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Reviewer credibility, Comments on an OT
Oct. 6th, 2004 07:46 pmFirstly, something to think about: if a person reviews your story and says it's the greatest thing ever, and they also review a story so full of spelling and grammatical errors it's illegible and say that's the greatest thing ever, does their opinion matter?
I say no. For this reason, surfingpikachu05 loses all shreds of credibility. If it tells you it likes your story, please, quickly look it over for plot and mechanical errors. For an example, look at this story's reviews. (Bonus game! Find the story (posted the same day) that surfingpikachu05 gives an identical review, and win the right to weep at the sad, sad world of online people)
On OTs, today I read several chapters of an OT story, Back to the Beginning. It's pretty cliche (with the 'losing at a gym, training, and returning to win' cliche, the 'injured pokemon don't get caught' cliche, the 'trainer wins most battles and is on an equal level with others' cliche, the 'trainer is so great and nice' cliche, the 'getting abused pokemon' cliche...) but what is nice about it is that the trainer gets mostly normal pokemon. She starts with a charmander, and catches a pidgey, spearow, nidoran male, rattata, caterpie and weedle. Admittedly she's also given a totodile (by a member of an anti-pokemon-abuse group, and yes, the story does mention this is rare because they don't like just anybody), gets rid of the pidgey by giving it to someone else and trades the spearow for a special-color hoothoot, so her team doesn't necessarily keep the more mediocre pokemon. I think the same thing will probably happen to some of the other pokemon (rattata, perhaps). But it's still good to see OT fiction that involves normal pokemon.
I say no. For this reason, surfingpikachu05 loses all shreds of credibility. If it tells you it likes your story, please, quickly look it over for plot and mechanical errors. For an example, look at this story's reviews. (Bonus game! Find the story (posted the same day) that surfingpikachu05 gives an identical review, and win the right to weep at the sad, sad world of online people)
On OTs, today I read several chapters of an OT story, Back to the Beginning. It's pretty cliche (with the 'losing at a gym, training, and returning to win' cliche, the 'injured pokemon don't get caught' cliche, the 'trainer wins most battles and is on an equal level with others' cliche, the 'trainer is so great and nice' cliche, the 'getting abused pokemon' cliche...) but what is nice about it is that the trainer gets mostly normal pokemon. She starts with a charmander, and catches a pidgey, spearow, nidoran male, rattata, caterpie and weedle. Admittedly she's also given a totodile (by a member of an anti-pokemon-abuse group, and yes, the story does mention this is rare because they don't like just anybody), gets rid of the pidgey by giving it to someone else and trades the spearow for a special-color hoothoot, so her team doesn't necessarily keep the more mediocre pokemon. I think the same thing will probably happen to some of the other pokemon (rattata, perhaps). But it's still good to see OT fiction that involves normal pokemon.
