ffdotnetrants | Anonymous Reviewers have truly found a new low.

Is it me or are anonymous reviewers super cocky? Like really, I was reading the reviews to one fanfiction in the YGO 5D's fandom and my god. It's a good story but the writer's going through some shit in her life and people really have no respect. If she's lying or not doesn't matter because every writer I understand hits a stop in their life. Hell I have my stories on a permanent hiatus because I have no inspiration for any of them right now. And said author has apologized profusely. This is why I don't allow anonymous reviews.

If you would like to read the reviews here's the link to the story.

www.fanfiction.net/s/5944465/32/#

It is truly appalling how "fans" of a story treat an author. Sad thing is, they can't be reported. Really, who calls themselves a fan of something if that's how you treat said thing you're a fan of. Has this ever happened to anyone? I mean I understand people want updates, but as a fanfiction writer myself, last time I checked, the story doesn't belong to said "fans". A true fan stays with said fanfic to the end. Sorry...I really needed to rant about it.

Edit: Some reviews have been taken down, but now said reviewer is harping on me? o.e Really...what part of "This story is on Permanent Hiatus due to loss of inspiration" does troll person not understand? Do I need to pay a toll to shut this person up? And it's the same person too. You should see the reviews this person put up now. Makes me all nice and pissed inside. =D

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I've never had a mess of reviews like that for any story so I don't think it is an everyday anonymous thing o.o To me it sounds more like one person posting again and again than many unnamed flamers...I would just delete them, you can do that with unsigned in reviews still can't you?

I don't really know. I didn't use anonymous reviews since I started writing for this very reason. I mean, like I know people use it to get more reviews and to give those who don't have an account a chance to review, but if it means getting garbage like that and getting my feelings hurt in a serious time then it really isn't worth it. That and you can't track it. And it does look like one person.

I've always been able to delete them so unless this person values review count more than getting rid of the awful things I think that would be the best thing to do :)

I reread said reviews and it does look like it's all one person targeting her story. I left a review, (ehh the longest one) and I told her to turn off anonymous reviews and delete them. What pisses me off is how one person could do this. Obviously this person has nothing to do but hurt a person in a time of hurting.

It sounds like something happening in middle school, probably someone in their class...

I feel like FF has really gone to the teenyboppers.

I am first generation FF.NET from 1998 at 14 so I can't really talk about that :3

Lol. The teenyboppers of 98 had more sense than the teenyboppers of today. The fact that you've been in FF for so long means you know what you like in a story. I've been on FF since like '05 got an account in like '06 or something. I was like 5 in 98...obviously didn't know how to use a computer. And you obviously show respect to other authors.

*lol* I guess that is true, plus the internet was more of a gift to us to start with, we always lived in fear of it being taken away because it was s new to the public. Even the act of posting a review itself was fun and new...

Yep, my dusty old account and I have been together a long time :3

You don't make a lot of accounts? Dude...you are like my FF hero now lol. Respectful and stays with ONE account. Loyal FF person you!

It is nice not to have a number in back of my name :3

xD Lol...I only have 1...I don't understand having multiple accounts.

I can understand someone having one other account if they may write seriously obscure things and want to keep that completely separate and under a different identity. I've seen people do this, and I've even seen people create accounts to get away from someone harassing them, which is completely understandable. But I've seen a lot of people create new accounts and leave a note on their profile saying "I just wanted to change my user name!!" And I'm like "Dude, you do realize that FFN is one of the few sites out there that actually allows you to change your name, right? You didn't have to get a whole new account."

Heh...the harrassment and obscure things I understand. I would have different accounts for situations like that. The changing the username is what gets me po'ed. Let's not forget that there are people who come out with the "Oh, I got tired of this account." Which most likely isn't true, they're probably tired of the username.

There are also other that come out with the "Yeeeaaa, I don't like any of my stories anymore so I started a new account." If you don't like your stories there is a delete button. xC

I think the account thing is one of the reasons FFN is so crowded, cause it's just a bunch of people with multiple accounts.

I don't think you can delete anonymous reviews anymore. I know you used to be able to, because I did it a few times when someone flipped out that I paired A/C together instead of A/B and thought it would be fun to threaten setting me alight.

Anon reviewers have no fear, and they can be batshit as all hell.

Ugh, I don't like that you can't delete anon reviews anymore. At least, not via the channels it used to be. I don't want to disable them because I get some lovely anon reviews, but if it was a mess the OP was posting about - yeah, I'd turn them off.

Excuse my stupid question...what's the OP?

Original Poster. You're the OP of this post. ;)

Wow...Lol Thanks! I think I had a total moment there. xD

I don't like that you can't delete anon reviews anymore.

Since when? I've been able to delete anon reviews without any troubles (it's how I dealt with my own trolling jackass reviewer), which is the only reason I allow anon reviews over there.

Omg no, never mind me. I failed to find it in the new control panel, but I don't know how. I swear it wasn't there yesterday! :p

LOL, that's okay - I don't think I've had to delete a review since the control panel makeover!fail, so it could very well have disappeared :P I just write for pretty obscure fandoms, so disallowing anon reviews would basically be cutting off my nose to spite my face. To me, this is the best of both worlds - you can block signed in users who are annoying you, and you can delete the anonymous jackass troll reviews as soon as you find them. *shrug* It's a small price to pay for actually putting fic where people might find it! :P

Anonymous Reviewers have truly found a new low.

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