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So, I just got back from te dentists, and am talking with the biggest lisp imaginable. It's really weird when you can lick your lips and not feel it.

Anyways, on my way over to the dentists, I was thinking about some things, and thought I'd ask my flist, so, poll!

[Poll #984619]

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It depends on the person who wrote the fic. If it was someone from my flist or someone else I knew I could talk reasonably to and who valued my opinion, then I would comment if the issue was important enough to me. But I'd never ever start a discussion on a fic (or any other) post with someone I don't know at least a bit - that invariably ends in wank.

It would depend on how they had offended me. I've never actually been offended by a fic except poor grammar usage. And that I will usually ignore and click the back button.

If someone were to...I don't know. Say that Sam came out of the closet in canon (I can pray...) and someone wrote a fic just bashing the character and meant every word (included a note in the header about how gays were so horrible and such)...yeah. That would get a note. A scathing note.

As for the accidental flaming...that was one where someone posted a story on a CSI Femslash comm with a Jim/Gil (male slash, if you can't tell) fic that was just *horrible*. Written in script format (I despise script format) with the characters acting like spoiled toddlers. I was not kind. But neither were a lot of other people on that comm.

I sort of flamed someone who has a history of insulting other writers and comm moderators, etc. etc. and then posted something with some serious problems. The fic had an insult to someone in the author's notes! All in my opinion of course. If you are going to be nasty at least clean up your own house first is my theory.

Yeah me too. Also it would depend on what they had done to offend me. Like if someone wrote a story where I thought the characterization was off, I probably wouldn't say anything, even if it did offend me, but if it were something like a fact being off, I might (people get stuff wrong about Canada all the time, and sometimes it's insultingly off, and I might mention it, depends).

If I really felt the need to comment about something that offended my in a fic, I'd probably do it on my journal instead, just to try and avoid wank/flaming.

Ahh I remember you telling me about that.

And totally playing devil's advocate here, but:
I was not kind. But neither were a lot of other people on that comm.
Does it make it ok if you're not the only one?

Interesting. Did you actually flame? Like yell and throw insults? Or did you just call them on it? I ask, because it seems that there's a very broad definition of flame.

Does it make it ok if you're not the only one?
No, it doesn't make it right. But I was closer to being civil then some people. I forget exactly what I said, but I basically suggested that his person learn grammar basics. Others told her (I think it was a her) that she needed to give up and never show her face in fandom ever again. Had it just been my commentary, I would have felt bad for flaming but consoled myself by hoping she would wait to post further until she had completed junior high English. Seeing some of the others...I feel terrible because I just added insult to injury.

What I did was point out a few of the errors and suggest they get a beta. I didn't yell or insult anything (unless pointing out obvious errors is an insult). And I guess some people would take it that way.

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