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Apr. 21st, 2008 05:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lotesseWas reading the discussion linked to on ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
metafandom about feedback, and I had a tangential little language nerd moment. The list-based fen were all using LOC as the proper term, and feedback got thrown around a lot, but I realized that as an eljay-era fanbrat I only think it terms of commenting. And I wonder if that's not part of the functional gap of feedback practices - I know that if I thought I was leaving a "letter of comment" each time I replied to a bit of fic, I'd feel like it had to, y'know, actually say something. Whereas it's totally okay for a comment to just be hey, I read your thing, and it was shiny.
/random brain effluence
metafandom about feedback, and I had a tangential little language nerd moment. The list-based fen were all using LOC as the proper term, and feedback got thrown around a lot, but I realized that as an eljay-era fanbrat I only think it terms of commenting. And I wonder if that's not part of the functional gap of feedback practices - I know that if I thought I was leaving a "letter of comment" each time I replied to a bit of fic, I'd feel like it had to, y'know, actually say something. Whereas it's totally okay for a comment to just be hey, I read your thing, and it was shiny./random brain effluence