pritch
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In light of the disagreements in this thread I'll say a few things.
Ever since there were first things to be reviewed there have been reviewers to review them, and Doom wads have just taken their place alongside theatre, food, wine, you name it, albeit on a smaller scale. Amazingly, ever since that beginning, bad reviews have always caused consternation with creators.
I would love to say that in the real world, these differences of opinion between critic and creator have always been accepted amicably but that's obviously not true. My dissertation supervisor at university, a respected author and critic, found himself in a fistfight with an author a few weeks ago.
A fistfight! As far as I can see, that is what we are, in a virtual way, ending up with every time deathz0r does reviews of certain peoples' work.
But you know what, I don't care. The reason why I don't care is because what this always infers, regardless of field, is that both sides actually give a damn about what they're doing. I like the fact that deathz0r has strong opinions about what makes a good map and I like that Tormentor etc. plough a lot of time and effort into making their visions reality.
This is the kernel of what keeps all this going after 13 years, I'm sure.
What I'm less keen on is people rushing to the aid of whoever's side they perceive to be on. The thing is, there are no sides here. There are only mappers, and reviewers, and ultimately the exchange is between them. This thread has not been helped in any way by Alexmax, and especially not by Nick Baker, whose post once again amazed me as he sat there and, with audacious hypocrisy, charged Alexmax with the very thing he does in his post!
Negative comments are of course less helpful in reviews than positive ones, but this is again not the way reviewing works in the real world, nor will it be the way it works on here. As long as he reviews on here, and I hope he does for a long time, deathz0r will be free to make whatever comments he wishes, how people deal with those comments is up to them, none of us like criticism, but you can do three things: accept it, have the courage in your convictions to ignore it, or if you are the author, disagree with him.
Everyone else is free to express their opinions on the week's stuff of course, but I am going to be watching the upcoming newstuffs for silly personal attacks at either reviewer or mapper and this taking sides nonsense, so don't waste the time, I will simply delete it.
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05-20-06 17:38 
