...I never said this was a priority. But here's another one. You all should know this..

And now I present to you the Fourth installment of D.A.Z. Heh heh. Funny anagrams. ^.^

Flame

AKA: (Uncommon on ) Burn

Plural- Flames

Noun: Flamer, Flamist

Definition: A purposely offensive comment left on a story.

One of the darker things in fan fiction. Flames are rude and offending comments left on stores by other people. Unlike contractive criticism, the flamer is not there to help and do not fall under as being a "tough critique". There are two ways flames are brought on- going against the flamer's couplings or having a less-than-stellar story usually grammar wise. The latter is more common.

Da bda storryz Usly thr brght no buy relly bad gramMer leik dis, ;spelingan, charterizshun, crapy{ oces anythung. (That was oddly fun...). Usually it would have to be bad enough for even nice people to point it ut, But just because someone may suggest you scarp the story or REALLY look over it, does not make them a flamer. It 's all in the presentation. Flamers usually insult the author's intelligence, telling them off for the plausibility, characterization, Mary Sues, grammar, anything. To be fair, flamers don't come for anything-so you had to have been pretty bad. But the key to tell if its a flame or constructive criticism is either they list the mistakes in a jerkish way, or just scream at them for their idiocy

Coupling flames are more likely in forums where they get REALLY nasty. Let's pick on Twilight- we ALL know about that (...no comment) I doubt I need to fill you in on Edward Vs Jacob, but in formus they get BAD. Stories aren't as bad, but some hater can just go to bash the pairing and the author for comiting the eighth deadly sin of going against their opinion in forums. The fandom I am In, Detective Conan, has pairing and pairing rivals just i.e. any other anime, but we;ve yet to get seriously out of hand, at least from what I observe.

But no matter how bad it was, or how taboo, no one deserves to be flamed, and no one has the right to flame. SO I encourage you all reading this to stand up for yourselves, and if not for yourself, then at least for someone in need. We're all geeks here, so we server to live in our repeated creepy anime bliss in peace.

~This has been a public service announcement~