*FRUSTRATION*
Sep. 28th, 2004 07:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynneA side effect of being a FA coder that I never expected is that people send me owls notifying me of updates to their stories when all I've done is create a review thread for them.
This is happening with one person in particular. I coded the first chapter of her Schnoogle story, reading nothing but the summary and a cursory check to make sure it was fine, and noticed with distaste that it was a Sirius/OFC story, which, although I've read Interwoven and various other very good Sirius/OFC stories, I am not a fan of.
But now she sends me owls every time she updates. And I keep trying to owl her back and ask her to take me off her update list because oi, I've never even read the story and I have no intention of doing so, I just created the damn review thread (which people should bloody do themselves as it's not bloody hard!), but every time I try, her owl box is full. So tonight I get another update notice and try to owl her back, but again, the owl box is full. And then I try to email her from her profile, but she's unplottable. Finally I take her email address from her fic page, and by this time I'm frustrated enough that I'm not as polite as I'd like to be. *sigh*
It's inordinately annoying--almost as much as yellow font that I have to remove manually. Or people who create their own review threads and then don't link to them in the submissions form (neatly defeating the purpose of creating your own review thread at all, as we coders still have to go in and code your fic that way). And people who seem to think that we're a beta-reading service, telling us to just fix all their errors for them when that's not the point at all.
Geez, I've been having a bad day. And I haven't even mentioned how annoyed school has made me--it's Homecoming Week, today's theme was "Battle of the sexes" where girls have to wear pink and boys blue, and completely aside from the fact that I don't even like pink and so own nothing of that color to wear (I wore complete blue), there's just something about that theme that I find offensive. I can't quite pinpoint it (my brain is so not working properly), but I just...urgh. (Okay, guess I've mentioned it now. :p)
Which means that Anonymous Person Who Bought Me More Userpic Time, you are an angel of mercy and I love you desperately. Tell me who you are?
This is happening with one person in particular. I coded the first chapter of her Schnoogle story, reading nothing but the summary and a cursory check to make sure it was fine, and noticed with distaste that it was a Sirius/OFC story, which, although I've read Interwoven and various other very good Sirius/OFC stories, I am not a fan of.
But now she sends me owls every time she updates. And I keep trying to owl her back and ask her to take me off her update list because oi, I've never even read the story and I have no intention of doing so, I just created the damn review thread (which people should bloody do themselves as it's not bloody hard!), but every time I try, her owl box is full. So tonight I get another update notice and try to owl her back, but again, the owl box is full. And then I try to email her from her profile, but she's unplottable. Finally I take her email address from her fic page, and by this time I'm frustrated enough that I'm not as polite as I'd like to be. *sigh*
It's inordinately annoying--almost as much as yellow font that I have to remove manually. Or people who create their own review threads and then don't link to them in the submissions form (neatly defeating the purpose of creating your own review thread at all, as we coders still have to go in and code your fic that way). And people who seem to think that we're a beta-reading service, telling us to just fix all their errors for them when that's not the point at all.
Geez, I've been having a bad day. And I haven't even mentioned how annoyed school has made me--it's Homecoming Week, today's theme was "Battle of the sexes" where girls have to wear pink and boys blue, and completely aside from the fact that I don't even like pink and so own nothing of that color to wear (I wore complete blue), there's just something about that theme that I find offensive. I can't quite pinpoint it (my brain is so not working properly), but I just...urgh. (Okay, guess I've mentioned it now. :p)
Which means that Anonymous Person Who Bought Me More Userpic Time, you are an angel of mercy and I love you desperately. Tell me who you are?
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Date: 2004-09-29 01:54 am (UTC)