[FFML] [Ranma] [Alt] Death And Rebirth

[Zac Wendler]

Right, I'm stepping in here.

People- this FFML is just starting back up.  As the admins have noted, 
things are a little bit shaky, both on the hardware end of things and on the 
headcount end of things.  Writers are posting their stuff, trying to get 
this whole thing kickstarted.

Twice in the past week, I've seen really brutal eviscerations of a writer's 
work posted to the FFML at large.  My reply to this contains one of those 
two; I won't embarrass the other individual, but you know who you are.  I 
hope that, with this posting, I might help to reduce the frequency of this 
practice on the new FFML.

As reviewers, we must take responsibility for our comments and take great 
care that we do not engage in ad hominem attacks on the writers that supply 
us with material to comment upon.  Every time someone goes out of their way 
to beat down a writer, someone else may well be reading that and thinking to 
themselves "If this is how that look at things, I'm not so sure I want to 
post my stuff here.  Maybe I'll go to fanfiction.net."  Or another fanfic 
archive.  Or they may not post their writing at all.

Be responsible readers and reviewers.  Stick to the text that is sent to us 
for consideration.  If the fic is too short for what happens in it, say 
that.  If it's too long and drags, say that.  If the characters are OOC, say 
that.  If there's a damn spaceship flying around in the middle of a Samurai 
Champloo fic, point out that it's inappropriate.  Never attack the writer 
themselves.  When you do that, we lose writers AND reviewers.  I've been on 
this list for as long as I can remember, and I'd really rather that it not 
die again.

Please be polite.  We may not be able to find out who you are, but your 
actions have repercussions.

   ~Flash


>From: Slacker <datcord at gmail.com>
>To: "Cute Neko Hibiki" <nekohibiki at comcast.net>
>CC: FFML <ffml at chez-vrolet.net>
>Subject: Re: [FFML] [Ranma] [Alt] Death And Rebirth
>Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 17:35:49 -0500
>
>On 7/4/07, Cute Neko Hibiki <nekohibiki at comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> > This is something of mine I came across when checking out an old 
>external
> > harddrive of mine. I had forgotten I even wrote this thing. I decided to
> > post it and see what you all think.
>
>However, if you'd bothered to check your own mailing history, you'd
>have seen this little tidbit:
>
>From: "Cute Kitsune Kaydee" <fox1 at colla.com>
>To: "FFML" <ffml at anifics.com>
>Subject: [FFML] [Ranma] [Alternate] Death And Rebirth
>Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 03:45:49 -0600
>
>And hey, why not peer more intently into the mists of time?
>
>From: "Fox The Wanderer" <fox1 at colla.com>
>To: <ffml at fanfic.com>
>Subject: [FFML] [Fanfic] [Ranma] [Alternate] Death And Rebirth
>Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 19:10:24 -0600
>
>In other words, this is at least the third time you've posted this
>fic, on three different incarnations of the FFML, and with two
>seperate email accounts.
>
>If you're going to repost, at least label it as such.  If it's a
>revision, also label it as such.
>
>Having just reread all three postings repeatedly, allow me to
>highlight all the differences.
>
> > Disclaimer : "Here Disclaimer!" *Whistles* "C'mon boy!" *Claps hands 
>now*
> > "Come here Disclaimer!"
> >
> > Disclaimer : Ranma 1/2 and its characters do not belong to me, but to
> > Takahashi Rumiko and it is copyright 1987, 1995.
> >
> > Publishing rights :
> >
> > Japan :              Shogakukan Inc. Tokyo
> > Hong Kong :          Jademan (Holdings) Ltd.
> > North America :      Viz Inc.
> >
> >
> > Death And Rebirth
> >
> >
> >
> > A Ranma Oneshot
> >
> > By
> >
> > Cute Neko Hibiki
> >
>
>And that was it!
>
>The only thing changed, in the six years between the oldest posting I
>can find and this one, is the disclaimer.  Oh, and your pen name.
>
>I know you've done this with other "fics" of yours, but I'm not going
>to waste my time hunting them all down. Let me toss just a few titles
>out, see if they ring any bells: "Usagi The Were", posted three times.
>  "Journey Into Infinity", posted three times.  "The New Girl Type
>Series", posted twice.  "De Man Arrives", four.  "The Exile's Crime",
>four.  And the winner, "The Big Choice", posted a total of five times.
>
>Now, this point has already been covered, but I'm going to restate it,
>in the hopes of it sinking in.
>
>You need to stop posting "fics" until AFTER you've sat down and
>actually written them.
>
>What you just posted?
>
>Not a fic.  It's an outline, a summary at best.  Now, if you took that
>and actually expanded it to fill in all the missing details (and
>there's a lot of them), it might pass the line into merely "a bad
>fic".
>
>I say this, knowing full well you're going to ignore it utterly.  In
>fact, I'd be willing to bet a significant number of people didn't even
>see this, having killfiled you long ago.
>
>The sad thing is, in my years of being on the FFML, this is honestly
>about the best thing I've ever seen you post.  You actually don't
>commit any greatly horrible sins against grammar, the punctuation is
>at least present, and it looks like it's been spell-checked.
>
>But it's still not a STORY.  There's no character development, no
>plot, no details, no backstory, nothing.
>
>Until you can write something with those?  Don't post, for all our sakes.
>
>Slacker
>
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