gawp Really? Seriously? Some of us have encouraged and explicitly requested concrit on all our fics for years. This is a personal choice and IMO not at all occasion for any special attention: it's not brave and it's not special. It's like choosing khakis over jeans. Seems to me anyone who makes this big a deal out of welcoming concrit is really looking for cookies (and extra feedback, because let's face it, most people in fandom won't crit even when they're specifically asked to).
The fact is, anything can be criticised, constructively and not. I could take all of my beloved fandom classics and rip them to (constructive) shreds no matter how good they actually are. I wouldn't, because I'm not bored enough to do that, but if I decided it'd be fun to do it, that is reason enough. Fandom is for fun; it's a hobby. Trying to impose a binary standard of behaviour on a hobby -- using "percentage" and "majority" as excuses for why it's "logical" -- is ridiculous. >:( (ETA: I don't mean that you specifically are trying to impose anything on anyone with this post or otherwise; I'm just beyond annoyed at these discussions inevitably coming down to 'thou shalt not'.)
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Really? Seriously? Some of us have encouraged and explicitly requested concrit on all our fics for years. This is a personal choice and IMO not at all occasion for any special attention: it's not brave and it's not special. It's like choosing khakis over jeans. Seems to me anyone who makes this big a deal out of welcoming concrit is really looking for cookies (and extra feedback, because let's face it, most people in fandom won't crit even when they're specifically asked to).
The fact is, anything can be criticised, constructively and not. I could take all of my beloved fandom classics and rip them to (constructive) shreds no matter how good they actually are. I wouldn't, because I'm not bored enough to do that, but if I decided it'd be fun to do it, that is reason enough. Fandom is for fun; it's a hobby. Trying to impose a binary standard of behaviour on a hobby -- using "percentage" and "majority" as excuses for why it's "logical" -- is ridiculous. >:( (ETA: I don't mean that you specifically are trying to impose anything on anyone with this post or otherwise; I'm just beyond annoyed at these discussions inevitably coming down to 'thou shalt not'.)