Okay. So you're saying like movie reviews a newspaper. But now how can that apply to the furry fandom? Submissions have the ability for comments where movies don't. You could review in a journal but how is that useful for either the artist/author or the average fur? Art is admittedly easier because you can just look at it but stories require a certain expenditure of effort on the part of readers. If you don't comment on the submission should readers be expected to find a story and then search the internet to find a review of it? If no one reads the review it isn't helpful to anyone because it doesn't give readers a chance to learn about a submission, it doesn't give the author help to improve and, if done privately, it deprives other writers the chance to learn from someone else's mistakes.
"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
~John Stuart Mill~
Okay. So you're saying like movie reviews a newspaper. But now how can that apply to the furry fandom? Submissions have the ability for comments where movies don't. You could review in a journal but how is that useful for either the artist/author or the average fur? Art is admittedly easier because you can just look at it but stories require a certain expenditure of effort on the part of readers. If you don't comment on the submission should readers be expected to find a story and then search the internet to find a review of it? If no one reads the review it isn't helpful to anyone because it doesn't give readers a chance to learn about a submission, it doesn't give the author help to improve and, if done privately, it deprives other writers the chance to learn from someone else's mistakes.
"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
~John Stuart Mill~