Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25405817-20160511154306/@comment-25936766-20160512202611

WC-83 wrote: The goal is to make enough people like your fanfiction, because chances are it was written well enough. If only that was what usually happens.

I know perfectly from experience, than in FF.net, the stories with OP Mary Sue OCs, the stories with questionable grammar, the stories where the OC gets all females in Remnant to fall in love and have sex with him just by existing, or even after drugging and raping them, the stories that disregard the whole canon....these are the stories that get the most lives, that the most people follow, the ones whose 90% of "reviews" are "it's great! 10/10!".

Meanwhile, the stories that have interesting, creative, non-MS OCs, the stories that are excellently written, the stories with original premises, the stories that follow the canon to the letter...these stories are the ones that are nearly-always ignored by the great majority, that barely get a few likes, that get buried under the dust and forgotten by everyone.

I know that popularity=/=quality...but my god, that is taking it too far.