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Apr. 28th, 2009 02:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shapinglightOkay, said I was going to spam, and since this subject is horribly embarrassing for me, I might as well get it off my chest rightaway.
Ahem! I am a feedback whore.
Not that it's True Confessions Week on LJ, or anything, but since I was brought up to think that trying to attract attention to yourself was un-British or unfeminine, or un-something, admitting this is a lot harder than the subject (which is very trivial, I know) actually warrants.
I thought at first I would try and pretend to be all scientific and impersonal and put up some kind of poll so you could all join me in admitting you were also feedback whores, or else take the moral high ground and say getting feedback was a matter of indifference to you. However, implicating you all in my horrible character flaw didn't seem very fair, so I didn't do it.
Anyway, I am one. I wish I wasn't. I wish I was like![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
peasant_ who not only doesn't like getting feedback, but actively discourages it by making it as hard as possible for people to give her any and glaring at them a lot when they do, but I'm not. Getting told people have enjoyed something I've written is one of the best feelings in the world for me. Likewise, not getting any feedback, or not much feedback, for something I've written makes me grumpy, and I have to own up to it.
:sigh: Oh well. Never claimed to be perfect. Should I have done the poll after all, or have I embarrassed myself enough already? Or, indeed, are you asking yourself, what on earth is wrong with wanting/liking to receive feedback? It's a British/women's/old person's problem. Get over it.
Ahem! I am a feedback whore.
Not that it's True Confessions Week on LJ, or anything, but since I was brought up to think that trying to attract attention to yourself was un-British or unfeminine, or un-something, admitting this is a lot harder than the subject (which is very trivial, I know) actually warrants.
I thought at first I would try and pretend to be all scientific and impersonal and put up some kind of poll so you could all join me in admitting you were also feedback whores, or else take the moral high ground and say getting feedback was a matter of indifference to you. However, implicating you all in my horrible character flaw didn't seem very fair, so I didn't do it.
Anyway, I am one. I wish I wasn't. I wish I was like
peasant_ who not only doesn't like getting feedback, but actively discourages it by making it as hard as possible for people to give her any and glaring at them a lot when they do, but I'm not. Getting told people have enjoyed something I've written is one of the best feelings in the world for me. Likewise, not getting any feedback, or not much feedback, for something I've written makes me grumpy, and I have to own up to it. :sigh: Oh well. Never claimed to be perfect. Should I have done the poll after all, or have I embarrassed myself enough already? Or, indeed, are you asking yourself, what on earth is wrong with wanting/liking to receive feedback? It's a British/women's/old person's problem. Get over it.
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Date: 2009-04-28 04:52 pm (UTC)However, it's a strange mental exercise that seems to operate beneath any deliberate, conscious level for me: when I read something, it doesn't matter whether I obtained equal enjoyment from many stories, I'll still be tempted to comment on only one or two. I also know of some lj-ers who won't comment if they see too many comments, figuring that theirs will be lost in the crush.
Even so, I've been meaning to comment on the finale to your epic, though I've been somewhat distracted lately. But I promise!
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Date: 2009-04-29 07:31 pm (UTC)Heh! No, I don't think I could either, hence my utter chagrin when I woke up this morning to the realisation that people would think this post just such a demand. I honestly didn't mean it to be.
Anyway, if this conversation spurs me on to be better about leaving f/b for others, that's a good thing, right?
I also know of some lj-ers who won't comment if they see too many comments, figuring that theirs will be lost in the crush.
Really? That's a new one on me, must admit.