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Re: Are we all too nice?
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Fri, 27 Oct 2000 13:21:41 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Frank Filz writes:
> Christopher Weeks wrote:
> > Eric Kingsley took this completely in the direction of constructive
> > criticism toward creative works. And he's right that the only valuable
> > comments are the ones suggesting change.
First I should clarify that while I used creative works as an example I did say
in my post that it can apply to different aspects of LUGNET.
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> Actually, I'd argue against that idea. There are ways which comments
> which don't suggest change can be good:
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> - Positive re-inforcement. If your idea is good, and you are
> complemented, you are encouraged to keep doing more. If you get no
> comments at all, or only comments suggesting "why don't you try that" or
> "why didn't you do this", then you may get discouraged. Even a single
> "Hey John, nice job." comment can be uplifting.
Well I would suggest, as has been stated earlier, that is what the article
highlighting is for. To me if I see someone chose to highlight my article that
tells me they liked it, I don't need them to tell me "hey thats cool!" I know
that is how someone flet because it was highlighted and I don't have to sift
through their post to get to one with more constructive comments.
I will agree however that some people might get discouraged with posts of
constructive critisizm and that is why I feel like I shouldn't do it most of
the time. That is what I mean by we are too nice. I should feel that
constructive critisizm is OK to post and in most cases I fear upsetting the
origional poster so I don't. There are only a select few people here that I
feel comfortable posting constructive critisizm to.
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> - Someone may point out something good that you didn't notice ("Hey, I
> like how your creation evokes this feeling." when you hadn't even
> thought about the feelings evoked by your creation). Also, these kind of
> "I like this or that" comments may lead someone else to look at the
> creation and be inspired (if I'm going to build a Greek temple, and
> notice a comment "John Doe, I like your Greek columns on your Martian
> base.", I might go look at that base which I might not have looked at
> otherwise (of course this assumes that the comment is made in a thread
> that I would end up reading).
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> Of course for the most part, the types of comments I am suggesting are
> valuable are not simple "John, nice job." They contain valuable content
> of some form.
I agree to a certain extent and would consider some of what you suggest
constructive. My main problem is with "Hey Cool!!" posts. I also have a
problem with repetative posts which seem to be happening regularly now as well
but that is a different problem.
Eric Kingsley
The New England LEGO Users Group
http://www.nelug.org/
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