I try to avoid community rec lists, unless I am in the mood for something specific and I'm feeling a little desperate. Otherwise I tend to stick with a few individual people who consistently rec good fics. I was a little disapointed by some of the bb -- like a totally great premis butchered by bad grammar.
On a moderately related topic: I recently graduated from school and we had a portfolio show. One of the students in my class had people looking at the first two pages of her book and then running away from her booth. When I went to see what the issue was (because srsly, these people looked traumatized) I couldn't believe what I saw, "Here is an esample of a corrsat I maid for a clint, she thought it was vary speshul...I lef this to make un till last cause it is totally, like, hard." English is her only language and she had her portfolio printed a week ahead of time.
Vary Spechul indeed -- SPELL CHECK WOULD HAVE CAUGHT THAT.
Me? Rant? Noooooooooo.