The value of Opinions and Votes
Dec 3, 2022 9:24:04 GMT -5
Post by Radrook Admin on Dec 3, 2022 9:24:04 GMT -5
Each writer likes to receive positive feedback and if a voting system is present then to receive as many positive evaluations as possible. It encourages us as writers when this happens. However, it is very necessary to properly evaluate significance of such opinions since opinions can be based on favoritism, defective criteria, or ignorance of what fiction writing is striving to accomplish.
These opinions or votes indicating an evaluation, in fact, can be garnered from person's who do not know much about the purpose of a story and are therefore incapable of delving deeply into the nuances of meaning employed nor to comprehend a story's intentions. For example, if the voter feels that all stories should have happy endings, then obviously, if yours does not comply, then will get either ignored or else receive a very low rating.
Why? Simple. Because to such a reader, all stories with unhappy endings are flawed. Since happiness or unhappiness of a conclusion is the voter's primary concern, then of course everything else, such as proper punctuation, characterization, gradual plot development, the use of visual and tactile imagery, etc., will be of very secondary importance. In short, the evaluation's value depends on what the evaluator's criteria was when he evaluated. What motives he might have had. For example, a Republican evaluator will see any composition that places one oh the Republican politicians in a negative light as flawed. So the vote will be low. An evaluator who considers abortion OPK will evaluate a composition that describes it as a sin low.
An evaluator who is theophobic, which means that he or she cannot tolerate any concept that conveys the belief in the existence of a creator high. In short, to such evaluator the farthest thing from their minds is your skill as a writer and how the story or composition was written. Because of this propensity, it is essential that he writers who are being evaluated not take each evaluations to heart and let it dampened his zeal to continue to write.
These opinions or votes indicating an evaluation, in fact, can be garnered from person's who do not know much about the purpose of a story and are therefore incapable of delving deeply into the nuances of meaning employed nor to comprehend a story's intentions. For example, if the voter feels that all stories should have happy endings, then obviously, if yours does not comply, then will get either ignored or else receive a very low rating.
Why? Simple. Because to such a reader, all stories with unhappy endings are flawed. Since happiness or unhappiness of a conclusion is the voter's primary concern, then of course everything else, such as proper punctuation, characterization, gradual plot development, the use of visual and tactile imagery, etc., will be of very secondary importance. In short, the evaluation's value depends on what the evaluator's criteria was when he evaluated. What motives he might have had. For example, a Republican evaluator will see any composition that places one oh the Republican politicians in a negative light as flawed. So the vote will be low. An evaluator who considers abortion OPK will evaluate a composition that describes it as a sin low.
An evaluator who is theophobic, which means that he or she cannot tolerate any concept that conveys the belief in the existence of a creator high. In short, to such evaluator the farthest thing from their minds is your skill as a writer and how the story or composition was written. Because of this propensity, it is essential that he writers who are being evaluated not take each evaluations to heart and let it dampened his zeal to continue to write.