what the heck?

[happyevraftr]

So in the past couple weeks I've got random comments on a couple of my olderish stories on various websites and they've all been backhanded compliments. Like, 'this is great, but this part kinda sucked. but not really.' type of things. And I'm just kind of confused and a little bit pissed off.

I understand that writing is a growing process, and not everyone appreciates the same things- but I just find it rude. I would NEVER leave negative feedback on someone's work like that. Even if I really didn't like it, that's no reason to belittle the time and effort the author put into their story. If I was confused about their choices, I would politely ask them their thought processes, but not flat out say I hated it.

meh. I guess it's just getting my flamer/troll cherry popped but--- it really kind of upset me.

I'm considering taking my stuff down to be honest. Or at least making everything friends only. At this point in my writing, I do it for fun- for the creativity of it and as an outlet, not for people's affirmation.....but on the other hand I'm an insanely sensitive person and negative stuff that isn't constructive criticism really gets to me :(

Comments

[happyevraftr.livejournal.com]

none of them have been anonymous and they're all different accounts.

I don't think any of them were trying to be mean and hateful, but people should really think before they speak.

[roslindi.livejournal.com]

Hmm. It just seems strange that you should suddenly be getting backhanded-insult-reviews if you haven't in the past. Maybe you got recc'd in a place with particularly snobby readers?

Whatever the reason: screw them. You don't leave "constructive criticism" (and I put that in quotes because some people actually give that which is helpful, but a lot of people just use that excuse to trash someone's work--and that's what this seems to be) on a fanwork if the author didn't ask for it.

[happyevraftr.livejournal.com]

I thought it seemed strange too. Good point about the recc'ing. I also just thought that my newbie card wore off and ppl decided to take off the little kid gloves XD

Thank you for being supportive, I actually feel a lot better knowing someone else agrees they were being highly inappropriate.