Anyway, I removed the color marking since you guys were pretty much all disagreeing with it. Pointing out the standards never were hidden, I did say it was about format from the start and not content which means I did not look at grammar and did not even pretend to take it into account. Yes It was unnecessary, yes it was based on the grid at the base of this thread, yes it would have been very open to argumentation about which one were too high rated and which ones were too low rated and modifications would have been made no worries intended.
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definitely don't want to say to a popular and very talented writer "Don't get too cocky." when they don't live up to your hidden rubric. It makes you look incredibly cocky yourself."
-Not a hidden rubric, it was explicit in the first comment from the start. I do recognise I definitely needed to check it again to fix a big part of the notes that were innacurate, I should've not published these without having them be double checked in a more rested case.
-I am cocky, but not so much that I criticise ascerbly the person who rated my submission if I get a near perfect score, certainly not without having asked WHY first and then argued about that what and how and could it be changed first. Again I did not look at the CONTENT, ONLY the format, note that I did not count grammar as part of the format. Since you guys were accredited creators, it is very likely I did not want to favoritise you to newcomers. I probably was harsher in your ratings as a consequence of it. Dear
@HugsAlright , pointing this out as you just did I now see why you were justifiably unhappy with what I said. Had you pointed it out in the previous comment I assure you I would have took a look at that more toroughly and probably would I have not thought(again my fault there) that you hadn't done any summary for no reason. I will remove everything I said, thought I leave it in the chat as proof of my guilt and harsh unnecessary and uninformed argument.
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@Aullama , Not trying to influence the contest, Savin and Fen are actually busy doing lots of work so I doubt they give a shit about what I wrote anyway, if at all they'd be pissed at me, actually thought it'd kinda be ignored anyway, guess I was wrong, I should've taken more time to do a proper and fair review, going to the points individually with each person.
Overall I will say the following: It was completely unnecessary of me to do that format based ranking (and counting triple since it was public) and I do apologise to everyone that were gueninely unpleased, harmed or felt any form of distress or anger because of me. My own rating system had flaws, which I would have simply liked for them to be pointed out. Some of them were as Night Trap stated: "One has
an entire page with no line breaks or indentations.", and for which I gave a perfect format score to my own fault it is. I don't really ever get angry over stuff, at most I get seriously pissed, not at the person but at the things they said, though it's clear I did not think the reaction would be immediatly negative. Again, I apologise, Fen and Savin are the one with any real decisionnal power.
) for recognition, just about taking the time to meet people if you have an issue with them. I won't go much more into that again but I love the contents you guys write, it's never about if you've written something cool, if it's been done right or not, but sometimes about maybe how you could make this or that specific submission (let's not say even better because that could imply connotations but you get the idea). It's easier to come back to a submission with any kind of summary or overview and remember exactly what it was about and what happenned in the scenes rather than to do the same with just a title and that really was all it was about in these cases, no authority, no decisional power, just making sure the works you appreciate are as complete as can be. After that it's up to the writter to decide if it's a real problem or not, if he wants to do something about it or not, if he wants to care about the comments or not and etc.
