Mirageangel
First and foremost forgive any mistakes in this post as I’m not a native English speaker.
Second, I hope you don’t mind me posting this on my personal journal, but I don’t think this reply belongs in __vam.
I guess the whole problem started when your comments were posted anonymously. I don’t know about the others, but when someone is not willing to show their faces when they’re expressing their points of view I consider them cowards. You’ve already answered to this allegations, so I apologise if I’ve offended you and for contributing in your feelings of being bashed.
In your reply you’ve stated that “I am not obligated to state a criticism, no matter how strongly the author argued that.” That is, in a way, true. People are entitle to give their opinions, comments, statements, and criticisms as they pleas. However, it’s expected that these personal points of view (both positive and negative, I might add) are at least a bit constructive so the author knows exactly what she/he is doing right and what’s she/he is doing wrong. Your comment was not one bit constructive, some people might actually consider it offensive, not because you were expressing your personal opinion on the story: “Some characters, like Jonne, are not themselves, because Jonne does not strike me as a seducer”, but because you’ve stated a comment based on the authors’ nationality: “Of course considering you are not European or actually 'Finnish', I suppose it is understandable”. You didn’t elaborate on this idea, therefore it could be taken in so many ways, mostly negative. When I read this particular comment the first thing that came to my mind was that you were being condescending towards the author, as if she would never be able to write an 'acurrate' Jonne according to what you know about him because you´re (I'm assuming) European.
It wasn’t until your second reply that you express a CONSTRUCTIVE OPINION, both positive and negative: “The story is however, well written (positve), but the OOC gets on my nerves (negative).” Perhaps if you had taken the time in your first comment to state this it wouldn’t have been such a big deal, as you said in your post at __vam “So see, one must always view and ANALYZE stories from both sides, not one.” As always, this is just my personal opinion.
Now, I don’t know if the third anonymous post was yours as well:
Hey, your story so much reminds me of those by the user Hergerbabe. She too writes of Vam and these two stories seem so closely connected. Do you know her or have you read her stories? If not, here is the website
This comment confuses me the most due to is ambiguity. In here you (if you actually wrote this) never stated which story or stories of Hergerbabe ‘Closed Door’ reminds you of, and why it reminded you of such story/stories: story line, characterisation, writing similarities, context, etc. If you’ve had elaborated a little bit more in your comment it might be more understandable, at least for me.
Well, this came out longer than I thought. I just want to say that I’m not trying to pick up a fight with you, but you did reply to my post so I felt that an explanation on my behave was needed. Feel free to reply or ignore this.
Take care,
-Beny.
Second, I hope you don’t mind me posting this on my personal journal, but I don’t think this reply belongs in __vam.
I guess the whole problem started when your comments were posted anonymously. I don’t know about the others, but when someone is not willing to show their faces when they’re expressing their points of view I consider them cowards. You’ve already answered to this allegations, so I apologise if I’ve offended you and for contributing in your feelings of being bashed.
In your reply you’ve stated that “I am not obligated to state a criticism, no matter how strongly the author argued that.” That is, in a way, true. People are entitle to give their opinions, comments, statements, and criticisms as they pleas. However, it’s expected that these personal points of view (both positive and negative, I might add) are at least a bit constructive so the author knows exactly what she/he is doing right and what’s she/he is doing wrong. Your comment was not one bit constructive, some people might actually consider it offensive, not because you were expressing your personal opinion on the story: “Some characters, like Jonne, are not themselves, because Jonne does not strike me as a seducer”, but because you’ve stated a comment based on the authors’ nationality: “Of course considering you are not European or actually 'Finnish', I suppose it is understandable”. You didn’t elaborate on this idea, therefore it could be taken in so many ways, mostly negative. When I read this particular comment the first thing that came to my mind was that you were being condescending towards the author, as if she would never be able to write an 'acurrate' Jonne according to what you know about him because you´re (I'm assuming) European.
It wasn’t until your second reply that you express a CONSTRUCTIVE OPINION, both positive and negative: “The story is however, well written (positve), but the OOC gets on my nerves (negative).” Perhaps if you had taken the time in your first comment to state this it wouldn’t have been such a big deal, as you said in your post at __vam “So see, one must always view and ANALYZE stories from both sides, not one.” As always, this is just my personal opinion.
Now, I don’t know if the third anonymous post was yours as well:
Hey, your story so much reminds me of those by the user Hergerbabe. She too writes of Vam and these two stories seem so closely connected. Do you know her or have you read her stories? If not, here is the website
This comment confuses me the most due to is ambiguity. In here you (if you actually wrote this) never stated which story or stories of Hergerbabe ‘Closed Door’ reminds you of, and why it reminded you of such story/stories: story line, characterisation, writing similarities, context, etc. If you’ve had elaborated a little bit more in your comment it might be more understandable, at least for me.
Well, this came out longer than I thought. I just want to say that I’m not trying to pick up a fight with you, but you did reply to my post so I felt that an explanation on my behave was needed. Feel free to reply or ignore this.
Take care,
-Beny.