More Bad Reviews

[farla]

The little author Act has started leaving some truly awful reviews and I can only hope something (brain transplant, act of god, I'm not picky) stops him before this goes further.

You know, I really wanted fewer gibbering praise reviews in the section, but if this is the alternative, well, bring on the random squealing. Paraphrased, he's reviewing stories to tell the author to write worse. No, seriously. Death to words of more than two syllables and sentences more complex that 'See Jane run'. Death! I'm not kidding. In another review he's claimed the use of the word 'inconspicuous' is somehow writing to impress, which he'd like you to know is Very Bad. (I suppose he'd have rather the author wrote 'not particularly noticeable due to looking ordinary and blending into the background but not actually camouflaged and unseen, just not memorable to the onlooker' because god, that's so much clearer.)

Kill him now, dear readers, kill him now.

Comments

[katei3.livejournal.com]

Nooooo!!! what is he/she doing?!!! gahh...and the worst thing is that writers will probably take these reviews more seriously than most reviews...its so much easier to dumb things down than to add actual material. Someone should post a review saying "Don't listen to the Act guy. He has no idea what the heck he is saying."

[wintersheir]

I thought he was bad in that review, but then I saw his review of Facia's Xanthic Growlithe Contract and I was like "OMFG NOOOOO YOU STUPID LAMER!!1!" Yeah. I'm pretty sure she's intelligent enough not to pay attention, though. Hopefully.

[farla.livejournal.com]

Well, almost no one pays attention to reviews anyway, so with any luck nothing will come of it.