The AMV Feedback Project: Reaching New Heights of Obsession!

[thefourthvine]

My annual bout of vid-meta came on early this year. Also, it's another feedback project. And, further, it's on a topic that's not going to be of great interest to many of you.

There is a specific person to blame for this, and that person is not me. I'm a totally innocent party, here. (As you will see, I fought this whole thing like - well, kind

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[thefourthvine]

As you've stated, the grades are GROSSLY inflated and thus folks get "mad" when their scores are lowered

You know, I agree with the first part. The other opinions I've checked out, the averages I've seen - well, I wasn't kidding when I said that either I'm confused about the numbers or the other scorers are.

But thus far, no one has gotten mad at me (although a couple people disagreed, or were unhappy, but not in a pissy way), and I was honestly expecting it; assigning numerical scores to other people's work is just about the most inflammatory thing you can do without bringing up evolution or Nazis. I still do expect it to happen in the future, but - well, in my admittedly small sample, it didn't happen, and I gave some (justified and explained, but still) very low scores. If I'd gotten much in the way of bitchiness or outright flaming, I wouldn't have advised people from media fandom to give opinions at all (we can get our bitchiness and flaming in-house, after all), but it looks like the odds of pissing someone off with concrit are the same at amv.org as, well, pretty much anywhere else.

And, actually, the girl-talk style of leaving feedback is probably helping me, here. Disclaiming, phrasing things in terms of opinions rather than fact, using "I think" and "I felt" statements a lot - I hate my tendency to do that shit, but in a place where most people don't do the girl-talk thing, it may make my negative or mixed opinions easier to take. (Of course, it also makes it harder to take them seriously, but in this instance I'm fine with that. I don't give the opinions because I expect people to pay attention to what I have to say, after all.)

Also reviewing older videos is not "bad" or anything.

When I did a live-action vidding feedback project, I really pissed someone off by reviewing a vid that was older. (And in her case, I couldn't even tell that it was older - at least at the org, you can easily see which vids are newest.) And I do kind of get the reasoning, there - the vidder has moved on (and presumably improved), so why would he want to hear about an old vid? But, then, I know I love getting unexpected feedback on old work, so - yeah, my instincts are at odds with my experience, here.

Then again, to be honest, hearing "OMG THIS IS AWESOME" 10 million times DOES get a bit old, but again, SOMETIMES you hear something new and more genuine.

You know, I'm not sure that's something any live-action vidder has ever said, at least in my hearing. Interesting.

Oh and if I haven't said it, thanks!

You're welcome. Um...for what, though?