I think it's fair enough to leave a review even if you haven't written anything yourself but there's no need to be rude. With some of these reviews I think that people are just too stupid to read the warnings or have a look at the category.
I see the point of having two ljs if you are active in two very different fandoms or something like that, but it never occurred to me to register with two names at an fanfic archive. That comes across like cowardice - as if someone were afraid to get bad reviews if they themselves left bad ones.
I don't know about the vindictiveness. I don't read enough at TPP to comment on it, but you don't have to be a brilliant writer to be accepted at Ashwinder or the other SH archives. Most of all they seem to care about grammar and spelling, which is easily enough to achieve when you have a beta.
I'd love to say that archiving my meagre amount of stories has helped me to learn more about the English grammar, but since every archive uses different rules, I can't really say so. It's more annoying than enlightening in my opinion.
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Date: 2006-07-16 07:14 pm (UTC)I see the point of having two ljs if you are active in two very different fandoms or something like that, but it never occurred to me to register with two names at an fanfic archive. That comes across like cowardice - as if someone were afraid to get bad reviews if they themselves left bad ones.
I don't know about the vindictiveness. I don't read enough at TPP to comment on it, but you don't have to be a brilliant writer to be accepted at Ashwinder or the other SH archives. Most of all they seem to care about grammar and spelling, which is easily enough to achieve when you have a beta.
I'd love to say that archiving my meagre amount of stories has helped me to learn more about the English grammar, but since every archive uses different rules, I can't really say so. It's more annoying than enlightening in my opinion.