(01-02-2018, 12:37 AM)Morganite Wrote: Morganite
(12-18-2017, 05:22 PM)Matrix Dragon Wrote: I get the feeling it may not show up at SB. Eleventh was pretty damn bitter and angry before he got that last threadlock. He might well post the sequel elsewhere. As for this chapter, eh, it's better than the last few, but still feels very 'going through the motions' compared to earlier parts.
I can't really blame him. There seemed to be a lot of stuff there that crossed the line from "Here's how you can improve your story" to "Here's how you can turn your story from the story you want to tell into the story I want", which gets old fast.
Though after reading some of the complaints about the final (non-epilogue) chapter and then rereading it, I'm finding I appreciate it more than I did the first time around. So, uh... good job?
-Morgan.
Eh, speaking as someone who actually helped sort through that with Xeno, that isn't remotely what happened. Legit problems with the Salem chapter were notated and totaled something along the lines of sixteen distinct problems. 11th and GL noted this and said they would work on it to address those issues, then went silent for a few pages/days...
When they came back, they started insinuating that the critics were in fact people who had not read the fic at all, but were 'new users' coming into their thread to flame/troll. They also claimed that the subject of the story was never about the characters, but the overall merging of the two fandoms in the crossover.
One user called them out for that last claim, and pointed out that 99.9% of the story, up until that final update, had been about the Characters, not about the merging settings.
The Co-authors promptly declared that said user was threadbanned, told him to get the fuck out, and generally switched from implying and insinuating to outright saying that many, if not all of the critics were trolls.
Another user called them out for THAT, pointing out that the criticism was legitimate, and that the reason people were starting to get pissed was entirely because of how the Authors were handling the criticism.
The Co-authors, as well as a bunch of hugboxers, promptly declared this user to be a troll, and flamed and insulted him.
We had a spreadsheet and combed through all the pages to try and make sense of this. The critiques given were well-thought out and detailed and there was only hostile action from critics in response to the authors being jerks. :/ It was a shame because I was enjoying the story, mostly, but I don't know what was going on with that Salem stuff.