Rating System

Well, I’ve written my first fanfiction review and, as you may have noticed, it’s rated out of 6 rather than 5 or 10.

The long and short of it is, I wrote down degrees of quality and there were 7. Since the lowest is so bad I’d never review it, the count starts at 0. Here is a listing of the different degrees.

Zero – Can’t even read it. It’s that poorly written.
1. Complete and utter crap. Ignoring or contradicting canon, grammatical errors, stupid or nonexistant story without declaring it as a spamfic.
2. Like #1 but somehow manages to redeem itself slightly. For example, a badly written story with self-insert syndrome (solving all of the problems no matter how much you have to bend the characters and setting) that has some intangible hook that makes you want to read it again.
3. Grammatically OK, plain story, nothing extraordinary in terms of quality. Not good but not bad either. Risks getting boring or does get boring.
4. Grammatically fine, interesting story but not exceptional. Ends before it gets boring and is a good way to pass some time.
5. Well written and highly enjoyable. Has novel concepts and fresh ideas or uses a fresh viewpoint. May evoke an emotional response other than mirth. Something I would seek out.
6. Extremely well written. Quite likely to evoke a full spectrum of emotions. A must-read among fanfiction. Very likely to be re-read once or more within the coming year.

I may cook up some other unique numbering system for other things I review but since they don’t fall as neatly into numbered categories, I’ll probably end up just using a pro:, con:, outcome: system.

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