I don't have very strong views on fic vs story. I *do* strongly prefer comment to feedback, because some people really don't feed back as such, in that they aren't exactly discussing the fic at all ("I would never have thought of this pairing!" "I am also from Michigan!" "I'm also doing this ficathon and I'm late, omg, haven't dared to read this, your timeliness oppresses me!"). Comments seems to leave the whole thing a lot wider and more neutral.
Whereas I, in a more general sense, prefer feedback to commenting because I feel like commenting is a sort of, hmm, platform-specific activity? Like, you don't comment on ff.net; you review. (Or maybe you leave a review; I'm not too savvy with the lingo there.) And comments and reviews both seem to come under the heading of 'feedback' to me. 'Commenting' implies to me that the person comes from LJ.
Uh, which isn't to say your reasoning doesn't also make perfectly good sense. :)
So to muddy the waters further, I have a totally separate concept called "reviews". These are homed with the writer of the review, not with the fic being reviewed. No display with the fic itself, though you can choose to look at the tab listing reviews for the fic (with review titles).
I am, at the moment, leaning toward comment because it's sort of more neutral (for the reasons BmB gives) and because the feedback concept is sort of partly in the review concept.
I'm old school when it comes to terminology, but flexible when it comes to how others decide to use it. As long as there's plenty of characterization and a soupcon of smut, I'm a mostly happy camper. I prefer 'fic' and 'feedback', but if I know what's meant by it, I could be perfectly willing to accept 'aardvark' and 'laser canon.' I might think you're tremendously odd, but that's never stopped me liking anyone before.
As to how I've been... well, ups and downs, my friend. Ups and downs. But I'm back. And ficcing to fight cancer. And writing a book. Oh, and without a steady paycheck. Like I said, ups and downs.
On the internet I call it fic, if it's on paper, it's a story. The plural of fic does give me a headache.
Here in the Southbay things are busy. We seem to be done with being sick here at Chez Stex. :knocks on wood: Otherwise it seems to be a lot of normal life "wash, rinse, repeat" around here. Still have not seen The Hobbit.
I have no strong leanings either way between feedback and comment. In fact, I kept changing my answer and can't even tell you what I ultimately picked. As long as it's clear that's where I'm writing something to the author about what I just read it makes little difference what it's called.
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Uh, which isn't to say your reasoning doesn't also make perfectly good sense. :)
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I tend to think of comments as a neutral thing, on other blogs and AO3, but perhaps that's because LJ is where I started.
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I am, at the moment, leaning toward comment because it's sort of more neutral (for the reasons BmB gives) and because the feedback concept is sort of partly in the review concept.
I ought to have mentioned that.
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As to how I've been... well, ups and downs, my friend. Ups and downs. But I'm back. And ficcing to fight cancer. And writing a book. Oh, and without a steady paycheck. Like I said, ups and downs.
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I shall name something aardvark just for you, somewhere. As an easter egg.
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And if any of my old school peeps are posting it, I'm reading, commenting, reviewing, squeeing....
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And I comment, because it says 'post comment' on LJ and that's really the only place I read fic.
I'm a bit of a stick in the mud really.
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Here in the Southbay things are busy. We seem to be done with being sick here at Chez Stex. :knocks on wood: Otherwise it seems to be a lot of normal life "wash, rinse, repeat" around here. Still have not seen The Hobbit.
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