poll: how do you feel about comments on your old fanworks?

[frayadjacent]

I'm still a bit of a fandom noob, relatively speaking anyway. But I came to fandom through not-new shows, namely BtVS. So I often read and watch meta, fic, and vids that were made at least a couple of years ago, and in some cases more like 5-10 years ago (I don't generally find much older stuff than that on LJ/DW, where I tend to look). Now that's even more the case as I seem to be adding shows like Xena and Farscape to my fannish collection as rapidly as I am more current shows. 

And sometimes I find something made in 2007 or 2012 and I love it and want to leave feedback! But that seems potentially awkward or possibly unwanted. So I don't. (Also I have to admit I use this is as an excuse as much as areason.)

So, a poll! If you create fan works, do you like getting feedback/comments on old stuff, and if so, how old?

Poll #16105

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 51

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What type of fanworks do you make most?

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meta
11 (21.6%)

vids
19 (37.3%)

fic
38 (74.5%)

icons/banners/etc
6 (11.8%)

fanart
2 (3.9%)

gifs
1 (2.0%)

podfic
5 (9.8%)

other or a combination
3 (5.9%)

How do you feel about feedback/comments on a fanwork you made 6 months to a year ago?

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Great! Comments are love.
50 (98.0%)

Eh, I'd rather they not. I'm over that thing.
0 (0.0%)

It's fine as long as it isn't concrit -- I already know what's wrong with it, thanks.
4 (7.8%)

It's not as great as more immediate comments, but it's fine.
0 (0.0%)

Something else I will tell you in the comments.
0 (0.0%)

How do you feel about feedback/comments on a fanwork you made 1-3 years ago?

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Great! Comments are love.
49 (96.1%)

Eh, I'd rather they not. I'm over that thing.
0 (0.0%)

It's good as long as it isn't concrit -- I already know what's wrong with it.
10 (19.6%)

It's not as great as more immediate comments, but it's fine.
1 (2.0%)

Something else I will tell you in the comments.
0 (0.0%)

How do you feel about feedback/comments on a fanwork you made more than 3 years ago?

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Great! Comments are love.
49 (98.0%)

Eh, I'd rather they not. I'm over that thing.
0 (0.0%)

It's fine as long as it isn't concrit -- I already know what's wrong with it.
11 (22.0%)

It's not as great as more immediate comments, but it's fine.
0 (0.0%)

Something else I will tell you in the comments.
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[jadelennox]

I'm always really chuffed when I get kudos at AO3 on some --ahem-- mediocre fic I wrote more than a decade ago. It makes me beam that people are still finding and enjoying that, especially given how much fannish tastes change. Really, you liked my fluffy Spander noodling? Really? Well that's just COOL.

Though when people bust into 10 year old meta to tell me I'm evil, then I just block 'em. (Due South has some people still fighting the Ray Wars after all this time. They are very odd.)

[frayadjacent]

Hee hee! I can definitely see how that would be cool. :D

Though when people bust into 10 year old meta to tell me I'm evil, then I just block 'em.

OMG, now I am wondering if there's like, a hierarchy of what type of fanworks attract the most crappy commenters. I was saying upthread that sometimes I'm totally shocked by obnoxious comments people can leave on fic: half-thought, mean-sounding dismissals of the premise, "I don't like this type of story" comments, etc. And when I see those I am SO GLAD I don't get comments like that as a vidder (and a not particularly well-known one at that). But now it occurs to me that people are probably even more intense about meta comments.

Due South has some people still fighting the Ray Wars after all this time. They are very odd.

Heh. I joined a tiny corner of Buffy fandom in 2010, a couple years before I started vidding and got more multi-fannish. In the last couple of years I've found lots of 5-10 year old Buffy meta (on LJ) and for a brief time was following people just discovering Buffy in 2013 on Tumblr. And OMG, the debates and fights and shipping wars I saw in 2010 had already been had in 2005 (and earlier of course) and were happening again in 2013. Obvious in retrospect, but it was something to see.