@RoundMound said:

@TheEmu said:

@RoundMound Pretty cute. You left out a few things, though. You left out the part where a volunteer who works overnight comes home, works around the house, gets four hours of sleep, gets up and watches the webcast, then stays up until 5:30 in the morning writing the recap so it can be posted on the free fan website, then sits back and waits for people to tell him what a shitty review it is because they have a different opinion of how good the show was. You also left out the part where those same people ignore the actual content of the review in order to make personal attacks, mock their efforts, and cry "jaded vets do nothing but hate on Phish 3.0" despite ample evidence that it's simply not true. Not bad, though.

I never questioned the efforts of you or anyone who volunteers to keep this site up and running and appreciate all the work that is put in. But I also drove home 5 hours dropped 5 people off and unpacked all my gear to get it cleaned up and ready for the shows this weekend, did yard and housework, then dragged my ass to work today and wrote up a humorous, satirical review for people to enjoy as a different way to say "I disagree", only to be told to go elsewhere.

Sometimes when you are in a position to give an opinion to the masses you will have people disagree and personally attack you.

My post was not a personal attack it was a way to vent at how I feel that some reviews sound the same over and over again.

No, the personal attacks have come from people who assert that the criticisms of myself and other reviewers are driven by ego.

Yours was just a straight up bashing of my writing and of the review itself, rather than of the content. "Negative Reviews for Dummies?" Hilarious.

In the past I have read the comments on my own recaps because I wanted to engage in the discussion about THE SHOW. When @FACTSAREUSELESS suggested that my dislike of the whammy pedal skewed my perspective of the show, I wanted to discuss that. That's a discussion of the show and my view on it. If you have a different take on THE SHOW, that's great. I would have loved to talk about it. Instead, you wanted to bitch about what a shitty review I wrote.

But if I want someone's opinion on my writing, I'll ask someone whose opinion I value. If someone actually wants to talk about THE SHOW, you know where to find me.