Fair enough -- I think it possibly has a lot to do with how a person uses recs, because I tend to treat them as a reading list rather than critical reviews; as noted above, I rarely even read the content of a rec, aside from just enough of it to get an idea of whether or not the story would be my thing. (Probably a terrible thing to admit, but I'm the same way with books and movies -- I don't want to see the trailer or read the blurb on the back.) The important thing to me is that someone liked it enough to rec it -- otherwise, I'd rather go into it with an open mind. So I don't usually consider that other people might be looking for more information from a rec than just basic info on the story, since I don't use them that way. My one big guide to quality is usually the identity of the reccer -- if they tend to like (and rec) similar things to what I like to read, then I'll trust their recs without needing to know much else. Kind of like taking book recommendations from friends, versus a random stranger at work who rhapsodizes enthusiastic about the latest thing they read -- or warns me away from a book that they hated. None of that really tells me a whole lot about whether or not *I'd* like it.