I know I could be accused of slating.
I hope I only ever did it in response to others rudeness.
Though I can't be sure.
But yeh there was a tendency to put up something imperfect but loved.
And find endless variations of "everything you write is shit" "everything in critique is shit" " this is shit"
and when you realise it's just some smart arse blowing their gass hole.
Then it could get depressing.
Quote: sootyj @ July 31 2012, 9:37 PM BSTI know I could be accused of slating.
I hope I only ever did it in response to others rudeness.
Though I can't be sure.
But yeh there was a tendency to put up something imperfect but loved.
And find endless variations of "everything you write is shit" "everything in critique is shit" " this is shit"
and when you realise it's just some smart arse blowing their gass hole.
Then it could get depressing.
Pasties sootyj, there was a spelling error unless this is you??]
Quote: ShoePie @ July 31 2012, 1:10 PM BSTI post a splurge of feedback every time I put something new in showcase but it's not as much fun reading through them these days.
Hey Shoepie!
Take it to the "What ever happened to Showcase thread"
What's that one about each negative feedback has to be buffered by two pieces of positive feedback.
eg
It's in English
It's not funny you sicko
It's spelled nicely
Or, the therapy special
When you ..... I feel .....What I make up about that is .......
Can't argue with feelings. Now hand me the sharing pillow.
I believe you're referring to a shit sandwich.
With all feedback one thing can't be ignored some writings are terrible. And you do nobody any favours by pretending otherwise.
Meh
pah
That wasn't a reply to your comment, sooty, but at least it got a reply. 
mnyah
( a ) Terrible scene is posted by OP.
1-999 post OP - "This sucks. You suck. I hope you get a stage-IV non-Hodgkins lymphoma."
1000+ post OP - "Sorry (insert name here). I'm not really getting this."
( b ) Mediocre scene is posted by OP.
1-999 post OP - *No reply*
1000+ post OP - "I like this".
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I like critique, but by God is it hard to get into scripts, and work out what is going on sometimes (even if they are good, and well-written). I find it exhausting - the new character names, descriptions etc. - requires a lot of concentration. Those critique guys really earn their 70 pounds, or whatever it is, if their feedback is as thorough as people here are suggesting.
That's why it's not surprising critique is mostly full of throw-away one-liners, puns and generic Christmas cracker-type jokes. These work pretty well in textual form.
I imagine, if you could somehow detatch your memory from having seen the real thing, even The Office's scripts wouldn't jump out if they had been posted on the forum. "Too dry", "you need to add punchlines", "too much meandering dialogue", "it's one of those higher-concept-type comedies maybe".
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I have only just joined, but having read back through the archives, I disagree about Cotter. Critique needs a Cotter-type to light a match under it IMHO. Just something to get it 'going'.
Typical Cotter critique seems to have been something along the lines of:
Critique: "This is awful. Hackneyed, offensive, out-dated garbage. Thank Christ it was mercifully short."
Cotter: "Thank you. I'm glad you liked the length 
".
Cotter is too busy acting to post in here nowadays.
That's what this forum needs more of, people who are too busy to post...
I am too busy to post this, could somebody else post it for me please?
Quote: sootyj @ August 14 2012, 2:43 PM BSTI am too busy to post this, could somebody else post it for me please?
I'll do it...
Crit-ing Cotter was extremely frustrating.
whatever you said he 'd just reply that he could see where you were coming from but that his way was better.
He was like a black-hole.