So a little context: I was reading a very nice, well-written and plotty fic and I just so happened to snoop around their bookmarks because i like reading the little snippets readers leave there. And there was this one comment there 'needs Beta' which is fine and all because the author mentioned in their tags one of those cheesy, cute comments like 'no Beta we die like....'

For me personally, i don't mind grammatical errors as long as the fic is up my alley because English is not my first language and people can make mistakes. Also having a Beta is a luxury not a lot of us can afford simply because we might not have friends who are into the same stuff we are.

So out of curiosity, I clicked on the profile of that particular bookmarker and saw that they have around 1000+ bookmarks with little comments such as

  • No
  • No way
  • Needs Beta
  • unreadable, a lot of grammatical errors
  • would read fine if there are no grammatical errors
  • no worlbuilding, don't like it

And these are just a few that I'm typing from the top of my head. There were many more.

I didn't like the tone and the fact that these were all public bookmarks because as an author if I'm putting out work and I'm getting to see such bookmarks, it would sort of lower my morales.

Anyways, I made sure to leave a good long comment for the author.

What do you guys think?