouta as I don't even want to know happens in the middle of whatever.
But I can't help but feel that I'm left in this conundrum:
- If I care about warnings (though perhaps not this particular warning) then I spoil the ending of the first chapter for myself.
- If I don't usually care about warnings, but this hits my squick button hard, then I've wasted my time reading your story.
</3,
Mew3