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Raves and Flames: The Art of Feedback
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| Title: | Raves and Flames: The Art of Feedback |
| Creator: | Queen of Cups |
| Date(s): | early 2000s? |
| Medium: | online |
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| External Links: | Queen of Cups essay, Archived version |
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Raves and Flames: The Art of Feedback is an essay by Queen of Cups.
It is one of many essays at Octaves, a Buffy and Angel website.
"Learn the difference between giving useful and mediocre feedback."
For additional context, see Timeline of Concrit & Feedback Meta.
Excerpt
If you think a story really sucks, don't get mad. It won't make the author any better and they will continue to produce work that you hate. Instead, take some time to analyse why you hated it so much. If it was just a matter of 'ship etc., then more fool you. Every story carries summaries and warnings about the content. If I had a pound for every flame I've read that was directed at slash fic that was clearly marked as such (sometimes even housed in slash archives), well, I'd have about a tenner but you know what I mean...