Offensive Review Removed

[apollinav]

The inflammatory review from the unregistered user 'The mysterious nobody' has been removed. And I'd like to thank my champions: corbye, irishredlass69, lady_karelia, beffeysue, bloodcult, melusin_79, and dickglouster for their support and excellent advice. I was unaware that I could remove it myself. I was under the impression that FFnet didn't allow that, but as the cowardly reviewer is unregistered it was only a few mouse-clicks to do away with it.

I must admit, I was a bit amused by this.  I had no idea that being called black was an insult, or that race had any bearing on writing ability. 
But then, perhaps I just don't get it, because clearly I don't understand the reviewer either.  Regardless, it was petty and bigoted, but now it's gone. Though I rather suspect that the troll reviewer has accomplished their mission by getting people to talk about it.

Please accept my apologies if anyone was offended, I should have been more diligent in removing it the moment it was submitted. But now that I know how to do so, I will endeavor to delete any such future reviews in a timely manner. Simply put, racist crap like this just doesn't have any place in my fandom.

 

 This story,while having its merits,influences a vast misleading hypothesis.Snape is a cruel low lying piece of filth who miraculously is given a choice of freedom,which he is unwilling to yield to.Hermione ,on the other hand,is a wealthy woman,deprived of affection,willing to stoop to the lowest satanic form of lawlessness by hoodwinking the ministry of magic,thus enabling her to continue life wishing for the happy marriage she so foolishly desires.The story has absolutely no plot and is a disgrace to the writing world of well educated and refined writers.I bet you are black,that's why the story is so bad.

Comments

[apollinav.livejournal.com]

Did anyone actually hear back from them? Did they respond at all?

[karelia.livejournal.com]

Well, I didn't hear from them at all, and the fact that it was still there waiting for you to be deleted, I think, tells it all. But that's FFN for ya. *shrugs*

If I saw that kind of flame on TPP, I'd not only delete the review but ban the person's IP address. I do not condone racism in any way. If they want to take my story apart, I have no problem, but the moment it gets personal it becomes a flame, and that's a big no-no.

[apollinav.livejournal.com]

How can I ban an IP address? I doubt I'll be able to find the ip addy from the mysterious nobody now that I've deleted that review, but I'm curious.

[karelia.livejournal.com]

In general, you can't. Not on FFN etc. The only thing you can do on there is inform them, and as you noticed, nothing was done about it. On a smaller archive, such as TPP, it's easy to deal with those because firstly we rarely have them and secondly, if we do get them, any admin can deal with it by removing the review, sending a warning to the reviewer, and if necessary ban their IP address. Call it an admin's privilege, lol.