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Wanted feature: concrit comments
I've been considering what AO3 could do that's unique & different from other archives, rather than just "improve searches" and "more display options" which are indeed nifty goals, but I was trying to think of something different.
And I realized one of the reasons I sometimes don't leave comments is that I want to leave concrit/corrections, which some authors welcome, but it feels really really *weird* to say, "there's an obscene typo in paragraph 3, and also the dog's name was Indiana, not Illinois," and have that left in the comment stream for all future readers who would otherwise never know the author had a facepalm moment before fixing things.
I think I'd like something like screened comments, where the commenter could say "screen this thread." Mark it as "concrit" rather than normal-story-comment so it doesn't clutter the comment-stream, and so the purpose is obvious. I know I'd be more likely to leave critical comments for those authors who welcome them if it didn't feel like I was calling them out in front of all the other readers.
I could see there'd be options for abuse; people could leave hate speech in screened comments. But authors would have the normal option to report those; they're not much different from what people could do now.
I don't know if it's really feasible, or if there's some other way to implement it. I'd like features that encourage more feedback, of any sort; a section for "concrit goes here" for those authors who'd actively like it could be part of that. Because even with authors who avidly seek concrit and proofreading and some level of after-publication beta, it's hard to say "honey, your ESL is showing" in public, especially to a friend.
Does it sound interesting? Nifty? A feature we want next week? A horrible opportunity for vicious wank that I've somehow overlooked? This is in the "idle thoughts/brainstorm" stage, not an "I want to propose an official change" situation.
(FWIW, I'm not thinking of any particular stories or authors at the moment; I was going over some past entries in metafandom about concrit.)
And I realized one of the reasons I sometimes don't leave comments is that I want to leave concrit/corrections, which some authors welcome, but it feels really really *weird* to say, "there's an obscene typo in paragraph 3, and also the dog's name was Indiana, not Illinois," and have that left in the comment stream for all future readers who would otherwise never know the author had a facepalm moment before fixing things.
I think I'd like something like screened comments, where the commenter could say "screen this thread." Mark it as "concrit" rather than normal-story-comment so it doesn't clutter the comment-stream, and so the purpose is obvious. I know I'd be more likely to leave critical comments for those authors who welcome them if it didn't feel like I was calling them out in front of all the other readers.
I could see there'd be options for abuse; people could leave hate speech in screened comments. But authors would have the normal option to report those; they're not much different from what people could do now.
I don't know if it's really feasible, or if there's some other way to implement it. I'd like features that encourage more feedback, of any sort; a section for "concrit goes here" for those authors who'd actively like it could be part of that. Because even with authors who avidly seek concrit and proofreading and some level of after-publication beta, it's hard to say "honey, your ESL is showing" in public, especially to a friend.
Does it sound interesting? Nifty? A feature we want next week? A horrible opportunity for vicious wank that I've somehow overlooked? This is in the "idle thoughts/brainstorm" stage, not an "I want to propose an official change" situation.
(FWIW, I'm not thinking of any particular stories or authors at the moment; I was going over some past entries in metafandom about concrit.)
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I'd love to be able to receive typo comments or have people mention formatting issues, but on no planet do I want concrit on my stories. But I'm not everyone! If I could say what I want on my profile, which I actually have, and if the culture of the archive could evolve so that readers looked at our profiles for our feelings on this, I think that would work.
If we as writers could set those comments to be screened or to display as suited, that would be awesome too.
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I like this idea a lot.
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Would prefer screening to be under control of the author, with the commenter having a one-time choice when making the comment whether to make it private or public.
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One is telling the person washing the windows that they missed a spot--and they may or may not care. The other is telling them they need to rethink the kind of cleaner they use, how they wash the window, what sort of squeegee they have and the correct placement of the stepladder--and that could get you a bucket of water dumped on your head.
I would want to design any hypothetical feedback system for this sort of thing to allow people to separate those two concepts in terms of what they request or discourage people to provide.