[ SECRET POST #3472 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3472 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Like flaming, it can frighten inexperienced writers out of fic entirely, and usually isn't particularly constructive in how to fix the problems with the fic, so the writer being sporked doesn't improve and often gets defensive.

I'm personally okay with sporking trollfic (i.e, My Immortal) where the original author clearly doesn't care.

[(Anonymous)]

Sure it "can," but again, it hasn't stopped the flow of fic. Which tells me most people are writing regardless of what sporkers do. And quite frankly, if all it takes is one spork to destroy one's desire to write fic, it sounds like the problem has nothing to do with sporking.

[(Anonymous)]

Found the flamer.

[(Anonymous)]

Found the silly assumption.

[(Anonymous)]

These sporking blogs were at the whim of the creator and at one point a bunch of wannabe caustic critics were doing it so one spork could either be fair (pointing out real problems albeit in a very scathing way) or be full of personal insults such as "the author is retarded and should have been aborted" (that was one I saw)

And the latter? A while bunch of that aimed at an inexperienced writer is certainly enough to make them not want to subject themselves to that. And that doesn't imply anything wrong with them. If you mock someone so bad that they decide to not even put anything up anymore for fear of what you (or others might say) it can say just as much about how vicious you are as it does about the author.

Authors don't have the obligation to take bullshit because they wrote something you don't like.

[(Anonymous)]

I had no idea that writing a bad fic made your scroll button stop working.

[(Anonymous)]

I had no idea the finding fic you don't like made your scroll button stop working.

[diet_poison]

I like Topless Robot-style sporks of ridiculous bizarre trollfic or just...really weird shit. Not so much into sporking a fic that's clearly written by a novice who needs a good beta and a lot of practice.

It's mostly the former I think of when I think of sporking. The phrase "sporking culture" makes me wonder if the latter is/was really popular at one time?

[(Anonymous)]

It was very popular at one point in the 2000s there were dozens of (lj based usually) sporking communities.

Everybody likes to try being the caustic critic but not everyone is good at it.

[diet_poison]

Dang.

I was ten years old at that time lol so definitely not in fandom yet. I joined about a decade later. Looks like I missed some shit...

[(Anonymous)]

can you point me towards any Topless Robot-style spork sites?

[diet_poison]

Topless Robot is a Topless Robot-style spork site

http://cdnb.toplessrobot.com/search.php?tag=Fan%20Fiction&blog_id=132