I think it's rude to leave direct negative feedback in one of the anon fests, but beyond that it's quite helpful to get fic reviews and recommendations in other people's journals. It might be a bit distasteful to some, but I find the idea of anon reviews at a distance quite interesting. But then I don't participate directly in Smutmas.
I do read the LJ you mention and I don't think it's negative (especially as the writer is frequently saying, 'this just isn't my thing'); if anything, it's pointing me to stories because I'm too lazy to read them all directly in the communities.
To be honest, I find the exchanges very contrived at times; a good reviewer will cut through all the artifice to point out that despite the fact that the fic featuring cross-dressing genderswap AU Bottom!Harry with six children, it's actually a groundbreaking story that deserves reading.
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I think it's rude to leave direct negative feedback in one of the anon fests, but beyond that it's quite helpful to get fic reviews and recommendations in other people's journals. It might be a bit distasteful to some, but I find the idea of anon reviews at a distance quite interesting. But then I don't participate directly in Smutmas.
I do read the LJ you mention and I don't think it's negative (especially as the writer is frequently saying, 'this just isn't my thing'); if anything, it's pointing me to stories because I'm too lazy to read them all directly in the communities.
To be honest, I find the exchanges very contrived at times; a good reviewer will cut through all the artifice to point out that despite the fact that the fic featuring cross-dressing genderswap AU Bottom!Harry with six children, it's actually a groundbreaking story that deserves reading.