Ok this thread is actually incredibly annoying. Why is it boring? What about it is boring? Is it a niche, arcane subject matter? Are there no meaningful changes in the characters or plot? Also, "from what I have heard"? Why bother including some nebulous other opinion which also has zero reasoning, literally what does that contribute to your point.
I actually enjoyed it and found that (if you manage to get past the start and ignore the impossibility about the S9) it is quite enjoyable, however it is very much a SLOW paced character story. As an example there are multiple chapters in about a couple of characters going shopping. That's not the only thing hapening in the chapter and there's a lot of humor in those chapters, but there wasn't much actually happening in those chapters. If you're looking for any sort of dramatic tension, this is not the story for you. If you enjoy slow paced, funny stories and have very flexible SoD you might enjoy it.
Then you derec it.
I mean, that's why there's space not only for recs and derecs but just to say that you didn't super enjoy a fic. And, as mopman43 said, the point is supposed to be more for one of consensus.
The whole reason Dereccing is a thing in the first place is because this isn't just a list of users and what they think are the best fics ever. It is a collaborative attempt to find and share the 'best damn fics ever' that most everyone can agree are the best. (The objectively best fics around if fic quality can be considered objective),
I mean I can't articulate well why I found it to be boring, except that I didn't find it to be all that engaged to read and it felt very drawn out and padded. I also wasn't as interested in it as I was in Hybrid Hive, which is why I never got as far as I got on that story, but I stopped reading that for basically the same reason - there is not enough happening for how many words there are.
Except it doesn't matter. If Winged_One finds it boring, they don't need to elaborate. It's boring, thus it gets a derec.
Are you for real lol? Not all critique is equal, if you're not actually able to articulate your opinions on something why should anyone bother listening to you in particular? I'd like to think that the people on this site are capable of better analysis than say, Cinema Sins.
It's not like there's not precedent now, with Chirrut in Rogue One.
I'm not sure what you're talking about as a problem for quests as it's not a quest and I don't think either story ends chapters with anything like "a description of "things the voters said they wanted to do" ". Lack of emotional engagement is a problem, although I think it's a lot more severe (or at least more noticeable) in hybrid shard since there's so much more that should be producing significant emotional reactions.
Ok, so the thing that often happens in quests where you have, say, a system where the voters vote on a set of actions to do this "day" or whatever is that the QM then feels obligated to, well, show each thing they voted for and give update space to each thing. So you end up with updates that are basically a set of paragraphs going through and describing the results of each of the things the players voted to do. This does not lead to particularly good stories, though it may be semi-acceptable gameplay.
Got it. No, you don't see that sort of thing in Mauling Snarks
I also derec Mauling snarks, it overstays its welcome by far. You could trim away 2/3rds of the story without removing much of substance. It's writing for the sake of writing, not bad at times certainly, but definitely not best fic I've ever read material.
This isn't a critique or review thread. If I find a story boring that's entirely valid grounds for me to derec it because it certainly doesn't fit for my own criteria for "one of the best damn fics I've ever read" and by the nature of the thread that's the only criteria that I should be voting by: Whether or not I think it deserves it. It's entirely subjective, we're not judging stories based on how well written they are, but how good we think they are.
Tbf, I don't think it's unreasonable to ask that people at least put a bit of effort to explain why they found it boring in order to help inform others?
Blitzed through the fic and that last chapter had me audibly wince.
