Los Malos Fics y Sus Autores

Los Malos Fics y Sus Autores (Badfics and Their Authors in English) is a forum in the Spanish-Speaking fandom whose objective was, according to the FAQ of the forum, the cleansing of the fandom. Forum users looked for fics that were poorly written, with grammar, syntax, characterization, and other problems in order to write a story report and send it to the author. This was intended for the author to edit the story and improve it, or delete it, or move it to another site (eg personal blog, forum, etc.). Some users actively searched for badfics to comment on the forum and others only brought them if they came across them by chance, or camouflaged as a story with an interesting premise.
==Forum Procedure==
The first step is to assess the seriousness of the things that are wrong with the story. In the FAQ it specifies that if it's just some misspellings but the rest is fine, it can be fixed just by leaving a review to the writer to let them know. Other details to be evaluated are: ambiguity of the text, understanding of the ideas behind each scene, the behavior of the characters and their reasons, quality of grammar and syntax, semantics, quality of narration, and quality of plot. If there are problems with most points, the story is brought to the forum.
A new topic should be opened and in it, the issues that make the story worthy of analysis should be introduced in the first message. The link to the fanfic in question and to the author's profile is a requirement of the rules. Afterwards, the other members of the forum comment on the errors that caught their attention the most or that they consider to be the most serious. The one who brings a badfic to the forum must ensure that the story receives the most complete criticism possible (that is, commenting on the majority of errors contained in the text) and is responsible for sending the Review to the author within two days.
The forum had a few slang words like antro, that refers to the forum; víboras (vipers), which were the active members of the forum who analyze the badfics and write their reviews. Or galleta (cookie) which was the final review sent to the author with a link to the Malosfics forum thread where their story was being criticized.
The authors' responses varied. Often their reaction was to delete the story or all of their stories. Other times, the authors and the members of the forum engaged in flamewars. There were also times when authors accepted criticism and promised to improve.
Once the author replied, the topic was closed and archived.
==Controversy==
The fandom has mixed opinions about the work of Malosfics members. Although many people think that it is good to help authors improve, most of the time their analysis were done in a mocking, arrogant and cruel way. On many occasions they were banned from archives for harassment or spam, such was the case of Fanfic Es and Amor Yaoi. Marfil, the founder of both fanfic sites, disabled the anonymous comment option after a group of Los Malos Fanfics used this as a tool for harassment and circumvent their previous ban. Users of the forum were banned due to their reviews not being constructive criticism but mere flames with the intention of humiliating authors.News Section 16/10/2015 11:50Post by Deirdre in the Malosfics forum where they document the mail exchange between Marfil and Malosfics regarding the deletion of reviews coming from Malosfics users.
The topic of Los Malos Fanfics being the heroes or the villains of fandom was a recurrent topic among many other forums, fanfic sites and archives, and blogs.
Examples of people criticizing Los Malos Fanfics procedures (translated from Spanish):
Examples of people defending Los Malos Fanfics (translated from Spanish):
==Futher Reading/Meta==
* by Nea Poulain at Divagaciones de una Poulain (Juny 2013)
* by Mac at M de venganza (September 2008)
* by Lunita at The Dark Side of The Moon (June-July 2007)
* by Candy002 at Blacky`s Psycho Asylum (May 2008)All the posted parts of this user are a response for to the blog posted by Mac at M de veganza
* by Candy002 at Blacky`s Psycho Asylum (May 2008)
* by Candy002 at Blacky`s Psycho Asylum (May 2008)
* by Candy002 at Blacky`s Psycho Asylum (May 2008)
* by Candy002 at Blacky`s Psycho Asylum (May 2008)
* by Candy002 at Blacky`s Psycho Asylum (May 2008)
*Los Buenos Fics y sus Autores
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