I just read an excellent mystery H/D fic and was quite stunned by other's concrit. Much of the criticism addressed a small amount of het and bottom!Harry. Neither complaint felt at all valid to me, especially since this was a gift fic and the author was trying to meet the giftee's requests. I felt very uncomfortable reading many of the comments. It seemed like a feeding frenzy was started with the first negative remarks and things just snowballed.

These anonymous fest fics ought to be allowed to experiment a bit and to break out of people's preconceived molds without garnering so much negativity.

If nothing else, if I watched a person opened a gift that I didn't like, I would never say anything negative about it.