Using an emotional argument's always a mistake; I certainly learned that once myself, the hard way. "This thing you're doing is hurting me--let me tell you what it feels like, using metaphors!" "Your metaphors are hurting me! Let me hurt YOU worse!"
But now people are just essentially dropping in on her to yell insults (followed, in one case, by the insulter gleefully adding: "Zing! I'm here all week!") and berate her for not following "the first rule of Customer Service"...Jesus, so this is a Service Industry job? Let me go shoot myself right now. Oh, and telling her how Fandom at large Knows Her Name Now, and she's essentially poisoned her own brand, so yah boo sucks. We Know Where You Live, Author Whose Books We Mainly Don't Even Read Anyways! And Whose Name WE Can't Spell Correctly Before Posting!
As a professional writer, I have sympathy for her--but you know, I'd have sympathy for her "just" as a fanfic writer, too. This dogpiling crap needs to stop.
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Date: 2010-05-08 05:09 am (UTC)But now people are just essentially dropping in on her to yell insults (followed, in one case, by the insulter gleefully adding: "Zing! I'm here all week!") and berate her for not following "the first rule of Customer Service"...Jesus, so this is a Service Industry job? Let me go shoot myself right now. Oh, and telling her how Fandom at large Knows Her Name Now, and she's essentially poisoned her own brand, so yah boo sucks. We Know Where You Live, Author Whose Books We Mainly Don't Even Read Anyways! And Whose Name WE Can't Spell Correctly Before Posting!
As a professional writer, I have sympathy for her--but you know, I'd have sympathy for her "just" as a fanfic writer, too. This dogpiling crap needs to stop.