No, sorry! I was referring to the answers viewable to all thing. :)
I was thinking something along the lines of: if only the author can see that I, perdiccas, didn't like the fic and everyone else can only see that of 50 people 49 liked it, then I'd feel less like a general douchebag about being the odd man out? It still lets other readers know there was less than 100% approval for the fic (helpful for those who use reviews to judge if they wanna read a fic), but it's still semi-private correspondence with the author because there's no: the whole world now knows perdiccas didn't like cruiscin_lan's fic and what's she gonna do about it?
Except then you still run into the problem that the author might pm me about it. And that I'd feel more than a little ass-y just announcing I didn't like a fic without further explanation. And of course, there's nothing stopping the author telling everyone they know that I'm an ass who answers polls just to say I hate their fic whether the poll results are private or not. The more I think about it, the less certain I am that it would make a difference who can see the results.
One more potential consideration: I think if I wrote something especially kinky or explicit w/a feedback poll attached, I'd make the results private because not everyone is comfortable announcing to the world they read and enjoy scat, you know?
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I was thinking something along the lines of: if only the author can see that I, perdiccas, didn't like the fic and everyone else can only see that of 50 people 49 liked it, then I'd feel less like a general douchebag about being the odd man out? It still lets other readers know there was less than 100% approval for the fic (helpful for those who use reviews to judge if they wanna read a fic), but it's still semi-private correspondence with the author because there's no: the whole world now knows perdiccas didn't like cruiscin_lan's fic and what's she gonna do about it?
Except then you still run into the problem that the author might pm me about it. And that I'd feel more than a little ass-y just announcing I didn't like a fic without further explanation. And of course, there's nothing stopping the author telling everyone they know that I'm an ass who answers polls just to say I hate their fic whether the poll results are private or not. The more I think about it, the less certain I am that it would make a difference who can see the results.
One more potential consideration: I think if I wrote something especially kinky or explicit w/a feedback poll attached, I'd make the results private because not everyone is comfortable announcing to the world they read and enjoy scat, you know?