reviewing and gits...

[kaylarudbek]

Drat. My LJ client quit while I was trying to make a new entry, so I lost it and will have to reconstruct it...

Well, there is an interesting thread about what makes a good review at FAP, right here. It was started by someone I shall merely call "the annoying little git."
tybalt_quin and I have both contributed to this thread. I think "the annoying little git" is headed for trouble.

It's rather strange: tybalt_quin talks about this person as female with low self-esteem issues, but my impression is that this person is an adolescent male full of braggadocio and spoiling for a fight. Somebody Lazarus Long would have advised be put in a barrel until he was eighteen.

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[tybalt-quin.livejournal.com]

Maybe we've finally hit paydirt and found a Thai girly boy!

It's a thought ...

Oh - they were back an hour ago and checking out my comments on ADI. Still no response to my email though ...

[kaylarudbek.livejournal.com]

No response to my second post on that thread about reviews either. I wonder if I'm going to get into a flame war with them, because I said at the end, 'And this is where I find the one-liner "your work sucks, read mine or my friend's instead" as being worse than unhelpful. I perceive those type of reviews as attempts to start flame wars or get into one-upmanship contests. If reviewers have that strong of an opinion on my work, the least amount of courtesy they can do is to tell me why they don't like it. If not, I'll regard it as the equivalent of graffiti, and I'll think of that reviewer as a juvenile delinquent attempting to mark off turf and score points with their gang in an offensive manner, and I will ignore anything that reviewer has to say.'

Our little friend reminds me of when I was in undergrad and majoring in a hard-science, male-dominated field. My male classmates would invariably start analyzing how they'd done on the tests immediately after they walked out of the classroom, and I'd want to give them a right ding alongside the ear...although law students can be almost as bad.

[tybalt-quin.livejournal.com]

Well - I had an email and it's definitely a 'he' - so you win. :D

Actually, the thing is I can kind of see where he's coming from when he puts it in email form, and he makes better points there than he does in the forums. I think that he is simply looking for attention there which is why he's trying to be provocative. He's got a right to do that if he wants but at the same time it's a little sad.

[dreagoddess.livejournal.com]

Law students are worse. :) I'm sorry, I had to check out your LJ after reading your FABULOUS last post to the thread in question. Hope you don't mind. I'm highly amused -- I just finished law school up in your neck of the woods (Chicago) in May and am about to take the Bar. (Good luck with the Patent Bar, btw. That's a killer!)

I have to say that your "Reviewer X & Reviewer Y" comments were the absolute best description of what I think of certain reviewers I've ever read, and I nearly spit my drink out. Thanks for inspiring me to come find your journal. You look like a very interesting person! (And I didn't know TQ had a journal either. *waves*)

Oops

[dreagoddess.livejournal.com]

...And it just occurred to me after hitting "send" that I didn't leave any indication of who I am. *blush* Ahem. Hi, I'm Andrea13 from FAP. Sorry 'bout that. :)