I'm still more comfortable not pre-disposing a person not to like a story if the problems I had with it are a matter of personal taste, though. Really, the more I think about it, there are very few examples I can come up with of stories I've recced recently that I would have given any caveats at all. If the story disintegrated into incomprehensibility at the end, or the characters were OOC or whatnot, I don't think I'd rec it at all. (Or I might do something like this (http://friendshipper.livejournal.com/99661.html).) The only counter-example I can think of is one I recced a little while back that had some problems with verb tense -- it was mostly present tense, but every once in a while a random past-tense verb found its way into the mix. This is something I opted not to mention in the rec (I didn't actually notice it until my second read-through while I was writing the rec, anyway). But it's something I'm absurdly anal about, so I did notice it and kinda wished I'd mentioned it after-the-fact.
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I'm still more comfortable not pre-disposing a person not to like a story if the problems I had with it are a matter of personal taste, though. Really, the more I think about it, there are very few examples I can come up with of stories I've recced recently that I would have given any caveats at all. If the story disintegrated into incomprehensibility at the end, or the characters were OOC or whatnot, I don't think I'd rec it at all. (Or I might do something like this (http://friendshipper.livejournal.com/99661.html).) The only counter-example I can think of is one I recced a little while back that had some problems with verb tense -- it was mostly present tense, but every once in a while a random past-tense verb found its way into the mix. This is something I opted not to mention in the rec (I didn't actually notice it until my second read-through while I was writing the rec, anyway). But it's something I'm absurdly anal about, so I did notice it and kinda wished I'd mentioned it after-the-fact.