diabolical absolutely diabolical, its outrageous its discrimination. i happen to know there are people who pose fanfics in english when there first language is not even english. for example they post a story with 1000 words, 600 of those words are mispelt due to tranlation there is $600 worth of fee's already. i know the majority of people who work for MN and MNFF are american no offense intended but come on you guys don't spell proper english. there will be an uproar there will be no need to enforce these charges as people will stop submitting and the only who visit will be those who read the fan fics how long will it last a couple of months if that. is it a coincidence that the queue is currently over 300 stories and if each story has on average 5 spelling mistakes there is $1500 made for mnff there, i can guarentee that there will be canon errors in some mods eyes so lets say 50 on average = $100, next 100 will have multiple catergories another $300, leave out cliché's
100 incorrect summaries or titles = $1000, 50 characterisation problems = $1000, and 100 dialogue errors $5000. lets afdd that together then 1500+100+300+1000+1000+5000= $8900 made from 300 submits. that is more than enough to fund a site like this for a few months if not a year if my calculations! DIABOLICAL!
Okay I am a beta reader, and we don't get paid to read peoples stories and fix them up and make them all pretty so that MNFF will accept the story. Why don't you see if more people will mod for you? I have offered my services several times only to be turned down for one reason or an other. And this is one person WHO WOULD MOD FOR FREE! ***JUMPS UP AND DOWN**** HELLO IM HERE!. But i will just be looked over again and again and again. So wonderful whatever day it is. And happy birthday, F & G.
Wow... Forget the charge for the stories! You could just charge people $20 for every vent! This might work better than therapy!
I'm not going to say whether I believe this or not. All I'm going to say that this is a non-profit site... ;)
dragonwings - Not a bad idea.
All negative posts past this comment will be charged a cent each character.
How do you like that for tyranny? -_-
Yes, unfortunately, I am just kidding
*wink*
Oh, come on. I'm so broke I won't be able to submit now! I'll have to get a really good beta....
*snicker*
What is funny is that some of you people posting have been on here as long as I have IF NOT LONGER and half of them still don't pay attention. CONSTANT VIGILANCE PEOPLE!
*throws a pillow at Marauder by midnight!****
*blinks* *rereads* *prays that this is a [really good] April Fool's joke*
I just won't submit anything until I know for sure though =]
Has anyone ever cut and pasted a story in from Word and had errors that weren't in the original document? And the best fanfictions have errors--there are even gaps in canon. I've had some really fantastic betas who still missed a few things. No rudeness or venting intended, because I love and am ridiculously loyal to this site, but this won't cut out "bad" or "substandard" stories (that's the job of the wonderful moderators, a lovely bunch of people unique to this site)...only stories whose authors don't have the money to pay for inevitable mistakes. That was a run-on sentence, and I'm an English major.
It's not a matter of "won't pay." It's a matter of "can't." I'll chip in a couple of bucks gladly, but not fifty, and not because I have dialogue errors in one story. On top of it all, I'm rather insecure about my work; I don't have any stories up or in queue that I feel good enough about to pay for. All right, enough said. Happy birthday to the Weasley twins! Now I've got to go write a philosophy paper.
Thank goodness I got me a beta! Phew!
Well, I have money to spare for a couple of boxes of Owl-Os...-pulls out wallet- How much are those?
:D
Alright not that I think that the mods are serious, but I wouldnt mind sending a donation. But its all I have. I couldnt afford all that money all the time, I suck. But any way. I will help out as much as I can if it is that you guys do need.
YES! Surefire annihilation of every dialogue error that has ever existed on MNFF! I'm totally with you on this one, mods. Great idea. :D *LMAO*
Wow, thank goodness I just got a job! $10 for a poor summary? Geez. *snickers*
:P
LOL, this is a harsh joke mods! A good way to get everyone riled up for April 1st!
You're right, guys. With all the horrible stuff you have to put up with, you deserve the money. I better go get myself a part-time job. ~Chanté P.S. Do you think betas could start charging the same rates? God knows, we deserve it.
$50 for dialogue errors?!?! Can't I just promise you guys my first born like I did when I had to pay for Catholic school? What, suddenly you're better than the Vatican?
Goodness gracious...for a minute there I thought you were serious. Charging people for NOT getting their work published on the site...now there's a notion. XD
I belong to another fan site for a different series of books too, and I think that this site could do what they do. (It's a forum, but still, MN could do basically the same thing) Everyone has access to the main part of it, but to get to a few selected special features, you have to pay. Or people are just allowed to donate some money if they want. But people aren't forced to pay just for the little stuff.
I'm going to contact MN about this later, but if anyone want to see what i'm talking about, just seach "Young Wizards Forum" and click on the third link.
Good point, Nikki! Someone should inform Jo ... :] I'm really hoping this is a joke, guys, or else you're going to lose a lot of good writers.
Oh for Merlin's sake, people, sit down. Does everyone feel better after their venting? Good. Now, if you are all finished complaining, I suggest you join me over here in the corner for a butterbeer and enjoy this nice (massive) common room, complete with fluffy pillows and maybe even a few fluffy fanfics . . . for a fee. ;-)