Can you turn it down? We're getting too much/not enough feedback!
The HP fandom has been rife with posts about giving/receiving feedback lately.

On the wanky side, we have fabularasa, who seems to think that no one should provide their opinion of her work, even though she posts it on the internet for the world to see:

It does seem to me that offering unsolicited con-crit is the rankest arrogance, since it assumes that you (oh writer) naturally value the opinion of me (the wise reader.) Just because I want you as my reader doesn't mean I actually value your opinion about writing; heck, nine times out of ten I don't even know you, so why should I? And I can't imagine posting a "read and review" at the top of any story. Drop a card if you liked it; hit "next" and move on if you didn't.

And in fact, no, I don't care to receive unsolicited con-crit myself, so I am simply extending the same courtesy to others. I am not going to go back and make editorial changes to a story I've already written; we're talking fanfic here, and it's purely for the passing enjoyment of myself and others, and in general I can't be arsed to undertake editing of something I've written and moved on from.

[Personally, if I didn't want comments on a story I wrote and/or didn't care what people think about my work, I wouldn't post it on the fucking internet; but I guess that's just me.]

Then again, I think idlerat may need to find herself a hobby:

And then of course there's you [fabularasa], where I've read hundreds of pages of your fic, made copious marginal notes, and never sent more than a generalized expression of fannishness in a comment to a random LJ post.

Continuing the discussion on idlerat's LJ, we get some additional opinions:

from lasultrix: My view on Fabula Rasa's view - dude, if 'read and review' excludes criticism, how on earth do you define 'review'?

[Ed: It's the opposite of "cue", silly!]

from cathexys: Also, considering what you and I do for a living, I seriously wonder about how arrogant we really are. Heck, if our analytic skills are good enough for Shakespeare and Woolf, they might be good enough for fanwriter x and y

Oy.

It's official. I need to stop searching for HP pr0n on LJ.