Amazon warnings that would actually be useful

[delphipsmith]

The little icons that go with each warning are HILARIOUS. I think my favorite is "excessive use of passive voice" XD

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[magnetic-pole.livejournal.com]

I love these! M.

[nocturnus33]

Hahahahaha "excessive use of passive voice" is my sin. I can't get my thick skull to understand how to talk English without the excessive use of passive voice.

[mywitch.livejournal.com]

Oh man, these are fantastic! LOL

[gelsey.livejournal.com]

Lol!

[gelsey.livejournal.com]

I used to have that problem. Now my poor ficcers I edit for have to deal with my self consciousness of it.

[thickety.livejournal.com]

I feel like there should be an option for a little orange circle in the corner of these, like an "unread message" alert, to let you know when the offense is so over-the-top as to be a feature rather than a bug. I can definitely find myself in the mood for an unrelatable, overwritten Mary Sue who up and dies in the second act.

[delphipsmith]

Ha! Yes :)

[delphipsmith]

AO3 and fanfiction.net should formally adopt their use, don't you think?

[delphipsmith]

I would love to see fanfiction.net adopt these XD

[delphipsmith]

I might start using them on the stuff I beta ;)

[therealsnape.livejournal.com]

Fantastic! I love them. They would just be so useful.

[dreamy-dragon73.livejournal.com]

Hee! Excellent!

[nocturnus33]

It's good for your ficcers to have a concern beta. My problem is that I don't have awareness of my use of passive voice. I run "Grammarly", my English grammar and plagiarism checker, and the program always "accuse" me of doing it. I just don't know how to turn a passive voice into an active one. I feel the more I use English the more careless I'm being with grammar. ...my last English class was at 1987! I need to go back to school. ;)

[lash-larue.livejournal.com]

*Snorts *

I may adopt these for my own stuff.

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[droxy.livejournal.com]

These are funny but I do not know what head hopping is.

[delphipsmith]

Head hopping is where the author changes POV at random, whenever they feel like it. Like in the middle of a scene which is 90% from Jane's POV, suddenly we slip into John's POV for a paragraph or two. Very distracting and hard to read. Not to be confused with third person omniscient, which is a legit POV where you are in everyone's head all the time.

[delphipsmith]

I know, right? I could warn myself lol

[delphipsmith]

I'm thinking I will start using them when I beta...

[delphipsmith]

I find myself wishing they came in sticker form. I would buy a hundred sheets of them and stick them all over stuff I read before selling it at the second-hand bookstore XD

[droxy.livejournal.com]

Ah,OK LOL.

[arcanetrivia]

Risible use of pretentious sesquipedalians, lol.

[haruhi-fan.livejournal.com]

Ah never used Amazon and only know of the site existing and when the news notes when it has to pull controversial stuff from it (there's a recent book by a prisoner named Pickton that's in the news here). I would say as a pro wrestling fan that first one about plot inconsistencies is badly needed weekly. Ditto the Sniff/Smile/Snarl promo warnings for guys who shout their entire scripted lines or smile smugly (see Ryback and Roman Reigns). Nice share!