All the pet peeves listed are the symptoms, rather than the disease.
All of these boil down to basically the same thing:
Lack of talent, intelligence, or common sense.
A lot of the peeves you mentioned can be done well, assuming the writer has the aforementioned qualities.
Examples:
Chapter Introductions: If they are put at the end of the chapter, and act as a preview, I think they would be acceptable. You're not obligated to read it since you don't have to worry about the chapter suddenly beginning. It works fairly well for collections of oneshots, as long as teh author can exercise some taste. Author's notes can be important, but I agree that most of them shoudl be either kept on the profile page or at the very least relegated to the very end so those who care nothing about it can skip/ignore it.
Admittance of bad summary: Somewhat excusable, since some people have difficulty writing short and concise sentences, or just don't feel they can properly sum up their fic in 3 sentences. The former I know a guy who has this BAD (I'm talking wrote 10x over the word limit bad) and considering that most series have 2-3 paragraphs to summarize it on the back, I think that feeling your summary is poor is inevitable.
Bashing: Love Hina was effectively a giant bash fic for a significant portion of it, but a lot of us enjoyed it, because it was done well. Keitaro got his ass kicked on a regular basis for almost no reason at all, but we didn't mind because there is interaction beyond kicking teh crap out of him, and the girls slowly start recognizing him as more than just a punching bag.
Random Author's Notes: One of my favorite books, Good Omens had TONS of these. It pulled it off well because of several factors:
1. They weren't inserted into the story, they were put at the bottom of the page so people could look if they wanted, or ignore it.
2. Right setting. If it was a serious story, I would probably have been annoyed by them but since it was meant to be amusing, ti worked out well.
3. They were entertaining.
Pointless replacement:
This generally signifies a reluctance to deviate too far from canon, since they either don't have enough confidence to do anything way out there, or that they are concerned with diehard fans getting pissed off when things way, WAY out there start happening. An author always has to weigh the two sides of it, and most people who write fanfiction err on the side of caution.
A good way to get revenge: Save the crappy fics and PM/E-mail them to the author 3-5 years later, once they've had the chance to develop a brain. If they read it, the mortification and shame ought to serve as some form of payback for thei rcrappy writing.
All of these boil down to basically the same thing:
Lack of talent, intelligence, or common sense.
A lot of the peeves you mentioned can be done well, assuming the writer has the aforementioned qualities.
Examples:
Chapter Introductions: If they are put at the end of the chapter, and act as a preview, I think they would be acceptable. You're not obligated to read it since you don't have to worry about the chapter suddenly beginning. It works fairly well for collections of oneshots, as long as teh author can exercise some taste. Author's notes can be important, but I agree that most of them shoudl be either kept on the profile page or at the very least relegated to the very end so those who care nothing about it can skip/ignore it.
Admittance of bad summary: Somewhat excusable, since some people have difficulty writing short and concise sentences, or just don't feel they can properly sum up their fic in 3 sentences. The former I know a guy who has this BAD (I'm talking wrote 10x over the word limit bad) and considering that most series have 2-3 paragraphs to summarize it on the back, I think that feeling your summary is poor is inevitable.
Bashing: Love Hina was effectively a giant bash fic for a significant portion of it, but a lot of us enjoyed it, because it was done well. Keitaro got his ass kicked on a regular basis for almost no reason at all, but we didn't mind because there is interaction beyond kicking teh crap out of him, and the girls slowly start recognizing him as more than just a punching bag.
Random Author's Notes: One of my favorite books, Good Omens had TONS of these. It pulled it off well because of several factors:
1. They weren't inserted into the story, they were put at the bottom of the page so people could look if they wanted, or ignore it.
2. Right setting. If it was a serious story, I would probably have been annoyed by them but since it was meant to be amusing, ti worked out well.
3. They were entertaining.
Pointless replacement:
This generally signifies a reluctance to deviate too far from canon, since they either don't have enough confidence to do anything way out there, or that they are concerned with diehard fans getting pissed off when things way, WAY out there start happening. An author always has to weigh the two sides of it, and most people who write fanfiction err on the side of caution.
A good way to get revenge: Save the crappy fics and PM/E-mail them to the author 3-5 years later, once they've had the chance to develop a brain. If they read it, the mortification and shame ought to serve as some form of payback for thei rcrappy writing.
