Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-4833240-20140301051701/@comment-24304936-20140303182552

I think criticism in the comments section is a lazy excuse on the reader's part not to edit. If you cared so much to comment on how much you thought the story (which you just spent minutes and minutes reading) was riddled with mistakes, then please, use your superior literary chops and edit the fuck out of it. Just make sure the edits make the story better.

In my opinion, comments should be for:

A) If you liked the story, it was well-written etc etc and want to give the author some props. Let them know what about it got you off. It will encourage them for the next piece of work they do. Yes, it does feel nice knowing that someone out there likes your shit. That's one reason why we writers write.

B) If the story needs work beyond changing the story itself i.e. beyond what you could do without lynching the story completely. Let the writer know that although they may have put effort into it, they need to work on this point of the story or that. Grammar or spelling should never be a reason to leave a comment. Stop being fucking lazy and make it better. Comments such as "Dis iz shit" or "Omg sooo dum" are ones that I find hilarious because they were probably written by a mouth-breathing basement warrior with a fifth-grade reading level. No one will ever take them seriously and they always graduate into trollhood. If you get offended and want to jump off the George Washington Bridge after reading a comment like that, you need your head examined.