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So here's what you missed on kurt_blaine...
Many thanks to the anon on wank_report for this one; I've used some of your wording in this post. (Note: there are spoilers for an upcoming episode of Glee in the links.)

Pyroclastic, one of the wankier BNF's of the Glee fandom and a former mod of the kurt_blaine community on lj, posts a fic to said community. The drama starts in the first thread when she pretends not to know why a mod has asked her to place the spoilers in her author notes behind a cut:

boysinperil: …Just remove all the references to [the spoiler], or delete the whole thing and just post it on tumblr, because I'm tired of your being thick about this. You helped WRITE the spoiler rules, you know them.

Then windrider1967 leaves a review:

Beautiful, if a bit too polished. Still wonderfully done and sweet and hot at the same time

Pyroclastic does not like this review. She complains on her Tumblr. Even though she blacks out windrider’s name, it’s easy enough for everyone to figure out who wrote the comment.

Naderegen points out that it's mostly a compliment and the concrit isn't slamming the fic, but pyroclastic is not appeased.

Canniblaine tells windrider that pyroclastic and her minions are mocking her. Said minions then make an appearance.

Pyroclastic complains to the mods, who agree to screen the more problematic comments while also letting her know she’s pretty much working their last nerve:

Rebootuniverse: ...You know what, you're not stupid, you knew exactly what you did when you made that post, and you knew exactly what would follow. Pretend to be the innocent one all you want, but you just can't take any actual negative commentary about what you write. There are a million other ways you could have gone about asking the reviewer what they meant before making that post, even if you couldn't open the community. A dozen other choices you could have made other than one that was bordering on insulting to the reviewer and dismissive that there might be something other than a positive opinion to your fic.

Bottom line is, you react to things as if you're better than every other person on the comm, and if half of the things you say on tumblr were said here we would have had to ban you by now. But we don't, because we don't ban people for things they say and do on other communities.

Rebootuniverse comments on the entire situation on her Tumblr and receives anonymous attacks in response. (For some reason, jf won't let me create a link for this one: http://rebootuniverse.tumblr.com/post/11119180193/fucking-delete-canniblaine-and-ban-them-you-biased). There are also messages of support and people wanting to know why pyroclastic hasn't been banned yet; everything can be found on her Twitter.

Two other critical reviews are left on the fic but haven't resulted in the same kind of response (as far as I can tell). And to round it all off, the glee_anon threads on the situation are here and here.

ETA: It gets wankier: http://gleewank.tumblr.com/post/10332827277/the-epic-saga-of-p-and-her-pa-attitude

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ekaterinv
2011-10-09 07:42 am UTC (link)

Yeah. Concrit, and being able to take concrit, is one thing. Being expected to sit there and take it while people are frankly abusive is another. I had a creative writing class like the latter once. I chose to write a fantasy story, rather than the kind of "realistic" story most other people in the class praised (i.e. something where everyone was boringly miserable all the time and in which the sex was either rape or blah). Then I got to sit there while people talked about how much they despised fantasy and what a waste of time it was and why was I even bothering with this garbage and how every word I'd written was trash because it wasn't "realistic". A couple people gave actual constructive criticism, but the nasty stuff was so bad, and so nasty for the sake of being nasty, that I spent the rest of the day with my head under the covers, dropped the class the next day, and couldn't bring myself to write anything for a year.

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loopywafflehead
2011-10-09 12:18 pm UTC (link)

I'm so sorry that happened. Those people should be forced to watch episode 2x14 of Glee over and over, until they run screaming into the ocean. The writing teacher I had absolutely hated people like this. Nothing got her angrier than hearing about bad teachers who put down students and allowed abusive behaviour in their classes. She'd never allow anything like that in her classes and wouldn't hesitate to throw people out if they wouldn't behave.

I hope you've found a better class and have been writing all kinds of awesome fantasy! (Also, to combine replies, your comment above about the lube dribbling the right way resulted in a hilarious mental image that will never go away.)

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	ekaterinv 2011-10-10 02:30 am UTC (link)
	For my resume: "I got a picture of an anus stuck in someone's head." (Reply to this)(Parent)

nevadafighter
2011-10-09 08:24 pm UTC (link)

This right here is the reason my fiction writing teacher spent most of the first class explaining the difference between useful and useless criticism, and that no one was allowed to bash a particular genre just because they felt above it (and it helped that she's a sci-fi author); in other words to can the self-absorbed snooty lit-major superiority. It makes critiquing so much better when comments are focused on the elements of the story rather than on one's own preferences or prejudices.

I'm sorry you had to go through that, and a pox on those idiots.

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	ekaterinv 2011-10-10 02:30 am UTC (link)
	She sounds like an awesome teacher, and thanks. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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