u/BEANBOOZZLE

Has anyone else seen fics from authors that genuinely believe they’re posting into an algorithm, and tag like crazy to get ‘reach’? Most of these fics are just clickbait using the most popular tags, or one massive oneshot compilation from thousands of different fandoms. It’s tiring at this point.

These authors need to realise they’ll only get themselves blocked or muted for treating the archive like an algorithm, so the exact opposite of what they want. I think almost every author knows at this point, if someone wants to read your fic, tag it right and your audience will come. It might be a small audience, because you’ve written something that just has a small target audience, but your audience will come regardless.

No one will read your fic if they don’t want to. No one will pity read it. So if you mistag your fic to mislead readers into reading it, you’re just going to get muted, blocked or reported. You will never get what you want from tricking readers into reading your fic that they actually wouldn’t want to read if it was tagged correctly.

As someone who is mainly a Casey fan, and not entirely interested in any character but the main group in the first 100 issues, am I going to enjoy the comics going forward? I mean, I’ve already noticed a lack of Casey and a lot of new characters who I can’t really get into.

Also, I can’t explain why exactly but I really don’t enjoy reading about mutant town or having so many mutant characters, I don’t know why. I just want to read about Casey, honestly. How’s it looking for me, is this going to suck?

I’m a lord Luna, and there was another lord Luna on the enemy team but she was a higher level. Well, she targeted me the entire game, and I killed her each time not because of a diff but because I didn’t leave my team and stayed getting healed while she went 1v6. She spammed harassment in chat, she wouldn’t stop freezing me, chasing me, leaving her team to die without heals because she was so obsessed with diffing me.

Another match, there was a lord Magik who was also obsessed with diffing me, harassed me in chat, chased me around, literally abandoned their team and the point to try and kill me everytime. All because we decided to play the same character. Same again with a Lord Invis who pushes me around like a pingpong ball all match trying to get me off the map, and leaves her team to die just so she can kill me, even dying herself straight afterwards.

What is this obsession with diffing?? Like why are we targeting people just for playing the same character? I get it’s just part of the game but it can be so irritating. I don’t even mind 1v1ing someone else who is lord of the same character as me, that’s fun, but it’s not fun to spend the entire match being watched like a hawk, being forced to switch off someone you wanted to play and still being chased around, and spend the whole match fighting one person and being bullied by them in chat. And I understand it’s fair that if I can’t diff them then I’m going to spend most of the game dead, but it still takes a lot of fun away, especially when the competition isn’t friendly and they’re making it clear in chat they think you should die IRL.

What happened to friendly competition?

“Oh, but you can? What’s stopping you?” Maybe the millions of variations people use to tag original characters and readers. Look, there’s nothing wrong with these fics, they’re just not my cup of tea and I prefer to filter them out. But I cannot.

I filter out the tag Original Character, so I get Male Original Character and Female Original Character. So I filter those out too. So I get OC Character, my OC, (character name)/Original Female/Male Character. So I attempt to filter out every character/OC tag I can, as these fics haven’t tagged an OC in the tags and just the relationships, but then I get (character name)/OC, (character name)/MY OC, (character name)/Random OC Name.

Do not even get me started on people tagging their OC’s name like they’re a canon character. There is so much of this, and this is absolutely impossible to filter out. I get it, it’s fun to tag your OC’s name like they’re real, but please have some consideration for people trying to filter things out, and tag properly. At the end of the day, Jessica Whistedown-Jackson-Bluebell-Anne-White is not a canon character and is an original character, and needs to be tagged accordingly.

And then I try to filter out reader, but of course many people have not tagged reader in the tags and just the relationships, so I have to find as many relationships with reader as I can and filter them out. And of course we have Y/N, self insert, OC/reader, OC/self insert. All of these mistagged variations to filter out. All I want is to scroll through fics of canon characters because it’s what I enjoy, but all I seem to see is OC and reader content mistagged and everywhere, and it cannot be filtered out unless you want to sit there for hours on the search.

This is not shade or hate towards anyone who makes or enjoys these fics, this is genuinely just my frustration at how most of them are mistagged and cannot be filtered out. I’m not saying some other fics don’t also get mistagged, but I’m saying I’ve noticed these are the most mistagged I’ve seen.

TLDR: Tag your Original Character and/or Reader with the right terms, so it can be filtered out.

I’m so sick of groots on my team just throwing walls around oh my god. i cant see i cant walk everywhere i move theres a fucking wall like i genuinely get claustrophobic playing with these guys. today one ON MY TEAM even threw one between the healers and the fight. protecting us? no. blocking the dps and tanks SO THEIR OWN heals? yes. dude bad players already do my head in, but bad groots make me feel a kind of rage because in my opinion theyre the ones who affect people the most when theyre bad, as their walls are in your face as you’re trying to play.

if this was an enemy groot, i wouldnt even be half as mad because if theyre blocking my way, then they’re doing what theyre supposed to. but when theyre on my team, blocking everyones heals, trapping me, blindly throwing walls everywhere and making it harder for us to win, i get so insanely mad. i feel like a fly who cant get out of a house because it keeps running into a window

I do not like dogs, I don’t even like my own dogs, and I’m so sick of it not being a normalised feeling to not like dogs. They are DISGUSTING. They smell bad, their breath is horrible, their coats are greasy and dirty. I don’t want to touch or pet your dog and feel the grease on my fingers from their fur after they’ve rolled in filth and shit on their walk. That is disgusting. I don’t want to walk into your house and have my clothes dirtied with paw prints and my skin scratched and my senses absolutely overwhelmed by your dog after it runs and jumps up on me and you can’t get it to stop. Please, do not be surprised when I push it the hell off me without petting it or cooing at it.

Let me make it clear, I don’t wish harm on dogs, nor do I hurt them. I stay well away from them at all times, including my parent’s dogs that I live with. Growing up, I loved my dogs, but something changed when I hit my teens and now I can’t stand them. No, I don’t want to see a picture of your very generic dog doing generic dog things. Might be impressive to you, but I promise it means absolutely nothing to me. Don’t tell me anything about your dog, I just don’t care. I wish no harm to it, but I really don’t care. I’m sick of my friends sending me pictures of their normal ass dog just sitting somewhere or laying near them. It means nothing to me, I have no response to it, that’s not impressive.

I’m not scared of dogs at all, I’m just incredibly grossed out by them. I think if you want a dog and you’ll take care of it well, absolutely get a dog and do that. Just don’t be surprised that I don’t want to pet it, nor am I interested in it at all. Don’t be surprised that your dog isn’t an exception to my feelings and isn’t suddenly special to me because it’s your dog and your dog is sooo special and perfect. Your dog stinks. It reeks of shit. Its’ breath is disgusting and rancid. Its’ coat is layered in crap.

Most of all, I’m tired of people acting horrified and like I’m a monster for feeling like this. I think it’s normal to not like being covered in dirty dog hair. I think it’s normal to not want to be crowded by an uncontrolled animal as I try to walk through the street. I think it’s perfectly acceptable to want to live a life without dogs in your face or your way, and not be judged for not caring about the dog, or not wanting to touch the dog. I also think it’s perfectly acceptable to want to love and care for and raise a dog. Just keep it away from me, and don’t judge me for not wanting to go near it. This does not make me a person with “bad vibes”, I just don’t like dogs.

Has anyone else found they’ve lost capture and been unable to open the safe because the last enemy is hidden in a corner somewhere, not even moving or engaging in combat, just in stealth? I keep losing the safe over this, after having all the enemies in the same area, fighting and moving, except for one, that just hides in a corner. Usually, I have 10 seconds left and barely any health, but I still try to run to them before the timer runs out. Either I don’t make it in time or they kill me.

Also, does anyone else lose time trying to look for the enemies at the beginning of capture? Another skill issue, I know, but I usually lose 20 seconds trying to work out where they even are. In some assault encounters, I’ve had to start sprinting around so the enemy would yell and I could find them. Has anyone else encountered enemies hiding like this?

I have never gotten into a match, picked Invis or Luna or any other healer, with the intention of not healing. When I pick a strat, I know I have to heal and that’s what I want to do because I enjoy healing. I would never not heal someone. If I can heal my teammate, I absolutely will, over and over, as many times as they need it. It gets my stats up, it helps us all win, it stops them from getting more deaths. I can’t speak for everyone, but if I pick healer, I will do everything in my power to heal everyone.

So why do so many heal-pingers get into their heads that I’m purposely avoiding healing them? Why is their first thought that I hate them and just want to run around as Invis, not doing anything? If I’m not healing you, I’m dead, being dived, can’t reach you or healing someone else. I’ll do anything I can to heal you as soon as I can, and again, I’d never pick healer with the intention of not healing. I am so, so sick of heal pingers convincing themselves that I’m refusing to heal them, or that I see them on low health and choose not to do anything. I cannot stress enough how I’d never do that. Do they want to feel special? Do they want to pretend that they’re singled out because they never have been before, even if it is in a 10 minute competitive game?

Are they so angry that they keep dying that they have to decide everyone is out to get them and it’s absolutely not their fault, and hey, it’s their healer who is purposely not healing them for absolutely no reason or benefit! I just cannot understand this mentality, do they believe that they’re the only conscious person in the game and everyone else is a bot, and they have to prompt us to heal them by spamming the shit out of healing pings because otherwise we’ll keep brainlessly shooting forward, unblinking, waiting like a fucking AI to be prompted to do something else??? And maybe they can fault me and say “well you should’ve looked over! If you hadn’t walked that way and instead walked this way, you would’ve seen I needed heals and healed me!” Yeah well, I didn’t walk this way, I walked that way. Maybe if you had been over here instead of over there, I’d have healed you. Or maybe if we had both stood on that roof there, neither of us would’ve needed healing at all!

Not everything in a game can be perfect, as much as I try to be, and I’m not always going to be able to reach you because you chose to try and get a kill over there and I chose to heal the tanks over here. Just how the game works. People need to focus on themselves instead of deciding they’re being targeted, despite being incredibly uninteresting and generic, really no one to target at all, and that their healer is going to risk losing 7K healing or more for their stats by avoiding healing them, for absolutely no reason or benefit at all.

Sorry this is so long.

I always thought it was when a player on your team gave up and purposely made you lose, either by sitting in spawn, taunting you in chat and admitting they’re throwing, running around the map not engaging in combat and overall just making it really obvious they’re there to make you lose. But, in a lot of matches I’m in, someone in my team says “Report ___ for throwing!” in match chat, yet the person they’re telling us to report is (quite obviously) still playing and trying their best.

Our Storm told us to report our Blade because he didn’t switch when they demanded it, yet played until the end, still getting kills and definitely not giving up. Whereas, in that exact same match, our Thor threw himself off the map in anger that his surrender didn’t work, and no one (but me) pointed it out or said to report him. The replay ID is 50579524411 and I was the Invisible Woman.

Has the definition of throwing changed? Is it no longer purposely causing your team to lose, and is now just being bad? Not even bad in some cases, but just as poor as your already losing team can get you reported now. Personally, I don’t think it’s throwing or reportable for not switching when one DPS player on your team who doesn’t know better than you or anyone else demands that you switch because, despite not watching yours or anyone else’s gameplay, they’ve looked at the stats and decided you must be to blame because you have one more death than them. I don’t understand why it’s become normalised to blame one person on the team for every single players mistakes.

Has the definition of throwing changed now?

Edit: coming back to say I just got this exact same scenario once again. Emma obviously not performing well in a 5v6, same with the whole team, Namor tried to get everyone in match to report her for having low stats.