Personally I think the sga_talk comm is a great idea, and would love to see more people get involved with it!
Regarding recs ... there really haven't been *that* many times I've been tempted to bring up issues with a story in a review, but I can think of a few. I'm still not sure if I made the right decision or not. Since I personally prefer less information rather than more, it's not been until this discussion that I've really given thought to whether I'm doing my readers a disservice by not giving more balanced recs.
On the other hand, issues like the ones you mentioned are the sort of thing that wouldn't be mentioned in a rec or a story's warnings, generally (though, I'd *love* an OOC warning sometimes!) -- in those cases, the only thing that really helps is to know if the author and/or reccers' opinions on the characters are similar to yours.
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Regarding recs ... there really haven't been *that* many times I've been tempted to bring up issues with a story in a review, but I can think of a few. I'm still not sure if I made the right decision or not. Since I personally prefer less information rather than more, it's not been until this discussion that I've really given thought to whether I'm doing my readers a disservice by not giving more balanced recs.
On the other hand, issues like the ones you mentioned are the sort of thing that wouldn't be mentioned in a rec or a story's warnings, generally (though, I'd *love* an OOC warning sometimes!) -- in those cases, the only thing that really helps is to know if the author and/or reccers' opinions on the characters are similar to yours.