Panning for gold in the sewer: Fun with internet critique
Friday’s post about Scott Kurtz’s take on interpreting critical feedback eventually generated a couple very interesting comments.
One thing everyone agreed upon was that that the “signal to noise” ratio for feedback (incorporating all pro/amateur/literary critique/”you suck” e-mail) for any creative work on the Internet is astoundingly low. So the question remains – as a creator of any subjective work on the Internet (comics, films, poetry, bonsai kittens) – how can one filter the responses one gets to get useful information out of the mire? Read more
