I've always admired how open you are about the fic habit. Not so much here, as you know, says she who hid the Star Wars radio drama in her underwear drawer and ripped the covers off all the Star Wars novels. Honestly, I treated them like they were porn when I bought them at the old B. Dalton in my office building. I've got book covers framed in my office now, so that's progress of sorts.

You are quite right -- you put something out, you need to be prepared to take the hits. However, given the availability of the back key, I don't know why someone would deliberately seek out poorly written fic solely to leave harsh reviews, trash and mock the young writers who put it out there, and write scathing how to's when good fic languishes for lack of FB. Those who do this have said that their furious efforts to mock the bad fic they seek out are to restore canon to its pur(er) state, show respect for authorial intent, and for their own catharsis. Fine, though I don't find those reasons especially compelling personally. I don't question anyone's "right" to do these things but when I see bullying behavior, at some point, I'm not just going to give it a pass.