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[farla]

Someone's asking about if I'll review a different person's fanfic. Not the first time it's come up, either.

I originally didn't want to allow requests of other stories, since it seemed like it was inviting people to try to sic me on others. But I'm doing a lot of reviewing that isn't by request, so it's not like I only review those who want me to in the first place.

Any ideas?

Comments

[farla.livejournal.com]

I think it's more the former. But in that case it's not much different than when people ask for reviews of their own.

The picking on people is the real worry - but then, could people really complain more than they already do? Reviewing at random isn't really any more fair.

[niesse.livejournal.com]

With random reviews at least no-one's being singled out - at least, that's how I saw it. It probably doesn't matter. As long as you're not reviewing the same person seventeen times in a row I doubt anyone would notice a difference.

On the other hand, I can't see any particular good coming out of it, and - like you said - there's always the risk of people trying to use you in their fights. It's probably easier to just disallow it and be done with it.

[ember-reignited.livejournal.com]

I agree with all of this.

[niesse.livejournal.com]

Which reminds me! Can we be friends?

[ember-reignited.livejournal.com]

Sure, but I don't post on livejournal so much anymore now that I've been sucked into tumblr.