MaxSebastian
Literotica Guru
- Joined
- Feb 6, 2001
- Posts
- 536
Generally, I give fairly brief feedbacks if I just go and read a story from the new list and head for the anonymous (not that I don't put my email in) feedback jobby. Every now and then, though, I feel like giving longer feedback to someone, and I usually come here to the feedback board to find someone to give that feedback to. I figure the people round here are more needy for it.
But when I decide to do it, it's a real commitment - I'm going to read the story a lot more carefully and spend the time thinking about its merits and pitfalls - but all I have to go on is usually the title, the genre and the tagline - since usually people here don't give any kind of explanitory paragraph in their request for feedback (annoying!). So it's a hit-and-miss affair for a critic who wants to commit, it's a gamble, and nobody likes to lose.
I used to generally be very positive in my approach, but recently I find that my comments seem to have become really mostly negative. Is this because the quality of stories are worse than a little while ago? I hardly think so. Maybe I look at things with a more detailed eye. Maybe I've seen so many stories displaying similar problems that I can now pinpoint them at a thousand paces.
People come on here and ask for criticism, and to some degree they have to expect that if they ask for it, they're going to get some bracing responses. But I feel sometimes that nowadays my critiques are balanced a little too much on the dark side, and it's not necessarily them, it's me.
I'm becoming like Jaws... I lurk offshore and every now and then when a swimmer takes a fluorescent inflatable ring out into the surf, that double bass music starts up (duh-duh... duh-duh...) and my fin emerges from the water as I quietly close in for the kill.
Long-time critics of Lit: have you edged into nasty territory over the time you've been doing it, or is it just me?
But when I decide to do it, it's a real commitment - I'm going to read the story a lot more carefully and spend the time thinking about its merits and pitfalls - but all I have to go on is usually the title, the genre and the tagline - since usually people here don't give any kind of explanitory paragraph in their request for feedback (annoying!). So it's a hit-and-miss affair for a critic who wants to commit, it's a gamble, and nobody likes to lose.
I used to generally be very positive in my approach, but recently I find that my comments seem to have become really mostly negative. Is this because the quality of stories are worse than a little while ago? I hardly think so. Maybe I look at things with a more detailed eye. Maybe I've seen so many stories displaying similar problems that I can now pinpoint them at a thousand paces.
People come on here and ask for criticism, and to some degree they have to expect that if they ask for it, they're going to get some bracing responses. But I feel sometimes that nowadays my critiques are balanced a little too much on the dark side, and it's not necessarily them, it's me.
I'm becoming like Jaws... I lurk offshore and every now and then when a swimmer takes a fluorescent inflatable ring out into the surf, that double bass music starts up (duh-duh... duh-duh...) and my fin emerges from the water as I quietly close in for the kill.
Long-time critics of Lit: have you edged into nasty territory over the time you've been doing it, or is it just me?
