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Do toi agree with these ideas of ways to get rid of the crappy stories on ff?

1. Fanfiction should have a little section for people to send their before-published stories to others to be approved. Not beta-reading––others just need to check to see that the story is in good quality and condition and is readable before clicking an 'approved' button at the bottom of the page. And this should be a must for every story published. There should even be a 'disapproved' button if the story is not in good condition. It's like the approver is the publisher. And even after the fanfic is published, others can approve the story too, maybe clicking a button. The amount of approves should montrer up at the place where statistics of amount of words and characters and the jour published is.

There is a difference between approving, beta-reading, and reviewing.

2. In a writer's profil page, where it says 'My Stories' 'Favorite Stories' 'Favorite Authors' etc, there should also be 'My Notes'. Have toi ever seen stories that just have stupid author's notes in them? Well, the 'My Notes' section is like a will be the place for all that, like a journal. toi can write about maybe why toi haven't updated stories, maybe about stories toi aren't continuing anymore, maybe that toi need a beta-reader, maybe about a new story idea toi have, maybe that toi just went to the bathroom, whatever! As long as it's not in the fandom fanfiction page, it's just in your profile.

Sorry if the above passages was confusing. But tell me what toi think about these ideas, mmkay? And add your own, too.
 EppofangirlXD posted il y a plus d’un an
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LadyNottingham said:
I disagree with the first idea. FF.net is an archive, a place where toi can first store your stories to share them.

Then toi have a few guidelines about publishing. You'll always have some people to disregard these. No problem, as far as I'm concerned. If a story is badly written, I just leave it.

Who is going to judge one's stories ? On which criteria ? Besides, toi have stories posté in many languages - once again, who is going to judge them in their native languages ? That also means that one jour ou so, some people will have to be paid to spend time to read and judge stories written par others (how would they be qualified to do that btw ?). Consequence : FF.net won't be free any more. Argh !

No, better let readers be the sole judges of that. They can leave reviews, flame down ou encourage, etc, as they deem best. Honestly, I leave a review when the story is worth the trouble. If it is poorly made, I just stop lire it.

These ideas toi exposed remind me of what is called "censorship". I don't like it for me, I don't like it for others. If censorship is applied to some people, then it can be applied to me too. (When I say "me", it means any auteur actually.)

No, just leave it as such. Readers can leave reviews. Authors can check the traffic their stories generate. These elements (number of positive and negative reviews, traffic stats) are enough to give an idea to readers (through other people's reviews) and authors (through reviews and stats) about how successful ou not their stories are.

The seconde idea, about notes ou whatever, is something to be deepened. Though notes pertaining to a specific story can be added to it. Some authors post a small text to explain why they have stopped posting out of lack of inspiration ou if they had a temporary computer issue, ou no time, etc. The text posté as such can be removed later (I already did that). Unfortunately, they don't do it that often.

Usually, stupid author's notes are matched with stupid stories. I've never read intelligent author's notes for a stupid story and vice-versa. so where's the issue ?
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posted il y a plus d’un an 
hinataxneji1 said:
I agree with the seconde idea, the first one I'm not so sure, but notes on the profil is not a bad idea.
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kay.
EppofangirlXD posted il y a plus d’un an
deathroman13 said:
First Idea is not a really good one because toi have always people who press disapprove just for fun and if a lot of people are eagerly waiting for an update, it would be very annoying to wait before it gets approved.
The seconde idea however does sound good. It is rather annoying if toi get a reminder of a story that is updated and it is only an authors note.
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I guess so.
EppofangirlXD posted il y a plus d’un an
mrsarless said:
i don't agree with the first idea, because even people who aren't the best writers whould be allowed to, as the slogan says, "unleash their imaginations and free their souls." and about the second, i guess it's a good idea but i don't mind the author's notes in the stories and i don't go to the profil pages too often.
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MrsSiriusB said:
Unfortunately, I don't think there is any way to get rid of all the crappy fics on ff.net. The main reason for that is, I think, because there's a whole lot of first time writers on every fandom, and I don't any of us have the right to take away their privilege to publish. They will eventually improve, so, lets just hope they do. The suivant biggest reason is, and the one that angers me soo much, that newcomers ou not, that some of the writers of crappy fics just absolutely refuses to listen to constructive criticism. All they want for reviews is for people to gush over how much they l’amour the story. Seriously, after several failed attempts, I've stopped giving CC's to those types of fics entirely. What's the point if they won't listen to you? *shakes head*

As for the seconde option, like the person above me pointed out, there's so stupid Author's notes in good fics and there's no intelligent notes in the bad ones. Also, the problem with the notes are that many readers won't read them. The chances of readers lire a very important announcement from the auteur is higher if it's mentioned at the top/bottom of a fic rather than going to an entirely different page.
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I agree with toi about Point No. 2 - I have already told off some of my readers that had complained about this ou that in my stories, while they had been fully warned in the Author's Notes at the beginning of the story, not to mention the rating (I write mature, dark stuff).
LadyNottingham posted il y a plus d’un an
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As for your first point, so true. I leave a review if the story really deserves it (plot + grammar/spelling), had touched me a lot in many ways, for example. Which does not prevent me from giving conseil and encouragements. Otherwise, a poorly written story will have me leave it before I could even reach the "review button" at the bottom of the page.
LadyNottingham posted il y a plus d’un an
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Agreed. The plus people reads our stories the better, but if they're going to complain about every little thing, I'd rather have them not read at all.
MrsSiriusB posted il y a plus d’un an
huddygirl2 said:
The seconde one I like. But the First one I don't I mean it seems rude to say. toi can't mettre en ligne this

for being bad. The wonderful thing about fanfic. Is that EVERYONE can mettre en ligne there story. Rather

it's bad ou good. They is no one to stop it. Also do toi think. People will click disapproved. Just for not liking the ship? ou the character it is about? ou just not liking the story?
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