Hate people

[farla]

Some annoying person PMed me with a form letter thing about how they don't read pokemon fanfic normally, and aren't impressed with what they've seen, but there's this pokemon fanfic that is like the bestest ever, and other people think it is like the bestest ever, so I should read it and review it and add it to my C2(s) because if the author gets more reviews they might update faster yay!

After getting a bitchy response, they thought a moment and decided that nope, the hole was not yet deep enough, so explained how much they'd love getting a copy-pasted note from a stranger heartfelt message about a totally awesome story yay, then they charged along with a terribly botched guilt trip attempt about how everybody thinks it's awesome, and I'm letting down my C2 peeps if I refuse to read it because what if I would realize it really is awesomesauce (and of course I will) and that everyone would be so much happier if they, too, could share in its awesomesauceness, and then I'd have let all those people down and think of the poor C2 subscribers! Because after you've been bitched at for not paying attention and how someone's C2 is not for random stories you think are cool, for god's sake do not pay attention to whether or not the C2 has anything to do with the story! Instead, say that another C2 manager did, and that although they didn't like it, they still added it because they figured everyone else would and they wanted to "better their C2". Because it is just that much like the emperor's new clothes awesomesauce.

Edit: Jesus christ they will not stop. They're still insisting there's some imaginary C2 I'm part of ("the larger C2 rather than the origninal trainers" one) that I should put the story in but anyway since Ash is totally OOC I should put it in the original trainer one, and yes, the only reason they even know the subject matter of one C2 is because I explicitly stated it in the last PM. Just because someone keeps saying they're not in any such C2 doesn't mean you should actually check! Oh, and they recommended Twilight to me, because they don't like it but that doesn't mean it isn't good because what do you mean you're supposed to have some sort of reasoning for saying why people should read something?

And also that their motives are pure and wonderful like newborn lambs, if newborn lambs could share with you the most awesomesauce story ever, so I should be grateful someone went through the trouble of contacting me about the story (something that is surely rare and wondrous to me).

Comments

[bay115.livejournal.com]

Bleh, I don't understand too much of the concept of C2 in FFN. Half of them are to showcase the best shipping fics. x_x

And the Emperor's new clothes is an awesomesauce story. :P

[farla.livejournal.com]

The concept is fine, it's just idiots all decided to use them for My Fav Ficcys!. People this is what favorites lists are for.

But the idea of collections of a particular type remains valid, I think. Of course, it's hampered by the fact you're only allowed a single C2 per category.

[banzaisebastian.livejournal.com]

Yeah, seriously, that first line is exactly what I don't get about C2s. And maybe it's just me, but as far as I can tell from the subscriber counts, not too many people actually browse through C2s anyway, so why put your favorites list in yet another place people don't go, right?

[farla.livejournal.com]

Because they're sure you must care about these totally awesome stories and their opinion of them. Also, because updating your favorites list doesn't send out an email to people about it. And in fairness, there were a couple C2s I followed that were for best overall fanfic because the owner was a prolific reader and had good taste, and it's hard to expect people with bad taste to know they have bad taste and won't be getting similar attention.

And because the one-per-category thing means that people may start with one idea (good fic of X type), then find a cool fanfic that's Y, and then they want to include that. So they throw it in anyway, or maybe they change it to being for good fanfic about X and Y type, and then they run into good fanfic of type Z, and... (Admittedly, infinite C2s means the same people would end up making about two for every fanfic.)

The real question here is, who the hell thinks they need to maintain Ash/Misty C2s now that there's character sorting? (And it's not like searching for AAML was impossible before) I hate the favorites list thing, but at least you can understand why a human being would do that.

[purple-drake.livejournal.com]

It's also because, a couple of years ago, the favourites list was limited to about 150 stories. There were points--usually whenever I had to thin out my own list--that I was tempted to do the same. Now that the favourites list is unlimited, though, I agree there's not much of a point to maintain C2s like that (except to avoid having to go through every story in the C2 and favourite them).

[banzaisebastian.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I remember it being limited. I just never really felt like it was necessary to resort to C2s even then. After all, assuming you didn't periodically prune your favorites list to remove stories that you just don't read anymore, it was always possible to actually bookmark a fic using your browser of choice. Granted, you won't be able to rec those fics to other people that way, but on the other hand, I'm not sure how many people would want to scroll through a list of over 150 fics, as opposed to just searching through the archive itself.

[purple-drake.livejournal.com]

True, but bookmarking only gives you the name of the page, whereas a C2 gives you the title of the story, summary, length and all that extraneous information, which makes it a lot easier to self-search depending on what you feel like (re-)reading at the time.

[farla.livejournal.com]

Even still, if you're going to do that, why make it category specific? I mean, the category agnostic area is was going to be unusably clogged one way or another, so it's not like you're hurting anything to chuck your C2 there. But why make my favoritest AAM C2 #41? WHY?????

[purple-drake.livejournal.com]

Oh, I thought we were referring to 'favourite' C2s in general. Category-specific favourite C2s are something I don't get ... s'hell annoying having to run past a dozen C2s of the same thing all the time. ._.