As someone who got on the WRONG side of the issue... man. Personally? I'm with you. I just don't pay *attention* to whether or not I get a responseto my fb, unless it's some new-to-me writer who I want to stalk take under my wing.
And I really do think it's a function of how *much* fb you send. I mean, really. If I *finish* a story? I'm sending fb. Because I don't -- can't -- waste my time on crap, and because I'm working on the assumption (and have been for years, to nearly universal success) that all fb = yay.
And so, if I'm reading, on an average day, 3-10 stories, and feedbacking at least 80% of them... how in *hell* to keep track? Who has *time*?
And maybe it's not so much a matter of quantity -- or even quality -- as it is of name recognition. Am I going to notice the name of random fan I've never heard of before I read one of his/her stories not showing up in my inbox? Wouldn't I be more likely to notice the absence of BNF?
I don't know. In the end... I just send the fb, and try to respond to the fb, and hope to never wind up in another goddamned flamefest again.
I support the whole not getting into a flamefest thing. *g* I'm not sure that, for me, blanking on what I've sent to whom is a function of how much fb I send, because I'm sadly lazy in that area as in so many others; I think it's just an effect of the mental important/not important filtering system. Having been moved to send fb can be important, but remembering exactly to whom, when, and whether they answered, is apparently not, so much. :)
As someone who got on the WRONG side of the issue... man. Personally? I'm with you. I just don't pay *attention* to whether or not I get a responseto my fb, unless it's some new-to-me writer who I want to stalk take under my wing.
And I really do think it's a function of how *much* fb you send. I mean, really. If I *finish* a story? I'm sending fb. Because I don't -- can't -- waste my time on crap, and because I'm working on the assumption (and have been for years, to nearly universal success) that all fb = yay.
And so, if I'm reading, on an average day, 3-10 stories, and feedbacking at least 80% of them... how in *hell* to keep track? Who has *time*?
And maybe it's not so much a matter of quantity -- or even quality -- as it is of name recognition. Am I going to notice the name of random fan I've never heard of before I read one of his/her stories not showing up in my inbox? Wouldn't I be more likely to notice the absence of BNF?
I don't know. In the end... I just send the fb, and try to respond to the fb, and hope to never wind up in another goddamned flamefest again.
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