b) leaving very short, copy-pasted identical comments
both of these would have been forgivable, except
c) she made it impossible to game away from her by requesting absolutely every single pairing in her fandoms, including crack and rare pairs, without any sign that she actually cared for these pairings
this was compounded by
d) she requested a bunch of megafandoms, which had the effect of annoying more people than usual
oh, and not to forget
e) the only way to avoid her was to not request or offer the fandoms she requested, and when a lot of people drop a canon because of one person, people can't even treat better requests, because better requests don't exist
Then when people boiled over and ranted on meme, she flounced. She could just as well have reduced the number of fandoms she requests each exchange and reduced the number of pairings she requested in each fandom. Probably would have helped to leave slightly better comments too.
Re: Chocolate Box
a) being a bad writer and
b) leaving very short, copy-pasted identical comments
both of these would have been forgivable, except
c) she made it impossible to game away from her by requesting absolutely every single pairing in her fandoms, including crack and rare pairs, without any sign that she actually cared for these pairings
this was compounded by
d) she requested a bunch of megafandoms, which had the effect of annoying more people than usual
oh, and not to forget
e) the only way to avoid her was to not request or offer the fandoms she requested, and when a lot of people drop a canon because of one person, people can't even treat better requests, because better requests don't exist
Then when people boiled over and ranted on meme, she flounced. She could just as well have reduced the number of fandoms she requests each exchange and reduced the number of pairings she requested in each fandom. Probably would have helped to leave slightly better comments too.