I don't get the whole obligation or contribution to fandom thing. Maybe I feel too much of a disconnect to the larger fandom as a whole to understand it all.
I tend to resist the idea of being obligated to a hobby, honestly. And I think I view "contributing" as "helping other people have fun with it," primarily.
I enjoy seeing general "I loved this" type feedback, because "Yay, someone read my story!" But the feedback also frustrates me no end, especially for the longer pieces. For drabbles, I can see why the feedback might be somewhat limited, but for a 1000-3000 word piece to get only "Gee, that's great!" is a little disheartening for the effort I put in.
I think nearly everybody prefers longer comments. And I do make an effort to say something of substance, at least most of the time -- but that's when I review at all, and sometimes it occurs to me that I'd rather have a quick comment than nothing at all, and perhaps I'm depriving people by procrastinating doing a more extensive one when I could at least toss off a note. (It isn't as if I couldn't go back, either, at least on FA. Ff.net's another story.) Alternatively, I suspect what I do write will be considered inadequate if I happen to have stumbled across somebody who doesn't think it counts if it's not extensive enough or is all positive or something. I'm very silly sometimes. More often lazy, I'm afraid.
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I tend to resist the idea of being obligated to a hobby, honestly. And I think I view "contributing" as "helping other people have fun with it," primarily.
I enjoy seeing general "I loved this" type feedback, because "Yay, someone read my story!" But the feedback also frustrates me no end, especially for the longer pieces. For drabbles, I can see why the feedback might be somewhat limited, but for a 1000-3000 word piece to get only "Gee, that's great!" is a little disheartening for the effort I put in.
I think nearly everybody prefers longer comments. And I do make an effort to say something of substance, at least most of the time -- but that's when I review at all, and sometimes it occurs to me that I'd rather have a quick comment than nothing at all, and perhaps I'm depriving people by procrastinating doing a more extensive one when I could at least toss off a note. (It isn't as if I couldn't go back, either, at least on FA. Ff.net's another story.) Alternatively, I suspect what I do write will be considered inadequate if I happen to have stumbled across somebody who doesn't think it counts if it's not extensive enough or is all positive or something. I'm very silly sometimes. More often lazy, I'm afraid.