BBWcreator82:
If you don't care about what you're doing, you shouldn't do it.
No one is asking for professionalism. We are asking for a tiny bit more effort. Proofreading. A sense of pride, maybe?
People, new people, come to this site. They click on the stories and you know what they think when they see that unreadable trash??
"God these people are just as dumb as the internet says they are."
That is what they think.
By god man, is it too much to ask to run a spell check through some of these stories? Is that seriously too much to ask? Really?!!
If you spend THAT much time trying to craft a story, wouldn't you want it as good as you could get it before you sent it out?
No one is asking anyone to be perfect. But, try, at least to do the best you can. No one should have to "Get around the bad grammar, punctuation, style, and spelling" to see the story that is "there"
If you're going to create something, why do a terrible job at it? Do the best you can.
To excuse these patterns is to encourage laziness and bad habits.
If you're not going to even bother to spell check it, don't bother to upload it.
clive2007:
This is the perfect way to alienate just about everyone who might have an inkling to maybe upload a story.
If people want to upload here, then let them, that's the mark of what makes a community site - well - a community, when people contribute. People will stop sending them if they are judged using the standards of sites where writing is expected to be of some exemplary form.
Let them be, if you can't stand reading what you are seeing - then move on to the next one, there are plenty to choose from.
Good.
If you can't show even the slightest bit of pride in your work.
If you can't put in even the tiniest bit of effort.
If you don't even care in the slightest how something looks...
Why bother?
We should all aspire to do the best we can if we want to post our work.
"Let them be, look at something else?" There may be plenty to choose from, but the vast majority are cringeworthy.
If you write a story. Make it as good as you can. Do the work.
FF needs a gatekeeper when it comes to stories. Someone who can say "Um...no thanks"
Sometimes rejection makes you a better person. It separates the writers from the authors.
The people with a flash idea in their brain and write it like they were texting someone on their phone should keep those ideas to themselves.
We need people who care.
FF could use a few more good authors.
