I watched the best fanfic list I'd ever been on strangle itself with nicey-nice regulations, and got thrown off as a moderator for suggesting they might be making a mistake... scuse me, telling someone HOW to ask for feedback? Instructing the ignorant on how feedback must be phrased? So I took my ideas elsewhere... last time I looked, my own list had more posts in one month than the other list had in the previous year.
You can't order people to give feedback, either. If you tell everybody to SHUT UP UNLESS YOU WANT TO SAY SOMETHING NICE ABOUT SUZY Q's STORY, what you will get... is people shutting up. When a story doesn't deserve praise and a reader is too kind to express an unwanted criticism (it seems even concrit is now called "flaming," in many circles) you get a great staring silence, which is a kind of feedback in itself.
CREATIVITY CAN'T BE REGIMENTED. WTF is wrong with more than one post? When ideas spark, you get the hell out of the way.
I don't know what community you're talking about, and I'm glad.
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You can't order people to give feedback, either. If you tell everybody to SHUT UP UNLESS YOU WANT TO SAY SOMETHING NICE ABOUT SUZY Q's STORY, what you will get... is people shutting up. When a story doesn't deserve praise and a reader is too kind to express an unwanted criticism (it seems even concrit is now called "flaming," in many circles) you get a great staring silence, which is a kind of feedback in itself.
CREATIVITY CAN'T BE REGIMENTED. WTF is wrong with more than one post? When ideas spark, you get the hell out of the way.
I don't know what community you're talking about, and I'm glad.