ext_1628 ([identity profile] nakeisha.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] geoviki 2006-12-11 11:00 am (UTC)

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In your opinion, is it uncouth to leave concrit that's negative on a fest fic?

Very much so. Fest fic are gifts, just the same as a physical box of chocolates, pair of ear-rings, CD, DVD, etc. etc. etc.

I am sure (or maybe I'm just too optimistic) that people wouldn't go to a party and when the hostess opened her presents go 'Urgh, that necklace/picture/whatever is dreadful' or even 'Nice enough, but look at the finish', in a loud enough voice for other people to hear - surely they wouldn't, would they? Well, it's exactly the same with gift fic. If you leave any kind of critcism, no matter how con, it's meant to be, it is still basically rubbishing the gift in a public forum.

But IMHO, these stories are gifts. And I can't see criticising a gift. Am I over-sensitive? What do you authors and artists think?

No, you're not. Not at all. I'm with you one hundred and ten percent. It totally bad manners. As an author I'd be devastated if it happened to me, as a comment leaver, it would just never occur to me to do so. I'm like you insofar as I don't leave any kind of comment other than positive anyway, unless asked and then I'd do in privately, and even then I feel uneasy. But for a gift fic, totally wrong.

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