Rethinking Netfic posts

[kerravonsen]

I've been posting-by-email my "Netfic Reviews" reviews here (basically at the same time as I put them up on my website). Because I'm not getting feedback about them, I give you here a poll.

Poll #5834 netfic reviews

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Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 10

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Should I keep on posting the netfic reviews posts?

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Yes
9 (90.0%)

No
1 (10.0%)

Don't care
0 (0.0%)

Should I keep the current format?

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Yes
4 (40.0%)

Post the whole review behind a cut
5 (50.0%)

Other (leave a comment)
0 (0.0%)

Ticky Box!
6 (60.0%)

Comments

[fikgirl]

I'm tired and clicked in the wrong place. I meant to select "Ticky Box!"

[kerravonsen]

You can change your answers, you know. Click on "Change your vote".

[jhall1]

I've been reading the reviews with interest, but lack of time and/or ideleness has prevented me from reading any of the reviewed stories.

I've noticed that all the stories that you've reviewed recently have been rated at least "good" and most of them "very good" or "excellent". Is that because you don't bother to mention stories that you consider "poor" (which would be understandable)? Or perhaps you mostly read stories that you expect to like, having read stories by that author in the past and found them good?

[kerravonsen]

Yes and no. I have, in the past, reviewed stories which I consider to be poor, and I expect I will do so in the future. However, I never read a story which I expect I will dislike: that would make me a masochist. So, yes, I read stories that I expect to like. And sometimes these stories turn out to be unexpectedly dreadful.

The stories I don't bother to mention are the ones in between, the ones that are merely "okay". Also, when I have a large backlog (as I do at the moment), I tend to drop stories that I might otherwise have reviewed, in the hope of catching up quicker. So the most recent batches have concentrated on the "Very Good" and "Excellent" stories because those have the highest priority.

There was one "poor" story in my recent reading, but I decided not to review it because (a) I have a large backlog, (b) in order to be fair, I would have to read the whole story, even though I'd already realized by the first three chapters that it was dreadful, and I didn't feel like dragging myself through a story I didn't like.

As for how I choose stories, yes, I do read stories by authors I have already read, but I don't restrict myself to that. I also check out stories that other people have recced, stories on moderated sites that look interesting, stories that are nominated in awards, and so on.