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[bard_linn]

People who review just to say "you made a mistake at X" annoy me. At least sugar coat it with "hey, I've been reading this story for 28 chapters and it's pretty good but you did X"

ALSO it helps if you double check your facts about X, particularly if it's say, canon material not that hard to find out.

Cloud's younger than Tifa by a couple of years indeed. HELLO. GAME MANUAL HERE SAYS OTHERWISE. Idiot.

Comments

[celes-grant.livejournal.com]

*snrk* Tifa is 20? Cloud is 21? I think maybe they got confused with Aeris?

[candy--chan.livejournal.com]

Those people annoy me. And to be honest, the sugar-coating doesn't work. Got a review once at the end of a seventeen-chapter story. Over one hundred thousand words of fic. It began with "You have good spelling and grammar," and then launched into a nit-picky little analysis in which he commented on every single little thing he felt I did wrong. It took me almost ten minutes to read it.

RAR.

[elanor-pam.livejournal.com]

Clearly it's Hojo's labmonkey in disguise, out to stress you.

Actually, this reminds me of my dark times as a newcomer in fandom. I offered to proofread a fic for this guy, and sent it back with comments after almost every paragraph saying stuff like "oh, I really liked this part" and "I think this would read better if you wrote this sentence with this ridiculously small change than otherwise". Poor guy obviously stopped writing after that, and it took me almost a year to figure out why... *flinches and hides face in shame*

[rosethornli.livejournal.com]

Yeesh, annoying people. I can't find anything wrong with your story; its just too good. And if I did, unless it was extremely careless like 'the' as 'hte' or something like that, I'd leave it to you guys to fix.
-sigh- That's never happened to me before. (Admittedly I don't write as often as I should, nor does the stuff come out the way I often want.)Stopping now, before this gets too long.
Ignore the annoying people and be mature about it. (aka, no revenge, like perposefully making the mistake over and over that they commented on.)
Don't like, don't wread, as afic writers often say.

Rose. Li