Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-35711173-20180916040224/@comment-28266772-20180917134159

Guys, I can't tell you what to do, but please don't spend your time fixing other people's stories. Every time you get the urge to "adopt an m4r", I ask that you instead take that energy, pick a random story without any comments, read it, and post your thoughts. I guarantee you that an author like DoctorFF will appreciate feedback on their story much more than half the stuff you end up trying to fix in the m4r category.

The edit process is here to correct changes in otherwise good stories. The m4r tag is there to give authors the chance to fix their own stories. Not to flag stories for the community to rush to and fix. We will lose good authors from this wikia if it's easier to get attention by posting shitty stories and then wait for a horde of people to come fix them than it is to get attention by just posting a good story in the first place. This story has had SIX different contributors since it was made. This story has had just one single comment. Who deserves more love and attention? An author who puts the work in the first time, or one who can't be bothered to run an MS word spellcheck, read the rules, or even double check to see if their formatting carried over to the finished article?

Don't adopt an m4r. Adopt a New Story or Random Story with less than 2 comments, read it, and tell the author what you think.