Hi Lori,
Thank you very much for your useful calefaction - much appreciated.
I think we are all are behind your efforts to ensure that posters in crit forums DO receive crits.
I'm delighted that you weren't speaking out AGAINST friendly inter-action but, rather, FOR proper crits. I couldn't agree more. (And I am sure I'm as guilty as anyone for failing at times). There have been occasions where I've been a little disappointed not to have been critted by some visitors to my work. Now, I post regularly and receive tremendously useful crit most of the time but sometimes individual responses can be disappointing. I'm perfectly content if someone says "Hi thanks for the read - enjoyed this" and very happy if someone takes issue with some of my points. I'm delighted if people offer alternative and better ways of saying something. And then I'll happily banter with them... but you're absolutely right. The starting point must be a response to the work somehow. I shall try harder to make sure I respond first and foremost before I launch into my inevitable other yatter.
Thanks for all the enormously hard and costly work you do for MM and we all know that it would not be the place which it is today without your careful and considerate captaincy. Sometimes a message like this sounds rather schmaltzy - but, if we all think carefully, it is not hard to see that MM would (if it existed at all) be a far poorer place without your constant involvement.
James.
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