User blog:VicGeorge2K9/A difference between expressing an opinion and harassment

Let me get this off my chest. It's okay for you and I to hate something even in the things we like. It's okay to hate what others write in their fanfiction stories if it doesn't jibe with what you know of the characters being used in the stories. What isn't okay is to constantly harass people about what you hate, because YOU DIDN'T CREATE IT. You didn't sit down and think about how to create that particular story that somebody else wrote. You just read the results of their work and just simply didn't like what they did, which in itself is okay. But instead of just ignoring the work and whatever else the person did, you decide to make the author's life miserable because they didn't live up to your expectations. That's NOT okay.

Another thing you could have done with your hatred of the work is to create something better yourself if you've got the talent for it, because if you really want it so bad, you might as well invest the time and effort to create the better work yourself. That's why I write stories like "Papa's Big Crush" and "Papa Smurf & Mama Smurfette" in the EMPATH series, as my way of expressing my hatred for having Papa Smurf be amorously interested in Smurfette. That's why I write "The No Hug Zone", to express my hatred for the cartoon show episode "A Hug For Grouchy". If somebody hated that Hefty and Smurfette didn't get married, they should write their own story of how the two fell in love and got married. Just DO NOT expect the world to write the stories that you want to see but refuse to write yourself if you've got the talent for it, because it's just plain laziness.

I'm sorry that I have to ban someone in here because she didn't want to control how she conducted herself in the expression of her opinions, but it should serve as a lesson that harassing people about fanfiction that you don't like is NOT okay.