My policy is to never, ever engage with negative comments. In my opinion, you can't win and in my experience, in all cases, but one especially persistent annoyance, this has meant they stopped at one comment and left me alone. You can also disable anonymous commenting. I just had an anonymous commenter lecture me about how women don't think any different from men based on something I put in an old fic. Not abusive but just 'whatever.'
Almost all of the comments I get are positive, but here are some that are kind of annoying that I've gotten:
-telling me not to appropriate his culture for my 'little stories' (when I put a Chinese fable in one of my fics) -Forgiving me for 'what I did to them.' (Which I think was put Holmes & Watson in a threesome with Victor Trevor, but I'm not certain. I did a lot of things to them in that fic :/) -John wouldn't cheat on Sherlock! (on an open relationship poly fic that was properly tagged) -This is scary! Sherlock and John should talk! (on a horror fic where miscommunication was part of the plot). -unsolicited critique (which I never want), unsolicited advice (which I never take) and even (once, perhaps the most annoying) an American Britpicking me and being wrong. -not properly tagging, which is a valid criticism. I fix things (add tags and warnings--but I still never reply to the comment itself) and I think I do better than I used to in preventing such comments but it still crops up when readers are surprised by how dark a fic is. Sometimes in the haste to get a thing posted, I forget and sometimes I forget that other people are triggered by certain things, like death and suicide and whatnot, which don't trigger me.
I've not had full-on trolls so I can't speak to that.
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Date: 2018-09-09 11:03 pm (UTC)Almost all of the comments I get are positive, but here are some that are kind of annoying that I've gotten:
-telling me not to appropriate his culture for my 'little stories' (when I put a Chinese fable in one of my fics)
-Forgiving me for 'what I did to them.' (Which I think was put Holmes & Watson in a threesome with Victor Trevor, but I'm not certain. I did a lot of things to them in that fic :/)
-John wouldn't cheat on Sherlock! (on an open relationship poly fic that was properly tagged)
-This is scary! Sherlock and John should talk! (on a horror fic where miscommunication was part of the plot).
-unsolicited critique (which I never want), unsolicited advice (which I never take) and even (once, perhaps the most annoying) an American Britpicking me and being wrong.
-not properly tagging, which is a valid criticism. I fix things (add tags and warnings--but I still never reply to the comment itself) and I think I do better than I used to in preventing such comments but it still crops up when readers are surprised by how dark a fic is. Sometimes in the haste to get a thing posted, I forget and sometimes I forget that other people are triggered by certain things, like death and suicide and whatnot, which don't trigger me.
I've not had full-on trolls so I can't speak to that.