graculus

As Certain People have already pointed out, I do tend to complete stories that are absolute crap simply because I want to see how they'll turn out. Plus, I want to make sure that I can then criticize them -- even if only in my own mind -- while feeling that I have all the facts on hand and am completely justified in my opinions. Having said that, however, there are entire reams of stories that I won't touch with a 10-foot pole once I see the name of the author. I usually have a group of authors that I simply avoid in each fandom. Now it's always possible that I might skip a story in which one of these authors makes a great leap forward and produces an absolute treasure, but I'm not willing to take the risk. And I find that the longer I'm in fandom and the more I've read, the less tolerance I have for bad fic.