[Frustration Times 100]

Well, that was ... informative and comical. And I thought, as a non-writing reader, I'd put in my two cents, as it were.

Why I don't (always) review a fic I'm reading:

1) It's finished, you don't intend to change it, any critique I offer is going to be poorly received at this point. (This is true, I've got several examples from over on FFNet - did you know you could flame a review? Why, yes, Obi-Wan, you can.)

2) "Concrit welcome" - No, it's not. Even if all I have to say is "I like your story, truly I do. I would be better able to understand parts of it, though, if there were more formal punctuation." (and I give examples from the text "as is" and "corrected") I get back "What are you, some kind of comma nazi?" And some very negative commentary that follows that statement that I don't feel the need to share. No matter how much other positive review I left.

3) Review whores do make me mad, and turn me off. Even if your story had me hot and bothered until then, at that point, not only have you just killed my buzz, you've also made me want to stop reading your story - I don't care *how* good it is.

4) It's a WIP, you're not a review whore, and the only thing I could possibly say is "good work"... And I really couldn't expand on it to tell you *what* I thought was good about it. Some of you seem to think it would be a good ego booster, and maybe it would be. I try to leave more substantive reviews when I do leave one, however.

5) I'm blissed out on the orgasm I just had, thank you very much, and I don't type when I'm blissed out.

There are other reasons, but those are the main (somewhat positive) reasons I could give. Because I have received such negative response to any substantial critique I've given, I don't bother. Why should I? I'm here to be entertained. I'll try to help you be better at it, if you want, but since the response I get to "Let me help you entertain me better" is "F* off b*!" why should I critique anything?

So, I leave a line in my profile that seems to sum it up best: "I say what I mean. And sometimes it's cruel." Because, for the majority of authors (maybe not the ones posting on this board, but they are out there), anything more than "good job" is cruel. And I refuse to leave a "good work, post soon" review.

There you have it, ladies and gentlemen, for what it's worth to you. I'm probably not the only reader out there who has experienced review-flaming (I never thought about it before it happened and my god was it a shock) who no longer leaves reviews on things that could truly be improved. Although, I will say that reason number five is a predominate reason on this site.

loling oh man. I had to register just so I could tell you these three words:

I love you.