[ SECRET POST #5214 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5214 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

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I think OP is talking about people who don't ask for critique and also complain about not getting any comments.

This is, in my opinion, perfectly fair. Most people are absolutely terrible at critique, which is why good betas are worth their weight in gold. The average fic reader could at best tell you how to make your fic appeal to them.

And incidentally, if someone can't think of anything nice to say, that's a sign that they're not going to be able to give good critique, at least for that story. Decent critique builds up, it doesn't just tear down.

[(Anonymous)]

+1000

There are way too many people who think their drive-by condescending comments are valuable critique that writers should be grateful for. Nah. For every halfway decent piece of critical feedback, there's hundreds of comments that are just mean-spirited, based on a way off-base misreading of the story, essentially boiling down to "why did you write this thing I don't like instead of what I wanted to read" or factual/grammatical corrections that are, in fact, wrong.

Really good constructive criticism is hard to do. I think it's a much rarer skill than just being able to write readable prose.