I like honest recs/reviews as a reccer, reader, and writer.
Even when I posted my recs for 14valentines and was deliberately posting only recs, nothing I rated a 3 or less, I still mentioned stuff I disliked or problems a fic had, because to me that's very important. And if I were to bypass that by reccing only stuff I thought was perfect, well...I wouldn't rec very often because it's pretty rare for me to find stuff I love wholeheartedly and can't see a single flaw in.
As a reader, I do like knowing if the person is reccing it because it was really well-written, or if they're reccing it because it's their bullet-proof kink and they don't care that the writing is atrocious, so I definitely prefer reccers who qualify their recs. Recs are not for the author. They're for other readers to point them to good fic, so it really does people a disservice to make unqualified recs for fear of hurting the author's feelings. No one can trust the recs then.
As a writer, I like to know what people thought, good and bad, so I'd really prefer to know if they disliked some things than to just have it glossed over. This includes both constructive stuff and subjective stuff, because I'm curious as to what people liked and didn't.
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Even when I posted my recs for
As a reader, I do like knowing if the person is reccing it because it was really well-written, or if they're reccing it because it's their bullet-proof kink and they don't care that the writing is atrocious, so I definitely prefer reccers who qualify their recs. Recs are not for the author. They're for other readers to point them to good fic, so it really does people a disservice to make unqualified recs for fear of hurting the author's feelings. No one can trust the recs then.
As a writer, I like to know what people thought, good and bad, so I'd really prefer to know if they disliked some things than to just have it glossed over. This includes both constructive stuff and subjective stuff, because I'm curious as to what people liked and didn't.