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ratcreature) wrote2006-08-19 01:28 pm
ratcreature) wrote2006-08-19 01:28 pm
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a feedback meta thought...
I've recently realized that there is actually one kind of feedback that irks me, probably irrationally so.
You know the kind of reply that points out one often fairly minor mistake or goof, like say you missed a spot in your coloring or an arm looks slightly wonky or a costume isn't quite right or whatever (or similarly points out a spelling error or a comma or something in a fic), but doesn't tell you whether they liked or disliked the thing as a whole? That's the kind I mean. Don't get me wrong, the constructive part is sort of helpful, and I don't mind having errors pointed out to me, or in general any kind of either positive or negative feedback, but there's something incredibly depressing for me to get feedback on something I did, and the only thing they found worth mentioning, the only thing prompting a response is some goof, and they don't even bother to tell whether it ruined the effect overall.
Even a simple preface "I liked it overall, but..." or "This sucked, because..." would somehow feel better. Obviously the positive one more than the negative, but that one at least give a real reaction. I'm not sure why the kind of feedback that just neutrally points to a technical error and nothing else feels worse to me, maybe because it somehow feels condescending even if it isn't meant that way, because it is just a dispassionate correction.
Anyway, when I give feedback I try to never do that, even if there is some technical error like a typo that really leapt out at me, but to always first say what I liked and didn't like, or even just whether or not I liked it and only then start with the nitpicking.
Does anyone else has this kind of issue? I'm not talking about objections in general to corrections or to negative feedback in public or private comments, I don't have those, but this specific knee-jerk reaction to feedback that is solely a technical correction without including any kind of positive or negative emotional (or other) response specific to the work that would tell you whether they even enjoyed what they feedbacked or not.
You know the kind of reply that points out one often fairly minor mistake or goof, like say you missed a spot in your coloring or an arm looks slightly wonky or a costume isn't quite right or whatever (or similarly points out a spelling error or a comma or something in a fic), but doesn't tell you whether they liked or disliked the thing as a whole? That's the kind I mean. Don't get me wrong, the constructive part is sort of helpful, and I don't mind having errors pointed out to me, or in general any kind of either positive or negative feedback, but there's something incredibly depressing for me to get feedback on something I did, and the only thing they found worth mentioning, the only thing prompting a response is some goof, and they don't even bother to tell whether it ruined the effect overall.
Even a simple preface "I liked it overall, but..." or "This sucked, because..." would somehow feel better. Obviously the positive one more than the negative, but that one at least give a real reaction. I'm not sure why the kind of feedback that just neutrally points to a technical error and nothing else feels worse to me, maybe because it somehow feels condescending even if it isn't meant that way, because it is just a dispassionate correction.
Anyway, when I give feedback I try to never do that, even if there is some technical error like a typo that really leapt out at me, but to always first say what I liked and didn't like, or even just whether or not I liked it and only then start with the nitpicking.
Does anyone else has this kind of issue? I'm not talking about objections in general to corrections or to negative feedback in public or private comments, I don't have those, but this specific knee-jerk reaction to feedback that is solely a technical correction without including any kind of positive or negative emotional (or other) response specific to the work that would tell you whether they even enjoyed what they feedbacked or not.
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But if enough time has passed for the commenter to have read the whole story? Then...yeah, it would be nice to know if it worked or didn't work generally.
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