So I should watch what I say because it might make you uncomfortable as a reader? Guess I'm really not getting that and am seeing shades of the reviewgate cropping up here.
Following your comments and how me putting concrit on a story puts the onnus on you to not like it, some of the commenters here said they will only comment if they like something. Using the absense of their comments, I could assume that they didn't like it and view it as a form of concrit and/or criticism by that very absense. There's a pressure, then, knowing that some of the people here didn't comment, that they didn't like it and I wouldn't enjoy it. There are authors that are reading over these comments thinking that a or b didn't comment on their fic and so they obviously hated it.
I realise that you aren't going to agree with my example. I'm just trying to show that, no matter what someone does or doesn't do and/or say, that it can be twisted to leave a pressure on someone to do something if one allows it to.
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Date: 2006-12-09 01:42 am (UTC)Following your comments and how me putting concrit on a story puts the onnus on you to not like it, some of the commenters here said they will only comment if they like something. Using the absense of their comments, I could assume that they didn't like it and view it as a form of concrit and/or criticism by that very absense. There's a pressure, then, knowing that some of the people here didn't comment, that they didn't like it and I wouldn't enjoy it. There are authors that are reading over these comments thinking that a or b didn't comment on their fic and so they obviously hated it.
I realise that you aren't going to agree with my example. I'm just trying to show that, no matter what someone does or doesn't do and/or say, that it can be twisted to leave a pressure on someone to do something if one allows it to.