User blog comment:Brandon Service DF/The Commenting Community, and How to Improve It/@comment-5264252-20160217060300

 Rather than having a passion for what they're creating, some writers have turned to pandering for methods to recieve more reviews-- series where suggestions are easy. Series with convoluted hints, because hints provide a lot of convoluted thinking and conversation, despite none of it actually being about the work, or contributing as an actual hint.

I...really don't like this. At all. I get your point, of course. You have a good point, in some cases. But what this implies is that people who create a certain series that make it easy to suggest match-ups or people that set up creative hints are only out for lots of comments. I don't like that you have to put people down at the expense of others. Whose to say that they aren't doing series with a specific theme because they want to? That they enjoy creating these deep hints because they like being creative? Hell, my Series series has a very specific manner of suggestions that, if anything, make it harder to suggest match-ups for. And I especially don't like the implication that people who excessively ask for reviews are only doing so for the sake of comments. Perhaps Drak does, considering he had the tendency to link his battles to every single person in Skype contacts, but I can certainly say I don't do so for the sake of comments. I hoenstly just want to see what people think of my battles, where I can improve.

I like that you're trying to help, get out there how to better critique and review a battle. But I don't like you   building someone "lower" up at the expense of  putting "higher-up" people down. Do not make people feel bad as an attempt to get them to improve on reviews. I'm certain that's not your intention, but that's what comes off of this. Putting popular rap battle writers in the spot just because they get into the top blog spot is wrong and outright rude.

I will say you did have very good points at times. I myself am certainly guilty of just skimming through battles someone overly links towards me and just saying "good job, so and so won". And hypocritically, as one of the more "popular" battle writers, as much as I hate putting myself on that pedestal, I don't like getting those same kinds of comments that I put forth. I'd prefer getting more intricate reviews on my battles than just getting praise. But, I will not mind or complain if I do get those kinds of comments, as I know that some people are not able to fully put forth the time and effort to give honest, thoughtful critiques. I definitely can't myself. Call it what you will, but I naturally am bad at giving proper critiques on things. I tend to just like a lot of things and support things. It's hard for me to naturally dislike something. That's not saying I can'd and don't, but I am just incapable of doing so as often as possible.

All in all, glad to see you try a help, but try not to be as rude about it as you ended up coming off. I might be the only one thinking this, but eh.