Sadly, Nate. The bad get worse as they post. Since people give no reasons why their story is 'good' and just say, 'oh, please continue.' Meanwhile, their bad grammar and spelling continue on like it's nothing.
And as for my comment on the pre-dub eras, I believe there was such a time. When I first got into Naruto, no dub existed yet and the stories I dug up were always excellent reads. Since the dub came out, even on the first day... well, the 12-year old grammar lacking kids felt like they could just write any random crap and throw it on there.
I'm not discouraging anyone from writing, but please. Get a beta reviewer or a grammar teacher to look at everything!
I do agree to some extent with what you say, but I find it somewhat immature of you to suggest FF.net try and do anything about the stories you find unbearably terrible simply because they're an inconvience to you. Just because a story may have terrible grammar and spelling - things which are completely understandable in some instances - doesn't mean they can't improve over time, or that they won't.
Although we'd all like it to be, writing isn't just about creating good or great stories, especially not to those who are just trying it out for the first time. It's more about trying something new and finding a way to expand on their creativity and see where their abilities lie; in other words, testing their abilities, I suppose. I know for a fact that, despite the fact I'd like to write something mind boggling and impressive, I write purely for my own enjoyment and seeing where I can take some specific scenarios and how far I can go with them before they blow up in a fit of epic failure.
It's also just the way fandom is. If you don't like it, that's fine, but complaining about it won't change anything, and ff.net would be doing a great injustice to the people part of the specified fandom if they tried to do anything with the works which weren't up to standards (and, as Nate's already stated, I find it doubtful the administrators would go through such time consuming work).
If it takes you forever to find a piece that seems worthy of reading, and if it bothers you that much, then just create a community of the stories that are worth the read and advertise a lot, or something. I don't know.
Edited by Kitten, 15 November 2008 - 07:45 PM.