What are the standard LotR lists? I'm thinking I should throw my Aragorn/Eowyn snippet out into the cold, cruel world.

I don't think I've ever gotten email feedback. I have one story up on FF.net that got two comments (one was from Fay, thanks Fay!) but I haven't really written enough to get feedback.

Now that I'm sitting here pondering [because otherwise I'd have to do something productive like finish painting] I think that the difference might be LJ. People who read fic on LJ seem more likely to feedback than people who get it on a list who are more likely to feedback than people who just come across a story on a webpage.

Hmmm. Did that make any sense?

Just received a LoC from Yahtzee re The Cuckoo.

Keen! My LoC was from someone I respect and read and EEP!!!

So, you know, fangirl gasket blown.

Did I skim too fast and miss a reference to someone silly enough to not only not appreciate you but go out of their way to tell you so, Plei?

Oh, fuck no. I'm SO staying out of this. It's a big kerfluffle right now, in the Fic World at Large. Crossfandom, much flaming.

Plus I always feel this need to not make it a rote "Thank you. I appreciate the feedback." response.

Yeah. I'm very glad I only post to about 4-8 places. I get a steady amount. Not masses, mind. Enough to keep up with.

think that the difference might be LJ. People who read fic on LJ seem more likely to feedback than people who get it on a list who are more likely to feedback than people who just come across a story on a webpage.

Perfect sense, that makes, and yeah, that's my experience. Also, in my experience, GO and UCSL get the most offlist feedback, DoW and WG onlist feedback, and Silverlake a Friday Feedback, because we're all saving up to do it in public.

This all going down mostly on fandom_wank isn't it? I'm avoiding this one, mostly because I've been bad about sending feedback.

Yeah; and there's a thread that was linked in metablog on someone's journal where this is all being discussed.

I don't care what all everyone says on that flamewar. I like feedback and I thank people for sending it to me.

::Shrugs::

I saw the 200 + comments in fandom_wank and decided to pass it by.

Me too, Suela. Feedback is one of the best quirks about fandom.

I don't care what all everyone says on that flamewar. I like feedback and I thank people for sending it to me.

Eh, it's in a large way just the whole BNF curse, where your words are considered to carry more weight than the average bear's that started it all. I confess that it's all very confusing to my own damn self.

Or, how I explained it in someone else's LJ.

Most BNFs are not BNFs on purpose, and most that I know would shout "HEY! TAKE THAT BACK!" if you happened to call them a BNF. The problem comes when a fan who IS, for lack of a better term, a BNF, says something, anything, that appears to be an opinion. For whatever reason, and there are many I can think of--and none of them relate to the actual BNF, just to people's perceptions of the BNF--it's not taken by readers with the standard heaping of salt granted to most opinions. Because opinions are just that, opinions.

At times, it seems that Fandom_Wank, which I do track, and which has some good purposes, takes the opinions of BNFs (generally prolific and talented writers and list/archive runners) and makes it seem as if those opinions were some sort of pronouncement from on high, simply because it's a BNF stating the opinion.

I could, in this format, (note: by this I mean LJ, as that was where I posted this)say whatever the hell I wanted (and I often do), and no one would think that what I'm saying is somehow a YOU MUST ALL OBEY ME! DO AS I SAY NOW! post or proclamation. Were I a BNF, this wouldn't be the case. I don't think I'd let that stop me from speaking my mind, it would just mean that speaking it might stir up your standard issue shitstorm.

Of course, as The Brat Queen has pointed out, how the devil does one know, especially in a large fandom, if one has been declared a BNF? You don't. You can be sitting there happily swimming away and assuming that you're just like all the other fishies in the sea, when suddenly someone points and screams "Look! Shark!", and you blink and wonder what they're talking about before you realize all the fins are pointed in your direction.

If any of that makes sense.