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Re: Anyone else really miss candid comment culture?

[(Anonymous)]

I mean, I’ve been in fandom for over twenty years and maybe the period of good concrit comments came before me, but in my experience, I rarely got good concrit when I did get concrit. And honestly, I don’t remember receiving much of it. If I had someone who knew what they were doing giving me concrit, I would 100% have loved that and would still love it. But, most of my concrit were things like “you made [character] too [unflattering adjective].” Or very subjective and not helpful comments.

The only time I remember receiving good concrit is when I did S2B2 and got concrit through that writing process.

Re: Anyone else really miss candid comment culture?

[(Anonymous)]

I think there was a period in the early fandom era when most fanfic came through SF zine culture where honest mixed opinion reviews were the norm but a) that was a period where you were often paying money for zines sight unseen through mail-order, and the reviews were being published in different zines, so they were not serving primarily as concrit, and b) once modern fanfic culture started taking shape as distinctly separate from SF zines there was a pretty quick backlash/controversy over that anyway.

Re: Anyone else really miss candid comment culture?

[(Anonymous)]

Original coalie and I think those of us who agree with this sentiment are talking less about "Some rando's idea on how to best improve(TM) your writing" and more about feedback that just has less of a filter on it, or rather, candid, like in the post title. Sorry, my mentions of concrit ended up a bit misleading.