gotegenks wrote:a whole bunch of putting words in my mouth and other stuff
Okay I've been writing an essay, and I've finally decided it's not worth my time to write out all that here's the summery:
1. We were talking about time/energy conservation, not my videos. If you wanna conserve your precious time/energy, then don't watch/don't comment. Simple as that.
2. If you don't want to comment on my videos, that's okay with me. You know, after checking my last three announcement threads, you haven't commented anyway, so I don't think I'll be missing anything.
3. It's called exaggeration. Please learn this word for future reference.
4. I didn't "pass off that I'd already said anything". I appended my previous statement, because I realized I didn't say it before, and I know people aren't mind readers.
5. If you are going to be vague with me I'll ignore you. Simple as that. Only stating that "the scene selection didn't work" is vague, not helpful and not worth my time to try to follow up on. I put it in the book of "Well I would have done it differently".
6. Other criticisms might be so easy to figure out that the editor already knows the issue is there. Pointing it out again is like rubbing salt in a wound. Not telling them how to fix it or at minimum linking them a guide, just shows you are only good for pointing out the bad.
7. Sometimes you have to sell your criticisms. Sometime it works, sometimes not. If it doesn't sell, then it's not worth your time to continue to try. (They might have a change of mind later though.) I'm glad to see that there was at least an attempt on that haruhifanboy thread (about the subtitles), even though it failed.
8. No one is REQUIRED to give good constructive criticism. If you want to be a vague commenter then, by all means, go ahead. I'm not telling everyone that they have to comment this way ALL THE TIME FOR EVERY VIDEO. (That would be ridiculous.) I don't believe I said that even once. But at the same time
if no one is offering up good criticism then don't be surprised when someone drama-queen's his way off your site.9. As is with all situations that involve people: It could start to get rude at any moment.
10. I fail to see the correlation between giving suggestions on how to improve and ripping off someone. I find it funny that in this hobby that essentially rips off both the music and the anime industry, you have a problem with people ripping off videos/styles. Copying is the highest form of flattery

11. Just because the commenter is "part of the audience" doesn't give him credibility. (Trolls are a prime example.) While a commenter may have given
valid feedback but that doesn't mean he has given
valuable feedback. The difference being stating that something is bad may be valid, but stating why its bad and how it can be improved is valuable.
12. There are standards on AN or else people wouldn't leave bad comments to those videos.
13. I never said that a criticism had to be
long. I only wrote out a long example, that gave
many different smaller examples in it that could be used as shorter comments. I think you are assuming I'm saying things that I am not. Just because I provided an example that is long doesn't mean I think that people need to write that much every time.
14. The example was meant to illustrate tone, not length. I'm sorry if all you saw was a block of text. Did you even read it? I'm honestly asking because it doesn't seem like you have.
tl;dr? The whole point of my post, was that the tone of their comments was bad. This had nothing to do with the length or how much they wrote. It's about how they are saying it.
I take issue with people who brag about how awesome it is that they are "blunt" or "brutally honest" like it's a good thing. I just see it as an excuse to act like a jerk.