Hmmmm. Wonder if your ingrates have cousins??? LOL
One of my ingrates: A person posted on jackdaniel slash fic looking for a beta. After much gnashing of teeth and anguishing, I decided to offer help. She took me up. I spent oodles of time doing the beta. And while she did send me a rather short, terse Thank You email (and that was all she wrote).... there were no credits, no nothing when she got around to posting the fic. And the real pisser....she acted on a greater percentage of my comments. It's not like I need the glory or whatever, but when I read her comments to the feedback posted, she responded like her 'finished' story sprung out of her brain without needing any rewrite or beta work. And while she may write fantastic J/D fic, I won't be reading any of it.
I know this sounds whinny on my part, but it's repeat situations like this that has somewhat driven me out of fandomish kinda stuff. I've gotten more selective with my time and who I help. If I even get a hint of a person being a ingrate, then adios. I have other things to waste spend my time on. :)
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Date: 2006-07-09 06:54 pm (UTC)One of my ingrates: A person posted on jackdaniel slash fic looking for a beta. After much gnashing of teeth and anguishing, I decided to offer help. She took me up. I spent oodles of time doing the beta. And while she did send me a rather short, terse Thank You email (and that was all she wrote).... there were no credits, no nothing when she got around to posting the fic. And the real pisser....she acted on a greater percentage of my comments. It's not like I need the glory or whatever, but when I read her comments to the feedback posted, she responded like her 'finished' story sprung out of her brain without needing any rewrite or beta work. And while she may write fantastic J/D fic, I won't be reading any of it.
I know this sounds whinny on my part, but it's repeat situations like this that has somewhat driven me out of fandomish kinda stuff. I've gotten more selective with my time and who I help. If I even get a hint of a person being a ingrate, then adios. I have other things to
wastespend my time on. :)End of my little sympathetic rant. lol