Roving packs of flamers DO exist[]
And they DO troll FF.net, trying to force writers they don't like off the site. My friend was attacked by one so hard she quit fanfic for years.
This person: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1066632/Zukos_Flamethrower_PWNS_j00
In fact, this person rounded up a posse and spammed her until she gave up and left the site in tears. This was quite a while ago, as suggested by the update date of this profile... but it still happens even today. She has a whole posse of flamers that run around just to antagonize bad writers off the site. And this isn't an isolated incident: more of these guys and other bands of them exist elsewhere on FF.Net. In fact, here's a whole ff.net group that goes around doing this to Suethors. http://forum.fanfiction.net/forum/Flamers_Paradise_by_the_Blue_Screen_Light/24107/
And it's not the only one.
So yeah, source needed tag can be removed?
Aster Corbett 02:16, October 21, 2011 (UTC)
- No worries. I'm actually really glad of the source needed tags; it's giving me the chance to go and try and find sources. Though I suspect that some of the ones on charge pages are tagged over sarcasm and unfindable examples. Maybe it would be better if we sent out a cry to the community: "Please find this charge in a badfic, and give us a textual example!" Aster Corbett 15:07, October 21, 2011 (UTC)
- The idea is that people with source information can edit the article to include the missing information, so yes, go for it. I didn't mean to imply that such a thing couldn't exist, or anything else—I just didn't have the information myself or know where to find it. ~Neshomeh 04:19, October 21, 2011 (UTC)