WarpGirl wrote:Let me put it this way, leaving a comment that says "this story is trash, and the author loves abusing our favorite characters" is not an appropriate comment.
I think we've established that much
![Smile :)](./images/smilies/smile.gif)
I do think, however, that some authors are just overestimating their poetic skills. If one's attempting to write a story with potentially offending/upsetting content like torture or even rape (I recently blew a gasket over a story on FF, in which T'Pol was pointlessly raped and TnT's daugther serially raped over months
![Upchuck :upchuck:](./images/smilies/upchuck.gif)
Take "Fusion" - T'Pol was clearly mentally raped, yet next episode, everythings fine again. That makes it pointless and gratuitious, which is always a bad idea.
Before I wrote my Chapter "The Betazoid Mission" for TOAL, I spent days pondering if I really should publish it or if it would be better to just have it binned, because I knew there'd be people, who'd be upset by some elements of it and I wasn't entirely sure if I could pull it of without making it sound like cheap T&A tittilation. Only after my beta told me "it's not my kinda thing, but well done" did I decide to publish it in the first place. Such sort of self-scrutiny is imho the best defense against nasty comments. As I've said before, that's no excuse for me acting too impulsive, but it can help avoid such things in the first place, because let's be honest, while we have some sort of QA in our archive, I've seen stuff on FF and in the W5C that should never have been published in the first place.