Executive Meddling/Fan Works

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Examples of Executive Meddling in Fan Works include:

  • Beta readers in general. The idea behind a beta reader (or simply beta) is that you hand out your story to someone else and have them fix the grammar, spelling and possibly plot, but that also means you take responsibility for anything your beta does.
    • Fanfiction.net has their own requirements for beta readers because of this reason.
  • TEEN FORTRESS 2: MarissaTheWriter came in contact with "Logic Edtor", who wanted to fix one chapter of horrible spelling and grammar, a Mary Sue cameo, indiscernible mixture of different fandoms and overall OOC-ness; however, the original was posted as well as the fixed chapter. (Note that this is in fact with agreement from the author, unlike My Immortal‍'‍s hacked chapter.)
    • And the fixed chapter had Cave Johnson's trademark lemon rant randomly inserted.

AN OK GUYZ IVE BEEN THINKIN AN A GUY NAME LOGIC EDTOR WANTS TO EDIT MY STORY AN MAKE IT MORE BETTER. BUT I SEED LOTS OF TV SHOWS WERE THEY CHANG STUFF THEN PEPOLE DONT LICK IT NO MORE SO I WAS WORRY BOUT THE CHANGES THEN I HAD IDEEA! I WILL PUT BOTH TEH UNCUT AN UNSENSORED VERSHUN AN LOGIC CORRECSHUN SO YOU CAN DESIDE WICH ONE YOU LIKE YURSELF!
EVRYONE WINS!