----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Raye Johnsen" <raye_j@yahoo.com>
To: <ffml@anifics.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 10:54 PM
Subject: [FFML] Re: Why the FFML is really dying (was Re: Re: About all 
these fic requests/searches...)

--- The Eternal Lost Lurker
<lurkerdrome@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

Today's fanfic
authors want instant gratification and aren't
especially interested in
getting honest, helpful reviews of the stuff they
write--which is why they
flock to FF.net, where the most godawful piece of
crap ever written can get
at least a dozen "lol luv ur fic rite mor plz"
reviews within a day.

I disagree with that statement.

I would LOVE to get honest helpful reviews, and I
DON'T get "lol luv ur fic rite mor plz" reviews on FFN
(I don't get many at all).

I stopped posting to the FFML for a number of reasons,
most prominent being that, when you state that you are
Australian and use Australian/UK spelling in your fic,
specifically ask for continuity and environmental
concrit, and the ONLY comments you receive are ALL
"you misspelled 'color' as 'colour'", it is more than
slightly annoying. I do believe I can be forgiven for
deciding that the FFML is no longer a place where I
will find decent concrit.  And at least FFN doesn't
pretend that IT is.

I won't discuss the fact that at the time I and a few
friends of mine, all of us specifically shoujo-themed
writers, were finding what few reviews we WERE getting
here were rather hostile, as well.  I shall simply say
that when one does not feel welcome, others should not
be surprised when one withdraws.

Raye

raye_j@yahoo.com
livejournal: http://windtear.livejournal.com
http://www.thejohnsens.com/index.html

"It 'went away'?  'I dwell in darkness without you'
and it WENT AWAY?"
 -- Sorcha, 'Willow'

You left because you feel unwelcome here?

I don't get it then.

I feel very unwelcome here, and I'm never leaving.



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