Sorry, no story updates today. Last night an issue was brought to my attention when I received not one, but two separate threats in my fanfiction.net reviews. The user starts with a hateful flame, quoted below.
I honestly wanted to like this story, but this is just bad. It's akin to sniffing a moldy egg casserole from the back of my fridge: a stupid waste of time for something rotten that belongs in the trash.
Now, if any of you have recieved a similar message, do not take it seriously. They literally copied and pasted a prewritten message into a box on a website. That's all. I looked this up and found reports of similar messages dated 3 months ago on forums. The rest of the message was similar, though not exact.
The message goes on to say they are contacting me on behalf of a "Friend," who they named in the review. Now, I won't be posting this name here, because if it is a real person, I don't know that they are at all connected. Like I said, the earlier reports were similar, only they named a different user. If you've recieved a similar message, I'd advise you not to contact this person. I will share what I did and encourage you to do it too.
The reviewer instructs me to review one of their stories. They issued several threats against me, see below. I *** to abbreviate a couple of swear words because I don't post that stuff:
If you fail to comply by not responding or worse yet, attempt to leave a negative review, I will report your account to both The Critics United as well as the other site administrators for deletion. Do not think of blocking or reporting us. I will find out and there will be consequences if you do something stupid to her.
If you troll my friend, be warned we will troll you, your fics and all of your followers. We will also place your s***fic in our other friend's community, S*** Fics That Deserve a Good Flame, so that everyone here will make fun of you. Since we don't want it to come to that, just write a short, good review for her stories and we'll leave you alone.
Now, as to what I did, I reported this user. I emailed the support address: [email protected] In the subject bar I put [Abuse] Threatening Review because I was told it helps them to sort messages by subject. If you receive the same message, I'd advise you to do the same. Don't respond to their threats, and don't contact the named user. I have all of my stories on my PC, so I wouldn't mind publishing them elsewhere, if I had to. They have no real power.
Now, If the sender of this message reads this, I have a special message for you. If you ever contact me again, whether on Fanfic.net reviews, private messages, or elsewhere, I will be contacting the police.