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There's a twitter discussion going on right now about favoriting versus reviewing stories and since 140 characters isn't nearly enough for me I'm posting my full-blown thoughts here.
( oh FFN, your evil only grows )
( oh FFN, your evil only grows )
Sometimes I'll be reading articles on newspaper websites or magazines and such and I'll be utterly shocked at the things people say (the knee-jerk reaction you describe)--grown adults bickering over semantics. What's wonderful about the PHM community is that everyone is respected, no matter who they 'ship or what they like/don't like. That's really an accomplishment. There's fandoms that fall apart because of fan-factions fighting over nonsense. But that doesn't happen here and I love that!
But in this case, it's less a matter of whether not reviewing when you favorite is wrong, and more an issue of how to deal with each other when we're frustrated. What's a healthy responses and what's not. One thing that might help is to remember a lot of the fandom is made up of kids. Like, real kids (14 and younger). Kids will do silly things, but you don't take it personally because... their kids. If we engage them, it's unfair because as the more mature people--we automatically have the upper hand.
I think I stopped making sense towards the end there. Ok, I definitely did. I'll come back and respond properly tomorrow when I can think straight. But One thing I'm sure of: worry not! I'm positive we can all be friends, even after openly discussing all this.
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