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turpsWhy mail me complaining that one of the links at the MX archive has been broken for months? Fair enough if you went to read something today and the link was broken, mail me, I want people to do that. But keep trying for months then mail me to say I should get it fixed. WTF!
I can't keep track of *every* link at the archive. I wish I could but there's over 200 stories in there, sorted by title, writer and pairing. I always check each link when I upload something but sometimes a tag gets changed by accident, I won't know unless I go to use that link or someone tells me. Guess what? I don't read every story every bloody day, some I read once and never again.
I have a life. Yes I love my archive and I'm proud of it. But get real, I don't get paid for maintaining it. It's not my #1 priority, I do it because I love MX, it's a pleasure to do it, my small contribution to the fandom. That does *not* mean I'm here to get pissy mails about a mistake.Yes it's my mistake, and I will fix it, but you have *no* right to insinuate that I let things slide.
I do a lot of work for little reward at the archive. But I've made some fantastic friends because of it, and sometimes I even get e-mails praising the place. That's what makes it worthwhile, and that's the only reason I don't turn round and delete the whole fucking thing.
So yes, thank you for using my site, but next time you mail, forget the side order of snark.
I'm usually optimistic about fans/fandom but sometimes you get one that just makes me think why do I bother?
Sigh. Okay vent over, I feel better now.
I can't keep track of *every* link at the archive. I wish I could but there's over 200 stories in there, sorted by title, writer and pairing. I always check each link when I upload something but sometimes a tag gets changed by accident, I won't know unless I go to use that link or someone tells me. Guess what? I don't read every story every bloody day, some I read once and never again.
I have a life. Yes I love my archive and I'm proud of it. But get real, I don't get paid for maintaining it. It's not my #1 priority, I do it because I love MX, it's a pleasure to do it, my small contribution to the fandom. That does *not* mean I'm here to get pissy mails about a mistake.Yes it's my mistake, and I will fix it, but you have *no* right to insinuate that I let things slide.
I do a lot of work for little reward at the archive. But I've made some fantastic friends because of it, and sometimes I even get e-mails praising the place. That's what makes it worthwhile, and that's the only reason I don't turn round and delete the whole fucking thing.
So yes, thank you for using my site, but next time you mail, forget the side order of snark.
I'm usually optimistic about fans/fandom but sometimes you get one that just makes me think why do I bother?
Sigh. Okay vent over, I feel better now.
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Date: 2003-08-30 03:32 pm (UTC)Tell me about the sites going down. I've seen that on Storyfinders all the time too btw. Once my MX archive went down while Populli's servers were being changed. There wasn't a thing that I could do about it but wait. Yet I received more mails about the site being down than I had in the last year. People only write when something goes wrong in my opinion.
Again I agree about forgetting that there's a person at the other end of a mail. It takes nothing to be polite, it's so easy to be misunderstood in a mail that it's worth thinking before hitting send.
I really think if some of the complainers spent time coding and making sites, as well as writing they'd stop moaning so much. The fanfic world is like it is because of people giving up there time to create things. They do it for the love of writing or to help fandom, not money, and their actions should be respected.
Climbing down from my soap box now.