Okay, that's it, I'm turning myself and everyone on the MSR in (YET AGAIN).
I'm a bit undecided on whether this should actually go on fandom_rant instead, but... oh god, Mary Sue Report, will you EVER lay off on the wank? You're going to make yourself blind at this rate!

See folks, today, we had a new member come in and introduce herself. Nothing out of the ordinary, right? Sure, until we hit this line:

Anyways, that's it for now, but I promise I'm going to find a fic worthy of a flamefest.

For the last time, folks: THAT IS NOT WHAT THE MSR WAS EVER - OR SHOULD EVER - BE ABOUT.

Anyway, at first, people pat her on the back and whatever, while I try to hold my tongue until I can come up with a way of saying my two cents in the matter without it being more bitchtastic than it needs to be. That is, until kannaophelia has the common sense to call her out on that statement, and explain how this is all supposed to be for FUN. People come in to back her up, including an excellent point brought up by our own dawnswalker about how the community will wind up getting ToS'ed if it stops being about the humor and seriously turns into what it's been acting like lately (There IS a difference between witty, snarky humor and just being plain mean, people.), and someone else pointing out the rather unusual spike in angry authors coming in during the past month or so (*adjusts that person's super-sekrit disguise over here on JF* :D), and me being progressively more and more bitchtastically wanky in the followup posts where I agree with them all and add my own two cents.

Some people, thankfully, get the point.

However, some random lurker decides to come in and accuse those of us complaining that "Well, it's all your own fault if you never have brought up the subject before," despite the fact that I think it's pretty safe to say that most of the people who've complained thus far on that thread HAVE ALREADY BEEN DOING THIS FOR AGES, JUST ABOUT EVERY SINGLE TIME THEY NOTICE SOMETHING LIKE THIS HAPPEN*. So of course, I kindly told the person to have a nice cup of SHUT THE FUCK UP please not generalize like that, thus sealing my already obvious wankiness in the whole thing.

This is still quite fresh off the grill, so there will likely be further replies on the subject to keep an eye out for.

Seriously, though: I just feel really bad for redpanda having to deal with this crap. I'm starting to think that she may need to keep one of her JournalFen codes freed up, because at the rate things are going, there's a good chance that the MSR will eventually get ToS'ed by LJ for all this bullshit**. *sigh*



*[I can certainly attest for myself, who's come in to call out people from everything from rallying people to go leave crits for an author, to people criticizing bad grammar when theirs is equally atrocious or WORSE than the author's, to people who've bitched about the MSes' making characters all OOC and then turning around to say that OMG MY HIGHLY IMPROBABLE NON-CANON COUPLE IDEA IS ALWAYS SOOOO MUCH BETTAH THAN ANY STINKY SUE, NO MATTER HOW BADLY WRITTEN!!!!!1!!11; all during the three or four months I've been a member. Just look around in the archives, and you'll find me pop up to pontificate here and there.]

**[And I think everyone on F_W can pretty much agree on THAT one, given the past history this comm had with LJ Abuse...]