Wall of Shame

Thus far in the course of running this archive, for about two years now, I have resisted the urge towards publishing some of the more egregious submission sins, because I wanted to minimize my own reputation as a dragon lady, and because I wanted to make sure to spare the feelings of those who might have made an honest mistake. Thus, the girl who assured me, despite a host of mistakes including a character renamed to Blase Zambini, that she couldn't possibly need a beta reader because she beta read for others? Did not get mentioned here by name. Neither did the plagiarists, nor the person who submitted a Draco/Hermione story, nor even the few people I have had to ban.

This forbearance ends here, because if I ever have to see something like the following ever again, I will have someone shot.

This vile excrescence was rejected this evening:
"ok so i know these stories are suppose to be about Draco and ginny but i wrote this a long time ago and it has a different girl in it. Sorry. I needed the reviews on who likes it. It's quit good actually if you read it. summary: Draco and Allie have known each other since thye were five. Thye spent every minute of there life together and even more. Well Allie gets sent away for two years leaving Draco behind at the mercy of his father. When she comes back Draco is a little apprehinsize on wheter she will be the same or if her father had taken her. She is also thinking the same afriad to face a new draco if there is one..."

Note that apparently having our title, our banner, our submission rules, and our bloody URL all spell out that this site is for D/G was insufficient to get the point across that we expect stories to be D/G, but apparently this girl thought that saying "sorry" was sufficient for us to overlook that, because she was being so gracious as to post here due to needing reviews. Well, miss, here is a review for you: learn to spell, learn to capitalize, learn to punctuate, and learn to read and follow directions. Then, if you're so inclined as to write a D/G fic, you might get a response other than rejection. For now, though, be warned that the next person to submit something that so completely and blatantly breaks the rules will be approved - with added editorial commentary from the Cabal, because if we have to put up with this sort of thing, we might as well get to blow off steam.

The rest of you, the ones who just make honest mistakes, are fine. Continue to spell check and look for betas and read the rules, and we'll understand if you make small slips. It's only people who are as blatantly arrogant and disdainful of our rather simple rules that are subject to my rather wordy wrath.