It's a fair point, but I really don't know if you could have predicted the sort of response attributing vs not attributing could have provoked before the fact.
And yeah, some of the maliciousness in the comments puts me off too, but I can't really blame Helen for that. However (and you've had this discussion above so feel free to not reply I just wanted to add my own opinion) while I think you should always be aware of who can read your opinion when expressing it and I PERSONALLY feel if you're going to express negative things about something you should:
1. Avoid denegrating one thing to elevate another (e.g. This was SO much better than that) it's not really a compliment so much as a put down.
2. Probably try and make it constructive.
that being said, I'm not going to stop anyone from expressing themselves, though if they did it in my journal, I'd probably attempt a polite form of crowd control. As for expressing criticism in general, I'm for it. I don't care where it happens. I prefer seeing a well rounded conversation (This I liked, but not this) but I am fully aware that once you get past the likes, the conversation about the dislikes it probably going to become detailed and long and possibly vehement. That doesn't mean that they hated it more than liked it, just that things that people dislike are liable to get more discussion.
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Date: 11/19/06 11:40 am (UTC)And yeah, some of the maliciousness in the comments puts me off too, but I can't really blame Helen for that. However (and you've had this discussion above so feel free to not reply I just wanted to add my own opinion) while I think you should always be aware of who can read your opinion when expressing it and I PERSONALLY feel if you're going to express negative things about something you should:
1. Avoid denegrating one thing to elevate another (e.g. This was SO much better than that) it's not really a compliment so much as a put down.
2. Probably try and make it constructive.
that being said, I'm not going to stop anyone from expressing themselves, though if they did it in my journal, I'd probably attempt a polite form of crowd control. As for expressing criticism in general, I'm for it. I don't care where it happens. I prefer seeing a well rounded conversation (This I liked, but not this) but I am fully aware that once you get past the likes, the conversation about the dislikes it probably going to become detailed and long and possibly vehement. That doesn't mean that they hated it more than liked it, just that things that people dislike are liable to get more discussion.