MORE critique-bashing?
23 Mar 2003 10:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cimorenemany people assume (despite all evidence to the contrary) that people who post their work in extremely public fora are looking for constructive criticism. frankly, this behavior is rather foolish unless they (a) feel a religious duty to point out flaws in other people, or (b) enjoy being despised. that doesn't mean they're in any sense *wrong* to offer criticism. silly, perhaps, but the act of criticizing in and of itself may be insensitive, officious, misguided, or cruel, but is not rude. (of course, it may be delivered in a rude manner, but that's another question entirely.)
this: I don't have to care what she says. Because I know about the factors that put the story together, now if I knew the reviewer, and I knew the review knew the factors that went with the story, then I would take what she says into account, but as I don't, and it's pretty likely she doesn't, then I don't have to care what she says or not. That's what beta readers are for.
...flabbergasts me utterly. and completely. and totally. buh? well, certainly no one is ever *obliged* to care what anyone else says (though they may be forced by practical circumstances to do so). but the idea that there may be 'excusing factors' for a story, as though stories based on x, using scenarios p and q or characters g and f, are held to a lower standard of quality? as though alterations in source material make it impossible to produce writing of high quality? as though one should consider the opinions of beta readers, presumably one's own friends, to the exclusion of issues (of things like grammar and punctuation!) introduced by strangers?
this: I don't have to care what she says. Because I know about the factors that put the story together, now if I knew the reviewer, and I knew the review knew the factors that went with the story, then I would take what she says into account, but as I don't, and it's pretty likely she doesn't, then I don't have to care what she says or not. That's what beta readers are for.
...flabbergasts me utterly. and completely. and totally. buh? well, certainly no one is ever *obliged* to care what anyone else says (though they may be forced by practical circumstances to do so). but the idea that there may be 'excusing factors' for a story, as though stories based on x, using scenarios p and q or characters g and f, are held to a lower standard of quality? as though alterations in source material make it impossible to produce writing of high quality? as though one should consider the opinions of beta readers, presumably one's own friends, to the exclusion of issues (of things like grammar and punctuation!) introduced by strangers?
