Bitter much?
It's not the Canon authors job to recruit new authors, that's just ridiculous. If someone feels that their stories are good enough they can ask the canon authors to be considered for inclusion. That's how most of the new canon authors have been added.
It's not their job to read fanfiction either.
And I've read a lot of the fanficion stories, and most of them are sub par. As per Sturgeon's Law - 90% of everything is crap. This even applies to the canon stories, some of them are much better than others.
But really, this free entertainment, being provided by amateur authors in their spare time. They organized themselves and set up a an over-arcing plot and timeline to fit their stories in, and now they run website and forums (still for free!) so that their fans could talk and post fan fiction of their own.
It's fine if you don't like Whateley, it's a niche genre. But acting as the the authors have responsibilities to the fan fiction writers because of the free entertainment and forums they provide is both ludicrous and rather ungrateful.
Indeed. While I don't like the series, I find myself agreeing with the above commenter. The reviews aren't about just bashing the authors, but about constructive criticism, so tone down the rage at the canon authors and explain why you think fanfiction is better then the canon stories
"Wow. Sarcasm. That's original." -Dr. Horrible
tl;dr version: the reviewer whines because he was not accepted as an author. Oh, and creates a new account just to grief of course. See GIFT
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Boldly failing where no one has failed before
Okay, so I have to agree with the other reviews, that most the Canon stories are too long and absurdly boring. Dr. Bender is the only talented author among the Canon writers.
So anyways, a lot of the canon stories flat out suck. To make matters worse, on the Whateley forum, the Canon writers are referred to as the "Canon Cabal." Arrogant much?
Anyways, this Canon Cabal consisting of all the Canon writers, ultimately decides who becomes a Canon writer, out of all the aspiring fan-fiction writers who post their stories on that forum.
Here's the fucking problem. MOST of the fan-fiction authors are better writers than the canon writers. They write better. Their characters are far more likable and less sue'ish. And their stories are FUN to read. But how many of these FF writers make it into the canon cabal? Almost none. Last time a canon author was added was 2008. And from what I can see, has only written one story which isn't very good.
Guess what these Canon authors say on the matter? They DON'T EVEN READ the fan-fiction stories most the time. They just ignore their fans like that. As if the fan-fiction writers are all garbage writers. Arrogant much? YES! Biggest single turn off about this story universe. Especially when the canon stories are...let's be fucking honest here...not that great. The writing is often dry and overly-drawn out. Characters are sue'tastic. Story lines lack decent villains who aren't just evil for the lulz.
To make matters worse, if you speak out in nearly anyway against this practice of screwing over the lowly FF writers, or criticize the canon stories, you get flamed. They literally try and run you off the forum. Seriously seriously flamed. It's like putting an opinionated person into a room full of delusional zombies who can't think for themselves. So yeah, the fan community is seriously fucked up, and is a HUGE turn-off to lurkers like me who have considered posting, but haven't, and ultimately read all the canon stories and was not impressed.
My opinion? These arrogant Canon authors should read through all these FF stories and start to add some of the FF writers who have the skill, and are desirous of the job. That would seriously improve the story universe. As it is, the FF Universe is 10 times better than the Canon univ.