Notices tagged with ficrating

Notices

  1. deitarion ssokolow

    # 5 of 5. Look out, world... a Naruto and Sasuke who've been time-looping for ages are going on vacation. http://ur1.ca/kxib

    about 12 days ago from web at Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  2. deitarion ssokolow

    # 5 of 5. What delightful insanity may happen if Yui Ikari and Kyoko Zeppelin Soryuu were still alive? http://ur1.ca/kp2f

    about 15 days ago from web
  3. deitarion ssokolow

    # 4 of 5. Story had lots of potential, but ruined it when the Cylons used "movie hacking" on a superior ship. http://ur1.ca/jxx9

    about a month ago from web
  4. deitarion ssokolow

    # 3.5 of 5. Stargate-BSG crossover. Had potential, wasted by doing bland hero vs. villain. http://ur1.ca/jxvw

    about a month ago from kdemicroblog
  5. deitarion ssokolow

    # 4 of 5. Creative BSG-Farscape crossover but woefully incomplete and chapter 4 needs proofreading. http://ur1.ca/jvt5

    about a month ago from kdemicroblog
  6. deitarion ssokolow

    # 4 of 5. Interesting Ranma-SM crossover with good character exploration. A bit too much hardship for me. http://ur1.ca/jpim

    about a month ago from kdemicroblog
  7. deitarion ssokolow

    # 5 of 5. Incomplete. Harry in Slytherin. Excellent Snape and Draco character exploration. http://ur1.ca/jo6s

    about a month ago from kdemicroblog
  8. deitarion ssokolow

    # 5 of 5. Senshi and Dark Kingdom alike mistake Ranma and Ryoga for a rival dark power. Amazing writing. http://ur1.ca/jno0

    about a month ago from kdemicroblog
  9. deitarion ssokolow

    # 4.5 of 5. With Buffy gone indefinitely, the gang decide to pay Ethan Rayne to "He-Slayer" Xander. http://ur1.ca/isdr

    about a month ago from web
  10. deitarion ssokolow

    # 4 of 5. Harry Potter gets sent to a gender-swapped universe. Starts rough, gets better. Character-focused. http://ur1.ca/iq6j

    about a month ago from web
  11. deitarion ssokolow

    # 4.5 of 5. Naruto, Gaara, and Hinata on Team 7. Excellent characterization. Good Hanabi-focused subplot. http://ur1.ca/iowg

    about a month ago from web
  12. deitarion ssokolow

    # 4.5 of 5. Naruto takes an infiltration mission where he must use Oiroke no Jutsu. Humor ensues. http://ur1.ca/imlv

    about a month ago from web
  13. deitarion ssokolow

    # 5 THIS is how you do a lime-flavored Naruto fic with a pseudo-overpowered Naruto and a small-scale harem http://ur1.ca/im75

    about a month ago from web
  14. deitarion ssokolow

    # 4 of 5. Harry Potter gets a bodyguard... Lucius Malfoy's... unconventional... disowned squib son. http://ur1.ca/ikri

    about a month ago from web
  15. deitarion ssokolow

    # 5 What Chunin Exam Day should've been. A truly excellent groundhog fic where Sakura is the looper followed. http://ur1.ca/ikrg

    about a month ago from web
  16. deitarion ssokolow

    # 4.5 of 5. Clever groundhog fic. Naruto dies and discovers that his life is a video game. http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4823029/1/

    about a month ago from web
  17. deitarion ssokolow

    # 4 of 5. Faith is a Malfoy, Narcissa arranged the death of Lucius's first wife, and more http://ur1.ca/i7pv

    about 2 months ago from web
  18. deitarion ssokolow

    # 5 of 5. Dawn Summers ends up as Draco Malfoy's familiar after a secret Animagus screw-up http://ur1.ca/i7pr

    about 2 months ago from web
  19. deitarion ssokolow

    # 4.5 of 5 Harry Potter gains the knowledge of the SG-1 Ancients, but loses his own in the attempt to save him http://ur1.ca/gx4l

    about 2 months ago from web
  20. deitarion ssokolow

    # 4.5 Jiraya sees Naruto's "retrieve Sasuke" obsession as history repeating. Naruto plans to prove him wrong. http://ur1.ca/gptg

    about 2 months ago from web
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[edit] #fic_rating

[edit] Primary audience

Fanfiction readers and reviewers

[edit] Definition

A micro-review of a work of fanfiction intended to aid potential readers in finding new entertainment.

[edit] Usage

#fic_rating [rating] [details] [url]

[edit] Rating

A value from 1.0 through 5.0 in steps of 0.5

[edit] Details

A sentence or two satisfying as many of the following criteria as possible:

  • Tells the reader which series is/are being used as a base. (eg. Mention a distinctive character/place name, job title, etc.)
  • Conveys why a reader would want to read this particular story. (Ideally, the core plot concept... but if that's common, the plot element you enjoyed most is a good candidate)
  • In the case of a poor rating, quickly details what's wrong with the story.

If you would like examples of how to accomplish this in 140 characters or less, please see my use of this format on Identi.ca [1] or Twitter. [2]

[edit] Further Suggestions

Voluntary standardization of ratings also benefits readers. In my experience, the following interpretations of ratings tend to hold true:

  • 1.0: Literally unreadable
  • 2.0: So out-of-character it's painful.
  • 3.0: Ho-hum. Nothing bad, but nothing good either. (Boring)
  • 4.0: Good.
  • 5.0: Excellent.

I advise reserving half ratings for stories firmly on the borderline between two integer ratings or where one aspect deserves a high rating but another deserves a low one. (eg. A great story horribly in need of proofreading or a story that started out excellent and then got stale.)

Use of detail levels beyond half-ratings is advised against as it generally becomes difficult for the reviewer to accurately determine what rating a story deserves. (You'll end up either having inaccurate ratings or having to go back and re-tweet old ratings to correct the decimal portion to a more appropriate value relative to a new story you've found)

At the top end (5.0), ratings can be a little vague ("Excellent" vs. "Award-winning") but, after a lot of thought, the best solution I've come up with is simply to use awards or a shortlist to denote the handful of stories that are beyond excellent. To do otherwise tends to run into problems with how people interpret ratings.

Finally, if you have an account on a StatusNet-based service like Identi.ca on which you post notices using #fic_rating on a reasonably regular basis, you are invited to add "ficratings" (plural, no underscore) to the "Tags for yourself" field in your profile.

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