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[Catwho]

True, I'd rather get a follow or a favorite than a review just for the sake of a review.

I had to moderate-remove an anonymous troll review today. Honestly, if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all...

[Cupcake-chan]

GUYSS!

Don't hate on OCs, or SIs.

There are actually really good stories regarding such including my own.

 

My pet peeve is when someone doesn't really know english (because it's their, second, third or fourth language) and even then, decides to write in said language. The very worst is when you're supposed to BETA an author like that (freakin' hell).

Edited by Cupcake-chan, 26 May 2013 - 06:00 PM.

[Syn11]

That's a pretty painful topic. As a crazy person who had looked twice through all the stories with the NS filter I got my own list of irritants.

 

1) Harems. They should be banned by the great Heavens, I swear. That is one of those few pwp-type srories that make me tremble from the evident overflow of machismo.

2) Plotless chewing. Sakura's being a *bad woman* and Naruto's suffering. Or vice versa.  Here we usually get a poor illusion of dynamics.

3) Lifeless characters. Actions are not driven by motivation. No real purposes, no inner conflicts and no development. Zombies can do better. At least they want brains!

4) Stories based on anything but canon. I am a freak for factuality when it comes to keeping consistency with the manga. You're writing a fan story, show some respect for the original.  

5) Horrible language and lack of writing style. This is something I can complain about enlessly. English is not my first language, the same applies to many ff.net authors. But let's be honest about it. Writing a good story is a demanding thing. It needs rich vocabulary, some understanding of language patterns and so on. When every second paragraph screams tautology you should open a blasted dictionary and learn new words.

 

To be continued...

Edited by Syn11, 26 May 2013 - 10:10 PM.

[Lid]

For me, the obvious ones are not having simple grammar and spelling.

 

I also agree about demanding reviews. If it's a challenge, I can understand a little more. However, if you're just writing a fic, write it because you enjoy writing and have a good idea for a story, don't do it for the attention of reviews.

 

Alternate universes are also a pet peeve of mine, especially high school fics, they are usually very low quality.

 

In regards to "Naruto" specific pet peeves, my biggest gripe is Naruto having to wear a mask where underneath he's a genius and usually a jerk who hates everybody.

 

Reviews can also be somewhat annoying. I can't stand it when I see a story that's usually not only short, but has very, very obvious spelling errors, and the review could be "great story! narusaku 4ever!" Whenever I see a review like that I feel like Mugatu in Zoolander when he said "DOESN'T ANYONE ELSE NOTICE THIS? I FEEL LIKE I'M TAKING CRAZY PILLS!"

[Cupcake-chan]

For me, the obvious ones are not having simple grammar and spelling.

 

I also agree about demanding reviews. If it's a challenge, I can understand a little more. However, if you're just writing a fic, write it because you enjoy writing and have a good idea for a story, don't do it for the attention of reviews.

 

Alternate universes are also a pet peeve of mine, especially high school fics, they are usually very low quality.

 

In regards to "Naruto" specific pet peeves, my biggest gripe is Naruto having to wear a mask where underneath he's a genius and usually a jerk who hates everybody.

 

Reviews can also be somewhat annoying. I can't stand it when I see a story that's usually not only short, but has very, very obvious spelling errors, and the review could be "great story! narusaku 4ever!" Whenever I see a review like that I feel like Mugatu in Zoolander when he said "DOESN'T ANYONE ELSE NOTICE THIS? I FEEL LIKE I'M TAKING CRAZY PILLS!"

It's better than receiving a review with "nice" or just a smily face.

Those annoy the hell out of me.

Edited by Cupcake-chan, 27 May 2013 - 12:57 AM.

[PhantomCat]

Lets see

 

Character Bashing: It leaves a bad taste in my mouth and it gets on my nerves.

 

Changing Characters Personalities: Unless there a very good reason, I don't like it. I mean I read stories where Hinata acted like a snobby rich girl. Sakura and Naruto are degraded. Sasuke being more of a jerk then usual. For no reason but the stake of the story. That's just naming a few. I made a big rant on it on about it. Many about the SasuHina stories I read.

 

High School Stories: These are stories that get on my nerves. All of they personalities change big time. Sometime even AU but high school stories are the worst. I don't care if they in high school. I don't care.

 

200 words on the first chapter: It's not enough to get me hooked on the story. In fact it makes me wonder why I wasted my time.

 

Side Pairings: I only came to read one thing, I will skip the side stuff.

Edited by PhantomCat, 27 May 2013 - 08:34 AM.

[shadenight123]

*le sighs*

 

You know the new feature in ffnet? about adding up to 4 possible tags?

 

Well, I wrote a story, (Introverted) who has the misfortune of having Naruto-Sakura-Sai tags

(Because it depicts the story of those three as a team, making them the main characters)

 

Of course since it isn't well implemented, everyone only sees "Naruto and Sakura." 

 

That wouldn't be a problem, since I wrote a nice and clear "NO PAIRINGS" in the summary. Apparently, some people can't even read. I'm sorry to say this, but I have yet to decide on the pairing. It might become Narusaku, it might not, but the one thing I'm sure is that reading repeated 'fic is *insult* no narusaku' isn't helping me. 

 

Especially because I have no qualms killing main characters if need arises.

 

This is also a shoot-out, in case any Narusaku reviewer who thought anonymous insulting my fic reads in here...since I'm not bashing your precious Sakura, and since I wrote about 'No bashing' in general...can you please, please stop it? I'm starting to get tired.

 

And when I get tired I kill people off.

 

Like George R.Martin.

 

More generally: My pet peeve is people who prefer to leave insults in anonymous, aka the 'flamers' rather than have the guts to criticize my fics with their account, giving me at least the chance to defend my own way of writing plot. 

[tricksie]

@shadenight— 

 

I'm sorry.... is this a pet peeve, or did you just come here to be pissed off at the NS community? 

 

You don't like anonymous insults, yet you post here about a story you don't name, and take aim at this community for a some unknown flamers.

 

If you've got a pet peeve, then start there. If you want to repond to your anonymous ff.net reviews, then do it in your profile or the content of your story on that site. Not here.

[shadenight123]

The story was named between parenthesis. 

 

Secondly, it's not even a matter of being pissed at the community (I'm not. ) but this is a thread about ffnet pet peeves, isn't it? So that's pretty much where I should be posting it. And writing it in author's notes doesn't work, as it doesn't calling on the anonymous reviewers (I tried. Mind you, past that, there really isn't much else to say).

 

And I said 'in case there is'. Not 'You damn community!' I think there's been a misunderstanding in the tones used. I'm not angry, just mildly tired at having to be forced to continuously write 'no, it's not a pairing story, stop'. 

 

Since it is probable, but not of course certain, that at least one or two anonymous come from here, (the law of chance and probability) or read here (again, the law of chance and probability) I left a 'In case'. 

 

That's really all there is. If I offended anyone here, then I'm sorry about that, I didn't want it to pass off as an accusation against this community, because it isn't. But if you need to look for fishes, you look in the ponds, not up in the sky. (Unless it's a dastardly plot from those guys of NaruHina, who falsely act as Narusaku to make me come over here! *joking*)

[desaix]

While not one of those commenters, Shadenight, you're actually hitting one of my pet peeves -- people who mark a story as if it belongs in a certain pairing (which I gather is a tech issue for you, not something you intended) and don't follow through.  I'm not saying you can't mark the story to be focused on certain characters but not as a pairing, but then it needs to be pointed out in the story DESCRIPTION, not in the authors notes, if it's non-pairing.  A lot of people don't read authors notes (heh), so feel betrayed when the author doesn't follow through (or worse, makes the story anti-declared pairing).  This goes not just for NaruSaku, but for any series and any character pairing.

[sushi.]

When authors pretend they know Japanese (Just read a fanfic where Shizune is apparently a "Nii-chan"....), or use it too much.

 

Suffixes is alright, but it's too much when you start writing "Sayonara" or "arigato".

Edited by sushi., 22 July 2013 - 01:13 AM.

[pharix]

probably has been said already but people that put "what if this and that" or "I suck at summaries lol" in their summaries need to just go away.

[tricksie]

I hate, hate, hate the new character filter. Instead of getting just straight Naruto/Sakura, you get any combination of Naruto/Sakura/someoneelse/someoneelse.  For instance, I'm filtering for Naruto and Sakura, but since they automatically fill in the other two blanks, I get stories back with Naru/Sasu, NH, Gaara/Saku, etc.

 

That's right, Sasu/Naru yaoi on the NS filter. I don't care about the yaoi. Just that it's a useless filter if there's no way it can be isolated to a main pairing, like most of the people on ff are looking for. It just makes it impossible for anyone to search for their chosen pairing.

[NaruDeeds]

 

I hate, hate, hate the new character filter. Instead of getting just straight Naruto/Sakura, you get any combination of Naruto/Sakura/someoneelse/someoneelse.  For instance, I'm filtering for Naruto and Sakura, but since they automatically fill in the other two blanks, I get stories back with Naru/Sasu, NH, Gaara/Saku, etc.

 

That's right, Sasu/Naru yaoi on the NS filter. I don't care about the yaoi. Just that it's a useless filter if there's no way it can be isolated to a main pairing, like most of the people on ff are looking for. It just makes it impossible for anyone to search for their chosen pairing.

 

Ugh, seriously. I get why the added the ability to tag more than two, and it's a good feature since it allows people who want to write those stories post them under the appropriate folder and not get flamed by the various pairing fans... But ff's execution is piss poor. They had the right idea with the "does not include" options, but they only give you two. They need to include a "does not include any other" type filter. Luckily including "Does not include Sasuke" and "Does not include Kakashi" filters out a lot of the yaoi/threesome stories.

[tricksie]

 

Ugh, seriously. I get why the added the ability to tag more than two, and it's a good feature since it allows people who want to write those stories post them under the appropriate folder and not get flamed by the various pairing fans... But ff's execution is piss poor. They had the right idea with the "does not include" options, but they only give you two. They need to include a "does not include any other" type filter. Luckily including "Does not include Sasuke" and "Does not include Kakashi" filters out a lot of the yaoi/threesome stories.

It's frustrating because it eliminates the heirarchy from the search fields. Even though you mark Naruto and Sakura as the A and B characters, the search returns stories with the other two fields automatically filled. Then presents them in no A,B,C,D order. 

 

Meaning that even thought Naruto is A and Sakura is B, the stories that are returned are Sasuke/A, Hinata/B (then Naruto/C, Sakura/D).

 

They've killed the functionality of their search fields. 

 

Even better than the "do not include" options, if they'd just stick to the A,B,C,D heirarchy, then search returns would more accurate. But it's like you want to choose two characters and instead they give you four, then give you an combination they want of those four. Grrr.

 

edit: deleted link from my older post to MA story.

[sushi.]

When writers leave their story.

 

There are exceptions ofc. Konohakitten is a busy mom and swagosaurus is diagnosed with depression. At least they're updating us on how they're doing.

 

To be exact, my pet peeve is when authors suddenly decide to discontinue the story without a single word to the readers.

[Beastbomb]

When writers leave their story.
 
There are exceptions ofc. Konohakitten is a busy mom and swagosaurus is diagnosed with depression. At least they're updating us on how they're doing.
 
To be exact, my pet peeve is when authors suddenly decide to discontinue the story without a single word to the readers.

Yes, this one irks me. I get wrapped into a story pretty easily if the plot is interesting and if the grammar is sound (I can deal with grammar mistakes if the plot is really good). But dropping a story without even a word and allowing people to believe that a writer is eventually going to update is extremely cruel.

[desaix]

Sometimes, us writers may appear to have dropped a story and haven't -- we're just waiting for certain things to happen before we continue posting, or at least we THINK we will continue the story until it seems pointless to bother letting people know because it's been so long.  "Dropping a story without a word" kind of results in a lot of anger to an author about things that may be entirely out of their control. 

[Beastbomb]

Sometimes, us writers may appear to have dropped a story and haven't -- we're just waiting for certain things to happen before we continue posting, or at least we THINK we will continue the story until it seems pointless to bother letting people know because it's been so long.  "Dropping a story without a word" kind of results in a lot of anger to an author about things that may be entirely out of their control. 

Understandable. Life comes first. But I have read a few stories where the writer took the time to post why they haven't been able to update in one of the chapters ( the note was literally the entire chapter). It's hard to wait months for a story, so a little heads up at can least warn the readers about whatever situation that has taken place ( life, hard drive crash, and etc).

[desaix]

That might have been possible before FF.net decided to include a rule that said your story (if reported) could be removed if you posted a chapter that was just an author's note.  Admittedly, like almost every other FF.net rule that only infrequently gets enforced (but when it does, it's in huge sweeps where hundreds, if not thousands, of fics are removed without notice or explanation), it's very frequently ignored, but some of us try to stick to the rules.