Tango quibbles - please write tickets so we can track them

[Janice Caron]

On 9/16/07, kris <foo at bar.com> wrote:
> > The onus is on the author of a creative work to please the audience,
> > not the on audience to register with a forum to open a ticket to
> > explain to the author why it didn't appeal to them. That's just not
> > how the world works.
>
> Perhaps you are a taker and not a giver?

On the contrary, I'm a fiction writer - which is precisely /why/ I
understand that the onus is on the author to make it interesting, not
on the reader to be interested. The reader is perfectly entitled to
put the book down after the first paragraph, and does not have to
justify to the author why they did so.

For some reason, I expect software to work the same way. :-)


> That's cool too, but helping
> out a tiny bit here and there won't actually kill you ... will it?

Just imagine you'd picked up a book in a library, read the start of
it, decided it wasn't your cup of tea and put it back on the shelf.

Now, helping the author rewrite it to make it more appealing to you
won't actually kill you ... will it? But how often are you going to do
that? Realistically, you're just going to pick up the next book.

If something doesn't interest you, then you're not going to spend your
time on it. The fact that spending time on will probably not result in
your death is completely irrelevant.