If you want people to read something you've wrote, you have to not just make it stand out from the fanfic that came before it (with good plot, characterization, and storytelling) you need to make it accessible. That means not putting it behind a lock and forcing readers to jump through hoops, formatting the story with line breaks and good grammer, and using a spell check.

With big archives like fanfiction.net, where there's hundreds if not thousands of stories, readers naturally use filters. Pairing listed they don't like - skip. No pairing listed? Skip because there's always a pairing they like listed somewhere. Bad spelling? Skip. There's always someone that uses spell check.

See, it's not anything personal or who is in fandom more. It's supply and demand. People demand quality fic presented at their feet all tidy and neat. If you want to be the supplier, then you need to figure out what your audience needs. Otherwise, there's always someone else.