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On the 7^th night of Hanukkah my vindictive author gave to me....

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[(Anonymous)]

"How you were raised" lol ok. I'm always happy to beta for my friends and never expect my name on their fic in return. They say "thanks so much, I appreciate it!" and I enjoy seeing them get comments from readers, the end. I can't imagine being salty that they didn't thank me ENOUGH, publicly.

And let's be real, sometimes you beta as best you can but don't WANT your name on the end product.

[(Anonymous)]

My friends usually got (when we shared fandoms and I got actual beta passes from them) "thanks to the usual suspects" or something similar in my notes rather than individual mentions, and they usually did the same kind of thing in their notes.

(Your last point is why I no longer do last-minute hippo SPAG passes for late pinch hits where you're told canon knowledge is not needed. "Fix that comma splice! Those four words aren't correctly spelled! You switched tense here!" might be all I signed up to tell a person, but having done that once on a story that then got wanked over as spitefic, I was glad my name was nowhere near it.)

(FWIW, from my limited interaction with the writer, it didn't seem to be actual spitefic. They just picked up a pinch hit at the 11th hour and, it turns out, genuinely misunderstood the prompts.)