Had to jump on this bandwagon...I love feedback, and am shopping my stories (well, at least one) around to every archive or site that will take it I can find. But damn! It gets a tad bit (understatement here) annoying when you get reviews like as follows: Well i only hope it will get better than this its kinda messed up bcuz Buffy really didn't yearned or missed Spike that much for all i know but its your fic. looking forward to see what happens. Okay, my story is Spike/Buffy, but what? And yeah, this site automatically rates stories based on reviews - I had about four really good ones, and then this one hit. I now have a three-star rating (I don't really care about the rating as much as it will discourage others from giving the story a chance.). And out of pure curiosity - I checked out my reviewers stories, I will not bash, but okay...very nice rewrites of Buffy/Angel scenes from season three. Her stories average about six stars and chalk up an avalanche of reviews.
I just won't bash a story because of its OTP. I just can't. Never know where my plot bunnies will lead me. True, I'll pair Spike with most anything...but I'll also read most anything, and if it doesn't work for me, I don't review it! Okay, I'm ranting now. But even with this all said and done, that review mentioned above - prompted me to rework the first chapter of my story because I thought maybe I should try and see her point. And to the extent where I decided the Buffy/Spike interaction in that first chapter may have been heavy-handed or at least too much too soon in a story meant to un-peel the characters' ultimate desires, not slam them down the readers throats. (Okay, complete turnaround or what? But still...)
I'm out. This got way longer than planned. But thanks for this thread. It's a topic that's been stewing in me as well, and it's good to get it out!
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Date: 2005-01-04 01:53 pm (UTC)I just won't bash a story because of its OTP. I just can't. Never know where my plot bunnies will lead me. True, I'll pair Spike with most anything...but I'll also read most anything, and if it doesn't work for me, I don't review it! Okay, I'm ranting now. But even with this all said and done, that review mentioned above - prompted me to rework the first chapter of my story because I thought maybe I should try and see her point. And to the extent where I decided the Buffy/Spike interaction in that first chapter may have been heavy-handed or at least too much too soon in a story meant to un-peel the characters' ultimate desires, not slam them down the readers throats. (Okay, complete turnaround or what? But still...)
I'm out. This got way longer than planned. But thanks for this thread. It's a topic that's been stewing in me as well, and it's good to get it out!